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* Check the date on this tweet from candidate Bruce Rauner…
Illinois' unpaid bills total $5.6 BILLION and have been piling up for more than a decade. It's time to #ReformIL: http://t.co/8BvG1sbhVF
— Bruce Rauner (@BruceRauner) May 6, 2013
* Today’s number…
$12,367,979,633.50 GENERAL FUNDS PAYABLES BACKLOG AS OF 05/08 2.26% INCREASE FROM 05/02 https://t.co/G21DQvmIiy #ILBillBacklog #twill pic.twitter.com/US0ltkim9J
— Illinois Comptroller (@ILComptroller) May 9, 2017
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:08 pm
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You misunderstand the governor’s tweet.
Rather than take a decade to pile up a $5.6B backlog, Rauner was promising to more than double it in just two years.
And he ain’t done yet, by a longshot.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:16 pm
Bruce Rauner fails, even - Lucky Pierre - agrees.
This is another prime example where “Bruce Rauner fails” is far better in messaging than “I can fix that” as the sole messaging tool.
Why give up what Rauner is giving you in a road map?
To the post,
Candidate Rauner would love to run against Gov. Rauner…
…except Candidate Rauner and Diana Rauner have spent millions on the plan to destroy social services and state universities, so Diana and Bruce are actually enjoying that 2 years ago, the backlog was a mere $5.6 billion. They’re winning. Ask Bruce.
Diana and Bruce have some advice…
Make a business decision, this isn’t stopping anytime soon.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:24 pm
Just…..wow.
Comment by Earnest Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:28 pm
This leader has created a disaster like no other seen in the state’s history. Something to be proud of /s
Comment by AnonymousOne Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:30 pm
Check out the governor’s budget plan. Can you point me to the part where he does anything to address the bill backlog?
Doesn’t exist.
He has no plan at all to pay down the backlog.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:43 pm
The old status quo wasn’t very good, but it beat the crap out of the new status quo.
Comment by AC Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:43 pm
Illinois needs reform, a Governor.
Comment by Chicago 20 Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:53 pm
Darn -OW-, I was expecting a “Governor’s own” somewhere in there.
Comment by RNUG Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:54 pm
Ah, yes… The great Rauner Reformation. He’s done in two years what other Illinois Governors only aspired to! /S
Comment by Anon221 Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 4:59 pm
- RNUG -
Sorry, my friend. lol
I went the “backlog, hang in there, business decision”…
I’ll do better.
While I have you here, your hard work, man, always appreciate what you bring. Thank you for always being available. OW
To the post,
If Pat Quinn failed, then Bruce Rauner has failed at levels much greater than Quinn.
Governors own their backlogs, Candidate Rauner made clear about gubernatorial ownership.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:01 pm
RNUG. Heres my beef. My kids own this. And a couple of them were just born when this started. I will be checking out soon enough, so people my age, the ones who were beneficiaries of state services during the time we racked up a $130 billion shortfall won’t be around to see this ship righted. My son lives up in Monroe County, a stones throw from St. Louis Co. Nearly all his friends have left the state.
Comment by blue dog dem Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:07 pm
Rauner’s right, it is time for reform, he should resign from office.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:27 pm
Wow DopeyDuct really sux on this unpaid bill stuff
And he cannot blame Madigan
Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:36 pm
Oy…
Comment by Touré's Latte Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:37 pm
One of Rauner’s many lies was his promise to turn Illinois around - instead he’s trying to flush us down.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:38 pm
== Heres my beef. My kids own this. ==
- blue dog dem -, I hear you. I got
kids and grandkids also.
But I’m also a realist; it’s nothing new. Not only are the next generations on the hook for Illinois’s debt, they are on the hook for the Federal debt … especially the borrowing from Social Security, and, in that case, it truly was borrowing because the SSA is holding a bunch of bonds / IOU’s that is only backed up by the federal government’s ability / political will to raise revenue.
I don’t have a good answer either; all the choices are either bad or worse.
Comment by RNUG Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 5:40 pm
Thanks to Rauner we all know that no decision and no governing is worse than bad decisions and bad governing.
Quitting isn’t an option. Rauner’s plan is to hang on long enough to bury the rest of us.
He’s a persistent rascal.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 6:05 pm
No, RNUG your kids and grandkids don’t own this, just like mine don’t, BUT we have to be adults and start paying bills. We need revenue…Gov. Ruiner loves to talk about Indiana…WHICH TAXES SERVICES…in fact, there is also a residual tax on inventory…and that’s why there are IN businesses that rent in Illinois, storage space…atleast can we start taxing them on the storage space???? I would love to see a reform on personal…and actual small business tax…but ruiner ain’t doing it…all he wants is to attack the working(aka middle) class and bring us into a servitude economy.
Comment by Union Thug Gramma Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 6:22 pm
What a humiliating, embarrassing accomplishment for our leader.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 6:33 pm
Rauner, “hold my beer”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 7:00 pm
Loading up with debt is standard private equity practice, is it not ? Raises your profit, but also gives you a stronger argument in bankruptcy court against union contracts and creditors. Of course does not apply here, but is this just too ingrained ?
Comment by peon Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 10:23 pm
Just runnin’ Illinois Like a business.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 9, 17 @ 11:19 pm