Rauner - Tool of the Machine
- In a new ad, GOP gubernatorial contender Bruce Rauner talks about the benefits of charter schools in Illinois, merit-based pay for teachers and his role as an education reformer.
“There’s no excuse for failing schools. Zero. None. Period,” Rauner says in the TV ad, which was shot inside a school. “I got so fed up, I helped start charter schools like this one.”
But when it came to choosing a school for his daughter, Rauner didn’t go the route of a charter. Instead, he chose an elite public high school in Chicago.
According to a CPS source, an investigation by the Chicago Public Schools inspector general indicated that Rauner called the office of then-Schools CEO Arne Duncan about his daughter’s chances of getting into Walter Payton College Prep, and she was admitted after a top Duncan aide called Payton’s principal.
At the time, the daughter had not made the list of students accepted based on a strict formula involving test scores and other academic factors, the source said.
This guy is in so tight with the Machine, you can smell the oil and grease. He's a big Obama fan, travels with Rahm and is one of those "I know what's best for you little people" types that irritate actual thinking people. He is Rahm's choice for Springfield, which ought to work against him, but that hasn't really hit the voters yet. Hopefully, Brady and Rutherford can start getting some recognition statewide.
Quinn needs to lose, but Rauner is like Senator Kirk - RINO all the way.
Quinn needs to lose, but Rauner is like Senator Kirk - RINO all the way.
Labels: state politics
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
64 Comments:
RINO!
Scc u missed a connection. Former cook county state's attorney Dick Devine's son is the Principal of Walter Payton High School making 150k a year. Look it up....it's all legit tho. Just like his other son, the Sgt. in Area Central Violent Crimes. He's a great test taker...wink wink.
Darn Democrats...we want Quinn out but not with Bruce Rauner. Rauner will take us to the cleaners and will take the pension away big time.
Oh wait! According to half the posters on here Republicans are the answers to all of our problems here in Illinois. Even though for the last thirty years our governors have been mostly Republicans.
If it comes down to Quinn V Rauner I'm voting for Quinn.
If Rahm wants Rauner and he clearly does then I'm voting the other way. The GOP/Dem combine essentially gave us George Ryan and Blago. We could have had Poshard and Vallas instead.
Whatever faults Poshard and Vallas might have I doubt they would have ended up in federal prison.
Rauner strikes me like Mayor Bloomberg. Too much money and wants to tell me how big my freaking cheeseburger can be.
What we need is a fiscally moderate to conservative GOP'er who wants to stay the hell out of people's private lives. That means no talk about "legitimate rape" or limits on soft drink sizes or talk about trying to overturn the concealed carry decision. Try to limit taxes and government growth and stay the hell away from the rest.
A vote for Rauner (who vacays with Rahm) is a vote for Rahm.
Kirk Dillard, who barely lost to Quinn last time is our best bet.
Rauner is filthy rich, he's also full of shit.
RINO = bad, very very bad. Same same liberal democrat.
What is the source of Rahm & Rauner's hard-on for destroying muni employees and their unions?
As long as the city cannot be trusted to bargain in good faith and abide by labor laws, contractual agreements, whistle-blower protection laws and laws against employer retaliation etc, there WILL be a need for muni employees (and employees in general) having an organization to protect their interests in the face of willful and callous infliction of harm by an employer.
"Times are tough and union protections are a relic of the past. It's a new day. Nobody should be afforded any work place protection so get over it. You Coppers are next!"
Some people are really pissed at The Police because THEY stood in the wrong line?
North Shore corporatist, smarter than everybody else, nanny-gov Shit-Asses like Rahm and Rauner fan the flames and stir the big shit-pot of class warfare to drive a wedge between The Police and the general public over who is perceived to undeservedly have an extra crust of bread...
"Look at those dumb-ass, underworked and overpaid Cops gettin' what you ain't got!"
And the people who bought into the stinkin' thinkin', say stuff like...
"We're sick and tired of you Cops getting accolades just for doing your jobs! You guys aren't all that! We can do your jobs for half the pay, no benefits and none of the complaining! Etc, etc, & again, etc."
