For several months, Bruce Rauner has spent millions saturating the airwaves with ads.You’ve seen him with the snow globe saying he is going to “shake up Springfield.”You’ve seen him carrying a sledgehammer. You’ve seen him talk about reform, term

limits, and taking on special interests.

But do you really know Bruce Rauner?

Slick ads based on “shaking up Springfield” and other vague slogans don’t tell you muchabout a person. Everyone is for “economic growth,” “lower spending” and “betterschools.” Rauner says he has a secret plan for the economy and taxes, but he has to focuson winning the election first before he can let us know the specifics. He is asking us to buya pig in a poke. Why doesn’t he share the details of his plans BEFORE the election?

Knowing Rauner’s record helps interpret whatthose synthetic campaign slogans really mean.

Bruce Rauner isn’t going to “shake upSpringfield” — based on his record he is goingto “Shake Down Springfield.” He’s an expertat doing just that.

When you see him on television with that snowglobe shaking Springfield, he is reallydemonstrating how he shook down the Illinoispension system by employing a shady dealer, StuLevine at $25,000 per month, to get 50 milliondollars in Illinois pension business. FormerGovernor Jim Edgar expressed concern aboutthis on a WLS radio show on June 6, 2013.

On January 14, 2011, The Philadelphia Enquirer newspaper cited another outrageousexample of Rauner’s pay to play on steroids. The Chairman of the Democrat NationalCommittee (DNC) Ed Rendell was running for Pennsylvania Governor. The fact is BruceRauner’s firm had pension business with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth. Despite thatconflict of interest, Bruce Rauner gave Rendell a whopping $300,000 for Rendell’s raceagainst the Republican nominee for Governor. Rendell won. Rauner’s pension businesswith Pennsylvania surged in Rendell’s first year in office. Rauner made a quick FOURMILLION DOLLARS profit from that expanded business in Pennsylvania. Perhaps that is amere coincidence, but if not, it is an extraordinary rate of return on investment.

Questioned about the scandal, Raunersaid he wanted to buy influence withthe chairman of the DNC because hewas an education reformer. First, thatstatement about “buying influence”makes Rauner’s campaign about endingspecial interest influence in Springfielda joke and hypocritical. Second, Rendell

was against charter schools and school choice as Governor. So the contribution was—asRauner stated—to buy influence. But was it influence for school reform, or for a vastlyexpanded pension business? You decide.

Now when you hear Rauner talking about “shaking up Springfield” you will have a newappreciation for why many believe that really means “shaking down Springfield.”

Worse yet, Rendell only beat the Republican by a small margin. The Governors before ANDafter Rendell were both Republicans. Bruce Rauner gave a major boost to the formerchairman of the DNC allowing Democrats to take over the Pennsylvania Governorship.

But that’s not surprising, here in Illinois Bruce Rauner voted Democrat in the 2006 primary,yet now seeks the Republican nomination for Governor.

“Shake up Springfield?” No.The Rauner record shows it’s…

… SHAKE DOWN Springfield When you see more of the never ending Rauner TV andInternet ads, ask yourself—where is the money coming fromto pay for them?

With no other political ads on the air, Rauner has beenspending millions of dollars in shameless overkill. He’s beenquoted that he will spend “whatever it takes to win,” whichmeans he believes your vote is for sale. That cocky attitudeis the opposite of his “everyman” act.

Bruce Rauner can afford to spend tens of millions of dollarsafter making millions upon millions managing state pensionfunds. See the article on DNC Chairman Ed Rendell. Raunerdonated $300,000 to Rendell’s campaign for Governor ofPennsylvania against a Republican—helping hand the Democrats a big stategovernorship.

When Rendell won, Rauner’s pensionbusiness in Pennsylvania doubled,resulting in millions of dollars inadditional profits.

Here in Illinois, Rauner has made millions off the IllinoisTeachers’ Retirement System and the Illinois State Board ofInvestment.

Furthermore, Rauner has raised millions of dollars fromcontributors who are strong Democrats and before theycontributed to Bruce Rauner—had ONLY donated toDemocrats and pro-abortion PACs.

Bruce Rauner The Taxpayer’s Voice

Don't Vote Rauner...

...Vote Republican!

In USA Today:Bruce Rauner

"I'm a Social Liberal"

VOTE REPUBLICAN:n Bill Bradyn Kirk Dillardn Dan Rutherford

Avoid Buyer's Remorse —Learn About Bruce Rauner NOW.

Continued on page 5

Bruce Rauner was caught “shaking up” not Springfield, but his own positions on the

minimum wage.

Continued on page 2

February 2014

Follow the Money…

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Many of these Democrats donating to Rauner arealso from OUT OF STATE. He has receivedcontributions from non-Republicans in at least 36states. Why? What causes them to care who getselected as the Governor of Illinois?

Rauner is now hypocritically howling over theaudacity of others coming together to opposehim by broadcasting the facts Bruce Raunerdoesn’t want you to know. In America, the FirstAmendment right of freedom of speech andfreedom of association covers everyone—notjust billionaires.

For the last six months Rauner hasenjoyed being the bully whothought he owned the politicalarena and is now shocked thatanyone has dared to stand up tohim. You see that wasn’t in thePLAN he bought from his out ofstate political consultants. Rauner’smoney was supposed to drown out allopposition in the primary. Rutherford,Brady and Dillard were all supposed to bepolitically dead by now.

Yet the opposite has occurred—they are allshowing increasing vitality. If the polls weren’tturning, Rauner would not have suddenly joinedseveral debates in which he had previously refusedto participate. If he didn’t feel what he thought wascertain victory slipping away, he wouldn’t beacting like a spoiled child throwing a tantrumbecause this race is suddenly not being conductedon his terms alone. The battlefield is now beingleveled to an extent.

