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Originally Posted by moorhosj1
As stated in my post above that you completely dismissed, a big part of the problem is that we have no idea specifically what Ken Griffin stands for because he never has to answer those questions.
The thing we do have are records of his political donations. His two biggest local political donations have been to (1) Bruce Rauner Re-Election Campaign (2) Defeat Income Tax Amendment.
(1) Bruce Rauner was elected as a moderate Republican, and I voted for him to be that. Unfortunately, his first four years were him battling to make Illinois a "right-to-work" state and refusing to negotiate with the Democratic super-majority unless he got that. In his wake our credit rating was slashed and our bill backlog exploded. The state ran without a budget for 2+ years. He didn't do the "governing" part well. Ken Griffin wanted more of that chaos which tells me he is more ideological than practical.
(2) The income tax amendment is something I supported, but have many friends who didn't. Ken Griffin funded a commercial that relied on the false premise that the amendment would somehow make it "easier to raise taxes in the future". I didn't like how he needed to lie to make his case.
Now try holding yourself to the same standard you hold everyone else and answer your own questions about why you reflexively defend him.
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Well, I am not necessarily going to defend KG because I don't really have to. He's not running for office. However, I think that within our current broken system he can do whatever he wants with his money, that's his right.
But I generally lean towards supporting the GOP candidates he backs because of the same reason you voted for Rauner years ago: the Democrats fucked Illinois up big time and they are simply doubling down on their same broken way of doing things. Now KG obviously picked the wrong horse in Rauner, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to change philosophies and suddenly become a woke leftist who believes in ever more powerful public unions, ever higher taxes, and opening the door to a higher State income tax which
I believe will eventually affect everybody. I will go with the other option, hopefully somebody better than Rauner this time