Gov. Rauner kicks off campaign tour
Monday, Nov 13, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Sunday Rauner campaign media advisory…
MEDIA ADVISORY: Gov. Rauner Our Home Our Fight Tour - Monday, November 13th
Governor Rauner will be on a tour across Illinois this week discussing his agenda. He will be visiting businesses across the state focusing on the next steps our state needs to overcome the corrupt system in Springfield and enact real reform that gives power back to the people.
See below for Monday’s events […]
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Decatur Business Visit and Media Availability
T/CCI Manufacturing
2120 N. 22nd St., Decatur, IL 62526
The governor will tour the facility and take questions from the media
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM: Champaign Business Visit and Media Availability
Pavlov Media
206 N. Randolph St #200, Champaign, IL 61820
The governor will tour the facility and take questions from the media
* Monday Pritzker press release…
Today, Bruce Rauner is kicking off a campaign tour with what should be called his “Home I Fought to Destroy Tour.” Rauner begins his tour with stops in Champaign and Decatur, two cities particularly devastated by his 736-day manufactured budget crisis:
From the Decatur Herald & Review: In Macon County, the budget deadlock threatened a spectrum of social service agencies, causing Baby TALK to lay off much of its staff and jeopardizing the future of the city’s only domestic violence shelter. It halted road projects and construction of Richland Community College’s Student Success Center and left schools holding the bag on tens of thousands of dollars trapped in a payment backlog.
From “Don’t minimize damage done to state already,” a Herald & Review editorial: Yet, after two years without a budget, those who depend on state money have cut programs, cut staff, cut recipients. […] “It will take years of hard work to reverse the damage that has been done,” Illinois State University President Larry Dietz said in a letter to faculty and staff. […] The lack of a budget, and subsequent [social service] agency and school cuts, had immediate repercussions, but more importantly, will have long-term ramifications for individuals, counties and the state.
From the Champaign News-Gazette: The two-year state budget impasse that ended in July took a toll on faculty salaries and undergraduate recruitment… The [University of Illinois] Urbana campus has slipped to 19th in its peer group of 22 universities nationally in faculty salaries, she said. It also saw an increase in faculty departures during the budget impasse. “We’ve lost ground,” [EVP of Academic Affairs Barb] Wilson said. “We’re not competitive.”
From Chicago Tribune: At public universities, officials and workers say some doctors and dentists, particularly those outside an insurance plan’s provider network, increasingly asked patients to pick up the state’s tab during the impasse. […] In downstate Urbana-Champaign and Springfield, where dentists are typically out-of-network providers, most University of Illinois employees are paying their full tabs upfront and waiting for the state to reimburse them, according to Thomas Hardy, a university spokesman.
“Bruce Rauner is kicking off his ‘Home I Fought to Destroy Tour’ with photo ops in cities he decimated across the state,” said Pritzker campaign spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh. “For Champaign and Decatur, Rauner’s budget crisis did irreparable harm and the fight now is to defeat this failed governor and clean up the damage he’s done to our state.”
…Adding… DGA…
One month after announcing his reelection, and two months after signing HB40, Bruce Rauner finally comes out of hiding to actually campaign for reelection. Today, Rauner launches his “Our Home, Our Fight” tour with visits to Decatur and Champaign, two cities hit hard by the state’s budget impasse. So far Rauner’s “fighting” has been relegated to campaign ads and desperately staving off disaster during the veto session, but today he’s set to get out there and press some flesh.
Rauner’s been hiding for good reason. With Rauner’s approval rating at 34%, voters clearly have lots of questions they want to ask the failed Governor, like:
Why did Rauner fight against finding compromise, instead of forcing Illinois through a two-year budget impasse?
Why job growth has slowed at home under his watch? “Our home” was the third worst at creating jobs over the past year.
Does Rauner regret that his fights pushed the state further into debt and forced its credit rating fall to the lowest rating ever for a U.S. state?
When he’s not trashing the state at home, why does Rauner thinks he can brag about the state’s higher education system while the budget impasse decimated Illinois colleges and universities?
Why has Rauner been fighting for himself, and not Illinois?
As the nation’s most vulnerable incumbent, Rauner’s got a lot of fighting to do to win back voters’ trust.
