* Tribune…

Gov. Rauner’s re-election campaign is launching a new — yet old — line of attack against Pritzker.

After weeks of ads mocking Pritzker for a property tax reduction he received on a neighboring Gold Coast mansion he bought and had the toilets disconnected to declare the residence uninhabitable, the new Rauner ad uses the words of Pritzker’s defeated March Democratic primary challengers to criticize the billionaire and try to link him to Speaker Madigan.

Rauner has long sought to demonize Madigan and tie Democratic candidates up and down the ballot to the veteran House speaker, who also chairs the state Democratic Party. The ad ends declaring Pritzker as “Mike Madigan’s candidate.”

The Rauner folks ran a very similar digital ad right after the primary.

* The ad…

* Transcript…

Daniel Biss: JB Pritzker is Mike Madigan’s candidate. Everyone knows it, it’s clear, and if the Democratic Party wants to nominate Mike Madigan’s candidate, they should nominate JB Pritzker.

Chris Kennedy: I think JB Pritkzer has emerged as the poster child for pay to play politics in this state.

Biss: It took JB Pritzker a week to get permission from Mike Madigan to even name him in talking about the sexual harassment cover up.

Kennedy: Pritzker is really there to protect the status quo.

Biss: JB Pritzker is Mike Madigan’s candidate