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Dem Candidate For Illinois Governor Caught Making Racially Insensitive Remarks

Hank Berrien

The frontrunner in the race to be the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois has been discovered to have made racially insensitive comments.

Billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker, whose sister Penny served as Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce, was caught on an FBI wiretap between him and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich urging Blagojevich to appoint Secretary of State Jesse White to the Senate seat, calling him the “least offensive” African-American.

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