“Governor Rauner should call this the Our Home, No Fight tour – because he refuses to fight for Illinois’ economy and families,” DGA Illinois Communications Director Sam Salustro. “The only thing Governor Rauner will fight for is his own political career, and it shows. Under Rauner’s failed record, jobs and people are still moving out, debt is up, and services are decimated. No wonder he’s been avoiding voters.”
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 11:51 am:
Pritzker needs to trim down the press releases.
- illini - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 11:55 am:
—- ‘Home I Fought to Destroy Tour’ —- Excellent.
I wonder if he will ever have the nerve to set foot on the UIUC campus - just thinking.
- wordslinger - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 11:55 am:
Will Rauner address the “corruption” behind that $2.8B in unappropriated FY2017 spending his administration was hiding?
Or is there a goo-goo explanation for that?
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 11:57 am:
Bruce is going to go all out - wear his vest over his Carhart, sitting on his Harley atop his junk van. He’s serious. His costume will demonstrate it.
- Huh? - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 11:59 am:
I really wish 1.4% would quit fighting for me. It is begining to hurt.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:00 pm:
Yikes is that Pritzker release full of words. Lots and lots of words.
===Today, Bruce Rauner is kicking off a campaign tour with what should be called his “Home I Fought to Destroy Tour.” Rauner begins his tour with stops in Champaign and Decatur, two cities particularly devastated by his 736-day manufactured budget crisis.===
Then…
===“Bruce Rauner is kicking off his ‘Home I Fought to Destroy Tour’ with photo ops in cities he decimated across the state,” said Pritzker campaign spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh. “For Champaign and Decatur, Rauner’s budget crisis did irreparable harm and the fight now is to defeat this failed governor and clean up the damage he’s done to our state.”===
The rest could be cut, easily by half, quotes or not, and weave all three into one narrative with their own words, and links to the articles to support their own narrative.
It’s the lazy way where activity looks like achievement. This isn’t their best effort.
To Rauner,
Which members of the Raunerite Party will join the governor at these stops?
Will it be those “confused” that they may not support Rauner, but they are so phony they’ll “get in line” or those who are with Rauner no matter the liberal Democratic agenda Rauner implemented over the no votes they cast.
That’s what will be fun to see… those visuals.
- Vole - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:03 pm:
Dollar General Tour by General Dollar.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:08 pm:
Rauner’s budget crisis did irreparable harm and the fight now is to defeat this failed governor and clean up the damage he’s done to our state.”
And JB will do this by rubber stamping the Madigan agenda and not pass a single reform because Illinois was so successful before Rauner got elected.
We now spend 9.1 billion just on the interest on the pensions but there is no pressing need to pass Senator Cullerton’s bipartisan pension reform.
If only the 15 billionaires like JB would pay their fair share Illinois would be rocking with free college and health care for all.
- illini - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:10 pm:
@Willy — “Which members of the Raunerite Party will join the governor at these stops? —
That will indeed be telling.
- Stuck on the Third Floor - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:10 pm:
Our Home, Our Fight…odd choice of name by a guy who had three other Governors come in and sling his mud for him.
- DeseDemDose - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:11 pm:
I hope the media finally calls Rauner out when he constantly lies as part of the new campaign baloney tour.
- Name Withheld - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:13 pm:
Wonder if that tour will include Cairo. They’ve been asking for you, Governor.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:13 pm:
===And JB will do this by rubber stamping the Madigan agenda and not pass a single reform because Illinois was so successful before Rauner got elected.===
Bruce Rauner is a failed governor with a 30% approval. Like Pat Quinn, voters know the failure of Bruce Rauner is what has hurt this state since Rauner became governor.
By nearly every measure, Illinois is worse off since Rauner became governor, according to Crain’s.
Rauner has a record, a record that fails Illinois.
The rest of your ignorance, per usual, is based on the reality Rauner couldn’t get 60 and 30, 71 and 36, and talking points that you use ignore Rauner running up a $16 billion backlog, and Rauber has yet to sign a full fiscal year budget.
That’s failing. Rauner fails.