Rauner is going to have to actually compete inthe public arena by putting his cynicallyconcocted “everyman” image up against theTRUTH that is now being spread far and wide.

Rauner doesn’t respect that Senators Dillard andBrady and Treasurer Rutherford have their ownvisions for improving our state and deserve to beheard. Indeed, they all tower over Rauner in

Republican credentials and sustained commitmentto the cause.

Rauner seems to have a self-anointed entitlementto the Republican nomination for Governor. Heseems to believe he can spend millions of dollars“educating” Republican voters, but that no oneelse has that same right. He might be able to be adictator to people who work for him, but he’s notgoing to get away with it in this primary.

Rauner, who has donated over $870,000 toDemocrats around the country and voted in the2006 Democrat primary, now whining about“unions” out to “hijack” the Republicanprimary is pretty rich.

Rauner is the one who has donated and receivedhundreds of thousands of dollars to and fromDemocrats all over the country. Rauner is theone who is a very close friend of ChicagoMayor Rahm Emanuel and made Emanuel amulti-millionaire, thereby enabling Emanuel to

get back into politics. Rauner is the one whocontributed $200,000 to Chicago Democratmachine boss Rich Daley’s campaigns for mayor.Rauner is the one who votedin the Democrat primary in2006. Rauner is the one whohelped Dick Durbin.

So when Bruce Rauner isfinally being exposed, thoseperceived “attacks” will be against theleast Republican of the four candidatesin this primary—Rauner.

One such Democrat contributor toRauner is Glen Tullman's $255,300.Tullman is from Libertyville, IL and has a long listof political donations to ONLY liberal Democratsand is another of Rahm Emanuel’s friends.

Bruce Rauner has received big contributions fromhard core Democrats DIRECTLY funnelingmoney into Rauner’s campaign and thereforeunder his control. Perhaps some expect something

from Rauner in return if he wins. On the otherhand, an outside effort to educate voters bydisseminating facts doesn’t begin to compare—there can be no quid pro quo.

In the primary, Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard and DanRutherford are raising their money fromRepublicans, not giant chunks from IL Democratsand limousine liberals all over the nation.

Bruce Rauner's massive campaign contributions toDemocrats is appalling. Besides hundreds ofthousands of dollars to Rahm Emanuel, Rich Daleyand Ed Rendell, Rauner has donated to SenatorMax Baucus of Montana—the “architect” ofObamacare. In 2008, Rauner donated $4,600 toleft-wing radical Congressman Ed Markey fromMassachusetts. He’s given $40,000 directly to theDNC and $25,000 to the Democrat CampaignCongressional Committee. As DCCC Chairman,Rahm Emanuel chaired and orchestrated thetakeover of the House by Democrats in 2006resulting in Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker.Rauner has even donated to Dick Durbin!

After all that, Rauner has the gall to protest the“hijacking” of the Republican nomination forGovernor when it’s been him plotting the hijacking

all along.

This effort is about stopping apretender from buying the RepublicanParty in Illinois by spreading the truth.

What does Rauner expect for hisgigantic contributions to Democrats,and what do so many Democrats whohave donated to his campaign expect

from him?

Are we really supposed to believe that hundredsof liberal Democrats had a change of heart andhave decided to support a self-proclaimedRepublican , OR is this just another example ofRauner trying to fool GOP voters that he's atrue Republican as he continues to try andhijack OUR primary?

Follow the MoneyContinued from page 1

1988 Democratic Presidential CandidateMichael Dukakis

Bruce Rauner as “everyman”a.k.a. Baron von Carhartt

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pretenders

"The only thing I have given a contributor," Rendelltold reporters in an exit interview last week, "isaccess."

Republicans routinely pounced when a name on hisever-growing list of donors ended up with a statecontract, or in trouble.

But time and again in Rendell's career, critics havedrawn lines between contributors and contracts.

Such as the contract given to Ken Bailey, a Houstonlawyer who donated $90,000 to the governor'scampaign and was hired by the administration torepresent Pennsylvania in a trial against adrugmaker.

Or the roughly $29 million that state AuditorGeneral Jack Wagner said he found in no-bidcontracts to Deloitte Touche, a New York-basedconsulting firm that hired several Rendell aides. Thegovernor defended the contracts as a "reward" forgood performance.

Rendell said this month. "Many of the biggestcontracts I gave out (went) to people who gaveinfinitely less (to my campaigns) than others."

Ken Jarin is one of Rendell's chief fund-raisers. Jarinis a partner in Ballard Spahr, a Philadelphia law firmthat is a favorite target of the governor's critics.Rendell was on the payroll there during his 2002campaign, collecting a $250,000 salary for what heacknowledged at the time was "very little work."

Since then, Ballard lawyers have chipped in nearly$900,000 for his gubernatorial runs, and the firmmanaged his campaign's expenses, records show.

During Rendell's tenure in Harrisburg, Ballard wonnearly $20 million in no-bid state contracts,including $6 million worth in the last two yearsfrom the Governor's Office or his counsel, for workon labor, gaming, and other issues, state recordsshow.

"The unfortunate aspect of this is that it sends amessage out to the public that for a certain amountof a campaign contribution, you're going to dobetter in the long run," said State Rep. DougReichley (R., Lehigh), who contends that no-bidcontracts under Rendell have cost taxpayershundreds of millions of dollars; he introduced a billto curb them.

In 2009, the last year of reported contributions,Rendell's campaign committee took in $1.1 million.Most of the donations were four- or five-figurechecks, many flowing in from far corners of thecountry: $1,000 from the president of a Nashvillefirm; $5,000 from a South Florida socialite; $10,000from the wife of a Hollywood producer.