At the end of the day, Policing is a job most people will turn and run from.
So it stands to reason that there are a special few who dare to take this job on in spite of the well documented institutional grief, aggravation and sacrifice of good years off the lives of too many good men who died way too young...
The older you get on this job, the younger the ages seem to get in the Police obits...
There are passages of fine literature about Men choosing not to cheaply hold manhood, men brave and or crazy enough to be running toward gunfire, (while others exercise their right to demean and diminish through shit-talk while running the other way) cleaning up/mitigating the messes made by other adults and the rough men standing ready in the night while everyone else has sweet sleep...
"You Cops are out-moded relics of a bygone time! Get over yourselves and let us smart people re-invent you and re-define what Policing is in Chicago!"
"Rauner - Tool of the Machine"
And walking in lock-step with a hateful, vindictive mayor whose animus literally causes him to vibrate like a tuning fork...
F**k Brady. He was too lazy to keep campaigning the last week before the election and finish off Quinn four years ago. Lately, he's been welshing (at least twice) on loans taken out to keep the family construction business afloat. Ill-noize doesn't need another deadbeat in the governor's office.
Dont VOTE for Rauner! A vote for him is like voting for Rahm! Total scumbag billionaire, trying to buy an electon!
The only thing worse than being a useless, phony, lying, cheating, manipulating, piece of shit politician is allowing these negative attributes to permeate your family life.
Half-truths and white lies are OK when you want to convince your kids that Santa is still real. Or that Scruffy went away to live on a nice, big farm where he can run around and play with all the other animals.
"At the time, the daughter had not made the list of students accepted based on a strict formula involving test scores and other academic factors, the source said."
No one wants to acknowledge that their child may not be the smartest in their class. But ignoring the obvious and taking extraordinary steps to mask such facts does more damage than good. I see no upside in telling Little Suzie that her 'C' average will get her into the Engineering Program at Purdue.
Why would anyone submit their child to an environment where they don't belong? Talk about the ultimate lie. Selling out your own flesh and blood to maintain a fucking image. Nothing like setting up your own kid for potential ridicule and failure.
But what else should we expect from Illinois politicians?
As a Republican voter, I had chosen Rauner. But now, I will have to go back to Rutherford.
Thanks for the information.
This guy who made over 53 MILLION in profit last year wants to take away the pensions for everyone and go to 401k type of nonsense! makes you wonder why would a billionaire want to be governor? ahh but in this corrupt state he could give his friends the means to be billionaires also, he is a friend of rahm enough said! I am sticking with Quinn he is goofy but nowhere near as viscous as bruce and rahm!
He does have a kick ASS Timex though.
Yes, SCC I fully agree. I want to vote for a republic but don't like Rauner. Hopefully a good canadate steps up.
I'll Vote for potato head over this douche. He's just a "common guy with an $18 watch" but he's worth 52 million dollars, and with ties to Rahm and the machine. He wants everyones pension $$ , just like 9.5. This cheap gozillionaire prick could've had his kid homeschooled by Steven Hawking....but used his influence to get kid into the cps top prep school(With all the other politicians kids) so we can pay for it. This guys ego, audacity,lack of ethics, and hubris are only surpassed by the Tiny Dancer. No wonder Rahmdingo and him are Reacharound buddies!!
The sucker's a billionaire. He has houses in Florida, New York City, Colorado, Illinois and two more places. But he wears a $35 watch when he is with the poor people. Probably puts the Rolex on when he with the dancer. Don't know where he made his money, probably the old fashion way, inheritance.
Rahm wants him and will push for him big time. He wants reform on the cities pension, screw all the unions and give him his casino to add to the income from speed and traffic cameras. Just keep screwing with the little guy. Do you notice no businesses have been effective or had any increase in their taxes.
Did you know that Charter do as they wish to the teachers.Schools do not hire certified teachers. They are also all non union so that they can as they wish with the teachers. When will the CPS union try to unionize them?