- Arsenal - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:14 pm:
==We now spend 9.1 billion just on the interest on the pensions but there is no pressing need to pass Senator Cullerton’s bipartisan pension reform.==
Well, call ya’ boy Bruce. Maybe if he focused on pension reform instead of pie-in-the-sky right to mooch schemes, you’d have an actual Rauner accomplishment to tout instead of increasingly contorted excuses for Rauner’s failures.
- Anon221 - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:15 pm:
“Our Home Our Fight Tour”- bet is doesn’t “play” in Cairo. “I Bought It and I’m Gonna Break It” would be more appropriate. Well, My Home My State, and My Vote against Rauner will be to end this endless “Tour” in November 2018.
- wordslinger - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:16 pm:
–If only the 15 billionaires like JB would pay their fair share…–
When did a graduated income tax become part of the Rauner agenda? You should check with the boss on that one, LP.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:21 pm:
Rauner ran up a 16 billion backlog all by himself?
Can you cite what the backlog was when he was inaugurated and how the legislature helped to cut the budget and worked cooperatively and professionally to solve Illinois problems?
Arsenal, how can you blame the Governor for supporting the Democratic Senate leaders pension bill that passed the Senate but wasn’t even called by the House?
You sound like Steve Brown or Lou Lang who have been failing for decades and are enabled by people like you.
Will someone tell me how on earth JB will succeed if he does not want to change any of these failed polices and will just go along with whatever the unions and trial lawyers say?
Illinois will continue to be the 48th best state for business.
- Happy Retiree - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:22 pm:
How is this a “Kickoff”? He’s been touring the State visiting schools, businesses and events, (in between filming ads to blame his failure to govern on others) for 2 years, 10 months and 2 days. He’s. never. stopped. campaigning.
- Name Withheld - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:26 pm:
LP - drop the frikkin hyperbole for once. Your distinctions are Rauner was a white knight who did no wrong, and every other democrat is a Madigan puppet. When you find some nuance in your arguments, then I actually might give you some credibility - but if this is all you know how to spew, you go in dumpster fire that include Coulter, IPI, Proft, and everyone else who thinks the answer is more extremism.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:29 pm:
===Rauner ran up a 16 billion backlog all by himself?===
Yep.
1) Governors own
2) Rauner has yet to sign a full fiscal year budget to pay bills.
===Can you cite what the backlog was when he was inaugurated and how the legislature helped to cut the budget and worked cooperatively and professionally to solve Illinois problems?===
1) We’ve, many of us here, daily, show your willful ignorance to what you already know, that the unpaid bills was not at $16 billion when Rauner became governor, it was lower.
2)…
“…how the legislature helped to cut the budget and worked cooperatively and professionally to solve Illinois problems?”
In a bipartisan manner, the GA overrode Rauner’s refusal to sign a budget, and in a bipartisan way, allowed the state to pay bills and fund Rauner’s agencies.
So there’s that.
This is delicious…
===Will someone tell me how on earth JB will succeed if he does not want to change any of these failed polices and will just go along with whatever the unions and trial lawyers say?===
Well, how is Rauner doing now to keep him in and J.B. out?
===Illinois will continue to be the 48th best state for business.===
… with Bruce Rauner as governor. LOL
Pat Quinn failed…
“Illinois will continue to be the 48th best state for business.”
… Bruce Rauner failed.
- Redraider - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:34 pm:
Lucky the backlog debt was 3.9 Billion when Rauner was elected. You are welcome
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:38 pm:
==Pavlov Media==
That availability should be real fun. Someone rings a bell, and the Governor says, “Because Madigan.”
- Grandson of Man - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:42 pm:
When has Rauner not been on campaign? It seems like his entire term has been a series of campaign ads and stops. Why were there anti-Madigan ads on TV during or near the time of GA session? Rauner should have been working with GA leaders and others when instead he attacked Madigan at such a critical time when we needed a budget this year, after two years of no full budgets.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:44 pm:
Why doesn’t the dumpster fire include any Democrats? Is Senator Cullerton’s pension bill really extremism?
Every House Democrat who votes for Speaker Madigan, given his position as the most unpopular politician in the state by far, is by definition a Madigan puppet. Even the ones who are retiring don’t cross him.
Apparently the co equal branch of Government owns nothing and only Rauner has failed.
