If you missed Governor Rauner’s State of the State speech, you’re a lot luckier than I am.
You wouldn’t know that Rauner had been at war with the state’s Democratic leadership for more than a year. Or that he’d gone a year without passing a budget. Or that as a result, social service agencies from Zion to Cairo have cut programs and laid off workers—the Rauner administration had stopped paying its bills.
It’s amazing that Rauner couldn’t find a way to cut a budget deal with these two. Cullerton and Madigan have been cutting deals with Republicans for ages.
You don’t really believe he’s doing this for you, do you, taxpayers?
