* Gov. Bruce Rauner should’ve maybe run for the United States Senate because he’s such an expert filibusterer. Check out how he ran out the clock at the end of his WBEZ interview today…
Q: Before I let you go, I have to ask you, do you think you bear any responsibility for the impasse?
A: We all need to work together, Republicans, Democrats, everybody to get a truly balanced budget. It is very difficult because the General Assembly has never passed balanced budgets for decades. Their solution is always just don’t pay pensions.
Q: [Interrupting] But do you think you bear any responsibility?
A: [Cross-talking] We all, we all have a job to do and that is to compromise and do what’s right for the people of Illinois for the long-term, so our children and our grandchildren have a better future in Illinois. It is immoral what has happened in our state government for the last 35 years, we, it is wrong for us to leave a hundred and ninety billion dollars in debt [play-out music starts] to our children and grandchildren, we are not gonna let that happen.
Q: Gov. Bruce Rauner, we will see you back here in June. In the meantime, thanks for stopping by.
A: Tony, great to be with you. Thank you.
