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Quincy Week in Review: Rauner Fails to Explain New Revelations

It’s another bad week for Governor Bruce Rauner as questions surrounding his administration’s response to the Quincy Veterans’ Home Legionnaires’ outbreak. Last Friday, the Associated Press obtained a 2016 engineers report that suggested replacing water pipes at the Quincy home for $8 million. Rauner’s administration did not follow through on the report, and veterans continued…

Flashback Friday: Rauner Donated $100,000 to Gubernatorial Candidate Eric Greitens

Since Then, Rauner Spent $1.3 Million on Ads Boosting Greitens’ Profile Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has still not called for Missouri Governor Eric Greitens to resign following news he was indicted by a St. Louis Grand Jury. Greitens’ has been indicted on a Felony Invasion of Privacycharge for “taking and transmitting a non-consensual photo of…

Rauner Must Call on Governor Eric Greitens to Resign

Rauner’s Campaign Ad Star Indicted on a Felony Charge This afternoon, Governor Eric Greitens of Missouri was indicted stemming from an alleged sexual blackmail scandal. Governor Bruce Rauner was featuring Greitens in his campaign ads when these allegations first became public and refused to call for Greitens to step down before an investigation was complete. Rauner did remove the…

New Bombshell AP Report Raises More Questions About Rauner’s Quincy Response

Video: Rauner Claims “Everything Possible That Any Expert Has Recommended We’ve Done” Today, a legislative committee will meet again to discuss Governor Bruce Rauner’s response to the Legionnaires’ outbreak at the Quincy Veterans’ Home. Sure to be on the agenda is a bombshell report from the Associated Press that engineers told Rauner’s administration it could…

Rauner Has a Growing Problem with Grassroots Republicans

Rauner Already Criticized by Fox News and National Review, Now Losing Support with Breitbart This morning, Governor Bruce Rauner saw his primary opponent pick up another influential endorsement. The Susan B. Anthony List announced it was endorsing State Rep. Jeanne Ives and pledged financial backing for her campaign. Today’s news illustrates a real problem Rauner has…

Short on Accomplishments, Rauner Continues Dishonest Campaign

Chicago Tribune: “Rauner Budget Proposal at Odds with Re-Election Rhetoric.” How desperate is Governor Bruce Rauner to have a real accomplishment to run on? Well first, he touted a bill that he vetoed and ran attack ads against. Now, he’s out with a misleading new ad that avoids discussing how Rauner’s fiscal mismanagement left lasting damage on…

Rauner’s Fiscal Failures are Hampering the State’s Budget And Future

Today, Governor Bruce Rauner released another unbalanced budget that asks Illinois’ middle-class to shoulder the burden of his failed fiscal management. The Democratic Governors Association in Illinois released the following statement, attributable to Sam Salustro: “Bruce Rauner drove the state’s finances into the ground, and he’s going to make the middle-class pay for it. Rauner’s…

Rauner Continues to Stonewall about Quincy Outbreak as More Fall Sick from Legionnaires’

Today, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced that two more people tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease at the Quincy Veterans’ Home. Just days ago, Governor Bruce Rauner told two different editorial boards that he “would not do anything different” in the aftermath of a Legionnaires’ outbreak that killed 12 in 2015. A WBEZ investigative report raised questions about how Rauner’s administration…

Only Rauner Believes He Proposed Balanced Budgets

This week, Governor Bruce Rauner is set to present what he promises will be a balanced budget, something he has never done while in office. Despite this verified fact, Rauner has repeatedly claimed he proposed a balanced budget each year and that his budgets were ignored by Democrats. He’s recently claimed he could not remember last year’s…

VIDEO: Rauner Doubles-Down on Self-Praise for State’s Handling of Quincy Legionnaires’ Outbreak

Rauner Now Accusing Quincy Home Workers of Spreading False Information (Watch Here) In an appearance before the Herald & Review editorial board, Bruce Rauner stood by statements he made yesterday regarding the state’s response to Legionnaires’ outbreaks at the state-run Quincy Veterans’ home. A major investigation by WBEZ raised serious questions about the state’s response to the outbreaks that…

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