Four of the donations were $25,000 checks, loggedon the same day, from executives at three majorparking-garage operators in New York.

None had readily apparent business interests orproperty in Pennsylvania. The donations occurred asofficials in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg wereconsidering privatizing their parking systems - astep that could be worth hundreds of millions incontracts. (Three of the donors did not respond torequests for comment. A fourth could not bereached.)

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“You rock,Bruce Rauner!”

to Ed Rendell, Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, Running for Governor of Pennsylvania — Against a Republican!

from Rauner

ABORTIONWhile Brady, Dillard and Rutherford all havepro-life voting records as State Representativesand Senators, Bruce Rauner has stated that heis “Pro-choice” on abortion.

His wife—who would become Illinois’ FirstLady if Rauner won—is radically pro-abortion.

For years she has been a pro-abortion rightsactivist with leading roles in Emily’s List andPersonal PAC. She has donated manythousands of dollars of the Rauner’s money toboth of those pro-abortion organizations.

To get Emily’s List and Personal PAC’sendorsement a candidate has to be soextremely pro-abortion that they must favorlegal abortion with NO restrictions through theend of the ninth-month. Being pro-choice butfavoring a couple reasonable restrictions is adisqualifier. Both organizations are stridentlyuncompromising and doctrinaire.

The focus of this primary is overwhelminglyabout the candidates rather than their families,but many voters realize that the person whospeaks to that candidate most frequently has atremendous amount of influence. DianaRauner’s radical pro-abortion activism istherefore a significant concern to consider.

It should also be known that Emily’s List wasone of the largest benefactors of DemocratCheri Bustos in the 2012 election when she ranto unseat Congressman Bobby Schilling.Emily’s List was instrumental in helpingBustos defeat Schilling. So the Rauner’smoney helped defeat a good RepublicanCongressman.

Pay to Play on STEROIDS"The only thing I have ever given a contributor is access."

--Governor Ed Rendell, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2011

Excerpts from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2011

Rendell's fund-raising legacy troubles some

Ed Rendell

What kind of a person is Ed Rendell…the type of corrupt “career politican” that BruceRauner rails against in this campaign. Despite Rendell’s own damning words that indicatehe doesn’t even realize how much they confirm his corruptness, Bruce Rauner donated$300,000 to Rendell’s campaign for Pennsylvania Governor against the Republican.

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Bruce Rauner has tried to explain away his close personal friendship, business dealingsand political alliance with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel by comparing it to PresidentReagan and Speaker Tip O’Neill.

In President Reagan’s words: “There you go again,” Bruce Rauner.

President Reagan’s aide Patrick Buchanan said: “There was a lot of myth about themworking together. They did not.

Both were professional and civil. But they fought each other tooth and nail on policy frombeginning to end. They would relax together in social settings and especially have a beertogether on St. Patrick’s Day being they were both of Irish heritage.

BUT unlike Bruce Rauner and Rahm Emanuel —President Reagan did not help finance Tip O’Neill’s campaigns, help him make $18 million in two and a half years in the private sector, raise money for his inauguration, serve as Tip O’Neill’s closest advisor or vacation together. Ever.

Have you received this mailer?A Reagan Republican wouldnot have donated over$870,000 to Democrats

A Reagan Republican would never contribute toDick Durbin

A Reagan Republican would never give the Democratic National Committee $40,000!

Reagan never participated in pay to play

President Reagan was pro-lifeRauner is pro-choice

Bruce Rauner: You’re No Ronald Reagan

President Reagan and Speaker Tip O’Neill.

N O E X C U S E

Republican Primary Tuesday, March 18th

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Bruce Rauner donated $200,000 to former ChicagoMayor Richard Daley’s campaigns. Later, Raunerwas able to get Mayor Daley’s public schools CEOArne Duncan (now Obama’s Secretary of Education)on the phone and used his clout to get his daughterin to one of the best public schools in the nation-Walter Payton College Prep. This had been after shehad been rejected on the merits.

Living in Winnetka, his daughter had the privilegeof being able to attend the renowned New TrierHigh or any private school she wanted. To even beconsidered for Payton Prep, Bruce had to establishChicago residency. So while keeping the Winnetkamansion, Rauner bought a penthouse and secondapartment in one of Chicago’s premier lakefronttowers for a combined $5.2 million. As a side note,that is only half as expensive as his $10 millionpenthouse on New York’s Central Park West. Froma self-proclaimed modest guy who boasts aboutpreferring $18 watches, he has a penchant formultimillion dollar properties—nine homes in all.

A Crain’s Chicago Business article on April 24, 2013reported CPD Inspector General James Sullivanfound that Rauner’s daughter “had good scores…but not quite good enough. Her application wasdenied.” The Sun Times has reported that morethan 7,000 students took the admission test butonly 353 students were admitted that year. Ms.Rauner was one of them.

That makes Rauner’s vilifying others for makingpolitical contributions for access and influence ringhollow. Rauner himself has proven time and againthat he is the master at buying influence.

Rauner can’t be bought—he is the consummatebuyer himself. No one is going to be able to givehim a paper bag with $50,000 cash in it to bribe himto sign a bill. He represents a whole new paradigmof corruption.

Rauner is blatant, and brags about buyinginfluence. He has an amazing double standard.When others, particularly unions, makecontributions they are “bribing” publicofficials according to him. When hemakes massive contributions andfreely admits to wanting tobuy influence—that issomehow noble and selflessof Rauner—even though itoften results in vastlyincreasing his business ofinvesting union pensions.

