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Friday, Jun 2, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* From a reader…

Hi Rich,

The below link is to a music video featuring Assistant Secretary of the Senate Scott Kaiser. The band, Nick Bafino and the Innocents, opened for Boston at the PCCC and is playing this Friday at the Legacy of Giving music festival in Springfield. I somehow happened upon this and was surprised the video had not been more widely circulated.

Scott isn’t in the band, but he was in the video, which, by the way, was not filmed during state time. They did it on a Saturday. How he’s managed to keep this a secret for so long is beyond me.

* Anyway, it’s not really the sort of music I usually feature here, but we all love Scott Kaiser, so here you go…

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*** UPDATED x1 *** “Focus, Amanda. Focus.”

Friday, Jun 2, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Heh…

Q: What do you think about Donald Trump?

Gov. Rauner:
>>RUN focus_talkingpoints.exe
>>SYNTAX ERROR
>>REPEAT SEQUENCE
>>TERMINATE QUESTION pic.twitter.com/Caa81KRQM8

— IL Working Together (@IllinoisWorking) June 2, 2017

They really don’t do Rauner’s responses justice. The governor actually said the word “focus” in response to the Trump questions ten times.

The full interview is here. The Trump stuff starts at the 7:30 mark.

*** UPDATE *** The Pritzker campaign isolated the clip…

Yesterday, @GovRauner ducked, dived and dodged questions about @realDonaldTrump’s job performance and whether or not he voted for Trump. pic.twitter.com/UU7Zqvl4eY

— JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) June 2, 2017

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Rauner says Illinois is on “a good path to change the system”

Friday, Jun 2, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* From Gov. Rauner’s WBEZ interview today…

TONY SARABIA: OK, before I let you go, just a last question. And we hear a lot of this from listeners often when we have you on the show, that they’re hearing the same points and answers and I’m wondering what have you said today that was different than you have said in the past?

GOV. BRUCE RAUNER: Well Tony, when we’re on a path, a good path to change the system, there’s no reason for different answers.

Whoa.

* More from the governor…

You know, I have people come up to me every day, Democrats and Republicans who identify themselves as such, Democrats come to me and say ‘Governor, stay strong, you’re on the right track.’

I had an elderly woman come up to me recently, she grabbed me by the arm and she had a little, kind of teary eyed, and she looked at me and she said, ‘Please, governor, you’re our last hope. Don’t give up. Stay the course. We’ve got to change our system.’

Discuss.

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