Speaking of governors...

[Ike Bana]

We got a new one here in Illinois who's gonna give Scott Walker a real run for his money. His name is Bruce Rauner...he's a billionaire corporate raider. Sort of a small-time Willard who's most recent claim to business fame is ownership of one of them most disgusting senior nursing facilities in the state of Illinois.

John Kass, Chicago Tribune muckraking poor excuse for Mike Royko, refers to Rauner as "Scott Walker on steroids."

He took a run at public employee unions last week. Illinois public employees who don't want to belong to their union aren't required to join or pay dues. However since they benefit from union collective bargaining, they do have to pay certain fees covering the unions cost of bargaining efforts and some other stuff. So Rauner issued an executive order (I thought them right-wingjobs hated the concept of the executive order these days), that would divert this fee money from the unions and put it in escrow and if the courts agree...would release it back to the workers, not the union. His own GOP comptroller nixed it. Rauner has a pretty ugly temper so...can ya hear the backroom intra-party screaming coming out of the governor's mansion, eh?

He's also already flip-flopped on a campaign promise that public employee unions would not be prohibited from collective bargaining on wages, benefits, and pensions, and now says they should only be able to negotiate on "hours, assignments and working conditions." So he's a goddamn liar just like our earlier governors...after promising that he was a businessman not a politician, and that politics in Illinois was gonna change.

Rauner is also dealing with an Illinois General Assembly with a House 71-47 Democrat, and a Senate 39-20 Democrat. Good luck with your legislation Bruce. We may have Scott Walker on steroids, but we do not have a cheesehead state legislature. So it's already pretty vicious here in blue country. Stay tuned.