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Friday, Jan 24, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * Josh Morningstar will do the honors… That lonesome bourbon sky
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What the media didn’t tell you about last night
Friday, Jan 24, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * I know it’s late in the day on Friday, but I was finally able to track down the audio from last night’s post debate press conference. I wasn’t able to attend, so many, many thanks to Tanya Koonce, the WCBU news director, for passing these along. * Sen. Kirk Dillard went after Bruce Rauner hard and the assembled reporters all ignored it when it came time to write their stories. Dillard said that Rauner’s venture capital world was “You do it my way, or we’ll steamroll you.” Dillard then brought up the recent stories about nursing home deaths tied to Rauner’s company. “There is a cost to ‘My way or the highway,’ people have died.” Dillard claimed that “Bruce Rauner is just used to buying things… and he’s not going to be able to buy his 10th mansion in Illinois.” “Read what the judge wrote in the nursing home case, ‘A callous disregard for human life,’” Dillard said. Dillard mentioned the Michigan case, he hammered home the Stu Levine stuff. But almost none of this was covered by the reporters who were there last night. [Changed that sentence a bit so I could note that Gatehouse updated its story with the “my way or the highway” snippet.] * Listen to Dillard… * Meanwhile, toward the end of his questioning, Bill Brady responded to an inquiry about how Bruce Rauner had praised former NY Mayor Bloomberg… * Dan Rutherford said he didn’t need to participate in the “clarification rounds” because he’d already answered the questions. He also pledged to remain totally positive in his TV ads and said he wouldn’t tack one way or another before the primary. He is what he says he is right now, he said, pointing to his “honesty” about his position on new revenue, which is that he won’t commit until he sees what the situation is after the election… * When it was his turn, Bruce Rauner said: “Here’s the situation, the special interest groups that make their money from government control Springfield… That’s the fact, it’s a tragedy.” “The government union bosses, the trial lawyers, these corrupt groups, they can’t do anything to me. I’m impenetrable to them,” Rauner said. He said his opponents are “part of the problem,” for voting “with Democrats” to raise taxes and fees, for big spending increases, for more debt, for bad pension deals, for pay raises for themselves. “I’m gonna be dragged through the mud, my family’s gonna be dragged through the mud, my businesses are gonna be dragged through the mud.” Rauner said the reason he was being attacked was because “my message is a threatening one” to the powers that be in Illinois. He said there was “no foundation” to the attacks so far. “There’s no there there.” Have a listen…
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A silly Friday diversion
Friday, Jan 24, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * Not that it really matters, but David Earl Williams III and Susanne Atanus are the Republican candidates vying to get clobbered by Congresscritter Jan Schakowsky this fall. Each of them have their, shall we say, idiosyncrasies. Daily Herald…
The Daily Herald buried that quote deep in the article, but check out the raw audio… “I am a very smart economist thinking woman,” she says. * Some GOP leaders have demanded she exit the race…
* She says she isn’t going anywhere…
* By the way, she also denies there was a stock market crash in 1929… Whew, man. * But her GOP opponent also has some issues…
Williams flatly denies the allegation and says he’s appealing. His campaign called the allegation “frivolous.” * And then there’s this…
Umm. * And this is from Williams’ own candidate bio…
He brags about 450 copies?
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Pick ‘em
Friday, Jan 24, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * Winners and losers in last night’s gubernatorial debate? If you missed it, you can watch it right here… You can also read through the 250+ CapitolFax.com comments by clicking here.
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