Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, April 5, 2017.
Report: Rauner might face a Republican primary challenger
Republican state senator Sam McCann has been approached by other Republicans who want him to run against Governor Bruce Rauner in the 2018 primary race for governor, according to Politico. McCann is pro-union and has found himself opposing Rauner on several issues, but says that he won’t make a decision about running until the current legislative session in Springfield is over. “There was a significant segment of the party that attempted to recruit me to run as an independent in 2014,” he told Politico. “I chose not to do that because I wanted to play a role in bringing my party and my beloved state together, not see them both torn apart more than they already were. Fast-forward to the present and we see our state more divided and in bigger shambles than ever. It’s heart-wrenching.” [Politico Illinois Playbook]
