CHICAGO — The Latest on a controversial campaign ad aired by a Republican candidate for Illinois governor (all times local):11:10 a.m. The chairman of the Illinois Republican Party says a GOP governor candidate should stop airing a campaign ad that critics have called racist and homophobic. The transgender woman is deep-voiced and wears a dress that shows chest hair. Bruce Rauner’s “betrayals of conservatives.”The Illinois GOP is almost entirely funded by Rauner. The deep-voiced transgender woman, wearing a dress that reveals a hairy chest, says “Thank you for signing legislation that lets me use the girl’s bathroom.”Rauner hasn’t signed a so-called transgender bathroom bill.

Source: National Post February 03, 2018 17:03 UTC