By Bill McMorris        312- 624-3034

CHICAGO-Unity was the theme at a breakfast sponsored by the state GOP even if party members do not know who they’re nominee is for the governor’s race.

State Senator Bill Brady of Bloomington leads Hinsdale Senator Kirk Dillard by several hundred votes with 99-percent of the vote counted. The frontrunners are saying they will support whoever wins the primary, as a “head and shoulders” superior candidate to Governor Pat Quinn or Comptroller Dan Hynes.

But neither is prepared to accept defeat.

Dillard says the final one percent of the vote is coming in from northeast Illinois, where he runs “much ahead of Mr. Brady.” He is confident that he can eke out a victory.

Both candidates are keeping a close eye on the race, but neither is considering a recount — yet.

Talk of a recount at a breakfast celebrating unity may seem contradictory, but Dillard says one may be needed to “make sure the votes are counted properly.”

Dillard says he has an “election lawyer” on retainer monitoring the count as the final precincts report, while Brady has a team “volunteering their legal services,” in case a recount is necessary.

Both candidates are confident they will emerge the victor, eventually.