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* Republican candidates have begun throwing brickbats at the rich guy…
State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), who’s not officially in the race yet but will be this summer, says Rauner isn’t really a Republican.
“Bruce Rauner, while running in a Republican primary, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to (former Chicago) Mayor (Richard M.) Daley, Democrat members of Congress including Jan Schakowsky and Bill Foster, and hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat governors nationwide,” he said.
And…
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford, also running for governor, criticized Rauner for making his campaign announcement via a video on his website, Rutherford making the point that he meets the public and the press face-to-face.
* Rauner responded…
He added that criticism over campaign contributions to top Democrats must be viewed with a grain of salt. He gave money to four Democrats, two of whom are particularly notable.
“I’ve worked with Rahm Emanuel and Rich Daley because they control the public schools in Chicago and they are powerful allies who you need to work with if you hope to transform the schools,” Rauner said. “It’s the same technique the teachers’ union uses on both parties to block reform. I’m using it back on them.”
Numerous other contributions have been made in his household, but he claimed those come from his wife. He called her a staunch Democrat.
Saying Rauner is contributing to candidates when it’s actually his wife is gonna backfire badly if this keeps up. Just sayin’.
And…
Rauner was criticized by fellow candidate Dan Rutherford as the state treasurer faced the media and citizens in a 13-city tour for his own announcement. Rauner decided to announce his campaign via video in order to reach more supporters.
“We’re trying to maximize my exposure as much as possible,” he said. “Launching a video that could be spread throughout the state digitally was hugely powerful. When we launched our two-minute video, we thought we would get 2-3,000 views that first day. We got 40,000.”
And…
[Rauner] said the accusations by State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale) over his connection to fraudster Stuart Levine is non-existent.
“He’s bringing up some guy named Levine who I’ve never had any interaction with and didn’t even know he was there,” Rauner said. “Somehow my old investment firm is involved in corruption and has something to do with him? It’s pure bologna.”
The connection is indirect: a company that was owned by Rauner’s firm once hired Levine as a consultant, so Rauner did not “employ” Levine.
Dillard has reported raising about $36K this month. Rutherford’s June A-1 reports total about $37K Rauner’s June A-1 reports show $135,500 in contributions.
* Related…
* GTCR and Bruce Rauner in spotlight again with Rauner’s run for Illinois governor
* Gubernatorial candidate Rauner turns Elmhurst lecture into conversation
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:39 pm
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“Dillard has reported raising about $36K this month. Rutherford’s June A-1 reports total about $37K Rauner’s June A-1 reports show $135,500 in contributions.”
Why is Dillard even pretending to be a candidate? Surely a guy with his connections can do better than $36k. He’s either lazy or just not very good at the political game. Either way, clearly not a strong candidate for governor.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:46 pm
CousinBrucey needs to show caution when he tries to persuade how little he knew Stu.
Fire, Aim, Ready!
Comment by CircularFiringSquad Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:47 pm
Dillard is criticizing Rauner over campaign contributions to Democrats? What a hypocrite. Didn’t Dillard cut a campaign AD supporting OBAMA?!
Comment by Whatever Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:48 pm
Now did he give money to Foster or did his wife…
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:49 pm
Why is Dillard saying such stupid things? Nobody cares about six degrees of separation from Stuart Levine. Here’s some homework for his staff: Walk down any street in Naperville — let’s make it the river walk — and ask the first 30 people you see if they know who Stuart Levine is. Please report back when you have completed this task. Thanks!
Comment by soccermom Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:49 pm
Given how mediocre Rauner’s rollout has been, you really have to wonder if he’s paying A-Team prices.
Here’s some free advice:
If Kirk Dillard criticizes you for playing footsie with Democrats, you bring up Dillard’s TV spot for Obama.
How tough was that?
In case you didn’t know, Obama is not the most popular fella among GOP primary voters.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:54 pm
Is Dillard serious? These accusations from a guy who did a campaign ad for Obama?
Also, I’d bet Kirk Dillard was a lot closer to Bill Cellini than Rauner ever was to Levine… he was Jim Edgar’s chief of staff, if you didn’t know already.