Bruce Rauner’s entire campaign forGovernor has been stage managedfakery. From the spiffy new Carhartt jacket hewears, to the one specific issue he takes a standon—term limits—only because polls have shownover 80 percent of the public supports the issue.That’s easy to wrap his candidacy around. Again,

hypocritical because why would someone whodeeply believes in “8 years and you’re out”give hundreds of thousands of dollars tothe head of the vaunted and corruptChicago Democrat machine, Rich Daley,who was running for a third or fourthterms?

Bruce Rauner simply ignoresthe difficult issues whenreporters ask him questions.He needs to check back withhis campaign spinsters to memorize the answerthey’ve devised for him. Most of his positions haveno plans and no substance. We are just supposedto trust him.

Rauner speaks frequently of greatertransparency, but won’t give hisviews to voters before they have tovote. He has an ethics complaintpending with the Illinois State Boardof Elections. Why? Because heillegally hid his campaign payrollinformation on his requiredquarterly campaign financedisclosures.

How can you trust a man who boldly lies to twocolumnists on different occasions? He looked CarolMarin of Chicago Tonight in the eye, and BernardSchoenburg of the State Journal Register and saidflat out NO he did not call Arne Duncan to get hisdaughter into Payton Prep. But then he admittedto several media outlets that he DID call Chicagoschools CEO Duncan after his daughter wasrejected. He defended his actions saying he woulddo it again, seemingly unaware of the complete lieshe told Marin and Schoenburg.

In just a few months, Bruce Rauner has had FIVEdifferent positions on minimum wage. He was“adamantly, adamantly” opposed to raising theminimum wage; then for cutting it by a dollar anhour; then suddenly when campaign polls showedhow toxic that position was—he was for raising thenational minimum wage to $10 an hour; and lateroffered two scenarios that he would supportunilateral raising the Illinois minimum wage to $10an hour.

It is also important to know this is the tip of theproverbial iceberg. Rauner has several severebusiness scandals just starting to come to light. Onewas a Rauner company called Lason, Inc. In theChicago Tribune on January 20, 2104, an expert onsecurities fraud and white collar crime, Peter J.Henning, said Lason would have been called “oneof the worst accounting frauds ever” had it notbeen upstaged by similar scandals at Enron andWorldCom.

On July 25, 2013, a WTSP News in Tampa, FL reporton a Rauner company said “The case went beyondthe nursing home's extreme negligence thatresulted in Townsend's death and revealed its

investors had conspired to run thenursing home chain into insolvencywithout any regard to residents'

care.”

Unlike Bill Brady, KirkDillard and DanRutherford whohave run statewidebefore and been

vetted, BruceRauner’s baggage is

only now coming to light.

Republicans are better off takinga hard look at Rauner’s lethal political problemsNOW, rather than nominating him and being stuckwith him as more shocking stories come to lightand he melts down in the general election. Weneed a GOP candidate we can trust.

What is written in these pages is documented andtrue. The purpose is to provide a counterbalance tothe millions of dollars Rauner is spending to createan image of himself that contradicts his ownhistory.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars arecoming from hard core Democrats allacross the country from donors whovote Democrat in primaries and havecontributed only to Democrats in thepast.

While Rauner fights unions, liberals all over thecountry love him and their actions in donating

unprecedented amountsof money to his campaignprove it. Perhaps they willlike the details of his“secret economic/taxplan” more thanRepublicans will when weget to see it after theelection. No doubt theywill love his positions onsocial issues. In USA Today,several years ago Raunercalled himself a “social

liberal.” Not a moderate but a liberal.

After the primary, it will be too late—Republicanswill have a nasty case of buyer’s remorse unless theylook clearly at the facts before they cast theirballot.

The stakes in this election are extremely high.Illinois desperately needs a Republican Governorand needs to break the 12 year record of epicfailure that total Democrat rule has wrought on themiddle class and working poor. Illinois has muchhigher unemployment than all our neighboringstates, a 67 percent tax hike that didn’t begin tosolve our state’s problems and record debt reflectedin having the worst credit rating in the nation.

We Republicans need to get it right in 2014. Wehave one chance to nominate a winner in ourprimary. We can’t afford to nominate a candidatelike Bruce Rauner who will disintegrate in the heatof the general election and drag a great manyother Republican candidates down with him.

Bruce Rauner’s records, statements and actionsprove he is not the breath of fresh air reformer hisimage consultants have slickly portrayed him tobe—indeed he is the exact opposite.

“Shake up Springfield?” No. The Rauner record shows it’s SHAKE DOWN Springfield…Continued from page 1

Rauner only uses that sledgehammerfrom his ads to smash his previous positions on issues once polls show

them unpopular.

Vote NO on Raunerin the Republican

primary onMarch 18, 2014

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In 2008, the Rauner’s main residence inIllinois was their mansion in Winnetka.Children born to parents in such a wealthy