See:
Norauner.com
Rauner is clearly a Bloomberg Wannabe, Nanny State politician. City workers need to unite, this guy is dangerous as is Rahm to our futures. We need to be picketing City Hall. The last time we did that Daley took notice, since Rahm has a bigger ego, the effect would be greater.
I am a die hard conservative, but if it is a choice between Rauner and Potato Head, I'll vote for Potato head. At least Potato Head says loud and proud what he is, unlike Rauner.
I big part of the formula to get into an elite school is RACE!! I can't wait til someone takes the city to court on this one.
They all suck, all of them. I heard with my own ears Senator Kirk in an interview say how Dick Durbin is a really good guy and no one should run against him since he is unbeatable anyway.
There is a Rauner College Prep School on south side. Is he the big money guy in this charter school? It seems strange that this guy came out of nowhere
6 months ago running commercials about himself and now about charter schools. The criteria for charter schools is a joke. Anyone with big money and a connection to Rahm Emanuel get those contracts. Its a chess game with this city, county and state and the everyday citizen are the pawns!!!!
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Ryan & Thompson are RINOS. The last true Republican was Edgar, the last time we had a balanced budget, the state paid it's bill on time and they paid into their pension fund.
Thompson was a tax and spend type and we all know about Ryan.
The first thing Ryan did was double the price of license plates and it went downhill from there.
Fuck You if you support Rauner, who is just another Bloomberg type. He is also Rahm's BFF
Can't vote for him he's friends with Rahm and will hurt us. Infortunately Gotta go with Quinn.
Stay away from this motherfucker, he's a RINO.
A vote for anyone other than Rauner is a vote for more of same. Rauner has said on multiple occassions he will not touch pensions for Police and Fire. Why don't you bother listening to what the man says. He is after useless unecessarry union hacks. The Police are necessary. The city of Chicago lives in an unliveable fantasy. I would fire every city employee who isn't the police or fire. Replace them with private employees without pensions. That would make them like everybody else who doesn't have clout or get on their knees for a do nothing government job.
RINO-some of these guys are way past RINO-I believe that some of them are literally entryists-they are actually leftists running as "R" in order to neutralise the Tea Party and other opposition to the one party in DC, and to infiltrate what remains of a conservative GOP in order to destroy it from within. It's their MO, it's what they accomplished decades ago with academia and the media, then the mainline Christian denominations, and their most recent piece de resistance-the military. All that's left is to destroy the "opposition" party as an opposition party, marginalise the few remaining authentic Christian churches and their adherents, and target homeschooling, to access those few children who are presently escaping their clutches.
Legislators in some states, most recently Missourri, have tried to introduce bills prohibiting homeschooling or forcing such onerous regulations on it (the Missourri legislator withdrew her bill after seeing the outcry of opposition to it by parents and other legislators) that to all intents and purposes the children may as well be in the government indoctrination centers (public schools), other than the safety factor. The regulations and conditions would have been more burdensome than those imposed upon a parent in the judicial system for breaking laws, more invasive of privacy than those on a parent living taxpayer-funded. At least the homeschoolers pay taxes into the public school system while not using a dime of that money to educate their own children.
These days, even private Christian schools aren't automatically fail-safe, some Catholic schools are utilising the Common Core curriculum with its Agenda 21 and other leftist/globalist propaganda.
I expect homeschooling, along with Second Amendment rights, to be one of the next big political battlefields. If they can't get you to kill your kids (abortion, even "late-term", which defintion keeps gettng moved closer to "actually out of the womb"), then they want to get them as young as possible to indoctrinate them and neutralise parental influence. (They need not worry about the hoodrat kids, they're already free from any positive/government oppositional parental influence, other than opposing abiding by the law).
*part 2 below
The "RINOs" will go right along with this. I don't think that callng them "RINOs" is even accurate anymore-they ARE the GOP now, true conservatives are the outliers of the party. Just recall the recent speech Boehner-Speaker of the House, part of the GOP leadership-made, castigating and mocking conservatives in his own party. Mitch McConnell-running for re-election-runnng viscious and mendacious ads against his conservative primary opponent. Paul Ryan-the recent VP candidate on the Republican ticket-doing a "it took Nixon to go to China" move with this latest budget deal with the left-it took Republican support to have the gall to come up with a budget which cuts cost-of-living increases for disabled veterans, while leaving that of federal civilian employees intact, including those who took "medical retirement"-ie, "bad back", papercut on their finger, etc.