Comment by JOC Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:54 pm
Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner will find out pretty quick, wishing away, and now focusing on his WIFE … will only lead to what the Payton Prep Clouter did for his denied Daughter.
“My wife made those donations.”
“Really, so you are bringing in your family for cover. Then how do you explain Clouting your Daughter into Payton Prep, after she was denied and after you ‘moved’ to Chicago to gain residency?”
“I don’t want to bring in family to this campaign.”
“Is your Wife family? You dragged her in.”
Well, I guess we’re done.”
Yes, Payton Prep Clouter, Bruce Rauner, keep blaming your wife, ignoring the Daughter, and you will be done, but if - AA - gets this contract done, the only people better off are all the consultants, and for ALL of us, we thank you!
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 1:57 pm
The commenters here have come up with more ammo against Rauner than his actual opponents. Rauner is just brushing this weak stuff away like lint off his $5,000 suit.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:00 pm
**Nobody cares about six degrees of separation from Stuart Levine. Here’s some homework for his staff: Walk down any street in Naperville — let’s make it the river walk — and ask the first 30 people you see if they know who Stuart Levine is.**
You know how easy it is to make an ad connecting Rauner to Levine?
Comment by dave Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:01 pm
===If Kirk Dillard criticizes you for playing footsie with Democrats, you bring up Dillard’s TV spot for Obama.
How tough was that?===
- wordslinger -, remember, Rauner brought in that Repub. Governor’s Association Staffer … That is Grade A …And showing those chops …every day.
Maybe the Obama stuff is “too Illinois” for all these out of staters, too “inside Illinois Baseball” …I mean that is probalby the only way you send your Principle, out there naked, without easy rebuttals, right? The RGA guy is just not in tune to Illinois?
- wordslinger -, Make sure you get to - AA - all your 1099 info so once the billing begins…
- 47th Ward -,
Maybe if the Commenters here charged the right prices, Rauner would take some of this stuff seriously.
I do think its cute that Rauner’s Crew tried to marginalize all these negatives. Heck, I already forgot Rauner Clouted his denied Daughter tthrough Arne Duncan, a Democrat appointee… totally went out of my head.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:07 pm
Yeah, that’s it, it was my wife’s fault. Yeah, that will work,she did it.
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:07 pm
Don’t go there, Bruce. Minutes of public bodies are forever.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:07 pm
(Snark Alert)
If he can’t control his wife, how’s he going to control the General Assembly.
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:08 pm
Willy, it’s hard to get a contract set when the prices keep going up.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:11 pm
=Rauner is just brushing this weak stuff away like lint off his $5,000 suit.=
I think that in one case, he’s probably being excrutiatingly and misleadingly polite…before throwing a really hard punch, which could be foreshadowing of another “parallel” to what I think his overall campaign message might become–and the target is playing right into hands.
OTOH, I believe Rs do, and will care, about the contributions.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:13 pm
Rauner *did* get 40K views on his announcement video, but if you look at the analytics (click the little stats icon below the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gG-XN9C-3LA ) and you’ll see that they had almost ZERO views before they paid for promoting the video/buying views as pre-rolls, etc.(First view from ad in the timeline.) How many of those 40K views were bought? Guessing A LOT of them.
Comment by JP Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:16 pm
I’m not sure why any Republican candidate would bring up Levine in any context. Levine was a big hitter in the Illinois Republican Party for a long time.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:17 pm
- AA -,
Start it at 125% what you think NOW, come November, during petitions, we will negotiate “Primary Fees upon Ballot Access”.
Make sure you list bonuses for all of us once Rauner gets ON the ballot…Call it “Phase Completion Benchmark”
Thank goodness no one else can see these Posts.
Keep the Cell Phone charged too.
