* No question today. Sorry. I was working on my Crain’s column and several other things and forgot. Instead, chew on this…
“I’m very scared for the people of Illinois,” @GovRauner says after a question about election night results and overwhelming wave of Democrats coming into state govt, including Gov-Election @JBPritzker
Hannah- you need to do better. The actual quote is “I’m very scared OF the people of Illinois”
Obviously he is terrified of what the people of Illinois are going to do to him when they realize how bad he screwed the state. s/
It was like he forgot the election was over and his talking points just blurted out by reflex.
Governor, we’re a lot stronger than you’re giving us credit for. We rejected you, not the desire to move Illinois forward. That you can’t understand the difference is a big reason why you got pummeled in the campaign.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
- El Conquistador - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
How can an incumbent, who can’t break 40%, lost by 15 points, and was polling up to Election Day terribly under water… see the voters choice… as something that an incumbent fears for the voters and the state.
Bitter and petty. He’s learned nothing and got creamed in election. Bye
- Not a Superstar - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:38 pm:
What scares me is how effortlessly he flips between Montgomery Burns on veto session and a Lisa Madigan wannabe on Airbnb. His only core commitment is to himself and his donor class.
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:39 pm:
Dude, your moving trucks are waiting. Rauner doesn’t even have to move far. Indiana is right next door.
Same for the other rich and upper middle class phonies, who cry the same crocodile tears but made good or great money and paid low state income taxes for decades in Illinois.
As one of the people in Illinois I’m very much looking forward to seeing Bruce Rauner gone. He still has not learned. I guess he really does live in an alternate reality.
I can’t wait to see him on the corner of Monroe & 2nd in February wearing a sandwich board saying “The End is Near” while handing out 3×5 note cards listing his accomplishments.
One of the rules of sales is that if you don’t win the sale you don’t criticize the company that did, because to do so is to insult the customer and their decision making abilities. You instead should be gracious and offer to work together on future projects or help the company that did win.
As a successful business man Rauner should know this.
Trouble is frustrated voters issued Pritzker a blank check (never demanded a straight answer on tax increases for example). Illinois voters did the same thing in 2014 owing to Quinn fatigue and look what the result was. The danger is that the Democrats own the whole show now.
Funny thing, this is what a lot of Cap Fax bloggers were saying when Rauner got elected. Unfortunately, we were right. JB will do better than Rauner. If only because there is nowhere else to go from Rauner, but up.
==Rauner was drafted to run, a reluctant candidate.==
Willy, have you ever heard of the RGA? Take a look at WI, MI, IN and IA. They recruited candidates with an anti public sector union agenda to run in these states. Unlike the other states, Rauner never had the R votes in the legislature to push through the agenda successfully. Public sector unions are the backbone of the Democrat party, and the RGA was out to destroy that. Rauner was asked to run, and your version of the Republican party was not. LOL
And? So? The goal is to win in Illinois. To that..
===They recruited candidates with an anti public sector union agenda to run in these states.===
… which Rauner hid, tried to hide, and revealed his feelings with a PowerPoint in Decatur. The voters were sold a bill of goods because anti-labor in Illinois ain’t too good for a statewide. Ask Pat Quinn. Labor taught him but good, LOL
===Rauner never had the R votes in the legislature to push through the agenda successfully. Public sector unions are the backbone of the Democrat party, and the RGA was out to destroy that.===
At no point was Rauner after winning re-elect going to have either chamber of the GA. If this is your rationale, it’s not too bright. Rauner thought purposely hurting Illinois was the answer to destroy labor.
How’d that go? It went 39%, and the largest losing margin in over 100 years.
===Democrat party===
Ugh. The Democratic Party.
===Rauner was asked to run, and your version of the Republican party was not. LOL===
… except they didn’t need to ask.
Rutherford and Dillard were the options. Brady to a much lesser extent.
Also, the RGA liked Rauner’s piggy bank and dark money moves.
–Trouble is frustrated voters issued Pritzker a blank check…–
No, they didn’t. It will take a Constitutional amendment to get a graduated income tax. No slam dunk in the GA, and the voters will have the final say on the question.
In exposing Pat Quinn’s pettiness during the last transition and inauguration, you’ve exposed your own pettiness and publicly, which is worse?
Second, you just lost by 15 points and now you’re going to say you fear for IL voters? you’re saying they are dumb?
if you really believe in corruption then people just chose corruption over you? really? you really wanna go with that theory. explains your 26% approval rating.
finally, we have to listen to you explain veto session, your guess for lame duck session and future of our state? you’re going to teach a civics class to the media now that you lost and still don’t even understand how government and 60/30 works???
How this guy amassed so much money boggles my mind.
- Ginhouse Tommy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:59 pm:
Bruce, get off the cross, somebody else needs the wood.
