Ask the people of North Lawndale...about Bruce Rauner

Gov. Rauner habitually and falsely disparages his Democratic opponents to explain away his governing failures. But when challenged during a Crain's Chicago Business interview to explain substantial Chicago job growth under Mayor Emanuel, Rauner added the entire African American community to his false disparagement. His answer, "Ask the people of North Lawndale about Chicago job growth" was breathtaking in its insensitivity to the community most adversely impacted by his withholding a state budget for two and a half years. That act of refusing to implement the most important element of state governance; funding critical social, health, education and economic growth services, had devastating effect on Chicago's poorest communities. Jobs lost, day care and health services shuttered, school resources withdrawn all resulted from a war of spite Rauner initiated to extort anti union, anti worker provisions from the Democratic legislature that had no chance of being passed. Rauner's comment implied that only he was concerned about the lack of job growth in minority communities, when his conduct exacerbated the economic despair for the folks ten years of prosperity has bypassed. Instead of demeaning Democratic governance, Gov. Rauner should visit North Lawndale and ask the people about supporting his re election. The silence will be deafening.