To the Post,
That is the secret for all the GOP Nominees. Hammer on Rauner, stay above the fight with the others, so you can fall back and say,…
“I am not attacking fellow Republicans, even Bruce Rauner, I am attacking Democratic donations, Clouting of a child, through a Democratic Appointee …If Rauner wouldn’t have done those things, those charges wouldn’t have merit. I am not bringing his wife in as a shield, Rauner is. Rauner admitted his Daughter got in through Clout, on a special list, so …”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:18 pm
Did I miss you at the Kendall County Republican Committeeman’s meeting last night?
Comment by Cincinnatus Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:24 pm
Seriously, Willy? So far it seems that Rauner is much better at baiting than you are. Just sayin.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:24 pm
Rauner is toast. No trust factor.
Comment by Downstater Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:25 pm
- Cincinnatus -,
Me?
I was by the Punch and Cookies.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:27 pm
- Anonymous -
What does that even mean?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:28 pm
Word, maybe desperation?
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:31 pm
I don’t think this is the best quote, considering the clouting:
““I’ve worked with Rahm Emanuel and Rich Daley because they control the public schools in Chicago”
Comment by Northsider Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:32 pm
AA, maybe. Levine was a pretty popular fella in GOP circles for a long time. He wrote some powerful checks, early and often.
He wrote to some Democrats, too, of course. The hustlers are great supporters of the two-party system.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:35 pm
“Business is about people and your reputation is built on how you treat people” - Bruce Rauner, Kellogg School quote.
“He synthesized his message in a Nov. 1 Tribune op-ed, indicating “a powerful closed-loop system” with “unions and politicians on the inside, and taxpayers and schoolchildren on the outside.”
Bruce Rauner, Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
So, we are “worried” about schoolchildren, like the ones his New Trier school attending Daughter jumped over … and it matters how we TREAT people, even the …’little people’, we clout over?
- AA -, that is like $175, $200 ala Carte, charging by the sentence, not the total words when we do the “self oppo research” portion.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:36 pm
So, Mr. Rauner’s firm comes into TRS asking for funds to invest.
That’s fine.
They get turned down. They come back three months later –led by Mr. Rauner–and get the OK.
That’s aslo fine.
But Rauner acts like he doesn’t know who Stu Levine…when he appeared before him asking (and receiving) teachers’ retirement funds to invest?
That smells.
Comment by Just Saying Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:37 pm
–”“I’ve worked with Rahm Emanuel and Rich Daley because they control the public schools in Chicago”–
“And there’s a lot of money in charter schools (did I say that?).”
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:38 pm
Oswego,
everyone who reads this site knows your thoughts about bruce the clouter. it’s time to let it go. nobody cares, or ever will.
Comment by biased observer Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:39 pm
The big question is who can get enough “free” media to move the Stuart Levine narrative? The fact of the matter is, spending what little money these others have, the impact of targeting weakness needs the biggest return, unless you can have that ongoing narrative propel itslef into a daily dialog.
Time is a plus right now, money is the minus… of the two, time will start dropping, and money needs to rise… other than that…
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:39 pm
I saw no punch and cookies, I could have used some.
Comment by Cincinnatus Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:40 pm
===…about bruce the clouter===
Well, thank goodness its only me calling him Bruce the Clouter…
Is Rauner Clouting his Daughter a sore subject? Hopping over schoolchildren who passed the entrance qualifications, but were on a wait list, that Rauner got his denied daughter to bypass…
Nobody cares …”schoolchildren” I think is what Rauner said in that Op-Ed piece, maybe he cared, or it looks like he didn’t care(?)
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:43 pm
–everyone who reads this site knows your thoughts about bruce the clouter. it’s time to let it go. nobody cares, or ever will. –
Do what you’re told, Willie. As you can see, not only is Biased Observer a mind-reader, but he speaks for everyone. Plus, it’s his blog.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:44 pm
=Rauner is toast. No trust factor. =
Maybe. But it’s not as if “no trust” candidates with possibly far less talent for weaving and spinning haven’t won recently.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:44 pm
Oh - Cincinnatus -,
Had you found me, you would have found the Punch and Cookies!