Why are there no perfect 10 or brave 15 on the Democrats side?
Just a bunch of Madigan puppets, including JB.
Good luck running on that guys.
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:44 pm:
==Rauner ran up a 16 billion backlog all by himself?==
No, but he has proven that he can’t balance the budget even with the tax hike. The line-item veto gives him all the power he needs to cut spending in the budget (unless he’s overridden, of course), and he couldn’t even cut a dime. Even after the budget became law, he’s announced only a few million in savings where he won’t spend the appropriated amounts.
- wordslinger - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:47 pm:
LP, you’ve convinced me. Rauner is a weakl leader who can’t produce anything but fiscal chaos.
Obviously, that’s the realization that many
GOP legislators have come to as well. Note all the overrides, including the near unanimous override of the veto of Mendoza’s bill. That’s bipartisanship at work.
- Ryan - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:47 pm:
The campaignin’ begins. Good luck with that, Brucey.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:54 pm:
The line-item veto gives him all the power he needs to cut spending in the budget (unless he’s overridden, of course), and he couldn’t even cut a dime.
I can see why you would post this as Anonymous because it is aa total falsehood. There are consent decrees that consume 90% of the budget and legislation would need to be passed to cut spending required by statute.
Again the Governor would need cooperation and professionalism as promised by the legislature. Who actually can make a case they have been? Crickets
- Rod - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 12:56 pm:
Vole that was a brilliant comment about dollar general and Rauner.There are 1,000 Dollar Generals opening this year as part of the $22 billion chain’s plan to expand rapidly in poor, rural communities. Illinois has plenty of those. Already, there are 14,000 one-story cinder block Dollar Generals in the U.S. and Dollar Tree, has an additional 27,465 stores. Last year Dollar General’s Jim Thorpe, who was their chief merchandising officer until recently said their core customers generally had household income less than $35,000, and were reliant on government assistance, saying that they shopped at Dollar General to “stretch budgets.”
- JS Mill - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:02 pm:
= no pressing need to pass Senator Cullerton’s bipartisan pension reform.=
It isn’t reform. The pension is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Exactly.
The governors and legislatures of Illinois failed to properly fund the pension system. Including Rauner who knowingly and purposefully changed the factors used to determine funding level to artificially lower the payment.
What they are trying to do is break a contract at best and theft at worst.
The same people paying into the pension system every pay check have bailed out social security many times.
- Annonin' - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:02 pm:
Maybe LP or other GovJunk fans can comment on the classy decision to raise campaign cash off deploying National Guard and vets
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:03 pm:
===Why doesn’t the dumpster fire include any Democrats===
“Pat Quinn failed”
Governors own. As it’s slways been.
===his position as the most unpopular politician in the state by far===
Wasn’t it be by 3 points, or within the margin of error? Further, Rauner will face the voters with that 30% approval. Madigan or not, people don’t approve of Bruce Rauner.
===Apparently the co equal branch of Government owns nothing and only Rauner has failed.===
Candidate Rauner ran a whole campaign on “Pat Quinn Fisk’s”
This is Skyhook… but in reverse. Keep up.
===Why are there no perfect 10 or brave 15 on the Democrats side?===
There are.
They voted with the Brave 15 and Perfect 10 to stop Rauner’s destruction.
There’s just more of them, lol
===Good luck running on that guys.===
With 30% approval and the “Pat Quinn failed” template… “Skyhook… in reverse” looks like a winning template. Ask Pat Quinn.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:05 pm:
===Again the Governor would need cooperation and professionalism as promised by the legislature. Who actually can make a case they have been? Crickets===
Crickets… when Rauner’s own budget Crew and agency heads to point to one cut…
… the crickets were loud, as none were produced by those Rauner Administration officials.
Good try thou…
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:14 pm:
==Apparently the co equal branch of Government owns nothing and only Rauner has failed.==
Do you ever get tired of being a victim? You argue like a little kid. Lots of whining and not much else.
I’m not sure if you remember but candidate Rauner placed the blame for everything squarely on Quinn. But now, when he’s the Governor? Nope. He’s just a victim.
You talk about having nothing to run on. Look in the mirror LP. The Governor doesn’t have anything to run on either.
