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Illinois gubernatorial candidate Rauner supports minimum wage cut...until he doesn't.
The pug primary is in March and this Rahm Emanuel (who he made a millionaire) crony has been running TV and radio ads wall-to-wall since November.
Part of his schtick is that, despite the fact he's worth hundreds of millions, he wears a plastic $17 Timex watch.
Memo to Bruce...the proles aren't falling for this line of bullshit.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner Thursday called his comments for cutting Illinois’ minimum wage a “mistake” and said he actually supports raising it. “I was flippant, made a mistake, made a comment without thoroughly explaining my views,” Rauner told The Associated Press Thursday. “I didn’t use careful language.” However, apparently Rauner made the same mistake twice before Christmas. On tape.
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Rauner's Republican opponents, Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford and State Sens. Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady, all blasted Rauner’s comments as flip-flopping and out-of-touch with the way ordinary people live. Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, who wants the State's minimum wage upped to $10, Thursday gleefully compared the entire GOP gubernatorial pack to the avaricious and heartless Simpsons cartoon villain C. Montgomery Burns.
http://www.firstelectricnewspaper.com/2014/01/rauner-pleads-wage-comments-flippant.html#links