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:45 pm
That SHOULD have read: “weaving, spinning, AND baiting….”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:46 pm
===That SHOULD have read:…===
When you get your Mocking all ready to zing me, let me know, k?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:47 pm
I’m surprised at Dillard. Calling people “Democrat members” instead of “Democratic members” is Tea Party code.
Comment by Chavez-respecting Obamist Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:50 pm
- Cincinnatus -,
Be thankful you missed me.
There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand.
Things you shouldn’t understand.
You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, - Cincinnatus -. A rebel.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:52 pm
=When you get your Mocking all ready to zing me, let me know, k? =
Well, since you quoted something I wrote, I suppose I have to assume that you were speaking to me.
OTOH, I was NOT even thinking of you when I made that statement. Feeling a bit paranoid for some reason? (And while THAT is addressed to you, it’s rhetorical.)
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:57 pm
HA! And me looking to improve the ground game in Kendall…
Comment by Cincinnatus Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 2:57 pm
===is Tea Party code===
Newt came up with that idea, long before the tea partiers.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:05 pm
===- Anonymous -
What does that even mean?===
That ain’t quoting you, and heck, I figured givng you another chance to let me have it might lead to enlighteing me, it didn’t.
- Cincinnatus -,
I wish you well on your quest/journey. Who knows, we very well run into each other. If Rich ever asks to give Dillard advice, I will be as thoughtful as I was with Rauner when he asked to drop some knowledge on the RGA Guy.
Plus, you get my thoughts here all, you may ever want .. or don’t want.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:07 pm
===Mewt===
I wish Newt was mute.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:11 pm
I get where hitting Dillard on the Obama ad would be satisfying for Rauner, but Dillard won’t be the only one to bring it up. He’s going to have to come up with a response.
Although, highlighting his close relationship with Rahm and Daley wouldn’t be my suggestion.
Comment by Century Club Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:15 pm
My voter file says Rauner pulled a Democratic primary ballot in 2006 (can that be right?). Maybe Edwin Eisendrath promised to bust the teachers union, too?
Comment by Century Club Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:21 pm
Maybe the contributions of his wife aren’t fair game, but I hardly think it wil backfire on Dillard. Put those contributions into the mix with his Payton Prep story, the multiple households where he and Mrs. Rauner are each registered to vote different places and you’ve got a whole lot of little stories that paint a picture of a man who cannot relate to the average GOP primary voter at all.
Little stuff, yes, but in totality I think enough to really wound him in the primary.
Comment by siriusly Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:23 pm
he voted Democratic too? Wow, that’s way different than just throwing a couple hundred thousand dollars to Richard Daley.
Comment by siriusly Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:24 pm
===I hardly think it wil backfire on Dillard.===
It can be devastating if Rauner understands the concept of a pivot.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:26 pm
- Primary Ballots Pulled
- Tax Returns
- Dates of Chicago Condo purchase and Payton Prep enrollment date for Daughter’s Freshman class. (Just need to get a copy of the school calendar for that year, not really a student FOI)
- Checks to Democratic candidates, did Mrs. Rauner sign them? Did Bruce Rauner sign them?
- What if the “Payton Prep Clout List” is “found”?
- All Property Tax exemption filings. Who signed for them? Properties in Trust at the time?
Those are starters…
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:28 pm
=Maybe the contributions of his wife aren’t fair game, but I hardly think it wil backfire on Dillard.=
So why wouldn’t you recommend that strategy to other GOP candidates besides Mr. Dillard? My current assessment is that as of this moment (though I’ll admit solely based on this writing), Mr. Dillard may not be the one who needs to go onto the offensive “pronto.”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:30 pm
===It can be devastating if Rauner understands the concept of a pivot.===
That is what is confusing me most;
Did Rauner do any Oppo on anyone but Schock? During all this listening, not one of that Brain Trust thought it might be useful to get ready with a pivot on attacks to Dillard, Rutherford, or Brady’s weakness to those same failings, or something stronger to change the discussion.
Major fails by Rauner’s Crew on Candidate Preporation, unless you count, “Well, I guess we’re done” as a …pivot?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:32 pm
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
I just came back from the future.
