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Snarkoleptic

(6,027 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:18 PM Nov 2014

Watching MSNBC NBC has called Illinois Gov. race for Rauner (R)

WTF?
This guy is Romney junior and has never held public office.

I think it has a lot to do with this stunt---
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/calls-election-judges-serious-attempt-disrupt-voting/mon-11032014-826pm

A barrage of automated phone calls offering false instructions to scores of election judges was "a serious attempt to disrupt" Chicago voting operations in the run-up to Tuesday’s vote, election officials said.

Between Friday and Monday, an unknown number of judges — the paid partisan employees tasked with operating polling stations — received the misleading robocalls, according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

“Given the level of response that we received, we suspect it was a large number of people — we don’t know how large,” Jim Allen, board spokesman, said Monday.

Some of the judges received calls informing them that they needed an additional training session before they could work a polling station, board chairman Langdon Neal said. Only one three-hour session is required.

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Watching MSNBC NBC has called Illinois Gov. race for Rauner (R) (Original Post) Snarkoleptic Nov 2014 OP
It has a lot to do with a lot of things. He has tons and tons and tons of money. mucifer Nov 2014 #1
Ack!!! Snarkoleptic Nov 2014 #2
Time for Rauner to mothball the Carhartt jacket and Timex watch Freethinker65 Nov 2014 #3
The silver lining is he'll be almost entirely irrelevant as Gov. Snarkoleptic Nov 2014 #4
Yep. murielm99 Nov 2014 #5
Madigan has to be rubbing his hands together in glee. greatauntoftriplets Nov 2014 #6
Fall of Chicago Tresca Nov 2014 #7
But didn't WI and MI also have repub legislatures helping with the destruction? Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2014 #10
"I wanted Quinn out. I don't like Rauner and expect him to be indicted" raising2moredems Nov 2014 #8
Same reason a lot of people voted for Blago. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2014 #11
Quinn got 72 percent of the vote in my town. greatauntoftriplets Nov 2014 #9

mucifer

(24,838 posts)
1. It has a lot to do with a lot of things. He has tons and tons and tons of money.
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:23 PM
Nov 2014

Quinn is VERY unpopular even in Chicago.

There were some churches desperate for money that endorsed rauner. Hmm I wonder why they endorsed rauner?

And I do believe he is behind the judges not showing up.

Snarkoleptic

(6,027 posts)
2. Ack!!!
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:28 PM
Nov 2014
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Rauner-Wins-Illinois-Governor-Beats-Quinn-281550811.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CHBrand

The Winnetka native who spent $26 million of his own fortune to run for governor of Illinois, won the prize he set out to collect.

Rauner beat Pat Quinn by a margin of nearly 4 percent, based on unofficial numbers, to take over the governor’s mansion.

Rauner ran on tag line about shaking up Springfield, and focused his energy on talking a good budget game -- but never got too specific about his plans.

Freethinker65

(11,141 posts)
3. Time for Rauner to mothball the Carhartt jacket and Timex watch
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:29 PM
Nov 2014

...and go back to buying $$$ bottles of wine, reducing the minimum wage, and union/public pension busting

Snarkoleptic

(6,027 posts)
4. The silver lining is he'll be almost entirely irrelevant as Gov.
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:38 PM
Nov 2014

Michael Madigan and the Democratic "machine" have a supermajority in the state house and senate.

I hope they inventory the silverware in the mansion before this kleptocrat moves in.

Tresca

(7 posts)
7. Fall of Chicago
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:19 PM
Nov 2014

I'm 50. Pat Quinn was the only Governor I have lived under that I ever liked. Here is the list:

Tony Earl, WI - stabbed his friends in the back while trying to appease his enemies.
Tommy Thompson, WI - not as evil as Scott Walker
Jim Blanchard, MI - see Tony Earl
John Engler, MI
George Ryan, IL (Inmate Number 16627-424)
Rod Blagojevich (Inmate Number 40892-424)

Next to Quinn, I would take Tommy Thompson and I never even voted for him.

Now everything will soon be defunded. Unions will be destroyed easily (see Wisconsin). Good bye public colleges & universities (hello less than minimum wage short term adjunct professors). Good bye public everything. Good bye Grandma if she's not rich. The whole great lakes region is now red. The home of Obama is red.

Right-wing billionaires uber alles. I don't blame the Democrats. I blame the people. They love their corrupt governors who tell them they can have free state government while paying the lowest taxes in the region.

I have donated. I have canvased. I have tried to educate. We have failed. Scott Walker also won big. I use to love this part of the country but not anymore. Life will be now be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hopefully short. We were all just debt slaves anyway, but now there is no longer any reasonable hope. The right-wing billionaires have won.

Sorry for being "defeatist". I will not collaborate, but I have seriously lost hope.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)
10. But didn't WI and MI also have repub legislatures helping with the destruction?
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 02:27 PM
Nov 2014

I'm not happy about this by any stretch of the imagination, either but as others have said, Rauner's not running the show here.

raising2moredems

(706 posts)
8. "I wanted Quinn out. I don't like Rauner and expect him to be indicted"
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 11:19 PM
Nov 2014

Heard this numerous times today. I just have to shake my head. And one actually thinks Rauner will be able to change things "he can veto". Such a deal.

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