The two Democratic candidates for governor have stepped up their attacks on each other yet again with competing television ads clearly aimed at African American voters.
The two Democratic candidates for governor have stepped up their attacks on each other yet again with competing television ads clearly aimed at African American voters. The ads began airing Thursday, less than two weeks before the Feb. 2 primary. The candidates’ second televised debate is set for later in the day in Carbondale. Comptroller Dan Hynes’ one-minute ad unleashes damning video of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, explaining why he fired Pat Quinn as the city’s revenue director in 1987. The governor’s 30-second spot blames Hynes for allegedly failing to catch the misdeeds at a historic Black cemetery in Chicago’s suburbs. Both candidates deny the ads were specifically for Black voters, saying they’re looking to appeal to "all voters." Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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