At this rate, it looks like the 2010 GOP primary all over again.
Happy trails,
Doc Brown and Marty McFly
Comment by Formerly Known As... Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:32 pm
None of these spin ideas for the anti-Rauner candidates are gonna work unless those candidates start raising some bigtime money.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:38 pm
Any “enlightenment” you’d like to share with us on the Dem Primary, Doc and Marty?
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:39 pm
mayber rauner just genuinely doesn’t care about what all the insiders criticizing him think?
I mean, it’s hard to get motivated to defend yourself for trying to get your kid into good school.
I don’t think he cares about all this typical insider game. Rauner has a pretty clear agenda he is setting for his run. He will just run on that agenda, which he thinks will be good for Illinois, and if he doesn’t win he will just go back to his life and I don’t think it will be the end of the world for him.
I think that perspective puts him in a much different category than most pols these days. Politics as an afterthought…a civic coda if you will.
Comment by biased observer Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:39 pm
===“I’ve worked with Rahm Emanuel and Rich Daley because they control the public schools in Chicago and they are powerful allies who you need to work with if you hope to transform the schools,” Rauner said. “It’s the same technique the teachers’ union uses on both parties to block reform. I’m using it back on them.”===
Well, I am glad Rauner isn’t “gaming the system again” …or is he?
===…I’m using it back on them.”===
That sounds like a “Reformer” … playing the game(?)
Look for the Rauner Crew to use the…
“He started it!”
“Keep on your side!”
“That’s not fair!”…
Or any Elementary School excuse used by kids for dipping pigtails in the ink wells. Actually I hope Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner keeps talking, he’s funny!
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:41 pm
shorter version of the next 9 month GOP GOV primary
-we all love paul ryan, ronald reagan, mitch daniels, scott walker, america, apple pie, low taxes, local education, cutting spending, family values, the idea that the next governor should be middle aged overweight republican white guy with gray hair.
-we all hate chicago-kind of, socialism (they have it in chicago!), chicago democrats, chicago machine (but we’ll work with rahm because he’s really a moderate democrat we can do business with- even those of us that haven’t donated to him), big government, the madigans, springfield (even though we’ve worked there/wanted to run it for the last several years).
we’re all mixed on and don’t want to talk about: gays, guns, mark kirk (we want his result, but don’t have the guts to cave on centrist social issues like he did), the tea party, abortion, what we’d cut, whether we’ll be as conservative as other gop governors in blue states like corbett and snyder not because we’re not conservative but because we read chicago papers and we’re worried that there JUST might be an issue with a texas agenda working in a blue state.
-Rauner-the rest of the guys are government insiders who’ve never had a real job.
-rest of field-rauner is a rich combine RINO who plays the rules to his advantage.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Comment by shore Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:41 pm
=Politics as an afterthought…a civic coda if you will.=
Not a half-bad argument, considering that few Rs seem to trust him. Still not sure, though, how you’re going to turn that one around. And, while it certainly says he’s not “dynasty,” I don’t think it qualifies him as an “outsider.”
Good luck with those.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:48 pm
Rich @ 3:38, 100% agreed!
- Biased Observer -,
===mayber rauner just genuinely doesn’t care about what all the insiders criticizing him think?===
Rauner is worried waht the voters will think if this saturates, otherwise, if Rauner didn’t care, Rauner wouldn’t delflect by saying, “well, I guess we’re done.” Rauner is going to have to come up with something better, because maybe not in ads, but in a debate, a “character” question will be raised, and if Rauner looks smug, and “don’t give a darn” or even worse, unresponsive … it could sink him with that being his last image to some voters.
===I don’t think he cares about all this typical insider game.===
“Clouters” care, otherwise, they wouldn’t use Clout, they would accept that their Daughter didn’t make it.
===Politics as an afterthought…a civic coda if you will.===
Unless you spent you whole business life, and with his Daughter, your personal life, gaming the system, working off Clout and inside dealings, marrying that with donations to Democrats as you run as a Republican.
Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner is not “Mr. Smith”. His entire persona and life choices run against that thought process …
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:49 pm
Let me understand this. Rauner claims on his TV ads that he “can’t be bought”, yet he states he donates money to Democrats as he needs powerful allies to get anything done in the public schools. So he supports buying people off?!?
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:52 pm
=I don’t think it qualifies him as an “outsider.”=
And, on the wrong side of the fence no less.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:52 pm
“I’ve worked with Rahm Emanuel and Rich Daley because they control the public schools in Chicago and they are powerful allies who you need to work with if you hope to transform the schools,” Rauner said.
So he blatantly acknowledges that the purpose of the contributions was to buy access and influence with powerful politicians? This from a guy running as an outsider? Now we know how come his name showed up so often on JC Brizard’s meeting calendar - he bought his way in. And all along I thought it was just Rahm and Brizard’s affinity for charter schools.
Comment by Don't Worry, Be Happy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:53 pm
Poor anonymous 3:52 is still “stuck” on that one, huh?
We’ve already ignored that.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 3:53 pm
Not much seems to change in Illinois, shore–except for “efficacy” of previously-proven models and “approaches,” which is really why some of us even bother paying close attention any more.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:01 pm
I agree that Rauner’s wife is allowed to have her own political views, contributions, etc. My only question (and I honestly don’t know much about her), is whether she has a source of income. If she has a job and an income of her own then I think her contributions are hers only and shouldn’t be imputed to him. If, however, she doesn’t work and the money is all “his” then I think it’s a little fair to impute the contributions to him.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:28 pm
Learned long ago not to game out the other side’s primaries. Have fun with that, R brethren.
Comment by Will Caskey Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:29 pm
I take back everything I’ve said regarding “nothing seems to change in Illinois.” I’m sure Mrs. Rauner will be glad to hear that she has your approval, Anon 4:28, regarding the right to have her own political views.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:52 pm
Shore and Rich are exactly right. None of this stuff is going to mean much as long as they are throwing nickels and he is throwing hundreds. If Dillard keeps up his breakneck pace of fundraising ($36k/month), he’ll have a whopping $324,000 to spend on the entire campaign. As I said above, that’s just not a serious candidacy for governor.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 5:22 pm
And…the fun has just beGUN on THIS one (hasn’t it)!!! And all this for a what–3rd, 4th place finish in the end, maybe? Ya just do hate to see folks who HAVE millions just THROW millions out the Window, don’t ya? (Kind of reminds me of a certain PENsion crisis somewhere, too, doesn’t it–Go Illinois–whoo! Cmon all you “Special Sessioneer Lawmakers! PLEASE DO what you were eLECTed for–and FInally come together–now that it’s the only thing on your platter you have to deal with cleaning up–impress us, and PASS SOME decent Pension Reform Law for the good of ALL of our beloved Illinois, WILL ya…(PRETty please, with whip cream and a cherry on top)?!!!
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 5:26 pm
Money will certainly be an issue and rumor is that there may be a few 527’s set up that would be a benefit to a non billionaire.
Comment by rumor mill Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 5:29 pm
All of this if funny stuff. The Republican party will not be a real party in Illinois until they separate themselves from their senior partners. Why vote for a Republican , in Illinois, when he’s just really a Democrat? Until Republicans offer a choice not an echo: what’s their purpose????
Comment by Steve Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 5:49 pm
and what choice would you suggest? brady not conservative enough for u? profft? give me a break.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:03 pm
–The Republican party will not be a real party in Illinois until they separate themselves from their senior partners.–
Who are the “senior partners?” Who are the “real” Republicans?
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:03 pm
–Dillard has reported raising about $36K this month. Rutherford’s June A-1 reports total about $37K Rauner’s June A-1 reports show $135,500 in contributions.–
Rauner must have received a “Good Housekeeping” Seal of Approval somewhere because his reports show a lot of “homemakers” dropping $5,300 on him. Dude knows how to bundle.
Why are Brady and Dillard so late to the party raising money? They never really stopped running from four years ago.
Brady had $44K at the end of March, Dillard $34K.