The "two" parties are in absolute agreement re amnesty, the 'rats just want the Republicans to move a little more in their direction, there's only about an inch left in that mile. With high unemployment, and more lay-offs to come when companies decide to pay the fine rather than contribute to CommieCare. So people lose their jobs, and their insurance.
And our uniparty is in complete accord, and has control of all the levers-media, academia, military. The left took over the culture decades ago. Christianity is a large part of our culture-most Amercans have been at least nominal (and there's part of the problem) Christians, so it was easy for the left to infiltrate there. Pelosi, amongst others, should have been excommunicated years ago. There was a time when popes didn't hesitate to excommunicate kings, and Pelosi's no queen, no matter what she thinks in her delusional mind.
Quinn does not need to lose to Rauner.
Unless you want to get fucked really, really good.
You do not want to be ruled directly by vicious, north shore, uber-wealthy. These people are cocksuckers and will fuck you into the ground.
Quinn is the lesser of two evils, period.
If you want to live in a red state, move after you retire. With no pension (Rauner/Emanuel platform), you'll never be able to move out of here.
What is wrong with politicians? They get into office and impound people's pleasures....they are taking our freedoms quickly, one by one.
5:43am got it right, Mr.Fart in your face over thinks the issue. It boils down to the sad state of Illinois politics. There is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. Blago was no different than Ryan, Thompson or Edgar. His mistake is he really thought the Governor ran the show. For his stupidity he got spanked. Rauner made $$$$$ for Rham, now they want more power by making more of their kind$$$. If Rauner loses the primary the other candidates will shoot their own feet by taking sides on some issue no one really cares about,i.e. Gay Marriage. Looks like Potato Head is it! God there is NO HOPE!
I view Gov. Potatoe Head as better than this Union buster. No thanks, Bruce !
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The sucker's a billionaire. He has houses in Florida, New York City, Colorado, Illinois and two more places. But he wears a $35 watch when he is with the poor people. Probably puts the Rolex on when he with the dancer. Don't know where he made his money, probably the old fashion way, inheritance.
1/01/2014 07:42:00 AM
He does NOT wear a $35 dollar watch.
In his commercial, he clearly states he BOUGHT this watch for xx dollars. He never says he wears it. But the spin makes people assume that, which is what he wants.
Pay attention, people. It's no different than when Emanuel said he'd put a thousand cops on the street. He never said he'd HIRE a thousand cops. People just assumed that.
Rauner is doing one thing right and that's slowly helping the Noble Charter Network to force the closure of Prosser Career Academy HS. Noble is opening IFW Speer Academy HS directly across the street from Prosser, complete with a STEM program, brand spanking new facilities, and teachers salaries 1/2 of what Prosser teachers are making at a failing Level 2 CPS school.
Prosser's principal Kenneth Hunter is raking in $172,000 a year, along with having two assistant principals making $135,000 each. That's $442,000 in salaries alone. Sprinkle in (8) female school clerks at an avg. of $55,000 and that's another $440,000 in salaries. To do what? Girl talk, trade chain e-mails, shop online, and to Facebook all day long.
Now, CPS is paying Prosser (15) shop teachers and avg. of $100,000each to have less than 5% of their students continue on in the field of their shops. That's $1.5M in salaries for out-of-date Drafting, Wood Shop, Auto Shop, Building Construction Shop (YES, Building Construction), Culinary Arts, Machine Shop, and Computer classes.
Let's not forget about the (8) counselors at a total of $720,000 and three of Hunter's henchmen in Frank Cassello ($40,000), Jeffrey Bates ($60,000), and Mike Sielepkowski ($95,000) who do nothing but say 'Yes, Ken" all day long. That's another $915,000 going to (11) Prosser staffers who're more concerned with manipulating test information and saving their jobs than getting prosser kids to college.
