Some more good news today:
http://politics.suntimes.com/...
With less than a month until voters head to the ballot box, a new poll shows Gov. Pat Quinn with a slight lead over Republican challenger Bruce Rauner.
The Reboot Illinois/We Ask America poll released Tuesday shows that if the election were held today, Quinn would get 44 percent of the vote, compared to 40 percent for Rauner. Libertarian candidate Chad Grimm comes in at 6 percent in the poll.
In previous Reboot polls, Quinn has trailed Rauner by 10, 14 and 9 points.
Last week, two polls painted different pictures of the governor's race, with one having Rauner with a 6-point lead and another showing Quinn up by 2 points.
The latest Reboot poll was conducted amont 1,097 likely voters and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points. - Chicago Sun-Times, 10/7/14
It's very clear Rauner's campaign is imploding and his business background is hurting him more than helping him:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
A former CEO said that Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner made rather direct threats against her, allegedly saying that if she decided to "go legal" Rauner and his colleagues at the Chicago investment firm GTCR would "hurt you and your family."
Those comments, allegedly made by Rauner to Christine Kirk, were published in a report from The Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday. Rauner's alleged threats were directed at Christine Kirk, a CEO of a national accounting firm who Rauner and GTCR recruited to help run the business-outsourcing company LeapSource. Rauner was a member of LeapSource's board.
The threats the Sun-Times reported came from a 2005 deposition that came out of a "corporate divorce" between Kirk and Rauner as a result of the LeapSource project collapsing. The Chicago Sun-Times was able to obtain records of the lawsuit Kirk filed against Rauner and GTCR. In it Kirk alleged that Rauner very directly threatened her.
"If you go legal on us, we’ll hurt you and your family," Rauner allegedly threatened to Kirk in February 2001.
According to Kirk, Rauner also suggested to another board member, Thomas Gilman, that he might go after her.
"I will bury her," Rauner allegedly said to Gilman. - TPM, 10/7/14
Here are some more details:
http://politics.suntimes.com/...
Her lawsuit against him, GTCR and several of its partners offers a firsthand look into Rauner’s business philosophy. It’s a philosophy Rauner has fine-tuned over the years that he repeatedly has said forms a cornerstone of what kind of Illinois governor he would be as he runs to unseat Gov. Pat Quinn. The lawsuit was settled in 2008 after a judge threw out most of the counts for a variety of legal defects.
The court case provides an unusual window into Rauner’s actions while under the stress of immense financial pressures, his attitude toward claims of hostile work environment and the tactics he employed when it appeared certain that Kirk intended to sue to challenge the start-up’s dismantling.
Kirk alleged in the lawsuit that Rauner threatened her personally and through a LeapSource board member — a claim she made in a sworn deposition. That former LeapSource board member confirmed in a deposition that “threatening things...were said to her” and that he had been involved in some of those conversations. Rauner denied the allegations through a spokesman.
The lawsuit alleged that Rauner told Kirk in February 2001: “If you go legal on us, we’ll hurt you and your family.”
Kirk also alleged that Rauner, wary of a her possibly suing, relayed a similar threat to her a few days earlier through another board member, Thomas Gilman, a consultant and ex-top executive at Chrysler Financial.
“I will bury her,” Rauner is alleged to have told Gilman.
“I will make her radioactive,” Rauner allegedly told Gilman, according to the complaint. “She will never get another job anywhere, ever. I will bankrupt her with legal fees. I don’t know if she has a family or not, but if she does, she better think twice about this.”
Gilman declined to comment.
A federal judge threw out most of the lawsuit, including the counts containing the allegations involving the threats. The judge, though, did not make a determination on the credibility of those allegations.
With part of the case still intact, Kirk and GTCR agreed to settle in 2008, with GTCR agreeing to pay $511,000 to Kirk, Gilman and six other plaintiffs, all of who were LeapSource employees.
What makes the LeapSource case unique among the dozen subsidiaries that went bankrupt during Rauner’s watch at GTCR is that in this case, his own voice is accessible through excerpts of his court deposition — most of which is still under seal — and in transcripts from a series of board meetings that Kirk recorded in her closing weeks as CEO. - Chicago Sun-Times, 10/6/14
And Rauner's lies are being called out:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/...
The most easily disprovable falsehood of this year's gubernatorial campaign also is one that the mainstream media has not bothered to correct, possibly because the purveyors of the tall tale push back so hard when somebody tries to write the facts.
The Associated Press in April uncritically reported a statement by Republican nominee Bruce Rauner, who “criticized Quinn for cutting funding to schools by some $600 million—cuts that led to teacher layoffs and larger class sizes.”
Mr. Rauner then footnoted that AP story in a July television ad: “Quinn cut $500 million, causing teacher layoffs and crowded classrooms”.
Wait. Now it's just $500 million?
If you Google it, you'll see that Mr. Rauner and his surrogates have used the numbers interchangeably most of the year. On Sept. 26, the Illinois Republican Party claimed that Gov. Pat Quinn cut $500 million. Four days later, a Republican state legislative ally used the $600 million figure. - Chicago Crain's Business, 10/6/14
And Quinn has been getting some big name help on the campaign trail:
http://abc7chicago.com/...
First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to headline a campaign rally for Governor Pat Quinn at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago.
Organizers said the first lady is expected to encourage early voting at the event.
Tuesday is the last day for regular voter registration in Illinois. But other types of registration have been extended under a new state law the legislature passed last spring.
Starting Wednesday, voters have a chance to take part in "grace period" registration which runs through Election Day. People registering that way must vote early.
The first lady appears in a Quinn television ad released Monday where she notes the Chicago Democrat's efforts to boost Illinois' minimum wage and outreach to veterans. ABC 7, 10/7/14
I never wrote off Quinn and it's looking like he's coming back from the dead. Anything can happen between now and November and that's why we have to make sure the base comes out for Quinn. Click here to donate and get involved with his campaign:
https://www.quinnforillinois.com/