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- New Jersey governor Chris Christie joined Bruce Rauner, the GOP candidate for Illinois governor, to engage in a little Pat Quinn bashing.
Bruce Rauner wanted to talk about how Governor Pat Quinn’s policies have allowed corruption and crime to become “rampant” in some parts of Illinois.
It’s also a state that’s hundreds of miles from the bridge where his aides reportedly jammed traffic for days to retaliate against a political foe.
On Tuesday he and Christie held court after meeting with Hispanic clergy at a Humboldt Park church. “Hispanic families are suffering in Illinois,” Rauner said.
But Rauner wasn’t engaged in that debate until the horrific shooting made headlines and his team tried to pin it on Quinn. It’s one of many issues that’s been ignored as the candidates spend their time walloping each other.
Rauner stuck to his script when reporters asked him about this again Tuesday, saying he wasn’t directly involved with the nursing homes and that he didn’t believe his old firm, GTCR, would be found culpable.