All of these Prosser staffers alone account for $3.3M in salaries for a bunch of do-nothings. IFW Speer Academy will have 900 students (500 less than Prosser) and have $2.3M in salaries of comparable staffers.
I'd vote for Rauner on these facts alone. Though, isn't it funny how Ald. Emma Mitts' ward will now start on the south side of Grand Ave. and Ald. Nick Sposato's ward will start on the north side of Grand Ave.? Mitts once called Prosser her home and now FULLY supports Speer, but, I guess when Tiny Dancer speaks, Mitts listens.
It's called saving her own ass, something she did by cooperating with prosecutors in the former Ald. Carothers' trial too!!!
Why not a New party?
The republicans formed just such a party in 1854.By 1860 they had captured the White house with a hick
candidate from the backwoods of Illinois named Abe Lincoln.All it would take is the will to begin.
"…….. Don't know where he made his money, probably the old fashion way, inheritance."
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There are many reasons to not support Rauner, but from all accounts he worked hard for what he has achieved. Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth (economics), MBA from Harvard, created his own business, and as far as one knows, did not violate any laws in building a successful career. Rauner hangs around with other rich guys; so what? That's how it works in life. Guys him Rahm glam onto to the rich so that some of it will rub off. But truth be told, most of us would do the same if it would help our families. Rauner didn't get us into this pension and financial mess; Madigan and his crew did with the acquiensce of us sheep. Don't like Rahm, Madigan, etc., vote'em out.
This guy is the phonier than Rahm. I am hoping Dan Rutherford makes a charge soon.
All Quinn needs is a big red nose and floppy shoes to complete the ensemble, but Rauner is a pal of Rhams and any friend of Rahms is going to F*ck us bigtime.You have to vote for the guy who will F*ck you the least!
Please go with Rutherford!!! He is our only hope!!!
Are you referring to Dick Devine's test score on Richie Daley's bar exam or his son's score on the Sgt. test? Both must be great test takers. Wink wink wink.
Anonymous said...Scc u missed a connection. Former cook county state's attorney Dick Devine's son is the Principal of Walter Payton High School making 150k a year. Look it up....it's all legit tho. Just like his other son, the Sgt. in Area Central Violent Crimes. He's a great test taker...wink wink.1/01/2014 12:08:00 AM
Remember all that elections are a strategic contest. Rauner's appearance on the election scene is a calculated maneuver to aid quinn. Obviously rauner is a completely outlandish candidate setting up a contest where one would have to vote for the lesser of two evils...quinn. this is how these sycophants remain in elected office perpetually. Both need to be sent home quickly.
is there any honesty, or integrity, in politics?....or is that a stupid question?
Rauner absolutely our worst option. He will be referred to as Rahmner on this blog. Salivating to hurt our pensions, our families. So stinking rich he has no idea what reality is. Start following this creep DeBlasio in NY too. He's another scary bastard.
CORRECTION: All of these Prosser staffers alone account for $3.3M in salaries for a bunch of do-nothings. IFW Speer Academy will have 900 students (500 less than Prosser) and have $1.3M in salaries of comparable staffers.
On the school thing it's not the best and brightest it's more what color R U not a bunch of brain surgeons at that school.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
is there any honesty, or integrity, in politics?....or is that a stupid question?
1/01/2014 07:05:00 PM
Ah, that would be the definition of a Statesman, not a politician.
A politician's sole job is to get re-elected and he will do whatever he must to ensure it happens.
Oh wait! According to half the posters on here Republicans are the answers to all of our problems here in Illinois. Even though for the last thirty years our governors have been mostly Republicans
Agree. Those comments are naive. Republicans aren't here to help us either.
I LOVE me some Rauner! If SCC calls him a bum, then he definitely has my vote.
Oh wait! According to half the posters on here Republicans are the answers to all of our problems here in Illinois. Even though for the last thirty years our governors have been mostly Republicans
Agree. Those comments are naive. Republicans aren't here to help us either.
So you'd rather listen to democrat lies, elect them, then act all offended when they pass pension laws stripping you of your pension monies? Then you'll come on the blog and tell everyone, "Well, republicans would have fucked you worse, they said so."
