(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Dan Brady, the Republican candidate for Illinois Secretary of State, says he wears his party label proudly, but he’s distancing himself from some of the rhetoric of Darren Bailey, the GOP candidate for governor.
Brady, a state lawmaker, talks enthusiastically about plans to upgrade technology and foster partnerships with community colleges if he’s elected secretary of state.
But if you ask him about some of Bailey’s controversial comments — about abortion being worse than the Holocaust or Chicago being a “hellhole” — he’d rather that be toned down.
“I can control my campaign, my message, what I say, what I do,” Brady tells WBBM Newsradio. “Certainly, some of the other rhetoric that’s out there, I wish that would not be the case. I wish that would be toned down. I think it could hurt people statewide. But both sides have a problem.”
He faces Democratic former state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in November’s contest to succeed the retiring Jesse White. Giannoulias says he’s running for the office to rebuild trust in public institutions, but Brady says he doesn’t feel he has to restore anything because he’s already trusted.
Giannoulias has also injected the issue of abortion in the race by discussing technology that could be used to track women who come to Illinois for abortions. He is against sharing data with law enforcement in states that restrict or ban abortion.
For his part, Brady says he doesn’t think the secretary of state should wage into such policy issues.
Brady’s the guest on this weekend's “At Issue,” which airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.
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