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Rauner and Staff Twice Defend Illinois Policy Institute on Racist Cartoon

Rauner’s Strange Defense Comes on Week He Was Slow to Criticize President Trump’s Divisive Rhetoric After sitting out the debate on the Illinois Policy Institute’s cartoon, Governor Bruce Rauner’s office twice defended the Institute and deflected on charges the cartoon was racist. Rauner’s defense of the cartoon is strange considering a group of bipartisan legislators…

DGA Statement on Governor Rauner Being Shamed Into Calling Charlottesville Events “Terrorism”

The following statement can be attributable to Illinois Communications Director Sam Salustro: “Citizens look to their governors for strength and understanding in trying times, and they need to know their governor will clearly denounce hateful and racist actions and not shy away from calling terrorism what it is. Today, Bruce Rauner failed as governor.”…

Rauner Bizarrely Tries to Refute Fact That Illinois Policy Institute Has Taken Over His Office

Rauner Suddenly Shy That His Top Aides All Come from IPI or Other Right-Wing Organizations In a day that featured Governor Bruce Rauner debating the finer points of the definition of “terrorism”, Rauner sat for an interview with Amanda Vinicky on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. In a wide-ranging conversation, Rauner refused to identify any budget cuts he will pursue, claimed the Democratic Party’s “Resistance” movement was…

DGA Statement on Governor Bruce Rauner’s Disingenuous Education Ad

The following statement can be attributed to Sam Salustro, DGA Illinois Communications Director. “Yesterday, Governor Rauner could not name a Superintendent that supported his plan, so today he has to spend his millions misleading the public. As hard as he may try, Rauner cannot change facts. Rauner willingly pushed the state into crisis by issuing…

VIDEO: Rauner Spends Governor’s Day Playing His Favorite (Political) Games

DGA Checks in on Governor Rauner at the State Fair WATCH It has been a tough summer from Governor Bruce Rauner. He’s seen Republican lawmakers break with him, a new poll that showed him at 63% disapproval, and now he can’t get anyone to support his veto of the state’s education funding bill. But summer…

Rauner Reaches New Milestone – First Time Illinois Has Ever Missed School Payment

Aug 10, 2017

Rauner Reaches New Milestone – First Time Illinois Has Ever Missed School Payment

Milestone Joins Other Rauner Records of Failure – Lowest Credit Rating, Longest Budget Impasse As Governor, Bruce Rauner has set new standards for failed governance. Rauner’s refusal to compromise and his willingness to push the state into crises for political gain has given the state new ways to describe itself, like “first ever” and “lowest.”…

GOP Lawmaker – Bruce Rauner’s Re-Election in Trouble

Republican Lawmakers Says Rauner Has Been, and Will Continue To Be, Ineffective in Getting His Agenda Through How bad is it for Governor Bruce Rauner? In just over a month, Governor Rauner suffered an embarrassing budget defeat, dragged his office through an ideologically-drive staff purge, and now his veto of a school funding bill is…

(VIDEO) Oops, He Did It Again – Bruce Rauner Gets Schooled by a Reporter for the Second Time in a Week

Last week, Governor Bruce Rauner stood in front of reporters and erroneously claimed that his amendatory veto of the state’s school funding formula (SB1) only required a simple majority instead of the needed two-thirds majority to uphold. Rauner was challenged by reporters on his facts, and all Rauner could do was stare at this final…

Rauner’s Changes to SB1 Linked to Extreme Right-Wing Illinois Policy Institute

New Provisions in Rauner’s Amendatory Veto Could Sink SB1 For weeks, many wondered how they would see the influence of Governor Bruce Rauner’s new Illinois Policy Institute staffers in his administration. There may now be an answer. While Rauner’s criticisms focused on the debunked idea that the state’s new school funding formula (SB1) “bails out” Chicago schools,…

Rauner Vetoed Education Funding Twice, Now Tries to Take Credit for Education Funding in Budget

Governor Bruce Rauner spent the last two days traveling the state trying to rationalize his veto of the state’s education funding formula, which leaves schools in funding limbo. Rauner is in a tough spot – having vetoed school funding he must try and make sure voters do not think he’s against education funding. Rauner tried…

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Rauner and Staff Twice Defend Illinois Policy Institute on Racist Cartoon

DGA Statement on Governor Rauner Being Shamed Into Calling Charlottesville Events “Terrorism”

Rauner Bizarrely Tries to Refute Fact That Illinois Policy Institute Has Taken Over His Office

DGA Statement on Governor Bruce Rauner’s Disingenuous Education Ad

VIDEO: Rauner Spends Governor’s Day Playing His Favorite (Political) Games

Rauner Reaches New Milestone – First Time Illinois Has Ever Missed School Payment

GOP Lawmaker – Bruce Rauner’s Re-Election in Trouble

(VIDEO) Oops, He Did It Again – Bruce Rauner Gets Schooled by a Reporter for the Second Time in a Week

Rauner’s Changes to SB1 Linked to Extreme Right-Wing Illinois Policy Institute

Rauner Vetoed Education Funding Twice, Now Tries to Take Credit for Education Funding in Budget