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AwakeAtLast

(14,124 posts)

10. Dem. IL governors didn't do the Dem party any favors

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:58 AM

Feb 2015

Hello, Blagoiovich? Quinn?

Then you have Chicago Mayor Emmanuel.

My parents and their friends who live in So. IL will never vote for another Dem., ever.

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Don’t Say He Didn’t Warn You: Ultra-Rich Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner Spells Out Anti-Union Agenda [View all] marmar Feb 2015 OP

why would any worker either not vote or vote for a repug? rurallib Feb 2015 #1

In WI Union members voted for Scott (ugh) Walker HelenWheels Feb 2015 #8

Take their guns, enable the LGBT Community too much, cater to minorities especially thugs and kill busterbrown Feb 2015 #14

Dem. IL governors didn't do the Dem party any favors AwakeAtLast Feb 2015 #10

Hello WHO??? dicksmc3 Feb 2015 #16

I guess I was thinking about AwakeAtLast Feb 2015 #24

Maybe nobody asked them to vote for the alternative... brooklynite Feb 2015 #25

If you are a working stiff and you vote republican onecaliberal Feb 2015 #26

Rauner was a known, proven and outspoken prime a=hole. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #2

+ 100 n/t whathehell Feb 2015 #3

He seems like the perfect Republican then. stillwaiting Feb 2015 #20

as a forbes 400 member, he funds both sides. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #21

At least the Dems control both HOuses in Illinois.. that's got to be helpful, eh? Cha Feb 2015 #4

With veto proof majorities MohRokTah Feb 2015 #29

And some wonder why others of us pretty much barf at the notion that the TPP will protect djean111 Feb 2015 #5

It's going to be... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #6

Claims Scarsdale Feb 2015 #9

4 years Rincewind Feb 2015 #27

Thanks for that... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #28

The other day he said Scott Walker was one of his heroes. :puke: MerryBlooms Feb 2015 #7

There is huge fear of the pension obligations...screwing union workers out of pensions HereSince1628 Feb 2015 #11

The only pension problem Illinois has is ... Scuba Feb 2015 #12

They all read the same A.L.E.C. white papers in IL that they read in WI HereSince1628 Feb 2015 #13

30 % of Suburban IL Federation of Teacher Members Voted for Rauner Chasstev365 Feb 2015 #15

Rauner wants to prohibit unions from donating to election campaigns Martin Eden Feb 2015 #17

i liked rod b as gov questionseverything Feb 2015 #23

Rauner : friend of Rahm, purported Republican who funds Democrats, corrupt insider. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #18

We just call him ruiner ....thank God for the stronghold of dems..leave the gov part off just ruiner Thekaspervote Feb 2015 #19

du rec. xchrom Feb 2015 #22