town are lucky to be able to go to a public highschool at New Trier, a renowned high school. Itis one of the best in the nation and to such adegree that several years ago the news program60 Minutes profiled the school in awe of itsadvanced features, the level of funding perstudent, special programs and the academicsuccess of its students. Bruce Rauner has been a backer of charterschools and has one named after him, but theRauners weren’t interested in sending theirdaughter to a charter school. Her father couldalso have afforded to send her to any of the bestprivate schools in the nation. Despite those incredible opportunities, theRauners wanted their daughter to attend an evenbetter school—Walter Payton Prep in Chicago,an elite selective-enrollment public school whichis ranked number one in the state. It is such agood school that the data obtained by theChicago Sun Times through a Freedom ofInformation Act request and reported in 2008—the year Rauner’s daughter got in—9,200students applied. Over 7,000 took the test thatyear and just 353 were admitted. First you have to live in Chicago, not Winnetka.So Bruce Rauner went and bought a penthouseAND another condo on a lower floor for acombined $5.2 million in one of the mostprestigious lakefront towers with lake views andan unobstructed view over Millennium Park. Greg Hinz, a reporter with Crain’s ChicagoBusiness, reported on April 24, 2013 thataccording to a report by the Chicago PublicSchools (CPS) Inspector General, Ms. Raunerhad good scores…but not quite good enough.Her application was denied.”Remember, Bruce Rauner had donated$200,000 to then Chicago Mayor RichardDaley’s campaigns and the mayor was ArneDuncan’s boss. So Bruce Rauner called the CPSCEO Arne Duncan who is now PresidentObama’s Secretary of Education. Within days,the decision was reversed and Ms. Rauner wasadmitted. Ian Belknap reported in Crain’s that“she apparently leapfrogged over hundreds ofbetter-qualified applicants because Mr. Raunerplaced a call to Arne Duncan.” Belknap further wrote in Crain’s of his reactionof “mild outrage at the rigged game…and asense of growing bewilderment over the gulfbetween the lofty aims of our civic institutionsand the shabby and crooked manner in whichthey invariably function. The CPS Inspector General did aninvestigation in which he found Rauner calledDuncan and then his daughter was admitted.The Chicago Tribune got ahold of a “CloutList” and Bruce Rauner’s name was on it.This is shocking because Rauner has based hiscampaign for Governor on stopping “unionbosses” from “bribing” politicians, something inwhich Rauner has personally demonstrated asupreme mastery of the process. The CPS Inspector General’s report on theinvestigation laid blame on Arne Duncan forhave widely engaged in corrupt practices such as“making dozens of admissions based on politicalclout, favoritism, preferential treatment and

violations of selection and enrollment practices.As a result, principals were given less influenceover the enrollment process.”Well it is no surprise that Mayor Daley and thenPresident Obama would promote someone thatan Inspector General found to have flagrantlyengaged in corrupt practices. The story doesn’t end there however. Rauner has tried to blow this off to reporters as“just minor. It’s stuff that doesn’t matter.”Rauner calling lawful contributions by unions topolitical candidates “bribes” that he will haveprosecuted as Governor (even though theGovernor has ZERO authority or ability toprosecute anyone for anything) he has boastfullysaid he has given $200,000 and $300,000 to buyinfluence with politicians. That is an appallingdouble standard which is reason enough to voteagainst him since we are in a state too widelyknown for its corruptionMore damning is that Rauner bold faced lied tomedia figures Carol Marin on WTTW andBernard Schoenburg from the State JournalRegister. Rauner answered questions from bothof them as to whether he called Arne Duncanabout helping his daughter get into Payton Prepby looking them in the eye and answering NO.To other reporters he has refused to discuss thematter. But then Rauner went to the otherextreme and on camera with Jay Levine of CBSChannel 2, Mary Ann Ahern of NBC 5, andCharles Thomas of ABC 7, he boldly admittedhe called Duncan about getting his daughter intoPayton Prep! The man needs to hire more staffso he can keep his lies consistent. Again, it is even worse than lying. He arrogantlysaid “There’s nothin’ wrong with it, and I woulddo it again.” Never seeing the irony of hiscrusading against others lawfully engaged in thepolitical system while he abuses it so often andso egregiously. He has also said that one of thereasons for buying the Chicago residences wasbecause his wife got a job in the city. However,Greg Hinz of Crain’s reported on April 24, 2013that “mom still lived in Winnetka.” After his confession, Rauner has pushed hard topass this off as something called an exceptionknown as a “principal pick.” Yet on January 14,2014, Natasha Korecki of the Sun Timesreported “A source with specific knowledge ofthe admission told the Sun-Times that Rauner’sdaughter was not a so-called ‘principal pick’ butwas let in following a phone call.” Rememberthat when you hear Bruce Rauner say again andagain that he did nothing wrong and would do itagain.The fact remains that the Rauner daughterhad the option to go to New Trier or anyprivate school she wanted. Instead the familybumped a student who merited acceptanceinto Payton Prep but was overrun by cloutbought with political contributions thatRauner still campaigns against—when theyare made by people he doesn’t agree with orlike. It is hypocrisy of the grandest scale.But this still gets worse. Rauner gave away hisdeepest character flaw in that interview withABC 7’s Charles Thomas when he said “Wewere taxpayers, homeowners in Chicago, sovery ENTITLED to be able to go to a schoolthere.” “SO VERY ENTITLED.” Precious.n

Rauner Caught on Chicago Clout List

Rauner: The Insider’s Insider

Bruce Rauner ad promotes charters, but CPS

clout call dogs him

BY NATASHA KORECKI AND ROS

ALIND ROSSI

Staff Reporters

Last Modified: Jan 12, 2014 11:54PM

In a new ad, GOP gubernatorial conten

der Bruce Rauner talks about the

benefits of charter schools in Illinois, m

erit-based pay for teachers and his

role as an education reformer.

Only .0014 percent of Payton College Prep studentsget in thanks to principal’s helpBY NATASHA KORECKI AND ROSALIND ROSSIStaff ReportersLast Modified: Jan 12, 2014 12:52PMSo how difficult was it for an average Chicago student to be admitted into PaytonCollege Prep the year that Bruce Rauner made a call to get his daughter in?

More than 9,000 students applied for 353 open seats in the 2008-09 academic year,according to data obtained by the Sun-Times through the Freedom of Information Act.

