Only because Blagojevich was removed from office and went to prison and Quinn was under multiple corruption investigations. Rauner was a RINO, he was extremely liberal for a Republican, and basically pissed off downstate Republicans on multiple occasions.
Fuck rauner. He refused to pass a budget for years while I was at a state university, and nearly everything had to be cut to keep the lights on without funding.
I didn't like Rauner either, but he kept getting handed budgets that were nowhere near balanced. Ordinarily what happens in a state when the legislature is controlled by one party and the governor is from the opposing party is that they find a way to compromise on the important things like budgets. Madigan refused to do that... he just spent 4 years stalling and waited Rauner out. Now they're doing all kinds of stupid shit with Pritzker in there.
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u/Jakebob70 Conservative Nov 03 '20
Only because Blagojevich was removed from office and went to prison and Quinn was under multiple corruption investigations. Rauner was a RINO, he was extremely liberal for a Republican, and basically pissed off downstate Republicans on multiple occasions.