Today, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin started running his first TV ad:

Concurrently, opponent Jesse Sullivan release a press release containing his cirme fighting program:

Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Jesse Sullivan Announces “Safe Streets” Plan to Fight Violent Crime

Petersburg, IL – Today Jesse Sullivan, Republican candidate for governor, released his Safe Streets plan to tackle violent crime across the state of Illinois. 

Developed in concert with victims’ advocacy groups, law enforcement officials, faith-based initiatives, community organizations, and policy experts, Sullivan’s action plan calls for three immediate steps: 1) enforcing the law, 2) protecting our heroes, and 3) restoring accountability.

“We have had four long years of leaders in Illinois who have tried to defund and demonize our police, prioritizing violent offenders over victims,” Jesse Sullivan said. 

“Illinois has had enough. I’ve met too many families who have lost innocent lives because politicians prefer to ignore what’s happening on our streets. It’s time to enforce our laws, defend our police, and hold criminals to account,” he said. 

The Sullivan campaign also released a new ad this week, illustrating that the streets of Illinois are more dangerous today than at any point in almost 30 years. 

Proposed action steps in the Safe Streets plan include:

• Filling every officer vacancy across the state, augmenting with National Guard assets and State Police where necessary.
• Reversing the elimination of cash bail for violent offenders and relaxing the restraints on pretrial / preventive detention.
• Scaling positive models like DuPage County’s Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigations Team (MERIT).
• Providing support to local police departments for witness / victim protection programs.

From Gary Rabine:

Statement of Illinois Republican Governor Candidate, Gary Rabine, on Richard Irvin’s law-and-order ads.

Woodstock, Illinois – “Pretend Republican candidate for Governor, Richard Irvin, continues the deception today as he rolls out his commercials claiming to be the law-and-order candidate. 

Let’s do a reality check. 

Irvin has spent the last twenty years representing criminals and doing his best to keep them out of jail. 

His clients aren’t just low-level criminals but rather the full range of bad guys from domestic violence offenders to murderers. 

The crime rates during his tenure as Mayor of Aurora, his support for defunding the police, sanctuary cities and BLM, tells us loud and clear that his approach to law and order is right out of the Kim Foxx – JB Pritzker woke playbook, where victims are an afterthought and justice is only served when the jails are empty.”  

“But it goes beyond helping criminals beat the rap. 

“Last election, ‘Democrat-running-as-a-Republican-Irvin’ fully supported his criminal defense attorney law partner as she ran against a law-and-order Republican in Kane County. 

“Yes, the guy seeking the nomination for Governor as a Republican fully and actively supported a far-left criminal defense lawyer over a law-and-order Republican. 

“Don’t be fooled by the smoke-screen. Richard Irvin is a left-leaning Democrat and does not support the polices that will end the crime wave in Illinois. 

“We do not need another Democrat as Illinois Governor.”

Rabine, 58, is a business builder and Chairman of The Rabine Group of companies, father of four and grandfather of three.  He and his wife grew up and raised their family in Lake and McHenry Counties, here in llinois.  Rabine started in the paving business shortly after graduating high school; this became the Rabine Group of companies, which today does business in all fifty states and is headquartered out of Cook County in Schaumburg. To learn more about Gary Rabine, visit https://rabineforgovernor.com/