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Illinois

Stellar

(5,644 posts) Tue Feb 10, 2015, 05:02 PM Feb 2015

Rauners State of the State...

His speech starts at approximately 36 minutes in....

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Rauners State of the State... (Original Post) Stellar Feb 2015 OP

Fuck that guy. truebrit71 Feb 2015 #1

ROTF Stellar Feb 2015 #2

Same old GOP methods being used here. guillaumeb Feb 2015 #3

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)

1. Fuck that guy.

Reply to Stellar (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 07:37 PM

Feb 2015

Twice.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)

2. ROTF

Reply to truebrit71 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 08:02 PM

Feb 2015

Laughing!

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

3. Same old GOP methods being used here.

Reply to Stellar (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 11:21 AM

Feb 2015

Will the Democrats stand up to him or compromise to show bipartisan effort?

Baron von Carhart ran on rhetoric and still refuses to provide specifics about anything. His mandate is non-existent. He received 52% of the votes of the 34% of the electorate that bothered to vote. So he got the votes of 17% of the eligible voters.

But he will get the help of the Illinois media, primarily the Chicago Tribune and Faux News. The narrative will be framed as greedy overpaid state employees vs the average citizen.

It worked in Wisconsin and Michigan, but the GOP controlled the government there.

Predictions anyone? Will union workers be marching in Springfield the way many of us marched in Madison?

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