- GOP Turned Dem - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:04 pm:
I’m still not convinced that Democrats in Chicago put him up to running so he would go all-out extreme on the anti-union agenda and turn Illinois blue for the next decade. Gotta have the votes and the governor to gerrymander their control for another 10 years.
Trump and Rauner made me reconsider my affiliation and I now go with the Democrats. At least they can be convinced that business is a good thing. Republicans can’t be convinced that human services are a good thing. Gotta have both, folks.
It may be best for you to leave quietly and out the back door.
- John Deere Green - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 10:17 pm:
The only thing surprising about Gov. Deflection’s comments is that he waited more than three weeks to utter them publicly. Expected to hear them during his concession.
Bruce didn’t want to do it, he had to do it . But he just couldn’t save that poor, scared, dumb animal from the corrupt, self dealing fence. That last kick to the face completely debilitated him. Bruce was just devastated.
Rauner also lost because, I feel, he had such a negative look on Illinois.
I know I was tired of a sitting governor bad-mouth the state. It was a constant Rauner thing, speaking ill of things like the economy, the future, the time he’s been governor, yet not owning his term to make it better.
Rauner seemed to always see anything Illinois in a negative light.
I won’t miss his negativity. Nope. It will be a refreshing change to hear optimism.
Why was Rauner so unlikable?
I feel it was, in part, to these negative things Rauner portrayed.
Rauner is right and it’s his fault for making everything worse.
Pat Quinn got fired.
Illinoisans had enough.
Then Rauner showed us that as bad as things were, they could be worse.
Winning an office can mean losing it when you tout your solutions, voters accept you, and then they discover that you are full of nothing but what they would have never supported you. Rauner lied. He revealed himself as a liar during his first month in office. And he was a disaster from then on.
- Former Downstater - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:20 pm:
How many more days until we don’t have to see or hear him ever again?
- Honeybear - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
Hannah- you need to do better. The actual quote is “I’m very scared OF the people of Illinois”
Obviously he is terrified of what the people of Illinois are going to do to him when they realize how bad he screwed the state. s/
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
Dear Gov. Rauner,
The people of Illinois were scared of you, and Diana, running Illinois for four more years.
They voted… accordingly.
Oswego Willy
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
It was like he forgot the election was over and his talking points just blurted out by reflex.
Governor, we’re a lot stronger than you’re giving us credit for. We rejected you, not the desire to move Illinois forward. That you can’t understand the difference is a big reason why you got pummeled in the campaign.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
- El Conquistador - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
Mother of God, will this guy just leave already
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:24 pm:
How can an incumbent, who can’t break 40%, lost by 15 points, and was polling up to Election Day terribly under water… see the voters choice… as something that an incumbent fears for the voters and the state.
The voters were done with Raunerism.
That was the ball game.
- Cheryl44 - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:25 pm:
To quote a famous philosopher, “What a maroon.”
Sorry/not sorry U of C people.
- lakeside - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:25 pm:
How nice of him to respect the decision of the people.
His goal should be 0 more pressers and to slink off to Italy. Go away and enjoy your money so we can clean up your mess.
- What's in a name? - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:26 pm:
I don’t know about the rest of you but I am a lot less scarred than I have been in quite awhile. I am a little worried for the folks in Italy though.
- Les Nessman - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:26 pm:
Ciao Brucie
- Wading in... - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
I’m kinda scared for the people of Italy.
- Steve Polite - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:30 pm:
Alter Ego Governor Rauner: “I’m relieved for the people of Illinois.”
- don the legend - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:30 pm:
I feel like the quote is missing one name. Mad…Mad…Madigan, yeah that’s it.
- Jocko - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:31 pm:
==I’m very scared for the people of Illinois==
…cuz I’m outta here (exclamation point)
Color me shocked with Mr. “Lifelong Illinois Resident” hops on Alitalia in mid-January.
- Huh? - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:31 pm:
Better see a medical professional for that anxiety. /s
- don the legend - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:37 pm:
===overwhelming wave of Democrats coming into state govt===
That’s rich. Governor Junk is responsible for this wave and for the Democrats GAINING seats in both the House and the Senate.
He needs to go save a deer stuck on a fence and just leave already.
- Earnest - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:37 pm:
>“I’m very scared for the people of Illinois,”
Not to be a language Poindexter, but I find it telling that he chose the phrase “the people of Illinois” rather than “us.”
- Baloneymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:37 pm:
Bitter and petty. He’s learned nothing and got creamed in election. Bye
- Not a Superstar - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:38 pm:
What scares me is how effortlessly he flips between Montgomery Burns on veto session and a Lisa Madigan wannabe on Airbnb. His only core commitment is to himself and his donor class.
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:39 pm:
Dude, your moving trucks are waiting. Rauner doesn’t even have to move far. Indiana is right next door.
