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* At the 45:45 mark of this Chicago Sun-Times video, Gov. Bruce Rauner was asked if he was troubled by the fact that the three leading people who are running for governor right now (including Rauner himself) “could only do so because they are extremely wealthy.”

Rauner’s response…

“In general, in many races the candidate that has the most money doesn’t win. Money is relevant, money does matter, but it’s not the deciding factor.”

Very true. But then he went on to say this…

“I believe we got outspent in my race. We got outspent in my race.”

Um, what?

* I checked with the folks over at the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, who sent me a spreadsheet. Click here.

ICPR totaled up all money spent by both major party 2014 gubernatorial candidates and also by outside groups. It came up with $42,007,560 spent by or on behalf of Pat Quinn and $65,432,067 by or on behalf of Bruce Rauner.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:32 am

Comments

What is it these days with GOPers and their easy ability to lie. Rauner, Trump, KellyAnne Conway. Please Bruce, just stop.

Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:33 am
What do you expect? He quit managing his own money affairs and his income tripled….

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:34 am
Alternative Spending, it’s a thing now.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:36 am
With math like this, no wonder he can’t put together a budget.

Comment by Michelle Flaherty Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:37 am
Just more evidence our governor suffers from a personality disorder.

Comment by Liberty Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:38 am
Must be that alternative money out there.

Comment by zatoichi Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:38 am
Poor BigBrain outspent by those devils ….BTW who is counting the dough that paid out for the fake newspapers, documentaries and radio networks? The answer is no one since BigBrain isn’t trying to get a tax break.

Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:38 am
FAKE NEWS!

Right?

/s

Comment by Bobby Catalpa Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:40 am
Yet another unforced error. These regularly occur whenever the Gov goes off script. His advisers do him no favors when they do not help save him from himself — by getting him to stay message focused.

Comment by Deft Wing Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:40 am
Rauner is also staying on the sidelines in the Senate budget negotiations but he has to rush back to the Capitol to engage in some hardball budget negotiations with legislators.

He also doesn’t pay attention to politics one second, and the next second puts out a tweet ripping Kennedy as a Madigan stooge.

The guy has never had a problem telling whoppers — contradictory ones in the same day — when they serves his immediate purpose.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:41 am
Just more “alternative facts” and “faux news” - should we expect anything less? We know better than to expect that from BVR and his bought and paid for shills.

Comment by illini Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:44 am
Well if he can’t add to 60 and 30, I guess we can’t expect him to be able to add to $65.4 million either.

Comment by Nick Name Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:45 am
Just announced, Team Rauner is launching a new blog to respond to what they read on Capitol Fax.

It’s called “Alternative Fax.”

Comment by Anon Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:45 am
I can understand this coming from his mouth as a legitimate disconnect from reality as much as anything… those who can donate $50M to themselves without batting an eye can afford to be very flippant and dissociated in this way.

So maybe he wasn’t lying so much as he couldn’t be bothered to remember a difference in two sums that amounts to a rounding error for him and others of his ilk?

Comment by NoUseForAName Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:47 am
When reporters allow your steady stream of half-truths to go unchallenged, why not try to get away with a real whopper every once and a while?

Comment by Roman Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:47 am
== He quit managing his own money affairs and his income tripled….==

Can we get the people running Rauner’s businesses to run the State while he takes a 2 year vacation?

Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:47 am
He was outspent in much the same way his previous budget proposals were balanced.
Just ask him.

Comment by Michelle Flaherty Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:48 am
Rauner continues two things that makes his turn in the Big Chair troubling;

Rauner can’t speak extemporaneously and use facts at the same time.

Rauner continues to use what he thinks people want to hear or make up narratives to what people want to hear, even if easily refutable facts exist.

Rauner can’t be trusted to speak for himself. How can others trust him and his words when they do talk to him without his talking points?

Here’s the spoiler, you can’t trust his words.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:48 am
how obscene to complain about spending that relates to just you Gov. especially when real people are having real problems because of a fiscal failure to lead by Gov. Rauner.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:48 am
When you’re a billionaire, $23 million is chump change.

Comment by Archiesmom Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:48 am
The man is absolutely BEGGING for 24/7 comparisons with the alternative-facts President whom he shall not name.

Comment by Linus Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:50 am
Linus, that was exactly my point. Rauner is Trumpian.

Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:52 am
If you count the spending of the 3 to 5 million illegal immigrants in Beardstown then I’m sure Rauner’s math adds up.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:53 am
Mike Madigan and the Rich Miller he controls.

