GOP's Dillard officially enters IL governor's race

WKMS | By Todd Hatton,

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Published July 16, 2013 at 7:38 AM CDT

Illinois Republican state Senator Kirk Dillard has launched his 2014 campaign to become that state’s governor. Dillard lost the 2010 GOP primary to state Senator Bill Brady Dillard but says he's learned lessons since then. He's billing himself as a good candidate because he's a suburban Chicago politician with downstate votes. Dillard trails other Republican candidates in fundraising, including venture capitalist Bruce Rauner. But Dillard says he'll be able to raise what he needs and is announcing his bid this time with more money than 2010.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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