Bu John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Another Democratic candidate for Illinois Governor is criticizing fellow candidate J.B. Pritzker for asking then- Governor Rod Blagojevich to name him Illinois Treasurer in 2008. The conversation was revealed in a secretly recorded FBI tape of Blagojevich that the Chicago Tribune published last week.

Thursday morning, Highwood State Representative and Gubernatorial candidate Scott Drury told “The Big John and Ray Show” that the tapes show Pritzker should not be Governor.

“Those tapes are very disturbing and I don’t think we know close to enough about the back story to those tapes. One of the biggest problems I saw in those tapes is that Pritzker clearly comes up with the idea on his own that he wants to be the Treasurer. Sure that’s fine. But later in the tapes he starts talking about how they’re going to pull the wool over the public’s eyes and make it look like the head of the Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange how the idea came from them. So you have Pritzker on tape already scheming with a corrupt Governor about how they’re going to make one fact look like it was different and that’s not the type of person we need running our state.”

Drury is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney. He is also one of the few Democrats to publicly oppose powerful Illinois Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. He told WLS that while he does not have the money of Pritzker, Democratic Candidate Chris Kennedy, or Governor Bruce Rauner, he can still win.

“What we all know is that money can’t buy character, money can’t buy judgement. Money can’t buy a good message. There is no one in this race until now, who has the scars that I have from actually fighting for the people of Illinois and giving people a voice. We’re gonna return Illinois to the people.”

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