CHICAGO - The Rauner campaign took on ILGOP gubernatorial opponents in his response to Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State address Wednesday, dubbing them "Pat Quinn-Lite."
"As Pat Quinn spends the afternoon attempting to deflect from his abysmal record on jobs, taxes and pensions at today’s State of the State address, Illinoisans may begin to recognize that his record looks a lot like those of the career politicians running to replace him," Rauner said.
“Based on their record of raising taxes, increasing spending and enabling our pension problems, Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard, and Dan Rutherford might as well be nicknamed Pat Quinn-Lite,” said Mike Schrimpf, spokesman for Bruce Rauner’s campaign. “The fact is all three candidates have spent more than twenty years in Springfield pushing a jobs-killing agenda with more taxes and increased spending.”
Rauner pointed to Quinn-like political histories of his opponents, who've all been in the Illinois legislature for two decades or more:
- Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard and Dan Rutherford supported legislation that called for hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending and pork.
- Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard and Dan Rutherford supported increasing taxes and/or fees by hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard and Dan Rutherford voted for pension legislation that has been cited as the primary driver behind Illinois’ record level of unfunded pension liabilities.
- Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard and Dan Rutherford are career politicians who have spent the last two decades in Springfield.
