Political Campaigns
Brady ran for Governor of Illinois twice: in 2006, he finished third in the Republican primary, getting about 18% of the vote; in the 2010 gubernatorial election, he defeated his closest competitor, State Senator Kirk Dillard, by 193 votes in the GOP primary, but lost to incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn by around 19,400 votes out of 3,600,000.
In the 2010 gubernatorial election, he defeated his closest competitor, State Senator Kirk Dillard, by 193 votes in the GOP primary, and faced incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Quinn and Green Party candidate Rich Whitney in November. Brady's running mate was twenty-eight-year-old Jason Plummer, past Chairman of the Madison County Republican Party and, at the time, an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve and vice president in his father's lumber business. Brady lost to Quinn by around 19,400 votes out of 3,600,000.
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