At debate, Rauner calls Legionnaires` probe `abuse of power`
(WorldNews Politics)

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Illinois` candidates for governor again traded accusations over leadership, taxes and alleged corruption in a debate Thursday that was their final one to be televised before the Nov. 6 election. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker both tried to deflect attention from questions about their integrity. The debate played out on a sensitive stage - Quincy, home of the state-run military veterans` home beset by a deadly Legionnaires` disease crisis. Rauner decried a criminal investigation by the Democratic attorney general into his handling of the outbreak that has led to 14 deaths since 2015, calling it a `shameful abuse of power.` Pritzker is...