Rutherford had $740K.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:13 pm
- Steve -,
I have no clue where you are going with that… Can you educate us on the “real” or “fake” Republicans… do we get to use “RINO”?
Usually you have to close about 3 big clients to get to senior partner. Lets have a contest to see who are senoir partners are;
As you all know, when looking for senior partenrs in the GOP, the first prize to senior partner is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re a RINO.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:19 pm
===Why are Brady and Dillard so late to the party raising money?===
Agreed, why?
You both knew you were going to run, Dillard might have gotten sideswiped by Rauner, hitting all the CEOs and such, and Brady, what is confusing is the idea of the emails and the posturing, what, you can;t throw a funder of substance to show credibility?
Maybe being one of 19 in the Senate GOP has caught up to the two Senators? How many times can you be seen as irrelevent to the legislative process before they think each individual Senator is irrelevent?
The Senate GOP is a monlithic group, speaking in one voice, and at times, a voice counter to conventional wisdom, political acumen, and always deferring to the “right”. There has to be a smidge of the Irrelevence of the Caucus in the mix, with another pinch of laziness?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:28 pm
Great point WIlly. If you can’t influence the process, what is the point of giving money to influence the process. Afterall, we all know why most political money is given by lobbyists and corporations in this state.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:40 pm
Oswego Wily:
Real Republicans don’t contribute money to Jan Schakowsky. You know who spends some of her free time with socialist organizations.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/who_are_the_socialists_in_amer.html
Comment by Steve Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:51 pm
- Steve -,
Ok, so who are the Senior Partners?
BTW, if you are referring to Rauner, just say it.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:53 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - “Afterall, we all know why most political money is given by lobbyists and corporations in this state.” Couldn’t say it better myself #TheOutsidersInsidersInsidersOutsider
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 7:00 pm
Steve, you see Bernie Sanders and you see the boogie man, lol?
Would it make you feel better to know that’s he’s from Vermont, which has the loosest gun laws in the country?
Would it make you feel worse to know that he’s from Vermont, the first state to enact gay marriage on their own?
A socialist, eh? Like Tony Blair and Shimon Peres?
God knows you wouldn’t want to have public ownership of any means of production, like, a water supply or power utility.
Or parking meters. Highways. Bridges. Transit systems. Airports. Hospitals. Universities.
They should all be private, for-profit entities.
Otherwise, it’s socialism.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 7:06 pm
@Steve:
Thanks for telling us what a “real” Republican is. You are what is wrong with the party. People who don’t fit into your neat little definition aren’t “real” Republicans. You don’t get it and that’s why the Republican party remains in the weeds. Purity or else.
Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 7:50 pm
@Steve:
Oh, and enough with this socialist garbage. You wouldn’t know socialism if it slapped up upside the head.
Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 7:51 pm
I do enjoy the “Slytherin House” Republicans fawning over the Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner.
What is confusing about this group, is that everything the Slytherin House Republicans stand for …and refuse to compromise on for anyone … they ignore and make excuses for Rauner.
In theory, if you can’t vote for Dillard for the Obama thing, how can you support Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner who clouted through a Daley and Obama appointee… and lecture someone like me about …”Purity” and “Ethics”?
Maybe, if the sun …hits the Tin Foil hat just … so …
Yikes!
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 7:56 pm
Rauner is finished! there is no “Conservative” support there (Except Jack-sorry Jack can’t go with you on this). Thats why some are looking/working for another candidate to get in the race. shhhh don’t tell anyone. BTW Dillard announced over the weekend according to the IR. If a man announces in the woods and there is noone there to hear it does he make any noise?
Comment by votecounter Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:15 pm
Demorilized
I know a socialist when it’s Jan Creamer/Schakowsky and she/he admit she and her husband are. He’s out of prison so I can talk about him again can’t I?
