30 Comments - Red Rider - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:22 pm: Pants on fire. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:25 pm: Rauner will try wait this out as long as he can. There aren’t any good responses to… “Why did you say… “ … because a misleading answer to a Press question hid an ethical “lapse”. This is what Rauner can do, since the last three years has shown he can. - Huh? - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:27 pm: “No additional media availability.” No matter how much 1.4% runs and hides, the media will catch up and questions will be asked. So run and hide. Run and hide. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:30 pm: Further… I’ve yet to hear from current office holders. I’ve heard from gubernatorial candidates, but nothing from Dem leadership? Nothing from GOP leadership? Did I miss their denounciations? Rauner knows, he’ll face a commercial or 5 in August thru November about this… but… wait it out… it’s gets old… Rauner will say he’s moved on from it and won’t respond, and it will drift away… or that’s what Rauner hopes… - Henry Francis - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:39 pm: He knew last week this was going to be unsealed. And the BTIA still doesn’t have a response? All I heard was them trying to claim that this was a “contract” dispute (so not “investments”). Or maybe they were just being colloquial. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:40 pm: Add “coward” to the list of personality traits for the Governor. - Real - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:41 pm: Rauner had so much to say about Jb and Blago yet he runs when it’s time for him to answer questions. I’m sure Lucky Pierre is proud of Rauner. - Bobby T - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:43 pm: All it means is that Monday’s with Ives is going to be super duper sweet. - Bobby T - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:44 pm: Monday’s meeting with Ives is going to be awesome. - Real - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:48 pm: I’m surprised there has been no response from Dem or GOP leadership.. Maybe they are in talks on how to proceed on this? - Real - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:50 pm: Rauner loves to talk mess about Jb and Blago yet when it’s his turn to answer questions he is nowhere to be found. - AC - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:51 pm: It’s no wonder, he’s probably getting tired of being hassled by people wanting to know where to invest their money every time he goes out. - Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:53 pm: The Dem leadership hasn’t stopped laughing long enough to issue a response. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 5:55 pm: ===The Dem leadership hasn’t stopped laughing long enough to issue a response.=== Yeah, let Rauner of the hook while the issue is hot, you know, to laugh… Ugh. - Lester Holt’s Mustache - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:06 pm: A dollar says that when he eventually does take questions, he’ll refuse to answer this one and blame his lawyers. “I’d sure love to answer that question, but gosh, I just can’t because it’s a legal matter.” The Lucky-bot 6000 will then come to Capfax to defend this move as wise and just. - Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:06 pm: That was tongue-in-cheek OW. Seriously though, why do Dems need to say anything at this time? The issue speaks for itself and there’s been plenty of coverage from gov. candidates and news outlets to date. I’d hold my fire until (if) interest dies down and then let loose. - Real - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:11 pm: What’s weird about this is the lack of response by most of the legislature. - @misterjayem - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:13 pm: Who’s got the ol’ chicken costume? – MrJM - Cash - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:15 pm: Semi-serious question: what’s he been doing with the hundreds of millions he has made while in office? Does that income remain in the “blind trust” along with the investments that generated it? - Jocko - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:17 pm: Given his weak attempts at dissembling so far, I can’t wait for Bruce’s next series of whoppers. - A non - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 6:42 pm: I’m so glad he is finally being called out. He made like 50 million before governor a year and now it’s something like 180 million a year. Clearly he has profited while IL has suffered. I’m sure his friends have had record profits too. Seems pretty clear that he has banked off IL debt. - Sugar Corn - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 7:03 pm: I don’t care that his personal assets grew. Good for the Rauner family. Whatever. The point is. HE LIED. HE LIED to the media and to the public. About his plan to put his money in a “blind trust.” Doesn’t matter if this was “legal” HE LIED TO US. Now the media has to ask him to account for the lies. All the edit boards that endorsed him - is this enough? Is it time yet to admit as CRAIN’s basically did - that you made a mistake in endorsing a deeply dishonest, destructive, self-serving man to be GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS? - Sugar Corn - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 7:06 pm: “Madigan is not the governor. Rauner is. And there’s no way to deny it: By nearly every measure, the state is worse off since Rauner took office.” By Crain’s Editorial Board *Governor Rauner, You’ve Proved Us Wrong* http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160625/ISSUE07/306259997/gov-rauner-youve-proved-us-wrong - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 7:14 pm: “Earned media” comes at a cost; it isn’t free advertising. If Rauner wants coverage at public events, he has to expect and allow reporters to ask questions. Or there’s no point to covering the events. In the wake of this scandal, I’d expect him to suddenly find reasons to tour places in the hinterlands, away from Chicago and other major cities, and try to do press pops in more rural areas where he can get a county chairman to scare up a crowd of agreeable “fans” as a backdrop to the festivities, some place where the reporters are inexperienced, under-paid, and too intimidated by a fancy-pants Governor to dare ask anything but softball questions, and just write down the supplied talking points. Which will all be full of deflections and “what about”-isms. Rauner will warm up with a bunch of these Potemkin Village press pops until he wears down the reporters and they move to something else. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 7:17 pm: I’m sure we’ll be hearing that this isn’t what it appears to be. That the “truth” will come out and that he can’t say anymore because well it’s a legal matter. But he’d sure like to tell us. - DuPage Dave - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 7:22 pm: Rauner remains a complete and utter disappointment. At least he knows that nothing he says will help the current situation and he’s probably right that people will forget and move on. He seems to be on some kind of slow-moving vacation. Spending a week in Quincy? Who does that? No media availability for days at a time? It’s almost as if he’s not really in charge… - theCardinal - Thursday, Jan 25, 18 @ 8:26 pm: The man needs to go to a world economic summit …Oh wait wrong guy he is already there. - wordslinger - Friday, Jan 26, 18 @ 8:20 am: Chillin’ in a track suit, watching cartoons, surfing the web for cool ambassador gigs in the Blago Bunker. - Langhorne - Friday, Jan 26, 18 @ 11:09 am: Just bec additional meetings have not been proven (yet), does not mean they didnt occur. R: thats part of a lawsuit, lawyers are involved, its before the court, i cant talk about it. Different people can spin whatever they want, but i just cant address that…..blah, blah R deserves to be excoriated over his lies. –additional meetings? –profits from state contracts go to charity? Prove it. Could be a rich vein. While that runs its course, we need to pay attention to the medicaid audit. Billions. Total fail from the gitgo. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 26, 18 @ 12:43 pm: ===That was tongue-in-cheek OW=== You know what hasn’t been tongue and cheek? Rauner owning the narrative for three straight years. The days of sitting back and laughing led to Rauner. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.