160 Comments - wordslinger - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 2:54 pm: Rauner is a back-stabbing liar whose word means nothing. - Lucky Pierre - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 2:55 pm: If you don’t think Illinois needs reform and we would be better off if Mike Madigan has unchecked power vote JB - Almost the Weekend - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 2:56 pm: Rauner calls CPS a daycare center, but called Obama’s basketball buddy to clout his child into Walter Payton in classic pay to play Chicago politics. - The Captain - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 2:58 pm: Bruce Rauner: you can’t trust this guy - Real - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 2:59 pm: Donald Trumps favorite Governor - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:00 pm: Really Rauner? - Huh? - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:01 pm: 1.4% - Lying to pander to a non-existent base. - Huh? - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:02 pm: 1.4 % - I have 1 word, Madigan - Downstate - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:03 pm: Lowering his tax bill one toilet at a time! - Taxman - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:04 pm: That’s why we need to tax reform. - Fax Machine - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:04 pm: Blago + Madigan = Pritzker - JoanP - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:05 pm: In Rauner’s own words: “I am not in charge.” - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:06 pm: Elect JB governor and you get Madigan running the state. - Whatever - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:06 pm: Who are you gonna believe, JB or your lyin’ governor? - Henry Francis - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:06 pm: Bruce Rauner, Ken Dunkin’s favorite Republican. - Stand Tall - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:08 pm: JB the Progressive Tax Man that doesn’t understand that a 10% tax on $0 income after deductions is the same as a 4.95% tax on $0 income after deductions. - Arsenal - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:09 pm: ==JB the Progressive Tax Man that doesn’t understand that a 10% tax on $0 income after deductions is the same as a 4.95% tax on $0 income after deductions.== Not sure you really got your arms around the “simple message” idea, there… - VanillaMan - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:11 pm: Bruce Rauner: The Govermor Who Couldn’t Lies? That’s so Rauner Illinois has had it bad, then Rauner made it worse. Rauner Failed, All By Himself If half of the GOP didn’t want Rauner, why should we? Rauner protected your tax dollar about as badly as he protected our unborn children’s lives. - Person 8 - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:11 pm: .@JBPritzker paid no state income tax in 2014, so he wants to raise HIS taxes in 2018. - d.p.gumby - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:11 pm: Rauner–Lies yesterday, Lies today, Lies for tomorrow. - People Over Parties - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:11 pm: JB Pritzker isn’t the solution to Illinois He’s part of the problem. - Concerned Dem - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:14 pm: Bruce burns it to the ground. - theq - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:14 pm: Vote for me J.B…… I’m not a great choice but hey I’m not Rauner - Christopher - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:15 pm: Rauner said he’s not in charge, let’s elect somebody who is. or Rauner has helped to wreck Illinois. Let’s begin fixing by voting for JB Pritzker. - Concerned Dem - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:19 pm: JB has created jobs and opportunity since 2015, Bruce Rauner still has yet to create a balanced budget. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:20 pm: “The liar’s punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” George B. Shaw - ste_with a v_en - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:20 pm: Vote J.B. for higher taxes on you and me. - Been there, done that - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:21 pm: JB Pritzker - No costumes, just one fleece zip-up vest. - cc - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:21 pm: Rauner does not recognize nor care about facts, reality nor empathy. - Keyrock - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:23 pm: Rauner failed so bad even his own wife sued him. - Old Vet - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:23 pm: Rauner responsible for deaths of 13 veterans. - Huh? - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:24 pm: 1.4% runnin’ the State like a bidness. - Chris Widger - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:24 pm: Known knowns and known unknowns. - NorthsideNoMore - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:24 pm: What does JB actually stand (his initials) just curious. JB ‘Yea so what I said I will raise your taxes and take your guns, at least I’m upfront about it.” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:25 pm: Bruce Rauner - empty promises, full of excuses. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:26 pm: Bruce Rauner - truthfully phony. - Retired Educator - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:26 pm: It will be nice to have a Governor who actually knows how to use the system properly. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:27 pm: Bruce Rauner - a hurtful Don Quixote - Anon221 - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:28 pm: Rauner 2018- No.More.Years. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:28 pm: Bruce Rauner - You don’t matter to him - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:29 pm: Bruce Rauner - Governing by surrender - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:30 pm: Bruce Rauner - the decades of damage he’s done. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:32 pm: Bruce Rauner - closing social services like no one else can. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:33 pm: Bruce Rauner - no $&@#% problems. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:34 pm: Bruce Rauner - costumed crusader - Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:35 pm: Republican Bruce Rauner said he had no social agenda then laughed in your face as he signed the bill allowing your tax dollars to pay for elective abortions. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:35 pm: Bruce Rauner - you won’t miss it, once I dismiss it - SOIL M - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:35 pm: Jb–yes we are both Billionaire Progressive Elites, but I am bigger! - SOIL M - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:37 pm: Jb–yes we are both Billionaire Progressive Elites, but I am bigger - Truthteller - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:37 pm: With Rauner you know what you’re getting. Vote JB - SOIL M - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:38 pm: Sorry about that. Hey that could work for Rauner also - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:39 pm: Bruce Rauner - you won’t find him where normal care - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:40 pm: Bruce Rauner - he chose Illinois. Lucky us. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:41 pm: Bruce Rauner - Let Diana tell you my good points - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:41 pm: Bruce Rauner - a white male. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:42 pm: Bruce Rauner - he hired Evelyn - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:43 pm: Bruce Rauner - looking out… for himself. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:43 pm: Bruce Rauner - no idea what he’s doing. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:44 pm: Bruce Rauner - knows exactly what he’s doing - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:45 pm: Bruce Rauner - if you’re not with him, he’s against you. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:45 pm: Bruce Rauner - destroying unions, a labor of love - Political theatre - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:45 pm: Rauner: the not me governor Rauner: not quite Scott Walker, worse Whatcha wear’n Rauner I am not in charge, nor do we want you to be. ing, I think you dropped this - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:46 pm: Bruce Rauner - he paid good money to ruin Illinois - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:46 pm: Bruce Rauner - by his third state he’ll get it right. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:47 pm: Bruce Rauner - we shoulda sent him to DC - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:48 pm: Bruce Rauner - it could be worse, so stop him now - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:49 pm: Bruce Rauner - I made 17 General Assembly members. One more I get a toaster. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:49 pm: Bruce Rauner - I had intentions, you just thought they were good. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:50 pm: Bruce Rauner - you know me now. Whadda think? - m - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:50 pm: Which corrupt insider do you want running Illinois? - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:51 pm: Bruce Rauner - I’m not that bad. Democrats stopped some of it. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:53 pm: Bruce Rauner - I care. I don’t care about you, but I care. - Just Me - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:53 pm: Rauner didn’t just shake things up, he shook everything so hard he broke it all apart. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:55 pm: Bruce Rauner - lived here his whole life, cept for the Arizona, New Hampshire, Boston years… - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:57 pm: Bruce Rauner - could we start again, please? - Stuntman Bob's Brother - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:58 pm: JB or Bruce - Pick your Poison Either one and the State is Done May as well burn it down and start over, party like it’s 1818 - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 3:59 pm: Bruce Rauner - I love Illinois, illinois wishes I’d love her less - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:00 pm: Bruce Rauner - Nothing is signature worthy. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:01 pm: Bruce Rauber - Conning a Cardinal is my finest trick - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:02 pm: Bruce Rauner - same guy, different costumes, daily. - lake county democrat - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:03 pm: A picture of Karen Lewis with “She Wants You To Vote For JB” A picture of Donald Trump with “He Wants You to Vote for Bruce Rauner” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:04 pm: Bruce Rauner - I know who I am, took Illinois a bit longer to find out - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:05 pm: Bruce Rauner - I’m making a difference - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:09 pm: Bruce Rauner - {Redacted Emails} - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:13 pm: Bruce Rauner - surrender already, Illinois. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:15 pm: Bruce Rauner - if you don’t know what I mean by taxpayers, then it probably means I’m against you. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:16 pm: Bruce Rauner - you’ll never forget me. - downstate commissioner - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:16 pm: OW -for the win—most posts wins, right? (It helps that they are good…) - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:17 pm: Bruce Rauner the great white whale and Willy is Ahab. - Stuntman Bob's Brother - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:17 pm: Vote JB for Governor - ReMax and U-Haul stockholders will thank you - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:20 pm: ===Willy is Ahab=== I’m just trying to capture the spirit of the thing.. Bruce Rauner - history will write my time as governor will be like none other - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:23 pm: Obsession Willy. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:23 pm: Bruce Rauner - Pandering Pro, Amateur Governor - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:25 pm: ===Obsession=== Is that you, Jason Plummer? Bruce Rauner - you try and see how long you can hold a state hostage - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:26 pm: Bruce Rauner - I’m unpopular, but still lovable - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:27 pm: Bruce Rauner - 60, 30, Veto - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:29 pm: Bruce Rauner - I felt i had to do this I owed it to Illinois - FDB - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:29 pm: Dropping g’s and screaming Madigan isn’t an actual plan for downstate development - Trump2020 - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:42 pm: J.B. Pritzker, Oswego Willy’s choice for governor. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:47 pm: Bruce Rauner - 26% of the time, I’m the choice, every time. - Blue dog dem - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:52 pm: JB is a hypocrite progressive. - Keyrock - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 4:58 pm: Elect JB - and Bruce’s costumes go back to his YMCA. - City Zen - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:00 pm: JB would gladly tax you Tuesday for a promise today. - FormerParatrooper - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:04 pm: JB and Rauner, two choices for Illinois. Too bad no one worth voting for. - golfman-r - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:06 pm: Bruce Rauner - Is in charge of his own failure. - Huh? - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:12 pm: 1.4% - with friends like him, who needs enemies? - Land of Taxin' - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:21 pm: Can we just vote for Pat Quinn instead? - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:29 pm: Fire munger again - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:34 pm: Term limit Rauner - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:37 pm: Blind trust; you can’t see me on my porch - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:39 pm: Bruce Rauner - I’m probably going to close you university. - Northern pike - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:39 pm: Rauner lied, veterans died. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:48 pm: Bruce Rauner - Blind Trust, Broken Trust - Jocko - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 5:55 pm: Rauner - Fooling none of the people, all of the time. JB - Rich guys running things? The third time’s a charm. - Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:01 pm: JB and Rauner…is death an option? - Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:04 pm: JB and Rauner ads…the best ratings boost PBS could ever hope for. - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:15 pm: Abort Rauner - Three Dimensional Checkers - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:25 pm: JB Pritzker — The take charge candidate for Governor. JB Pritzker — He’ll be in charge from day one. JB Pritzker — Not afraid to be in charge. I liked the think big stuff JB did in the primary too. - Grandson of Man - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:31 pm: Rauner: My drive-by trolls and I are going to light up Pritzker. - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:45 pm: Put Rauner out of his misery - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 6:53 pm: Rauner he’s unbelievable - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:00 pm: Remove Rauner - Lefty Lou - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:07 pm: JB Pritzker - he’s no political heavyweight, but he is a heavyweight. - Capt Kirk - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:09 pm: JB Pritzker - the best candidate, pound for pound. - Gordie Who - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:12 pm: Flush once if you like JB - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:13 pm: Govenor junk worst in America - JS Mill - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:16 pm: Vote for me, Bruce Rauner, and I will eliminate the letter “G” from the alphabet. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:25 pm: ===J.B. Pritzker, Oswego Willy’s choice for governor.=== I’m a write in possibility. - Norseman - is on it. Stay tuned. Bruce Rauner - Illinois’ starving for leadership - Jacques - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:29 pm: JB Pritzker stars in The Taxman Cometh - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:32 pm: Bruce Rauner and Arthur Jones same side - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:38 pm: Rauner lying since 2014 - Redraider - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:44 pm: Bruce Rauner- He will get your car out of the ditch and over the cliff - SouthDem - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:47 pm: For my Democrat brethren I would beware the hype. On paper there is no way we lose. J.B. was by far the weakest candidate we could have picked. There is worse out there than the Blago tapes, if there isn’t than it was political Malpracticeto hit him in the primary with those ads. Our lesson is Nov 2016. Two terrible candidates leave one to terrible choices, sure us dems will vote for him but what about the middle? I don’t think Rauner will win, or should he is awful, I just hate that my party continues to nominate unremarkable, unlikeable people. You would never remember we are the party of FDR, Truman and JFK. - Old Joe - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 7:54 pm: JB Pritzker - He never met a tax he couldn’t dodge. - Rabid - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 8:31 pm: Cost shift Bruce don’t add up - XDNR - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 9:14 pm: Come November it will be lights out for Rauner, so he will officially not be in charge. - XDNR - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 9:45 pm: The Governor who wasn’t is going to light J.B. up…that’s funny coming from the guy whose support is in ashes. - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 9:49 pm: If you like Trump you’ll love Rauner. - XDNR - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 10:38 pm: The crisis Rauner has created will leverage his demise come November. - RNUG - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 11:26 pm: Rauner … Ruining nursing homes for profit and veterans homes for fun. - RNUG - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 11:28 pm: Rauner ruining state government one veto at a time - RNUG - Thursday, Apr 12, 18 @ 11:30 pm: Robber Baron Rauner - Stuntman Bob's Brother - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 1:34 am: Pull the lever if you want Rauner. If you want JB, pull the chain. JB: No Outhouse in the Statehouse. Re-elect Blago, vote for JB. JB knows how to spend your money better than you do. South Dem @ 7:47: Truman, FDR and JFK wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance of winning a primary in today’s Democratic Party. - Huh? - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 2:24 am: 1.4% campaignin’ instead of governin’ - Huh? - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 2:26 am: 1.4% Madigan takin’ arrows because it’s all his fault - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:01 am: Only his hairdressers buddy knows - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:02 am: Rauner is a dream, a nightmare - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:27 am: Rauner coming to terms, help him out - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:45 am: Short term pain long term damage - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:49 am: Pulling the wool over your eyes, with this adorable Quincy coverup - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:51 am: JB killed his taxes, Rauner killed heros - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 5:54 am: Bruce Rauner, not good - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 7:58 am: Bust Bruce’s balloon - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 8:11 am: Rauner is disconnected - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 8:16 am: Sam because he can - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 8:39 am: JB mansion and Rauners heart are the same empty - Bobby Hicks - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 8:53 am: Are you going to vote for a big dummy, or are you going to vote for me? Either side can use that. - Rabid - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 9:21 am: Flush the weasel out of offfice - OneMan - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 9:23 am: JB — Electing a guy without any elected experience worked so well the last time - Generic Drone - Friday, Apr 13, 18 @ 1:23 pm: Bruce Rauner. Let Italy have him. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.