Comment by votecounter Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:19 pm
Demoralized:
Why are you insulting America’s largest socialist organization? The Democratic Socialists of America want to get rid of the profit motive. Many Democrat party members like Jan Schakowsky think it’s alright for the government to own banks, insurance companies ,and car companies. Karl Marx, himself, defined socialism as owning the means of production. So, it’s ok to face the truth.
http://www.dsausa.org/
Comment by Steve Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:32 pm
Steve, you like labels. What do you call Gov. Perry who offers up taxpayer money to companies to move to Texas? A socialist entrepreneur?
Or is a socialist chump for not getting an ownership stake with the people’s money?
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:37 pm
=I do enjoy the “Slytherin House” Republicans fawning over the Payton Prep Clouter Bruce Rauner…they ignore and make excuses for Rauner.=
There must be one of four things going on here: 1) I still don’t understand what the heck “Slyterin House” means within the GOP context (nor do I care); 2) If those making excuses are in fact GOPers, I don’t recognize them; 3) whatever excuses are being offered must not be very good as you seem to be the only one upset over them; or 4) you see “Slyterin House” Republicans everywhere you go “virtually.”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:39 pm
=2) If those making excuses are in fact GOPers, I don’t recognize them; =
And just to clarify before someone jumps all over me. “Recognize” as in “identify”–not as in I do not believe they are “real” Republicans. And apologies if I SHOULD know that whoever is defending Rauner on this thread is a GOPer; I guess the pro arguments (at this time) truly weren’t strong enough for me to stop and analyze them to that extent. (But I also realize that this is only a “warm up” and that the debate will only become more intriguing.)
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:46 pm
1) If you don’t care, why ask? Hit the “search” key, if you are getting confused.
2 & 3) If you don’t call them out, like Rauner Clouting his daughter, and that by doing so, is running an unethical, hypocritical campaign based on a lack of moral character, as Rauner calls out Republicans, while working with Democrats to game the system, that is on you. If you can’t recognize who Rauner is pandering to, that is also on you. If you think I am the only one upset and responding, then why all the flack that I get when I bring up the Clouting for the Denied daughter?
4) Are you keeping track of every post I make? that sounds a bit obsessive. Are you following me, since I say it everywhere I go and you know this? Yikes.
If you don’t care, don’t ask, otherwise that is Troll behavior and bad form.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 8:53 pm
Willy, someday you’ll learn that your “telemarketing” techniques of repeating while slightly turning around everything I say is actually the obsessive, impolite, and ineffective behavior.
Along with calling people names.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 9:05 pm
And now, on Cue mind you, plays the victim “card”.
At least - Anonymous - is consistent, including still refusing to come up with a handle, because NOT having one reminds is all - Anonymous - was a victim of some sort of name thing, but a victim none the less.
Poking bears is unpredictable, but thank goodness -Anonymous - is predictable as the sun rising I’m the east.
When you are done laying those cards, and get a handle, then we will get somewhere I guess
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 9:13 pm
I’m sure you’re right, Willy. You ARE “the east.”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 9:26 pm
Do. Not. Feed. Trolls.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 9:29 pm
mr rauners wife became fair game when he used it in a public forum not wise unless she is snow white
Comment by fake county chairman Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 9:42 pm
@FakeArthurAndersen So Confused these days. Just sent a “Twitter” request in my “not AA” name. #who #whoops
#getatwitterAA
Amen on the dude getting a handle. Part of my confusion.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 10:04 pm
“Why are you insulting America’s largest socialist organization? The Democratic Socialists of America want to get rid of the profit motive. Many Democrat party members like Jan Schakowsky think it’s alright for the government to own banks, insurance companies ,and car companies.”
@Steve, you’re a moron (sorry - was that ad hominem). I suppose I could leave it at that, but as an active member of the party you attack, and as a job-creator myself, I just can’t stress enough what a clueless troll you actually are. How many jobs have you created Steveo? Yup, thought so.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 10:15 pm
Oh, and “Rauner’s wife” is actually a very accomplished woman in her own right and currently president of the Ounce of Prevention fund, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to expanding early childhood education.
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 10:17 pm
yes control the populace with charity
Comment by fake county chairman Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 11:53 pm
She is also quite active in Emily’s list.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Jun 19, 13 @ 6:27 am