Billionaire Who Backs Rahm Emanuel Also A Big GOP Donor

Groups ancillary Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) re-election perceived $750,000 this month from a regressive sidestep account owner who also has given income to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R)

Ken Griffin, CEO of a sidestep account Citadel, has donated scarcely $1 millionaccording to a Chicago Sun-Times

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The donations to Emanuel come as a mayor faces Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in a runoff electionraised scarcely $20 million

Kristen Crowell, executive executive of United Working Families, a sister classification of a National Working Families party, told The Huffington Post that Chicago electorate should cruise a donations in voting.

“Every time Chicago electorate see another one of Rahm’s TV ads, they should remember who is profitable for them,” pronounced Crowell, whose organisation backs Emanuel’s challenger in a mayor’s race. “It’s Republican billionaires who have a opposite prophesy of Chicago’s destiny than a rest of us. And that’s who Rahm is unequivocally operative for.”

Crowell combined that Emanuel has “devastated neighborhoods by shutting down 50 schools, shutting mental health centers all while funneling swain deals to well-connected developers to build downtown. … There is no doubt that he has done his friends some-more income during a responsibility of bringing peculiarity jobs to a center class.”

Emanuel, who worked as an help in a Clinton administration before portion as a congressman from Illinois and President Barack Obama’s arch of staff, done more than $18 million in 2 1/2 years

According to HuffPost Pollster, that combines all publicly accessible polling data, Emanuel leads Garcia 50.5 percent to 37.3 percent.

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