Comment by Dan Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:53 am
–Linus, that was exactly my point. Rauner is Trumpian.–

Rauner has a two-year head start on whoppers and alternative facts in office. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Trump is a Raunerite.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 11:56 am
Just wait until he tells us about the millions that attended today’s Facebook live thingy. Biggest ever!

Comment by Henry Francis Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:12 pm
- Breaking News

Breitbart News is now reporting Rauner was outspent in his last race.

Gee it must be true…… /s

Comment by Chicago 20 Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:13 pm
65m is always more than 42m. Sorry, governor.

Comment by Anon Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:19 pm
For what it is worth the Dem PAC were very active in 2014…Quinn’s campaign also has been assisted by a union and Democratic-affiliated political action committee, the Illinois Freedom PAC. The group spent more than $3.5 million in the primary in an effort to defeat Rauner, and it has nearly $4.8 million available for spending in the general election.

In addition, several other political action committees are spending more than $4.4 million they raised on several advisory-only ballot proposals aimed at driving Democratic turnout, including a proposal asking voters if they support an increase in the minimum wage.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-illinois-governor-race-big-money-met-20141030-story.html

Comment by Texas Red Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:29 pm
$23 Million. Sounds like a generous tip

Comment by 37B Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:31 pm
Rauner, like most free spending liberals, never took math 101.

Comment by blue dog dem Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:35 pm
Texas Red, click the link above. That stuff is in there.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:39 pm
“facts, Schmacts…..I got lotsa money and I’m governor”

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:43 pm
But those figures do not include “nonpartisan” voter education campaigns. Actual donations are only a fraction of what unions spend to influence elections, for example.

Those are the technically legal expenditures. Now add in all the “ghost” city employees paid to do political work.

And that’s not even counting how much of the “mainstream media” coverage should be considered a donation in kind to Democrats…

Comment by gopower Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:51 pm
===And that’s not even counting how much of the “mainstream media” coverage should be considered a donation in kind to Democrats…===

That’s adorbs.

#AlternativeFacts

LOL

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 12:54 pm
“65m is always more than 42m”

Not in the alternative facts universe.

We have fallen through a black hole where lies are truth and truth are lies. Where people, with a straight face, will tell lies with the expectations that what they say will be accepted as truth.

Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:02 pm
Seems the ever increasing motto is why let the truth stand in the way of a perfectly good lie…..

Comment by Dog Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:05 pm
After all this destruction. I have but one question for Rainer and his crew. Why? Ideology isn’t worth destroying a state for personal satisfaction.

Comment by Jorge Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:20 pm
–And that’s not even counting how much of the “mainstream media” coverage should be considered a donation in kind to Democrats…–

Yeah, as always, they were in the tank for Quinn. He’s as popular with them as he is with other politicians.

You don’t like the “mainstream media,” I take it. Where do you get your information then, from the “backwater” or “fringe” media?

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:29 pm
As George Costanza would say, “Bruce, it’s not a lie, if you believe it.” This whole Rauner thing is a show, that’s a show.

Comment by Big Joe Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:33 pm
Honest question, does this spending include the primary? Anyone know?

Comment by allknowingmasterofracoondom Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 1:53 pm
Rauner might be right if we consider the millions Quinn threw around in the anti-violence program.

Comment by Birdseed Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 2:06 pm
Truth, the REAL victim.

Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 2:22 pm
Tip of the day: click on link provided by Rich before commenting on what is or isn’t included.

Governor Rauner has rarely demonstrated a detailed knowledge of real numbers. Not very hopeful for tomorrow.

Comment by walker Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 4:02 pm
This is either

1) Flat-out, self-serving lying

or

2) Indicative of a personality type that has learned to blurt out that which he wants to be true, regardless of the facts.

Buyer’s remorse yet, fellow Illinois voters?

Comment by Stumpy's bunker Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 4:02 pm
I really just feel so bad for Bruce the constant victim. Must be tough to have 9 houses, tons of money to play with and still be persecuted so heartlessly.

Comment by DuPage Bard Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 4:40 pm
There you go treating him unfairly again Rich. It’s not easy for billionaires to count to a measly $13 M

Comment by siriusly Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 5:01 pm
Birdseed, in case you forgot NRI was about the 2010 election and not the 2014 election.

Comment by MyTwoCents Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 5:10 pm
–This is either

1) Flat-out, self-serving lying

or

2) Indicative of a personality type that has learned to blurt out that which he wants to be true, regardless of the facts.–

Those can be the same.

Unless, if in Number 2, he can’t distinguish between truth and lies.

That’s Blago-like big trouble.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Feb 14, 17 @ 6:00 pm
Endowed with the giift of false narratives in conversation

Comment by Rabid Wednesday, Feb 15, 17 @ 5:38 am