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* And his solution is not providing any more money to CPS than this fiscal year?…
Rauner says some of CPS schools are like "crumbling prisons."
— Tina Sfondeles (@TinaSfon) June 6, 2016
* Rep. Mitchell is not amused…
& downstate + suburban taxpayers are hardworking while Chicago taxpayers r shiftless. @GovRauner loves dogwhistles! https://t.co/SvPOzRjHGO
— Christian Mitchell (@cljmitchell) June 6, 2016
* More…
“If I had one major disappointment over the past 18 months, it’s the mayor.” Rauner said, though, that the issue is not “personal.”
Rauner had hoped Mayor Rahm Emanuel would be an ally in persuading House Speaker Mike Madigan to pass Rauner’s anti-union, pro-business reforms but Emanuel has not.
Rauner said Emanuel is unwilling to stand up to Madigan.
The governor added that he had spoken to many Democrats over the weekend to try to reach a bipartisan compromise over the budget.
…Adding… Video…
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 10:58 am
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“If I had one major disappointment over the past 18 months, it’s the governor.” Rauner said, though, that the issue is not “personal.”
Comment by Niblets Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:00 am
oops! I said not Rauner.
Comment by Niblets Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:01 am
===Rauner had hoped Mayor Rahm Emanuel would be an ally in persuading House Speaker Mike Madigan to pass Rauner’s anti-union, pro-business reforms but Emanuel has not.===
Sharin’ wine and vacations doesn’t mean that ideology changes.
I love, absolutely LOVE when Rauner speaks to his inner beliefs.
The naïveté is priceless.
“But, but… but Madigan, Rahm!”
“Bruce, dorm room is over, bud. The wine was great but we’re friends in life, not governing”
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:02 am
===“If I had one major disappointment over the past 18 months, it’s the mayor.” Rauner said===
Dude. You have been a total and complete failure. If you only had one major disappointment? Everyday is a major disappointment. Do your job.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:02 am
When Rauner says something dumb, like some CPS schools are like crumbling prisons, why doesn’t somebody quickly ask him: “which schools are those, Governor?”
What an unbelievable stupid thing to say from a guy who clouted his daughter into one of the presumably non-prison schools.
Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:02 am
-And his solution is not providing any more money to CPS than this fiscal year?…-
Throwing more $$ at the problem, before enacting reforms, is pointless.
Comment by downstater Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:02 am
–Throwing more $$ at the problem, before enacting reforms, is pointless.–
+1
Comment by A Modest Proposal Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:04 am
Chauncey Gardner would have at least gotten something right in Rauner’s job.
Also, isn’t it the Governor’s job to care about the state and its infrastructure?
DO SOMETHING then, pal.
Comment by Blue Bayou Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:05 am
===The governor added that he had spoken to many Democrats over the weekend to try to reach a bipartisan compromise over the budget.===
Unless Rauner gives up the names and/or has these Democrats standing right behind him during these… talks…
… it’s complete and utter nonsense, drivel to pretend to be engaged.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:05 am
“Throwing more $$ at the problem, before enacting reforms, is pointless.”
“Reforms” is such a pretty but ultimately empty word.
Can tell us what new policies you are referring to when you use that pretty word?
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:07 am
===Throwing more $$ at the problem, before enacting reforms, is pointless.===
So let’s pass a 2,000 page bill that nobody has read so we can keep the money flowin’!!! Woooo party!!! Or you know, get your fiscal house in order and make government the boringness it is supposed to be. Make thoughtful reforms, and not because you are a hostage.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:07 am
Reforms?
So you want to get rid of teacher’s unions as the price for keeping the schools from falling down?
Please share your plan for these reforms and how they will work to make education better for IL’s young people.
Comment by Blue Bayou Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:07 am
Bruce Rauner…
… who clouded his unqualified and denied daughter (”her test scores were perfect”, LOL, Dad throwing his daughter under the bus!) into a Chicago school while she lived in Winnetka…
… dings CPS.
Please note, not one reporter brought up to Rauner he clouted his DENIED, Winnetka-living, daughter, and if Payton Prep qualifies as a crumbling prison.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:09 am
Willy +1
Comment by Norseman Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:10 am
If I were the governor of Illinois, and I believed some of the schools in my state– on my watch –were “crumbling prisons,” I would consider it my moral duty to make it my first priority to change that fact.
The governor thinks some of our children are going to school in “crumbling prisons.”
Yet, what are his priorities, as revealed by his actions, to date?
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:14 am
Rauner is incapable of learning from his own mistakes, because he is incapable of acknowledging that he has made mistakes.
Comment by Aldyth Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:19 am
== “Reforms” is such a pretty but ultimately empty word.
Can tell us what new policies you are referring to when you use that pretty word?
@MisterJayEm rounds the bases again.
Comment by thunderspirit Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:19 am
Moving forward, it should be a reporters duty to ask Bruce the following questions.
Such as?
Name one?
When?
Show us the data.
Comment by Jocko Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:20 am
==Throwing more $$ at the problem, before enacting reforms, is pointless==
Because, as we all know, it’s much better and cheaper to let a bridge crumble and then rebuild it rather than shore it up until you can do significant repairs.
Wait a minute….
Comment by HangingOn Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:20 am
It just has to be willful ignorance for the head of the Republican party in Illinois.
Comment by John Reynolds Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:23 am
>The governor added that he had spoken to many Democrats over the weekend to try to reach a bipartisan compromise over the budget.
I hear this and really do believe he’s lying, as he has so many times about having spoken to people. It’s terrible to believe that about one’s governor.
However, if I’m wrong and he really did have those conversations, I look forward to him highlighting his bipartisan-ism in Ottawa today.