Same for the other rich and upper middle class phonies, who cry the same crocodile tears but made good or great money and paid low state income taxes for decades in Illinois.
- Keyrock - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:40 pm:
Huh? Re anxiety.
Maybe he needs a Bhudda Box.
- Wensicia - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:41 pm:
Sorry, soon-to-be former governor, you’re four years late with this statement.
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:41 pm:
Fixed it.
“I’m very scared that the people of Illinois will discover all the things that have completely fallen apart over the past four years.”
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:47 pm:
He’s actually being honest here. And after 4 years most of you still don’t get it.
Bruce V. Rauner knows better than us.
- Notorious RBG - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 4:49 pm:
“We’ll take short-term pain for big long-term gain.”
Guess the rest of the state didn’t agree.
- A Jack - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:00 pm:
I am optimistic for the first time in years.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:04 pm:
Messiah complex to the end.
How he can maintain it after four years of failure and the resounding rejection of him by the voters is beyond me.
- Real - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:07 pm:
As one of the people in Illinois I’m very much looking forward to seeing Bruce Rauner gone. He still has not learned. I guess he really does live in an alternate reality.
- Montrose - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:09 pm:
I can’t wait to see him on the corner of Monroe & 2nd in February wearing a sandwich board saying “The End is Near” while handing out 3×5 note cards listing his accomplishments.
- Not It - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:12 pm:
One of the rules of sales is that if you don’t win the sale you don’t criticize the company that did, because to do so is to insult the customer and their decision making abilities. You instead should be gracious and offer to work together on future projects or help the company that did win.
As a successful business man Rauner should know this.
- Chicago Cynic - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:19 pm:
To quote Governor Tarkin, “charming…to the last.”
- Maestro - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:23 pm:
I don’t want his pity or concern. He still doesn’t realize he didn’t have the skills to be a good governor. He will go down as one of our worst.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:25 pm:
Trouble is frustrated voters issued Pritzker a blank check (never demanded a straight answer on tax increases for example). Illinois voters did the same thing in 2014 owing to Quinn fatigue and look what the result was. The danger is that the Democrats own the whole show now.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:28 pm:
Rauner is the consummate martyr too.
Rauner was drafted to run, a reluctant candidate.
Yeah… maybe Griffin said “Yeah you got money, but I have real money. You’re running.”.
LOL
- Norseman - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:28 pm:
Funny thing, this is what a lot of Cap Fax bloggers were saying when Rauner got elected. Unfortunately, we were right. JB will do better than Rauner. If only because there is nowhere else to go from Rauner, but up.
- Turner - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:41 pm:
==Rauner was drafted to run, a reluctant candidate.==
Willy, have you ever heard of the RGA? Take a look at WI, MI, IN and IA. They recruited candidates with an anti public sector union agenda to run in these states. Unlike the other states, Rauner never had the R votes in the legislature to push through the agenda successfully. Public sector unions are the backbone of the Democrat party, and the RGA was out to destroy that. Rauner was asked to run, and your version of the Republican party was not. LOL
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:46 pm:
I am scared too. Afraid JB is going to tax me out of Illinois.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:51 pm:
===have you ever heard of the RGA?==
Yep.
===Take a look at WI, MI, IN and IA.===
And? So? The goal is to win in Illinois. To that..
===They recruited candidates with an anti public sector union agenda to run in these states.===
… which Rauner hid, tried to hide, and revealed his feelings with a PowerPoint in Decatur. The voters were sold a bill of goods because anti-labor in Illinois ain’t too good for a statewide. Ask Pat Quinn. Labor taught him but good, LOL
===Rauner never had the R votes in the legislature to push through the agenda successfully. Public sector unions are the backbone of the Democrat party, and the RGA was out to destroy that.===
At no point was Rauner after winning re-elect going to have either chamber of the GA. If this is your rationale, it’s not too bright. Rauner thought purposely hurting Illinois was the answer to destroy labor.
How’d that go? It went 39%, and the largest losing margin in over 100 years.
===Democrat party===
Ugh. The Democratic Party.
===Rauner was asked to run, and your version of the Republican party was not. LOL===
… except they didn’t need to ask.
Rutherford and Dillard were the options. Brady to a much lesser extent.
Also, the RGA liked Rauner’s piggy bank and dark money moves.
It’s embarrasing. Looking back, it’s quite shameful.
But, Rauner got humiliated. Thank goodness.
Raunerism needed a complete death. The veto session showed the post-Rauner way.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:53 pm:
–Trouble is frustrated voters issued Pritzker a blank check…–
No, they didn’t. It will take a Constitutional amendment to get a graduated income tax. No slam dunk in the GA, and the voters will have the final say on the question.
- Baloneymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:59 pm:
Dear Bruce,
In exposing Pat Quinn’s pettiness during the last transition and inauguration, you’ve exposed your own pettiness and publicly, which is worse?