Honestly isn’t really your best quality.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:16 pm:
==no pressing need to pass Senator Cullerton’s bipartisan pension reform.==
Probably because it’s a waste of time. But then again you have to have reading comprehension skills to understand that the Supreme Court ruled that unless a plan has keep what you have it isn’t going to fly. But you keep stomping your feet about not passing a “pension reform” that has absolutely no possibility of ever being implemented.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:18 pm:
==focusing on the next steps our state needs to overcome the corrupt system in Springfield and enact real reform==
I’ve seen this movie once and it was a bad movie.
Basically he’s saying he doesn’t have anything else to run on but the platitudes he ran on last time. Why would I think the outcome would be any different if he wins again? Unless the GA is shifting to Republican control (which it won’t) the outcome of a second term isn’t going to look any different than the first.
- Langhorne - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:19 pm:
Same poll tested buzzword messaging—term limits, tax rollback, prop tax relief, corrupt madigan. Are there really enuf voters out there to buy that shtick again?
Bruce is never to blame. Waiting for Dems to drive 34% lower. Simple ads, scrolling specific damage in each market, tag line “never been happier”. A modest buy can get huge response—Mistake to let BR have the field unchallenged
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:21 pm:
No current Democrats deserve any criticism, just one guy who is out of office for almost 3 years?
The Democrats are succeeding and have proposed grand plans to fix Illinois and restore citizens faith in state Government that is currently ranked #50? Please share them with us. They proposals are always so reasonable and moderate.
What are their plans to help grow private sector jobs but somehow not lift a finger to help private sector businesses? The Illinois Manufacturer’s Association has said this was the most anti business legislative session in history. Does that sound reasonable and moderate?
Democrats seem to believe tax increases are all that is needed to fix Illinois. Why don’t they pass any of their version of reforms and dare the Governor to veto them?
What are their grand plans? Free college, free healthcare, $15 dollar minimum wage, huge pay raises for state workers.
Nobody ever calls them out that the state is in serious need of cutting spending not expanding it and that goes right to the heart of the Democrats agenda.
- Phil King - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:21 pm:
==2) Rauner has yet to sign a full fiscal year budget to pay bills.==
This is evidence that Rauner has been trying to solve the problem. Not that he’s the cause.
The fact that he refused to sign any phony budgets with deficit spending is a plus, not a minus. It’s not his fault the legislature refused to send a budget that was actually structurally balanced.
- RNUG - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:25 pm:
== Is Senator Cullerton’s pension bill really extremism? ==
Yes, the Cullerton bill as modified for Rauner is unconstitutional in that it is a choice between two different diminishments. If the employee fails to choose, then one of the diminishments is imposed on the employee.
The IL SC has been crystal clear that you can not forcibly change the pension contract for existing employees.
There is at least one pending pension bill (which was introduced last week) that (a) affects new hires with a Tier 2 combined DB/DC plan and (b) allows a voluntary switch to that plan for existing employees. But it doesn’t save much money …
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:28 pm:
===The fact that he refused to sign any phony budgets with deficit spending is a plus, not a minus. It’s not his fault the legislature refused to send a budget that was actually structurally balanced.===
Fine.
Then you accept that Rauner doing that and owning his brutes means all the damage done by those vetoes and not having a budget is on Rauner.
See…
You can’t own the Veto saying it stops something, and not own the Veto and the damage it then inflicts.
So, thanks. Rauner owns the vetoes that have hurt Illinois, because Rauner owns those vetoes to stop those budgets,
That’s how this works.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:32 pm:
==t’s not his fault the legislature refused to send a budget that was actually structurally balanced.==
No, it isn’t. But it is his fault for never proposing a balanced budget. Nothing has ever prevented him from doing that. If he wants to complain about not having a balanced budget then he should lay out what a balanced budget that he could sign might look like.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:33 pm:
==No current Democrats deserve any criticism, just one guy who is out of office for almost 3 years?==
Would you stop arguing like a child and stop playing the victim just once?
Enough of this garbage already.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:34 pm:
- Lucky Pierre -
All that drivel you just typed, every word of it, boils down to Rauner polling upside down by 25 points, only mustering 30% approval, and Candidate Rauner education Illinois about how governors fail, and showing how “Pat Quinn fails” can easily translate to “Bruce Rauner fails”
That’s the ball game.
