Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, November 13, 2017.
A GOP state representative from the suburbs is running against Rauner from the right
Republican state representative Jeanne Ives is trying to win conservative support for her primary challenge against unpopular incumbent governor Bruce Rauner. During an appearance in Arlington Heights Saturday, she criticized the governor for signing the sanctuary state bill, the school funding bill, and the reproductive rights bill HB 40, which allows state health insurance and Medicaid funding for abortion and eliminates a “trigger provision” that would have made abortion illegal if Roe v. Wade were overturned, the Daily Herald reports. “This is the agenda of an Ivy League professor and not a conservative reformer,” Ives said. She is so far the only Republican running against Rauner in the March 2018 primary. [Daily Herald]
