The Chicago Sun-Times, historically the "Democratic" newspaper in Chicago, will endorse Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner.
However, Rauner himself owned a 10% stake in Wrapports LLC, the parent company of the Sun-Times, prior to launching his big-money gubernatorial bid:
After insisting for nearly three years that it would no longer endorse candidates for political office, the Sun-Times is reversing itself and formally backing Republican Bruce Rauner for governor.
The Sun-Times announced Friday that its Sunday edition would carry its choice for governor. Although the announcement stopped short of saying whom the newspaper would endorse, sources confirmed that Rauner would get the nod enthusiastically over Democrat Pat Quinn.
The decision to endorse Rauner and no other candidates on the November ballot is certain to fuel cynicism about the motives of Michael Ferro Jr., chairman of Sun-Times Media parent company Wrapports LLC. In recent weeks, sources said, Ferro has been exerting pressure on editors regarding coverage of Rauner, who held a 10 percent stake in Wrapports before he became a candidate for governor.
In addition to the fact that Rauner once owned a stake in the parent company of the Sun-Times, there's another that is wrong with the Sun-Times endorsing Rauner. Last year, not long after Rauner sold his stake in Wrapports LLC,
the Sun-Times fired every single one of its full-time photojournalists. Only after the quality of the Sun-Times declined and the Chicago Newspaper Guild, the union which represented the fired photojournalists, fought against the mass firing of the Sun-Times photojournalists did the Sun-Times
rehire four of the 28 photojournalists earlier this year. Bruce Rauner has always struck me as having the same "I like firing people" mentality that the Chicago Sun-Times management and Mitt Romney has.
The fact that a newspaper that once fired every one of its full-time photojournalists is endorsing Bruce Rauner for Governor of Illinois shows you how terrible of a governor of this state Rauner would be.