Your tired comments ignore how Candidate Rauner won, and how Governor Rauner is primed to lose the same exact way… in a state Clinton won by 16 points, in a possible blue wave, as Trump drags his partner, Bruce Rauner.
The rest, the rest is you shilling.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:34 pm:
==Not that he’s the cause.==
Yay. Another victim enabler.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:44 pm:
Well why doesn’t the Speaker make his case about Senator Cullerton’e pension bill being unconstitutional? Is that too much to ask to get JB and the Speaker to weigh in on the biggest reason our budget is in such turmoil?? Does JB agree with the Speaker that the pensions are unsustainable?
What are House Democrats afraid of if it is in fact so obviously unconstitutional? A majority of Senators and the Governor don’t agree.
It is nowhere near as obvious as you claim.
Any criticism of Democrats on this thread other than from Phil and myself Demoralized?
I would say mindlessly cutting and pasting, parroting Pat Quinn failed, Governor’s own, Bret Baier etc is pretty childish but you lap it up and it gets no rebuke from you.
- Lester Holt’s Mustache - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:50 pm:
You guys will never get anywhere arguing with Rauner’s last loyal defender, especially using things like “facts” and “logic”. Besides, Rauner has a bigger problem, which is that people like LP can’t even make a conservative case for his re-election. “He dislikes Madigan” simply isn’t good enough anymore.
Consider that in 3 years, the man hasn’t offered one balanced budget, appoints agency heads that refuse to cut budgets, increased the number of political hacks taking taxpayer money (even more than Quinn!), presided over an increase of $12 billion in new debt, personally approved taxpayer funded abortion, approved Illinois being a sanctuary state, only picked up 4 seats in a 2016 conservative wave election despite spending a fortune and everyone in the state hating Madigan, and to top it all off he won’t support our president - won’t even say his name.
Why should conservatives vote for liberal Bruce Rauner when a Pritzker or Kennedy gets you the same result? Only liberals and RINO’s support Rauner. Real republicans support Jeanne Ives.
- Rabid - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:52 pm:
our home our fight tourist. Is he running for govenor or illinois homeowners association president
- VanillaMan - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 1:55 pm:
Before entering the Rauner events, there is a height measuring sign, similar to the signs placed before each carnival ride. Instead of “You must be this tall to ride”, Rauner’s signs read, “You must be this gullible to enter Brucie’s-world”
Only LP and a couple Raunerbots are short enough to enter.
- Flynn's mom - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 2:00 pm:
It’s a constant campaign with this guy. Will there be costumes?
- Arsenal - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 2:21 pm:
==Arsenal, how can you blame the Governor for supporting the Democratic Senate leaders pension bill that passed the Senate but wasn’t even called by the House?==
How can I not? We have three years of evidence of what Rauner does when he really wants something. He hits the stump, he tries to inspire grassroots action, he runs ads on it. We saw it with right to work, we saw it with school funding. We didn’t see it with pension reform. It’s not my fault that Rauner doesn’t actually want to bother with pension reform.
==Will someone tell me how on earth JB will succeed if he does not want to change any of these failed polices and will just go along with whatever the unions and trial lawyers say?==
Well, I know you tend to violently fling facts away from you, but Pritzker has already proposed some pretty big breaks with existing policy- progressive income tax, leadership term limits, independent redistricting. Now, you’re gonna chase your tail about how none of these things will work and it’s just a funny coincidence that all the states bragging about how they’re stealing our jobs on Rauner’s watch also have progressive income taxes, and go ahead and do so, I love watching your desperate contortions, but the facts aren’t on your side here.
- illini - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 3:02 pm:
Maybe what we need here is a new face of the Rauner - “Home I Fought to Destroy Tour.”
I am certain Slip and Sue could probably make a more convincing and compelling case for a continuation of this regime of the BTIA(tm). Right?
- RNUG - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
Nice of him to publish his campaign stops. That way I’ll know the places to avoid.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:04 pm:
==Any criticism of Democrats on this thread other than from Phil and myself Demoralized?==
Always the victim.
