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Gov. Rauner warns against name-calling, and then does just that

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At Friday’s [Kemp Forum], Rauner discussed his belief in attempting to create a movement for economic opportunity that mirrored his statements about mobilizing his re-election effort.

“The system of government, the system of politics in Illinois is broken. We need a movement to take it on, and it’s not Democrat or Republican, it’s not liberal or conservative, it’s not name-calling or labeling or categorizing people,” he said.

The governor then decried Illinois’ workers’ compensation program as filled with a “corrupt group of trial lawyers and judges and arbitrators along with unethical individuals” who work to game the system.

In other states, “it’s not full of the fraud and the abuse and the illegal behavior, I should say unethical behavior, that we have in Illinois,” he said.

*Sigh*

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:42 am

Comments

and its all because of Madigan. …. there I finished it for him

Comment by the q Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:45 am
And right after Capt Fax gushes all over GovJunk death penalty performance too. And then we learnedr he lifted this great stroke of strategy (NOT) from MA.
Opps

Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:49 am
Bruce Rauner wants the high road way so he can travel the load road way on his own.

Rauner rarely respects anyone, and those he purchased he respects even less, he just doesn’t call them names, he wants them to give him no $&@-#% problems.

Rauber has nothing. He has his bogeymen.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:50 am
To be fair, he was only saying not to call him names. It doesn’t apply when he does it to everyone else.

Comment by Retired Educator Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:51 am
Umm…Bruce, you appoint all of the workers’ compensation arbitrators. You also appoint all of the members of the workers compensation commission.

That’s not some mysterious corrupt individual you’re seeing there, but its in fact your own shadow. If you think the arbitrators and the commissioners are corrupt, you actually have the power to do something about it.

Comment by Juice Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:53 am
==If you think the arbitrators and the commissioners are corrupt, you actually have the power to do something about it.==

If I remember correctly, Bruce isn’t in charge. He’s “trying to get in charge.”

Comment by ImNotTaylorSwift Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:56 am
–*Sigh*–

Did you really have other expectations after all this time? He has a clear track record.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:56 am
Yada yada yada, Illinois broken, yada, yada, yada. Time to make a new album Bruce, this one is old and tired.

Comment by Steve Rogers Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 9:58 am
Trump blames his cabinet for his woes.
Rauner blames his own appointees for his woes. Rauner didn’t like being called out for being ineffective, so he blames amorphous “corruption” and his own appointees.
Be in charge. Do your job. You’re not the victim, you’re the problem.

Comment by unspun Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:01 am
Rauner’s motto: Do as I say, not as I do.

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:01 am
There’s so much waste, fraud and abuse in these corrupt pineapples…

Comment by Skeptic Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:01 am
Bruce wants it his way, all the time, and if he cannot have it his way…you know the rest of this. This is just tiresome after three and a half years of the same old nonsense. If Pritzker wins I hope he can act like an adult.

Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:02 am
He insults someone every day. It’s what he does. That’s his only “accomplishment” in more than 3 years in office. Mastering the art of insults.

Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:05 am
LOL. Rauner standard operating procedure.

Comment by Norseman Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:18 am
Rauner is the result of unchecked white man privilege.

Comment by Real Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:23 am
== unethical behavior ==

Acts performed by Democrats. DNA to Republicans who commit the same acts.

Comment by anon2 Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:24 am
When the Great Illinois Ozymandias speaks, we lesser Mortals do not have the right to question

Comment by Pieroge tirebiter Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:34 am
More of the same from Gov See’n Say. And it’s a “smart toy”- he pulls his own string.

Comment by Anon221 Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:41 am
Governor Junk - do as I say not as I do - part 749.

Comment by MickJ Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 10:59 am
More POTUSy by the day #BeBest

Comment by crazybleedingheart Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 11:24 am
“we need a movement to take it on” enter third party Sam, govenor your a republican

Comment by Rabid Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 11:25 am
Rauner has nothing new to say, no direction to lead, no reason to remain in office.

See that exit, Governor?
Please use it.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 1:49 pm
If you wrre running against Rod Blagojevich, you would lose.

That’s how bad a governor you have been.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 15, 18 @ 1:54 pm
Governor Rauner has appointed or reappointed each of the 34 Arbitrators, the Chairman, the 6 of 9 Commissioners and everyone on the Illinois WC advisory and fee schedule Boards. If he has evidence of corruption, he should fire them or report to proper authorities.

Comment by Todd Strong Thursday, May 17, 18 @ 9:47 am