Ken Griffin Has Given $50 Million to Richard Irvin

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Ken Griffin Has Given $50 Million to Richard Irvin

June 1, 2022 at 9:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/01/ken-griffin-has-given-50-million-to-richard-irvin/

"SNIP......

Billionaire Ken Griffin (R) gave another $5 million — for a total of $50 million — to Richard Irvin’s (R) campaign for Illinois governor, Capitol Fax reports.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Completely broken system.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. I'm so old, I remember when public financing of elections...

…wasn’t a taboo subject.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. It's like the conversation around voter ID it's supposed to be that it's unconstitutional

But now the question is what kind of ID can you force people to provide even though it is clearly unconstitutional for several reasons in its current form.

Absurd.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Irvin says Democrats fear him because he's a black conservative.

[barbaraann]

3. Ken Griffin's Trading Firm Tied to Company Aided by Richard Irvin: Report

Citadel Securities, the firm founded by mega-wealthy Illinoisan Ken Griffin, works with a company that got major help from Aurora Mayor and gubernatorial hopeful Richard Irvin – the same GOP candidate Griffin’s so far backed to the tune of $20 million. That’s according to a Bloomberg story published Thursday.

WTTW News previously reported that communications company Scientel Solutions and its employees have given more than $135,000 to Irvin’s mayoral campaign, a PAC run by his mayoral campaign manager, and his former private practice law partner Brittany Pedersen’s judicial campaign. Pedersen is a Democratic candidate for the Kane County Circuit Court bench.
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https://news.wttw.com/2022/04/21/ken-griffin-s-trading-firm-tied-company-aided-richard-irvin-report

[KPN]

4. Free speech!

My ass!!!!!

What a fucked up system.