The Ad War Ate Its Own Yard Sign
The Illinois Senate Democratic primary has reached the sacred phase where everybody swears they hate corporate money while waving donor paperwork around like it bit them first. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi are now in an ad fight over corporate-linked donations, corporate PAC disavowals, and who gets to wear the anti-Trump armor without squeaking.
Here is the kitchen-table receipt: rejecting corporate PAC money today does not magically bleach every older check, adjacent committee, or donor-history breadcrumb out of politics. It just gives the other campaign a flashlight and a fog machine. Nobody has to allege a crime for the whole thing to smell like donor panic in a hot car. Everybody denounces big money in public, then listens for the mailbox like it owes them rent.