* From the 46:07 mark of yesterday’s debate…

QUINN: I want to say one thing. When he was at this Editorial Board, he has given money, I know, he says, to schools and education—including Payton, Walter Payton. Last time he was before this Editorial Board, he lied to you. He lied to you. The Inspector General of the Chicago Public Schools determined that his daughter did not qualify. Was not on a principal’s list. He told a falsehood. As he has today, one falsehood after another, his whole operation is based on deception, includes his education budget. You cannot have excellent schools if you cut the budget of Illinois, the state budget, for education, in half. That’s savage cuts that will hurt people who don’t have a lot of money like Mr. Rauner and who aren’t getting a million dollar tax cut because of these policies that he’s advocating.

QUESTION: Did you lie to us?

RAUNER: No. We went through the process, we followed it appropriately. It’s just like hundreds—

QUINN: [Interrupting] That’s not what the Inspector General said.

RAUNER: Just as hundreds of other families did.

Really? He did nothing different than “hundreds of families”?

* Here’s part of a long exchange with the Tribune editorial board before the primary which the governor referenced yesterday…

Rauner: At no time did we ask for a special treatment, or special deal, or special favor for our daughter. We got her name on the list just like hundreds of other families got their children’s name on the list for this Principal’s list.

Tribune: Why did you mention your daughter to Duncan?

Rauner: Oh we talk about getting his advice on what’s the process, I heard about the principal’s list, what do you do, how does it work?

* From a June 26, 2014 AP story…

Rauner has said that his daughter’s attendance record was marred by illness and hurt her overall admission score, which was the reason for the rejection. He said the family appealed through a principals’ discretionary process.

However, [outgoing Chicago Public Schools Inspector James Sullivan] told The Associated Press on Thursday that Rauner didn’t use the formalized principals’ process. CPS policy says that principals of selective high schools can use discretion for up to 5 percent of incoming freshmen.

Sullivan said Rauner contacted then-CEO Arne Duncan’s office, had at least two conversations with a chief aide, and the admission status was changed after the aide called the principal.

“She’s a very bright kid. She was close and just didn’t make it,” Sullivan said of the initial rejection.

So, he didn’t do what “hundreds of other families” did. At all.

It’s amazing to me that the edit board didn’t fully call him out on this.

* Let’s refresh ourselves on how this tale has evolved. Bernie’s column from Feb. 19, 2014…

It had been back on Sept. 3, when I spoke with Rauner by phone, that I asked about this controversy. He told me then what a good student his daughter was, and how only illness had caused her to be denied regular admission. But, he said, there was at the time a special “principal’s list” then available in such cases, and she was admitted through that process.

And when I asked in September, he said “I did not” talk to [Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan] about it.

After his round of TV interviews in January, I asked Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf about the discrepancy. Schrimpf told me Rauner and his wife, Dianna, both spoke often with Duncan, and one of them had asked about the process.

* From a January 13, 2014 CBS2 story…

Rauner admits making a call to former Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan to see how he could get his daughter into Payton, despite what he calls a middle school attendance record marred by illness. He says principals have some discretion in admitting a small percentage of students, and parents have a right to make an appeal like he did.

“There’s nothing to apologize for that, there’s nothing wrong with it, and I would do it again and again,” he tells CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine in a one-on-one interview.