This Republican gubernatorial candidate is celebrating the start of football season right by featuring former NFL coach Mike Ditka in his latest campaign ad.
Republican candidate for Illinois governor Bruce Rauner and the former Chicago Bears coach team up in an advertisement that aired during the broadcast of the Bears game against the Buffalo Bills Sunday.
“Know what I like about you, Bruce? You’re tough,” Ditka tells the candidate across the table at, appropriately, Ditka’s restaurant in Chicago. “You attack the special interest. Bam! Hit ’em right in the mouth.”
“Well, you know, coach, I’ve been thinking. Maybe I’ve been too hard on those guys,” replies Rauner, provoking some seriously furious and intense stars from “Da Coach.”
There’s this face:
And this one (yikes):
And then this one (is he attempting to play mind games?):
“Okay, you’re right,” admits Rauner. “I don’t know what I was thinking.”
It appears that, whether on the football field or in his restaurant, Ditka performs like the coach he is.
“Yeah, stick to the game plan, Bruce,” he says with fervor. “Stick to the game plan.”
Rauner, a successful businessman, is running against current Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, whose campaign addressed Rauner’s new campaign ad by using it to highlight Rauner’s fortune.
“Only a billionaire … could afford to run such expensive ads during the Bears game,” Quinn’s campaign said in a statement.
