Saturday, March 17, 2018

Bruce Rauner

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I ate Bruce Rauner and his very wealthy friends. Now staggering under their influence.
I ate Bruce Rauner and his very wealthy friends. Now staggering under their influence.

"... The rich families remaking Illinois are among a small group around the country who have channeled their extraordinary wealth into political power, taking advantage of regulatory, legal and cultural shifts that have carved new paths for infusing money into campaigns. Economic winners in an age of rising inequality, operating largely out of public view, they are reshaping government with fortunes so large as to defy the ordinary financial scale of politics. In the 2016 presidential race, a New York Times analysis found last month, just 158 families had provided nearly half of the early campaign money. ..."

"... Mr. Rauner’s agenda: to cut spending and overhaul the state’s pension system, impose term limits and weaken public employee unions. ..."

Read... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html

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