==It is nowhere near as obvious as you claim.==
I can read. And it is that obvious. Read the Supreme Court’s opinion and then get back to us. It was stated right here in black and white.
==is pretty childish but you lap it up and it gets no rebuke from you.==
More victimhood.
It’s not my fault LP that nobody’s buying the snake oil you are selling. You’re perfectly happy to argue that the Governor is nothing but a victim. Forgive me if I’m not drinking that kool aid.
- Demoralized - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:08 pm:
==cutting and pasting, parroting Pat Quinn failed, Governor’s own==
It’s done because you seem to forget your history when it comes to Bruce Rauner. He’s the one that argued that the buck stops with the Governor. Apparently the rules changed when he became Governor and *shocker* nothing is his fault. If you’re happy with a Governor, who by your own arguments is an inept victim then I think you’ve set the bar way too low.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:14 pm:
Let’s break this down… LOL
===Pat Quinn failed, Governor’s own, Bret Baier ===
“Pat Quinn failed”
Every day for over a year, it was Candidate Rauner who did this, not me. It won. That scares you.
“Governor’s own”
The proof of “Pat Quinn fails”, something you hope is ignored, but Candidate Rauner proved “Pat Quinn failed” by, you guessed it, governors own.
“Bret Baier”
The Best Team in America’s ™ “piece de resistance”
After as a white male, they got Bret Baier to all but call Rauber a failure.
I know it troubles you, …lol
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:17 pm:
===It’s done because you seem to forget your history when it comes to Bruce Rauner. He’s the one that argued that the buck stops with the Governor. Apparently the rules changed when he became Governor and *shocker* nothing is his fault. If you’re happy with a Governor, who by your own arguments is an inept victim then I think you’ve set the bar way too low===
This is the lesson - Lucky Pierre - is willfully ignorant about.
You crystallized it perfectly.
- Southside Lefty - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:24 pm:
It would be best for Illinois if Rauner would not run. I fear he could actually win and all that would do is continue the gridlock. Better that our savior and favorite tax dodger JB get into office. He would fix things lickity split with his progressive agenda that would be funded with all the extra money that would rain down from the heavens. With JB, Mikey and John in charge we could get down to the business of really fixing this state. Illinois residents and business owners would happily line up to empty their pockets for the privilege of living in such a well run state.
JB can wave his magic wand and make the pension nightmare disappear, while Mikey and John orchestrate legislation to attract new business to friendly Illinois.
In the unlikely event it doesn’t pan out, they people on this blog will blame Rauner. Unless of course governors really do own.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 4:30 pm:
===Unless of course governors really do own.===
Do you call it the “Edgar Ramp”
There’s your answer.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 5:24 pm:
Nobody is buying that Rauner is more popular than Madigan and Cullerton? Might want to check those polls again.
Pritzker up in polling in a Democratic primary that is just the hard core status quo democratic voters?
What is he offering to the larger electorate- 75% of Illinois voters who reject Mike Madigan’s agenda?
Thinking there is no backlash to Cook County Dems raising taxes once again without any backlash is willfully ignorant
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 5:28 pm:
Just saw Rauner on TV during the C-U piece of the tour. Wearing the dress black Carhartt and plaid shirt with a bunch of people in suits and ties. This is petty, but I am so sick of this guy’s goofy costumes. Almost miss Quinn’s purple tie.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 5:29 pm:
===What is he offering to the larger electorate- 75% of Illinois voters who reject Mike Madigan’s agenda?
Thinking there is no backlash to Cook County Dems raising taxes once again without any backlash is willfully ignorant===
Rauner-Trump won’t help.
Virginia tells me so.
“Madigan” isn’t a solid winner.
Mendoza tells me so.
lol
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 5:46 pm:
Lucky Pierre -
If all of that is true, why is Rauner polling at 30-% approval, LOL
I’ll ask Comptroller Mendoza.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 7:06 pm:
I don’t even read what LP writes most of the time.
Too boring.
Unoriginal.
Irrelevant.
He doesn’t even try.
- Rabid - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 8:24 pm:
our home our fight, I don’t think Chicago will invade downstate
- Rabid - Monday, Nov 13, 17 @ 8:33 pm:
Our home our fight, domestic violence