I know that many people don’t find this relevant but all I can do is get the information out, make it Googlable. Who knows, maybe one day it will make a difference.
My university owns a small old airplane it uses to give flying lessons to students at our other campus. Governor Rauner got upset that the plane was used once to transport two university administrators to Springfield to lobby against him and his hijacking of the budget.
So Rauner decided to take revenge on us by refusing to give our most vulnerable students the grants that have been promised to them. The money for the grants is there, sitting in a trust, but Rauner is keeping it hostage to punish us for lobbying against him.
Mind you, this is not something I’m assuming or guessing. This is what Rauner himself told us. We petitioned him to let the students have their grants and he responded that the students will have to live with the consequences of our administrators lobbying against him in Springfield.
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“If I can’t use money against you as a cudgel, what’s the use of it, peasant? There are only so many things I can buy.” – Rauner, probably.
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It’s very shocking that he would so openly declare that refusing the grants to the students is an act of personal vengeance on his part.
What’s even more shocking is that Rauner didn’t confess this to me personally. Thousands of people know about this. But nobody us speaking out.
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It’s very shocking that he would so openly declare that refusing the grants to the students is an act of personal vengeance on his part.
Is it? That’s what people do when they believe they have impunity and immunity. “Why do these dudes videotape themselves committing crimes?” There’s your answer. Rauner has literal sovereign immunity. The worst thing that’s going to happen to him is maybe he loses the next election and he shuffles off to Montana or Utah for a week where nobody from Illinois will be able to reach him if he doesn’t want them there.( I’m sure Rahm is calling him right now for an impromptu family vacation.) Big deal for him.
If you want him to cease doing that and teach him a lesson not to try it again, you hit him where he lives, which is is his money. 🙂 Easier said than done, of course.
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