You're a moron of the first order.
How about this - elect a republican governor who isn't attached to Rahm. Then have him try to work with a democratic controlled House and Senate. Gridlock! Now you can have the FOP PAC use its money and votes to push for a seat at the table instead of sitting around with its thumb up its ass and fingers in your pockets.
Anonymous said...
I LOVE me some Rauner! If SCC calls him a bum, then he definitely has my vote.
Another moron. Did you see the part where Rauner vacations with Obama's people and is Rahm's choice for governor?
You probably voted for Madigan/Madigan thinking that a daughter can keep an eye on daddy and not let him get away with stuff.
No such thing as a republican politician in Chicago!
If you know there's some double dealing going on if he was so conveniently picked
Just being associated with tiny dancer was enough for me to say nay.
We all saw how tiny and his buddies at the CEO club screwed with the bonds.
Imagine the thievery that would go on if they have their hands in on the state
I really get a kick out of the people in little brucey's camp that jumped all over the blog defending him. What a crock o shit this guy is, and typical of the breed, he doesn't want facts to come out about him.
Anonymous said...
Oh wait! According to half the posters on here Republicans are the answers to all of our problems here in Illinois. Even though for the last thirty years our governors have been mostly Republicans.
1/01/2014 12:29:00 AM
You're right. We should still vote for the Democrats and the Chicago Machine. That't the answer.
RINO or not, I'll take him over Quinn. I'll support him over Quinn. He's still better than Quinn!
Hey Melanie? Get a grip... as a (very) practicing Catholic I am a wee bit troubled by your home schooling versus indoctrination and excommunication nonsense. How about a little research into Jesus' viewpoint on mixing politics with religion? OK it was technically taxes and religion, but you should see my point. I used logic. I learned it at school.
SCC, headline should read. Rauner- Tool. Nuff said and you save bandwidth.
Anonymous said...
Why not a New party?
I say we bring back the Bull Moose party.
The CPS Inspector general report for Fiscal Year 2013 is out and the report unveiled fraud at Lane Tech.
The Lane Tech Alumnus mentioned in the report (below) is Tony Chronis, the former principal is Dr. Antoinette Lobosco, and the nephew is George Stravakas Jr.
An OIG investigation determined that a high school (Lane Tech) violated Board procurement rules by stringing purchases of gym and sports uniforms from a vendor. A prominent high school alumnus (Chronis) was the sole owner of the vendor. Significantly, the alumnus also ran a school booster club (Lane tech Football Booster Club)and was a board member of a charitable foundation (Lane Tech Century Foundation)that aids the school. School purchases from the vendor totaled more than $59,000 in FY 2010, $89,000 in FY 2011, and $95,000 in FY 2012. The purchases were not awarded pursuant to a competitive bid process as required by Board Rules. Evidence revealed that the purchases were regularly and deliberately kept below $10,000 to avoid bidding requirements. The purchases were made under the supervision of and with the knowledge of the high school’s former principal.
The investigation also revealed that the former principal improperly allowed the school’s booster club to have the cash receipts from sporting events. It is probable that from 2005 to 2011 the gate receipts given to the booster club totaled approximately $82,698. Despite violating internal account guidelines, the principal said she allowed the arrangement because the booster club was buying equipment and paying for scholarships. The arrangement ended in 2011, and the booster club paid back $11,377.11.
Finally, the investigation revealed that the former principal had hired the vendor’s nephew (Stravakas Jr.) as a physical education teacher at the school.
Following the OIG investigation, the former principal was designated ineligible to be rehired. Disciplinary sanctions against the alumnus and his company are pending. (12‐
00039)
Pull up a chair, get a beverage, and prepare to laugh at this report:
http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Documents/OIG_FY_2013_AnnualReport.pdf
Just like when Daley dumped all over Glenn Poshard in 1998 to get Ryan elected. Let's see what Rauner does to put himself in prison.
DILLARD for Governor! Bettor than Rauner, has a better background. He's from Dupage and Will counties and we know how much they see the damage done by Crook County.
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