Rauner role model for Illinois governance? Ted Cruz

Gov. Bruce Rauner may be a one per center who spent, with his nine fellow one percenters, $65 million to buy the governorship, and then amassed another $40 million stash to influence legislators and local officials. But the super rich are not his true role model for implementing his vision of anti-union, anti-prevailing wage and anti-workman's comp agenda. It's really Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose ideological fanaticism ins...pired the 2013 GOP federal government shutdown to derail Obamacare, which threw the country into chaos for 15 days, and inflicted a $24 billion hit to the economy before Cruz capitulated. Having tasted shutdown blood once, Cruz tried again this year using the GOP demonization of Planned Parenthood, but failed to bring along enough Republicans to pull off Shutdown 2015. Even his fellow ideological fanatics had enough of his governing malfeasance.

Enter Bruce Rauner, the billionaire political novice, who sought the Illinois governorship to unseat progressive Pat Quinn in 2013, vowing to 'shake up Springfield.' Many naïve voters bought that message, never imagining Rauner would implement a 'slow motion' shutdown of Illinois finances and governance for 11 months now with no end in sight. All the pain of this 'shutdown light' has fallen on workers, the poor, the needy; while the Rauner class sails along in typical resplendent luxury. Read the press, in the tank for this heartless austerity, and it's easy to blame the Democratic majority for this year long saga of our chaotically sailing, budgetless ship of state. You will simply not learn from them that the legislature passed a budget in May that Rauner vetoed for non-budgetary reasons: the legislature wouldn't pass Rauner's hurtful, purely political, austerity agenda. The budget having a deficit was not an issue. Without Rauner's shutdown mentality, the two sides would simply meet solely to discuss responsible spending cuts combined with responsible revenue increases to achieve a legal, balanced budget. Rauner's response was to hold up that normal, responsible process till the legislature implements his non-budgetary agenda. After months of wrangling the two sides finally met December 1. Rauner used his public statement time to re-iterate: No Rauner agenda, no budget.
Rauner hasn't declared his choice for the GOP presidential nominee. He's too busy orchestrating his slow motion Illinois shutdown using the infantile shutdown principles of Sen. Cruz. Least you think Rauner supports fellow billionaire and blowhard Donald Trump, think again. Ideologically, Rauner's governance most closely mirrors, the Prince of Shutdown, Ted Cruz.