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3/9/2010 8:45:58 AM
BY NICHOLAS J.C. PISTOR
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Tuesday, Mar. 09 2010
CAHOKIA — Bill Brady, the Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate, took a
victory lap around the state on Monday, thanking voters for the nomination and
saying he would focus on job creation.
Brady appeared before a small crowd of supporters at the Downtown St. Louis
Airport, in Cahokia. It was one of eight airplane stops across the state that
began and ended in Bloomington, Brady's hometown.
Brady, 48, a state senator, was quick to cast himself as an outsider and said
he would end "Chicago machine government."
"The insider games and closed-door deals are going to end when I'm governor,"
Brady said. "My administration will provide a clean break from the policies and
the politics of the Blagojevich-Quinn administrations that have led to debt,
deficit and disgrace."
Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, was thrown out of office a year ago and
awaits trial on federal charges of influence peddling; his lieutenant governor,
Pat Quinn, succeeded him and won the Democratic Party nomination on Feb. 2.
Brady won the GOP nomination in a razor-thin finish.
He gave a nod Monday to recent Republican statewide victories in Massachusetts,
Virginia and New Jersey and suggested Illinois might be next.
Brady also said he would lift the state's freeze on executions and would
refrain from cutting funding to help ensure fair trials.
While on the topic of law and order, Brady criticized Quinn for allowing 1,700
prisoners to be freed from state prison early; some were sent back for new
offenses.
"I will do everything I can to keep Illinois safe," Brady pledged.
