Politics also houses the wealthy givers who have a personal “net worth” outside their bank accounts. Not so surprising, then, that Griffin funded Rauner’s gubernatorial campaign one rich man endorsing the candidacy of a wealthy kinsman, who supports his political and economic objectives.Īs columnist Mike Royko once said, politics has always been full of connivers, wheeler dealers, con artists, misfits and deadbeats. Historically, Adam Smith’s 1776 published masterpiece on modern economics, titled “The Wealth of Nations,” discusses the ability of the wealthy to exercise economic and political power. Have they each lost a sense of adult propriety? Is brain power based on Bitcoin? Do dollars always mean sense? Rich guys acting like they have all the answers. Grown men shaking out each other’s expensive political laundry? The next day, Pritzker, who pumped $171 million from his own wallet into his own gubernatorial campaign to unseat Rauner, shot back a “nah nah nah” blasting Griffin for backing his “disastrous” predecessor - and said he spent the last three years undoing the damage Rauner did to Illinois. Bruce Rauner’s campaign, at an event in New York. Pritzker “doesn’t deserve to be governor of our state,” harrumphed Griffin, who financed GOP Gov.
Last week, hedge fund magnate Griffin, known as the state’s richest man (worth $21 billion), pledged to go “all in” funding a challenger to beat Dem Illinois Gov. Once again, men acting like “wealth is power.” Pritzker, are now duking it out.Īnd although they claim to differ politically, they certainly are acting like the identical twins in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” except in a derogatory context.
Translation: The billionaire boys, Ken Griffin and Gov.
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