CHICAGO – Saturday morning, Chicago’s Pastor Corey Brooks revealed the vandalism and theft his church experienced last week and the death threats on his family which started after he endorsed two Republicans in the November 4th election.

“Yesterday I received a number of phone calls making death threats against me and my family vowing to hurt my family and our church. Then last night, our church was broken into and vandalized,” he wrote on Facebook.

Sunday gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner joined Brooks at his New Beginnings Church in Chicago. During the press conference in answer to a question from Jeff Berkowtiz, Brooks said, in part:

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“…This stand is not against President Obama. This stand is against Pat Quinn. [Rauner] is not running against President Obama. He is running against Pat Quinn. [Quinn’s] record has been a tremendous failure in the State of Illinois. Just recently, there was an article written in Illinois that Illinois is the worst place to raise black children. That just should not be. We should not be at the bottom third of American society. We should be a state that is flourishing. We should be a state that is prospering. And, that should be for everyone.”

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