Rauner's radical departure from Republican moderation in Illinois

Gov. Rauner is eighteen months into an unprecedented assault on the core purposes of state government: providing for the commons, delivering those services as efficiently as possible, and investing in education, infrastructure and tourism to make Illinois a nationwide model of thriving economic growth.

Sadly, state media has ignored that Rauner's vision for Illinois is a radical departure of promoting those core requirements that has never before been abandoned by traditional Republican leaders such as Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar and George Ryan. Rauner treats every investment in the future as something to be cut. He's endangered and worsened the lifestyle of a million Illinoisans dependent on the social safety net that Rauner cuts instead of repairing. He's telling the investment community to dis-invest in Illinois with his refusal to pass a budget, holding it up for his anti union, anti prevailing wage planks that have nothing to do with the budgetary process. He's dis-investing in education, forcing many future leaders and entrepreneurs to educate elsewhere which results in 70% staying in the state that actually values education.

It is imperative we sensible Illinoisans turn Rauner back to the private sector in 2018 so he can resume breaking up companies to increase his obscene wealth. Bruce Rauner must be stopped from completing his breakup of Illinois.