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Rauner campaign demands release of all Blagojevich wiretap tapes
Tuesday, Jun 5, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * Check out the Rauner campaign’s new Facebook ads… 
According to Facebook, the ads (I counted six slightly different versions) started running today. Blagojevich, you will recall, made the exact same demand to release all the tapes during and after his trials. The tapes were ordered sealed by a federal judge. I can’t see how an online petition will do much of anything besides gather names for a campaign database. We’re through the looking glass.
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- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:03 pm:
Does this mean Rauner’s out of material? Have we heard the last of the Pritzker-Blagojevich recordings?
- Real - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:04 pm:
Sounds like Rauner is desperate for more material. All he has is the same ol primary ad’s to keep recycling.
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:07 pm:
What, the Rauner campaign doesn’t already have them all???
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/patti-blagojevich-rips-rauner-campaign-for-using-fbi-wiretap-of-ex-gov-in-tv-ad/
- Henry Francis - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:09 pm:
Where were the online petitions to release the Kipper’s lawsuit that was filed in the public courts?
How many AG opinions and lawsuits have there been as a result of his administration’s attempts to keep documents hidden from FOIAs?
I guess you just can’t take the “private” out of the private equity guy.
- The Captain - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:10 pm:
Mike Madigan sealed those tapes with Mike Madigan brand sealer. What is Mike Madigan hiding? Madigan.
- Bumblin stumblin rumblin - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:11 pm:
“gather names for a campaign database.”
Nailed it.
- Annonin' - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:12 pm:
Speakin’ of release is it OK with GovJunk if they also drop the tapes freaturing Rauner consultant Stu Levine with a wide cast of characters?
- DuPage Bard - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:13 pm:
So is Rauner saying he believes the FBI over our President? Is he trying to vindicate the FBI in their measures to go after high ranking officials or is he trying to help the President by showing the FBI made mistakes in their case?
- Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:19 pm:
Rauner is trying so desperately to distract voters from his abysmal record and lack of accomplishments by chasing after dead ends. If Pritzker did something illegal he would have been indicted. As our president would say, witch hunt [all capital letters, exclamation point].
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:25 pm:
What is Rauner going to do if Trump pardons Blagojevich? A member of his own party pardons the guy you are trying to tie your opponent to. I’m guessing JB is preparing for that. That would likely take the last issue away for Rauner to use.
- the Patriot - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:29 pm:
The petition is a thermometer that will measure the viability of another trump waive that would push the margins in rural counties into being a statewide problem.
In looking at the ad it highlights the brilliance of the threat of a pardon. Madigan, Durbin, Obama all a thorn in Trumps side, can you imagine the chaos if Rod is back on the late night circuit in October gaffing JB was trying to buy the senate seat and they are still going to make this guy governor.
Doesn’t need to be true, to be a problem.
- Real - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Reporters need to ask Rauner how he knows that there are more Pritzker-Blago tapes to justify his petition?
I prefer the FBI ask Rauner that question instead.
- Amalia - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Drip. Drip.Drip.
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
Petition the Troncs.
- Ahoy! - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:49 pm:
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would think that Trump discussing the release of Blago was coordinated. The media attention on Blago right now is just bleeping golden for Rauner.
- DuPage Bard - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:52 pm:
Rauner won’t say Trump’s name and does not like him. He lied about Jeanne Ives being Mike Madigan’s candidate. The hard right conservatives will take him to task over this and many other things HB40, transgender rights, sanctuary state etc etc.
Bruce going against Blago is trying to sway D’s who are upset at the system and hope he gets enough independents to stave off the voter apathy coming from within his own base.
The hard part is he is so anti-labor I don’t believe he can pull off the 40% of union households he got last time against Quinn. So who is the base he’s going to get? Kennedy and Biss voters? Maybe but even if he tags 50% of them it doesn’t nullify his loss of conservatives.
Where is his path?
- Arsenal - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:54 pm:
==I can’t see how an online petition will do much of anything besides gather names for a campaign database.==
Yeah, but that’s a worthy enough goal for a political campaign. OTOH, it’s hard to imagine that someone convinced by this isn’t already on a Rauner list.
==What is Rauner going to do if Trump pardons Blagojevich?==
Hope people are revolted by Blago and that the connection he’s made between Blago and JB is strong enough.
- A guy - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 3:56 pm:
Why, the government has become so uncooperative and corrupt that politicians are going to have to start taping themselves to get the whole story out there…
- The Dude Abides - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 4:04 pm:
Wow, talk about desperation. Why doesn’t he want to talk about his record of achievement in his first term… well never mind.
- Albany Park Patriot - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 4:11 pm:
How did the other tapes get out? Maybe Rauner can speak to that, too.
- Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 4:47 pm:
“The media attention on Blago right now is just bleeping golden for Rauner.”
One story had Trump being sympathetic to Blagojevich because they’re both victims of the system. Why isn’t Rauner slamming Trump for considering the release of such a corrupt individual?
- Hottot - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 5:57 pm:
Didn’t Blagojevich want all the tapes played?
- Duopoly - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 5:57 pm:
“gather names for a campaign database.”
They should: Gather names for those conspiring to violate a federal court order.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 6:38 pm:
–We’re through the looking glass.–
Rauner was Trump before Trump.
Freaky, lying narcissist who will undermine all democratic institutions to compensate for his wee-willie sadness.
Yay, North Shore cocktail circuit…..
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 7:16 pm:
Sure he does, wants to act like he did nothing wrong
- JS Mill - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 10:35 pm:
A petition for the tapes? That is a knee slapper. Maybe we can get those FOIA requests a little quicker and with out all of the redactions now that Bruce is all about transparency.
Right?
- James - Tuesday, Jun 5, 18 @ 10:54 pm:
=Didn’t Blagojevich want all the tapes played?=
Yes, he would say “Play the tapes. Play allllll the tapes. (wink,wink, e.g. there’ll be some exonerating even if irrelevant material in there that will help me with the jury)
=Does this mean Rauner’s out of material?=
I’m guessing here, but the guess is the Chicago Tribune gave Rauner all that it has, so Rauner has to plant the idea in the mind of the public that the federal government has more Blago/JB conversations on tape.
Another possibility is Rauner’s holding back a conversation, which he will release after petitioning concludes, so he can say to the voters: “It was your insistence that we hear all Blago/JB conversations that enabled us to hear this new conversation-it just shows that when we all work together we can move mountains, we can even move the federal government.”
- Bill Baar - Wednesday, Jun 6, 18 @ 1:25 pm:
Some the tapes Judge Zagel ordered sealed have already been played. Who leaked them to the Tribune something that should be investigated. If Rauner were serious here he’d be sending a request to DOJ’s IG on how this happened.