Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 3:53:35 GMT -6
Gov. Bruce Rauner — who has spent the last year and half in a war of words with Democrats over the state’s budget crisis — on Monday quietly confirmed he is seeking re-election in 2018.
The news is not a surprise to political insiders. The venture capitalist has long said the business community urged him to run to try to turn around the state’s economy. And he hasn’t yet succeeded in securing his “Turnaround Agenda,” more than a year into his first term.
Just a day after legislators left Springfield without a budget, Rauner as the head of the state’s Republican Party donned his campaign cap, beginning a statewide tour of contested legislative districts in his push to try to oust Democrats in the November election.
The tour prompted state Senate President John Cullerton to urge the governor to “stop campaigning” and “start governing,” and the governor to simply say everyone’s in “election mode.”
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/rauner-quietly-confirms-re-election-bid/
The news is not a surprise to political insiders. The venture capitalist has long said the business community urged him to run to try to turn around the state’s economy. And he hasn’t yet succeeded in securing his “Turnaround Agenda,” more than a year into his first term.
Just a day after legislators left Springfield without a budget, Rauner as the head of the state’s Republican Party donned his campaign cap, beginning a statewide tour of contested legislative districts in his push to try to oust Democrats in the November election.
The tour prompted state Senate President John Cullerton to urge the governor to “stop campaigning” and “start governing,” and the governor to simply say everyone’s in “election mode.”
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/rauner-quietly-confirms-re-election-bid/