People have been mentioning this in comments, so I thought it deserved its own post.
Rauschenberger vowed to resign as the lieutenant governor nominee if Gidwitz doesn’t win the GOP nomination for governor in March.
UPDATE: He apparently left a little wiggle room during the Chicago press conference, however, saying he would resign if Topinka won, but not expressly saying that he would get off the ticket if Brady or Oberweis won.
In Springfield, he said he would allow the nominee to choose his/her own candidate.
UPDATE 2: I should have also included this quote from John Kass’ column this morning:
“I’m running for lieutenant governor, and we’re a team, because reforming our party and this state is more important to me than any personal ambition,” Rauschenberger said. “But I won’t serve on any administration but Ron’s. If someone else wins the Republican primary and I win the primary for lieutenant governor, I’ll resign.”
Plus, I think people are making too much of what I wrote above. I’m not accusing SR of flip-flopping. Semantics arguments are a little boring here.
Anyway, back to the question, what do you think of this?