Dabrowski Blows Caps Before Formally Entering Governor's Race
Potential gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski.
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Not-announced-but-probably-running gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski hasn’t formally announced he’s in the race yet, but yesterday, he went ahead and blew the campaign contribution caps in the governor’s race.
Dabrowski, the former Illinois Policy Institute staffer and current President of the “Wirepoints” conservative website has hinted for weeks that he was planning to enter the race for Governor, but has yet to pull the trigger.
Earlier this week, he created a campaign committee with the Illinois State Board of Elections, chaired by Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville).
Yesterday, Dabrowski took another step by breaking campaign contribution caps in the Governor’s race by putting $250,000 into his own campaign. When a candidate puts over $100,000 into their campaign, it removes all fundraising limits for other candidates in the race.
Governor JB Pritzker, who has given hundreds of millions of dollars to his campaign, has yet to break the caps in the current campaign and is now free to donate whatever he wants to his campaign. It would also allow other candidates to raise unlimited funds.
But the move raised eyebrows and questions among some Republican insiders.
“I have no idea what [Ted] is doing,” said one GOP strategist, wondering out loud why Dabrowski would open the door for other candidates to drown him in money before he’s technically in the race.
We reached out to Dabrowski Thursday night and didn’t hear back.
