[bigbob]

I live here and I still can’t believe the Democrat Machine wasn’t able to lie, cheat, or steal reelection for their puppet Pat Quinn. It will be a long road, and highly dependent on the people having had enough and being willing to take an independent stand.

Someone compared it Rauner’s job to pulling not just one car out of the ditch, but a fully loaded freight train. He will be pulling in the right direction but is going to need a lot of help.

[cripplecreek]

It will be a long road, and highly dependent on the people having had enough and being willing to take an independent stand.

Independent being the operative word. People here in Michigan threw fits about the state bailing out Detroit but it was better than letting the feds do it.

A federal bailout would have meant the feds bailing out the unions, screwing creditors, and it all would have come with strings attached. The state bailout came with the state holding the strings, the bankruptcy proceeding as it should and everybody getting the best deal there was to be got.

[Graybeard58]

I live here and I still can’t believe the Democrat Machine wasn’t able to lie, cheat, or steal reelection for their puppet Pat Quinn.

I live here too Bob and there's not a dime's worth of difference between Rauner and any democrat politician in the state, that's why the combine didn't care who got elected, both Quinn and Rauner are exactly the same.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Combine pre-selected Rauner.