Rauner shifts voting address back to suburbsSeptember 24, 2013GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Rauner quietly has moved his legal voting residence

back to the suburbs from Chicago — a move that may help him politically but risks

rekindling a flap about why he came to the city in the first place.According to Cook County Clerk David Orr’s office, Mr. Rauner changed his voting resi-

dence April 30 from a downtown Chicago high-rise condominium at 340 E. Randolph

St. to his former official residence: a home on Rosewood Avenue in Winnetka.

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Carol FelsenthalOn politics

Chicago MagazinePUBLISHED OCT. 2, 2013

Rahm and Rauner Are Vacation Buddiesin Montana—Fly Fishing, Anyone?Political and personal connections led Chicago’s mayor to thrash aboutwith a fly rod in a pristine Montana stream.

Bruce Rauner and Rahm Emanuel are close friends.Rauner is frequently described in the media as MayorEmanuel’s closest advisor…who has unchecked access

to the mayor’s office.

Bruce Rauner told Governing Magazine on June 6, 2013that he “regularly speaks with Emanuel.” Rauner said hetalks to Emanuel “all the time on a lot of topics.”

Bruce Rauner was appointed by the mayor to the city’seconomic development and job creation council. Mrs.

Rauner was appointed to Rahm Emanuel’stransition team for education when he waselected mayor.

The friendship began in 1998 as Emanuel wasleaving the Clinton White House during theMonica Lewinsky scandal. A December 3, 2008article by Michael Luo in the New York Times says:“Confidants of Mr. Emanuel’s said he decided totry his hand at business because he wantedfinancial security for his family, before eventuallyreturning to public service.”

The article goes on to say that Bruce Rauner, thenchairman of GTCR Golder Rauner, a Chicagoprivate equity firm, “had first met Mr. Emanuelafter getting a call from President Clinton’s Chiefof Staff Erskine Bowles, an old friend. Instead ofprivate equity, Mr. Rauner advised Mr. Emanuel topursue investment banking where Emanuel’s

political experience might be more valuable in LANDINGDEALS IN REGULATED INDUSTRIES.”

In the October 2, 2013 edition of Chicago Magazine, CarolFelsenthal writes: “It’s Rauner after all who advised Rahmin the ‘90s to make his fortune as an investment bankerand who hired him to represent GTCR in the purchase of ahome-security system company from SBC Communications.Proceeds from that deal, among others, put the Clinton operative, who had no prior business experienceor education, on the fast track to earning $18 MILLION inunder 3 years. Fortune in place, Rahm sprinted down theroad to elective office.”

In 2002, Congressman Rod Blagojevich chose to run forGovernor, leaving his congressional seat open. EightDemocrats contested the primary, including Emanuel. Hisstrongest competitor, former State Representative NancyKaszak called Emanuel a “millionaire carpetbagger.”Luckily for him, Rahm Emanuel now had a fortune and put$450,000 of his own money into that primary and went onto win the primary and general elections.

In his first term as a Congressman, Rahm Emanuel went tothe House Floor to make congratulatory remarks to BruceRauner for a Red Cross award, thereby entering Rauner inthe official Congressional Record.

At the beginning of his second term in the House ofRepresentatives, Emanuel became the chairman of theDemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC),responsible for helping Democrats win more seats. Thatsame New York Times article from December 3, 2008 alsostates: “Mr. Emanuel also leaned heavily upon the(financial) industry while he was chairman of the DCCCduring the 2006 mid-term elections. Financial donorscontributed more than $5.8 million to the committee.”

By all accounts Emanuel did an excellent job of recruitingDemocrat candidates for Congress, coaching them, andespecially tapping his business contacts to help raise money.As such, many consider Rahm Emanuel more responsiblefor Democrats taking over the House in the 2006 electionsthan Nancy Pelosi herself—who was elected Speaker of theHouse as a result of the new Democrat majority.

Bruce Rauner paved that path quite nicely for RahmEmanuel.

After the 2008 elections, President-Elect Obama selectedEmanuel to serve as his White House Chief of Staff.Emanuel was instrumental in securing passage of thePresident Obama’s economic stimulus bill and Obamacare.

Their friendship reached a whole new level when theRauners invited the Emanuels to vacation with them at theRauner’s Montana ranch. Again, Carol Felsenthal withChicago Magazine wrote about “Rauner’s genuinechumminess with Rahm,” and “those ties are not only cozy,they’re real—families vacation-together real.”

She went on to write: “My guess is that Rahm won’t bevoting for Pat Quinn, not even while holding his nose. I betRahm pulls the lever for his buddy, a Republican BruceRauner, former CEO of the private equity firm GTCR.”

Need a Healthy Separation

What should be most concerning toIllinoisans about the closeness of theRauner-Emanuel friendship is that it is

too close for a Governor of Illinois and a Mayor ofChicago. With their personal history and skill atdeal making, who will know what kind of requeststhe Mayor of Chicago will be making of theGovernor? The CTA is in dire financial shape. Whatis to prevent Mayor Emanuel from calling hisbuddy the Governor and asking that a bigger shareof RTA state funding be transferred to the CTA in exchange for Emanuel puttingthe squeeze on Chicago legislators for a Rauner legislative priority? Thatrelationship is just too cozy for comfort. Actually if it came to be, it wouldpresent an open invitation for trouble.

Their friendship reached a whole new level when the Rauners began invitingthe Emanuels to vacation with them at the Rauner’s Montana ranch.

The more appropriate relationship is the one between Governor Jim Edgar andMayor Richard Daley. There was a healthy tension in the relationship. They hadfundamental disagreements. But they conducted themselves professionally, werecordial and communicated on official matters. As a result, Chicago receivedeverything it deserved from the state—but not a dime more. There needs to bea healthy separation of the occupants of these two crucial positions in Illinois.

