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“Rauner’s Broken Record” tour


The Democratic Governors Association wants to add to its ranks – specifically, in Illinois.

A “Rauner’s Broken Record” tour began in Springfield Tuesday, with other stops scheduled in Carbondale and Peoria, to call attention to what Democrats say are reasons to vote Gov. Bruce Rauner (pictured) out of office in 2018.

DGA Illinois spokesman Sam Salustro said his group is not endorsing a particular candidate in the primary.

How will Salustro and his cohorts counter Rauner’s messaging and the finances he has to fuel it?

“The Illinois voters … will not forget the fact that, for two years, Gov. Rauner failed to pass a budget. He was in charge of the negotiations, and he could not get a budget done,” Salustro told a news conference outside the fence surrounding the Executive Mansion as work crews busied themselves on renovating the building and grounds on the other side. “He could not compromise. If he wanted to get something done, he would have.”

From a wheelchair, Missy Norman, born with spina bifida, outlined how Rauner’s policies, had all of them been enacted, would have made her ineligible for home health care.

“Make no mistake, any attack on the people who provide these services is an attach on those of us who receive them,” she said.

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