Column: Chicagoan’s record donation has political class atwitter – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "Critics of big campaign spending often assert large campaign donations are 'tainted.' But their ethics often are situational because, in the ultra-pragmatic world of political campaigning, the objectors are angry because the money in question, as the saying goes, '’taint mine.' One example comes from Illinois, where the same Democrats who objected to Republican Bruce Rauner using his personal fortune to get elected governor in 2014, were simpatico with multibillionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker’s using his personal fortune to defeat Rauner in 2018."