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In Late April, Bruce Rauner requested a meeting with Jim Edgar. Nothing too unusual about that, you may think. Edgar, the governor of Illinois from to , is one of the most revered Republicans in the state.

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And private equity pro Rauner had won the party’s gubernatorial nomination a month earlier, thereby joining a cohort of extremely wealthy businessmen with no political experience—among them Tom Foley of Connecticut, Scott Honour of Minnesota, and Jeffrey McCormick of Massachusetts—running for governor on November 4.

But the four-way battle in Illinois’s Republican primary had been a particularly nasty one.

Rauner, 58, had tapped his fortune to flood the airwaves with caustic ads about his competitors, including state senator Kirk Dillard. Edgar had supported Dillard, his former chief of staff and a longtime friend. “We cannot afford a governor who has to learn on the job,” Edgar said at a March news conference, in an obvious reference to Rauner