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- Bruce Rauner is a tough guy to defend.
As part of his resolution to show pity on me in the coming year, CAN TV host Ken Davis invited me to appear on his show, thus getting me out of my home where, stricken with the flu, I had remained hidden in isolation for over a week.
My greatest challenge came when I offered to defend Bruce Rauner’s ever-shifting position on the minimum wage.
The best I could come up with is that Rauner was for cutting the minimum wage before he was for raising it, and now it’s one of those things where he’ll have to get back to you to explain what he thinks.
For those living in a cave, he’s the governor of New Jersey whose aides closed three access ramps to the George Washington Bridge in order to punish the people of a nearby town whose mayor had not endorsed Christie’s reelection.
I will now quote just one of my favorite passages from that column: “It’s almost physical. Christie relies on power and mass. Emanuel relies on dexterity and speed. Both have begun their administrations in spectacular fashion.”