Bruce Rauner andRahm Emanuel

Chicago Sun-TimesSneed: Rahm’s secret governorchoice—and he’s not a Dem

By Michael Sneed August 2, 2013

Sneed hears Mayor Rahm Emanuel is in a twist over who he wants to bethe next governor of Illinois.Sneed is told:◆ Rahm is indebted to Dem gubernatorial hopeful Bill Daley, whohelped convince his brother, Mayor Richie Daley, to retire, and helpedengineer Rahm’s transition into the office.

◆ Rahm is not a big booster of Gov. Pat Quinn winning re-election.◆ Rahm is this/close to GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Rauner, andtheir families have been known to spend holiday time together.

◆ Translation: A top source inside the Dem party tells Sneed: “Rahm’scandidate is really Rauner. He’ll never publicly back him. . . he’s aparty guy. But, in his heart. . .”

Pelosi and Emanuel led the effort tomake Pelosi Speaker of the House.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

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On September 3, 2013, State Journal Register reporter Bernard Schoenburg had the following discourse withBruce Rauner about clouting his daughter into Payton Prep.

“Did you talk to Mr. Duncan about it?”

“I did not.” Rauner responded. ________________

On June 5, 2013 on Chicago Tonight with Carol Marin, she asked Rauner if he called Chicago Public Schools CEOArne Duncan or Ron Huberman to get their attention on his daughter’s desire to attend Walter Payton Prep.

Rauner’s response: “NO.”

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/06/05/bruce-rauner-running-governor

Bold Faced LiesFrom the State Journal Register, Bernard Schoenburg column, January 16, 2014:

JAY LEVINE of CBS-Channel 2 said in his story: “Rauner admits making a call to Arne Duncan to get hisdaughter into Payton despite what he calls her middle school attendance record marred by illness.”

Rauner responds, in that story: “There’s nothin’ to apologize for that. There’s nothin’ wrong with it, and Iwould do it again and again.”

MARY ANN AHERN, in her story on NBC-Channel 5, said: “Bruce Rauner says yes, he made a phone call tothen-Superintendent of Schools Arne Duncan, so his daughter, moving into the city from Winnetka, couldget into Walter Payton College Prep.”

Rauner said in that story that just such cases are what the 5 percent discretion was “designed to do.”

And CHARLES THOMAS of ABC-Channel 7 reported: “When his daughter’s application was rejected, Rauneradmitted calling then-CPS CEO Arne Duncan to get her admitted to Payton, which had a waiting list of over7,000 city teenagers.”

Later in the Channel 7 story, Rauner says, “We were taxpayers, homeowners in Chicago, so very entitled tobe able to go to a school there.”

http://www.sj-r.com/article/20140115/OPINION/140119578/0/SEARCH?template=printart

“Anyplace I see a corporation asking for a special deal, I’ll be opposed to it. No special deals. No special favors. I’m against corporate welfare. I’m against that.”

—Bruce Rauner, June 5, 2013 on WTTW-TV with Carol Marin

Rauner vs. Rauner“A wheeling, dealing first: Responding to a question from the audience, Rauner told the crowd he likely willcut deals with businesses to get them to locate in Illinois should he win the governorship. ‘I’m telling you, to

bring business here, I might have to cut some deals and I’ll do that.”

—Reboot Illinois, Madeleine Doubek’s reporting from the first joint GOP Governor’s forum of 2014

TOTALCONTRADICTION

TOTALCONTRADICTION

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„ Even though Bruce Rauner proclaims term limits, he contributed to a person running for a 3rd and4th term.

„ Yet Daley was never in danger of losing. So why was such a large sum needed and justified?

„ Despite Rauner calling himself a “reformer” he contributed $200,000 to the head of the corruptChicago Democrat machine.

„ Rauner says he gives to mayors because they control education and he wants reform. But ChicagoPublic Schools after FOUR Daley terms are anything but reformed. Everything stagnated with themayor going into his 3rd and 4th terms.

„ The clout Rauner earned with such massive donations did come in handywhen Rauner called Daley’s schools CEO Arne Duncan to get his daughterinto Payton Prep. Despite 9,000 students applying and 7,000 taking entranceexams—only 353 students made it—including Rauner’s daughter.

Former Chicago MayorRichard Daley

$200,000!

Really?vHow can Bruce Rauner be a true believer in term limitswhen he supports and contributes to so manypoliticians who have served a lot longer than the 8 year limit Rauner wants to mandate? Does Raunernot believe in acting on his most closely held principles, OR is term limits just the best method tohelp create the desired image of an outsider? Mayor Bloomberg actually led an effort to revise theCity Charter to overturn term limits on the New York City Mayor so he could run for a 3rd term.Bloomberg succeeded in getting rid of term limits and won a third term in office.

vMayor Bloomberg is best known as the most fanatical gun control crusader in the country. He financespro-gun control initiatives and candidates all over our country. Bruce Rauner must not think the guncontrol issue is important as he seemingly ignored Bloomberg’s radical anti-gun stance while offering such bountiful praise. But that wouldn’t be afirst for Rauner. His best bud, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is also radically anti-gun.

v Bloomberg gained notoriety as the worlds’ most active Nannycrat, issuing edicts on how people’s food could be cooked and the size of their sodasin an unprecedented overreach of government power. Bloomberg also abused eminent domain to build a stadium. He even barred hospitals fromreleasing new mothers until they listened to lecture on the virtues of breast feeding as opposed to formula. He ordered hospitals to hide formulaso as not to give new mothers ideas to ask for it.

So one wonders by which standards does Bruce Rauner judge the performance of mayors?

