Bruce Rauner discovers bipartisanship

One down, 43 to go

BY HIS own admission Governor Bruce Rauner has not ticked off many of the 44 points on the “turnaround agenda” that four years ago the voters of Illinois, in their wisdom, elected him to pursue. If he were to give himself a grade for his first term in office, it would be “incomplete”, says the governor, sitting at a desk at his campaign headquarters that are adorned with pictures of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln. Running in a state that Hillary Clinton won by a million votes, he may be the most vulnerable Republican governor up for election this year. He squeaked through the Republican primary against a little-known state legislator and he will be the underdog in November, when he will face J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman who comfortably won the Democratic primary. What went wrong for the successful private-equity investor, who ran for the first time for office in 2014 and managed to win the gubernatorial election by four...Continue reading

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