Comment by Earnest Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:24 am
Wordslinger +1
Our future is our children - all of them.
Comment by Archiesmom Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:25 am
golly.
I sure don’t know where these goofy attacks come from.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:27 am
“Many Democrats” = his wife, Greg Goldner, . . . .?
(I hope I’m wrong, too.)
Comment by Keyrock Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:29 am
Governor Rauner probably has binders full of Democrats who are ready to do a budget.
Comment by SAP Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:34 am
What in the world does a rich white guy from Winnetka in a sweater vest and wrinkled Hagaar slacks and loafers know about “crumbling prisons”?
What, he’s seen some movie about a prison?
Comment by Formerly Known as Frenchie M Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:36 am
Why Rauner continues to share private conversations with Cullerton and Rahm is beyond me.
No wonder trusting Rauner is all but impossible…
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:39 am
crumbling like prisons is a very bad term to use. it is loaded with other thoughts and is not helpful to the discussion, especially to being inclusive of people being involved in the discussion.
Comment by Amalia Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:40 am
One thing that I have noticed when it comes to filling the financial hole at the CPS is that neither Emanuel or Claypool has suggested an increase in the CPS property tax rate.
Comment by Hit or Miss Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:40 am
Rauner should stop his “punishment” tour, and realize that some of his other “reform work” is crumbling much, much faster. ReDeploy IS a part of prison reform-
http://myjournalcourier.com/news/96337/budget-fight-erodes-at-risk-teens-help
Comment by Anon221 Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:43 am
Glad to see Rep Mitchell taking the high road by implying it’s about racism.
Hate to break it to everyone in Chicago, but downstaters’ distrust for sending more money is due to people with names like Daley, Blagojevich, Madigan etc. Though Rahm has certainly earned a place on that list as well.
Comment by m Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:48 am
Rauner: I need the mayor to step up to Madigan because I can’t.
Comment by Wensicia Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:52 am
not helping
Comment by Dozer Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:53 am
===downstaters’ distrust for sending more money is due to people with names like Daley, Blagojevich, Madigan etc===
LOL
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 11:54 am
Rahm is on the record supporting one aspect of the Turnaround Agenda- workers comp. CPS already enjoys having exclusions from collective bargaining that every other school does not, so that would be a second item of the TA they are on board with. Unions are along way from being “decimated” in Chicago so the overheated rhetoric is not really convincing any one.
Comment by Lucky Pierre Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:03 pm
“If I have one major disappointment in the last 18 months, it’s with the mayor.”
Hang in there, Bruce - I’m sure the mayor will join in when you start bashing CTU labor/collective bargaining….that’s the endgame, right?
Turnaround Agenda = destroy collective bargaining, an issue close to the mayor’s neoliberal heart.
Comment by TinyDancer(FKA Sue) Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:06 pm
And when it comes to cuts to the budget, I’ve never met a downstater that says, ‘close the State facility in my town.’
We’re in this together-same lifeboat. Start bailing.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:06 pm
the 12:06 post was mine
Comment by Tommydanger Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:07 pm
Of all the political miscalculations Rauner has made, expecting Rahm’s help in Springfield is one of his biggest errors. Set aside whether or not Rahm was willing to help, because the bottom line is Rahm can’t help. He has very little clout in Springfield and virtually no ability to get Chicago members to vote against Madigan or Cullerton.
It ain’t 1966, or even 1996, when the mayor of Chicago could make a few phone calls and flip a bunch of votes in the General Assembly. There used to be a dozen legislators who were on the city payroll for their “full time” job when they weren’t in Springfield. I think there’s only one left today.
Everything Rauner and his frat boys know about Chicago politics they learn from John Kass’ column — which explains their cluelessness.
Comment by Rick J. Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:09 pm
- Lucky Pierre -
Then what’s the Governor’s beef?
LOL, you think on it, get back to all of us.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:11 pm
Somebody’s getting kicked out of the wine club.
Comment by TominChicago Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:13 pm
-m-
The Governor is the governor of the entire state, not just downstate and suburban areas. What are you implying?
Comment by Thoughts Matter Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:15 pm
Hate to break it to everyone in Chicago, but downstaters’ distrust for sending more money is due to people with names like Daley, Blagojevich, Madigan etc. Though Rahm has certainly earned a place on that list as well.
Chicago is a net payer to the state when it comes to tax revenue so it really isn’t downstaters sending their money to Chicago but just Chicago keeping some of the money that it sends downstate.
Comment by TominChicago Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:16 pm
The difference is Rauner wants to fund prisons.
Comment by The Captain Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:16 pm
Winning
Starve the beast
Schools like crumbling prisons
And I am not responsible for any of it, because……MADIGAN
Comment by Langhorne Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:25 pm
Before Rauner people wandering around rambling and ranting about imaginary conversations with imaginary friends and enemies were given the help they need. Now, not so much.
Comment by northsider (the original) Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 12:36 pm
OW Rauner’s beef with Rahm is that other than weakly advocating for workers comp reform over a year ago when Rauner spoke to the City Council we have not heard a peep from him about any of the reforms needed in Chicago. Just an attack on Rauner’s family (something the Mayor lectures the media all the time about the need for his family to be left alone).
The personal nature of Rahm’s pension attacks on Rauner are over the top. The current generation has mortgaged our future again and they aren’t apologizing but celebrating.
Comment by Lucky Pierre Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 3:17 pm
===Just an attack on Rauner’s family (something the Mayor lectures the media all the time about the need for his family to be left alone).===
Mrs. Rauner is NOT a civilian when as the President of Ounce she shares with the likes of Rahm Emanuel.
Diana’s no babe in the woods.
Sorry
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 6, 16 @ 4:07 pm