Second, you just lost by 15 points and now you’re going to say you fear for IL voters? you’re saying they are dumb?
if you really believe in corruption then people just chose corruption over you? really? you really wanna go with that theory. explains your 26% approval rating.
finally, we have to listen to you explain veto session, your guess for lame duck session and future of our state? you’re going to teach a civics class to the media now that you lost and still don’t even understand how government and 60/30 works???
How this guy amassed so much money boggles my mind.
- Ginhouse Tommy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 5:59 pm:
Bruce, get off the cross, somebody else needs the wood.
- GOP Turned Dem - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:04 pm:
I’m still not convinced that Democrats in Chicago put him up to running so he would go all-out extreme on the anti-union agenda and turn Illinois blue for the next decade. Gotta have the votes and the governor to gerrymander their control for another 10 years.
Trump and Rauner made me reconsider my affiliation and I now go with the Democrats. At least they can be convinced that business is a good thing. Republicans can’t be convinced that human services are a good thing. Gotta have both, folks.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:07 pm:
===Rauner was asked to run, and your version of the Republican party was not. LOL===
That Rauner… won his primary by 4 points over an extreme social agenda state representative.
Rauner turned out to be nothing Republican, and if anything, is considered the worst Republican governor in America…
El-Oh-El
- Quickdrawmcgraw - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:09 pm:
I am scared too. Look how much worse off we are now compared to four years ago.
- A Jack - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:12 pm:
Rauner 2015 inaugural: “I am nobody that nobody sent.” Today: “I was asked to run.” So which is it?
Rauner really hasn’t figured out that everything he has said is still out there. And his record of failure will be forever preserved for posterity.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:23 pm:
–Willy, have you ever heard of the RGA?–
Yeah, they’re big heat in Illinois politics.
“Thanks for the check, Bruce. Of course we think you’d be a great candidate….”
- Norseman - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 6:45 pm:
=== have you ever heard of the RGA? ===
If you believe the RGA was the entity that initiated the idea for Rauner to run for gov, I’ve got a Rauner house to sell you.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 7:07 pm:
The worst governor in the history of Illinois thinks JB could do worse?
- Me Again - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 7:08 pm:
Rauner, the Jerk Store called. They’re running out of you.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 7:14 pm:
Careful what you wish for
Only a Democrat who doesn’t need Labor’s money can reform the excesses of union influence on Illinois
Do you guys really think you will get everything on your wish list? The math does not add up
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 7:35 pm:
https://youtu.be/NnP5iDKwuwk
- DeseDemDose - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 8:39 pm:
The Koch Brothe soire’s in Palm Springs won’t be the same without Bruce and his deep thoughts.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 8:53 pm:
Sour Grapes With Bruce doesn’t have the same ring to it.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 8:57 pm:
Bruce, in the immortal words of Rich Miller “bite me.”
- ah HA - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 9:06 pm:
It may be best for you to leave quietly and out the back door.
- John Deere Green - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 10:17 pm:
The only thing surprising about Gov. Deflection’s comments is that he waited more than three weeks to utter them publicly. Expected to hear them during his concession.
Arrivederci.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 29, 18 @ 10:22 pm:
Bruce didn’t want to do it, he had to do it . But he just couldn’t save that poor, scared, dumb animal from the corrupt, self dealing fence. That last kick to the face completely debilitated him. Bruce was just devastated.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 6:12 am:
I’m afraid too, but you made everything worse.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 6:59 am:
After sleeping on it…
Rauner also lost because, I feel, he had such a negative look on Illinois.
I know I was tired of a sitting governor bad-mouth the state. It was a constant Rauner thing, speaking ill of things like the economy, the future, the time he’s been governor, yet not owning his term to make it better.
Rauner seemed to always see anything Illinois in a negative light.
I won’t miss his negativity. Nope. It will be a refreshing change to hear optimism.
Why was Rauner so unlikable?
I feel it was, in part, to these negative things Rauner portrayed.
- NoGifts - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 7:10 am:
Maybe he can get together with Sam Brownback and commiserate.
- @misterjayem - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 8:14 am:
– MrJM
- Chicago 20 - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 8:34 am:
Rauner has many reasons to be scared.
There are several ongoing investigations which could ultimately allow Rauner to wear another, yet all too real costume.
Prison garb.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 30, 18 @ 11:03 am:
Rauner is right and it’s his fault for making everything worse.
Pat Quinn got fired.
Illinoisans had enough.
Then Rauner showed us that as bad as things were, they could be worse.
Winning an office can mean losing it when you tout your solutions, voters accept you, and then they discover that you are full of nothing but what they would have never supported you. Rauner lied. He revealed himself as a liar during his first month in office. And he was a disaster from then on.
I don’t want Pritzker, but Rauner was worse.