- Peter Holderness / Sun-Times
- Alderman Danny Solis (above) says Governor Bruce Rauner is pretty friendly for a “conservative, right-wing Republican.”
Governor Bruce Rauner scheduled time to meet with Chicago alderman Danny Solis on Friday, January 23, just a week and a half after he was inaugurated.
When Rauner asked Solis for his input, the alderman says he advised him not to attack President Obama’s immigration reforms, as other GOP governors have done. Rauner appeared to listen. “He is very personable,” Solis says.
Here are the parts he doesn’t: the governor is also consulting people whose names he wants to keep secret. As Ben Joravsky and I reported this week, Rauner redacted more than 150 appointments from the copies of his daily calendar that he released publicly—and that’s just for the first three and half months of his tenure.
Reaves-Harris grew up in the former Cabrini-Green public housing development before working her way through the University of Illinois and becoming an attorney. “I wanted him to see me as evidence of what government can do,” she says.
But when May 31 came around, the governor was fighting with Madigan and Cullerton as the deadline to pass a budget came and went. His office didn’t even send out a press release about “No Stigma Sunday.”
