$53 million man Rauner breaks from GOP pack

Anyone who says money doesn't talk should check out Bruce Rauner's gubernatorial campaign. The near billionaire private equity money mogul, with no political experience, has vaulted into the lead against three well known GOP office holders. How could that happen you ask? Simple. Money talks...and GOP office holders walk...straight to the l...oser's tent. Rauner just revealed he earned $53 million last year. Rauner, who only admits to wealth of "hundreds of millions", has buried his three high profile rivals with $750,000 in self paid TV ads that give his only qualification for office as being a "businessman". He'd be more accurate to say his only qualification is being a billionaire. Rauner's "digs" would put Mitt Romney to shame: 7,000 square foot Winnetka estate; 2 condos, including a Penthouse, overlooking Millennium Park; waterfront Florida Keys villa with a 72 foot pool; ranches in Montana and Utah; Utah sky resort condo; and the piece d résistance...a $10 million Big Apple Central Park coop.

The incumbent Governor Pat Quinn may not even be a millionaire. He has gladly forsaken wealth, that, incidentally, you can't take with you, doing the following good works to improve life for the folks Rauner can't even fathom while ensconced in his Millennium Park Penthouse:

•Restored integrity to the Illinois Governorship
•Passed ILLINOIS JOBS NOW - creating 400,000 jobs over 6 years
•Doubled the Illinois earned income credit
•Signed the Dream Act
•Led $1 billion Illinois clean water initiative
•Passed strong new ethics code
•Abolished much abused political scholarship program
•Abolished the death penalty
•Proposed ban on assault weapons
•Tirelessly championed, then signed, marriage equality in Illinois
•Tirelessly championed, and now close to, a pension reform package

Billionaire Bruce may have enough green stuff to buy just about any house standing except one: The Governor's Mansion.