It certainly can’t be economic performance. New York City has the largest big city tax burden in the country. From 1995 to 2010 New York lost $58billion in outmigration. When Bloomberg became mayor 12 years ago, the city spent $1.7 billion per year on pensions, which went up to $8.2 billionin his last year. Let’s hope Rauner doesn’t want to emulate that record.

But there are strong similarities between Bloomberg and Rauner. Both are strongly pro-choice on abortion. In his last re-election campaign Bloombergspent $175 per vote—something Rauner is working feverishly to match.

As the web site NoRauner.com wrote: “They both have been a Democrat, independent and a Republican. They are both so immensely rich that theyare way out of touch with average folks. They both have a tremendous amount of hubris.”

Rauner’s campaign is the opposite of authentic.

Polls show support for term limits is off the charts,so Rauner portrays himself leading an effort forterm limits. It’s a rare issue on which he has a con-crete stand. He even set up a separate campaigncommittee to push for term limits. Rauner’s sep-arate term limits campaign committee drafted thelanguage for the ballot initiative. Did youknow the language doesn’t cover term lim-its for the Governor?

Bruce Rauner has had at least 5 differentpositions on the minimum wage in just afew months so do you think his non-bind-ing pledge not to serve beyond 8 yearswould hold if he were to become gover-nor? Do you also know it won’t even coverSpeaker Madigan who has been Speakerof the House for 31 years because it won’tbecome effective until 2023?

Actions do speak louder than words. IfRauner is truly committed to term lim-its why did he give $50,000 to Chicago MayorRichard Daley’s 3rd re-election campaign, andmore significantly $150,000 to his 4th re-elec-tion campaign?

In Rauner’s ads he says “No more 30 year careerpoliticians. Eight years and you’re out!” Do youknow that this past June, Bruce Rauner con-tributed to U.S. Senate Minority Leader MitchMcConnell’s campaign even though he has served29 years and U.S. Senate terms are for six years?And that McConnell’s primary opponent is a self-made businessman? Making this point has noth-ing to do with Senator McConnell’s merits for

re-election. It just shows that Bruce Rauner saysone thing and does another.

Do you know that Bruce Rauner donated $4,600in 2008 to radical left-winger then-Congressman,now U.S. Senator Ed Markey from Massachu-setts? In 2008, Markey had already served 32years in the House and was running for his 17thterm? Markey has always been ranked as one ofTHE most liberal Members of Congress.

Bruce Rauner certainly does not put his moneywhere his mouth is—he has done the exact oppo-site.

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Hy•poc•ri•sy:In the dictionary

1. The behavior of people who do things that they tellother people not to do: behavior that does not agreewith what someone claims to believe or feel

2. The false assumption of an appearance of virtue

3. Bruce Rauner

Term Limits TV Ad 8 Years - You’re Out

Rauner gave the head of theChicago Democrat Machine$200,000 for his 3rd and 4thterms.

Actions speak louder thanwords.

Rauner mouths support forterm limits because it pollshigher than any other issue.

But when the time came forstanding on principle, BruceRauner gave Mayor Daley$200,000 to run again andagain and again and AGAIN.

HYPOCRISY

Michael Bloomberg did a “phenomenal job” and a “terrificjob” as mayor of New York City.

—Bruce Rauner, January 12, 2014

“Gimme yourguns!”

Former New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg

Except for Mayor Daley

How does that square withRauner’s call for term limits?

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Bruce Rauner bashes “career politicians”but acts like the worst of them.

Who knows where he really stands?

BRUCE RAUNERCaught pandering on the minimum wage: Flip Flop Flip Flop

NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME

Would be a Disaster as the GOP nominee

Rauner — who makes more than

a million dollars a week, called

for cutting the minimum wage

by a dollar an hour — can’t put

toothpaste back in the tube.

Finke: Rauner trips overchanging stancesPeoria Journal Star Posted Jan. 11, 2014

Bruce Rauner and his campaignteam may want to do a serious evaluation of their damage-controlefforts. It’s hard to see how theycould do a worse job of it.

Republican Rauner: Cut state’s hourly minimumwage by $1 to be ‘competitive’BY DAVE MCKINNEY Springfield Bureau ChiefChicago Sun Times, January 7, 2014

SPRINGFIELD — Republican Bruce Rauner iscalling for a $1-an-hour rollback in the state’sminimum wage in a move Democrats describedas “class warfare” on Illinois’ working poor.

“Rauner this week disavowedcomments he made in December.”—The Capitol Fax, Jan. 9, 2014Springfield State Journal Register

P.O. Box 9536Peoria, IL 61612

Paid for by theRepublican Fund for Progress & JobsSteven Shearer, Chairman, Peoria, IL

For in depth coverage of the gubernatorial race,

check these sites:

norauner.comillinoisreview.comcapitolfax.comsuntimes.com

chicagobusiness.com

Rauner makes Rahm a rich man…“But Rauner is the one who helped Emanuel make several million dollars in private deals when Emanuel was between political posts.”

— Chicago Tribune, Kass: Rauner’s outsider stance amusing to Dillard, October 23, 2013

“It’s Rauner, after all, who advised Rahm in the late ’90s to make his fortune as an investment banker and who hired him to representGTCR in the purchase of a home-security company from SBC Communications. Proceeds from that deal, among others, put the Clinton operative, who had no prior business experience or education, on the fast track to earning $18 million in under 3 years. Fortune inplace, Rahm sprinted down the road to elective office.”

— Chicago Tribune, Rahm and Rauner are vacation buddies in Montana, October 2, 2013

Bruce Rauner The Taxpayer’s VoiceFebruary 2014

Primary Election March 18, 2014