* Chris Kennedy was on the Ben Joravsky Show yesterday. Click here for raw audio. Here are a few bits, starting with a question about petition circulating time and his running mate..

CK: We have about 2,000 volunteers around the state, there are about 6,000 donors. But aside from the donors, the 2,000 volunteers are like peppering the office, ready to go. You know can we go out this weekend. So believe me, whatever pressure you think you can put on me during this radio show is not anything like what I’m getting day to day in the office. I think we’ll probably spend an extra day or two on vetting and a couple other issues now and try to do a great job.

Ben: Are there people who’ve turned you down?

CK: I wouldn’t describe it like that. I’d say a relationship is not exactly like a marriage in the traditional sense where one person asks another. It’s more of a partnership that needs to be created, almost like a merger. And that needs to be two willing parties that see in each other something hopeful, and not just synergies in a corporate sort of sense, but in the capacity to create something great for the state and that’s a complicated deal.

* Thoughts on the fallout of Biss/Rosa?…

I think it’s really difficult to be in the arena in politics today, and we ought to cut them a little bit of slack on the enormous pressures that they’re under and the timing, and the fact that they are up against an enormous spender that twists and perverts the natural cycle, and I think as a result of that, people feel they need to make a bigger bet and do something they ordinarily wouldn’t do, and I think that’s what occurred in that relationship. I think you need to have grace under pressure in a situation like this. And I think in states, I can’t remember, fortunately I haven’t looked into it here, there’s this concept of a no-fault divorce, and unfortunately in politics there’s no such thing. You’re going to see it play out for a couple more days, it’s messy, but I think we should all have a little bit of sympathy for their families for what they’re going through as this plays out on the front-page of the paper and the newspapers, and websites and blogs…

* When alluding to an opponent with a lot of money, were you referring to Pritzker, Rauner or both?…

Yeah, well, that’s a good question. I’d say for Democrats the immediate threat is JB Pritzker’s enormous spending. Never before have we had all these mailers and the television ads. Maybe that’s the kind of America people want, and there’s going to be a choice, they can embrace that. Cardinal Cupich said the other day, they interviewed him in one of the papers, I think both the Tribune and the Sun-Times. And they were interesting interviews I thought. And he said, “In a democracy, we get the government we deserve”, and I think he meant that in the nicest possible way, but we’re going to have that choice and we deserve whatever we get after this election. Everybody knows what the choice is.

* On the school funding bill’s private school tuition tax credit…

In my mind, that’s just a clear violation of the state constitution, and, so, then you have to say, well, is it worth it? Did we get enough goodies that we’re willing to live with a violation of the constitution? And I don’t know if that’s ever worth it. I don’t know if that’s ever worth it. The truth is once you abandon the constitution, you abandon the rule of law. Once you abandon the rule of law, you descend into the rule of the jungle. And you abandon this notion, well the Golden Rule I suppose, that do onto others as you’d like them to do onto you, and replace it with Rauner’s Golden Rule which is “He who has the gold makes the rules”, and that’s what has occurred in this funding bill. We’ve allowed the state now to sponsor private, church-run schools. That’s a violation of the constitution.

* He was referring to this section…

SECTION 3. PUBLIC FUNDS FOR SECTARIAN PURPOSES FORBIDDEN

Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money, or other personal property ever be made by the State, or any such public corporation, to any church, or for any sectarian purpose.