Illinois GOPer admits $100,000 wine club fee as Dem opponent tries to live on minimum wage

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/03/illinois-goper-admits-100000-wine-club-fee-as-dem-opponent-tries-to-live-on-minimum-wage/



Illinois GOPer admits $100,000 wine club fee as Dem opponent tries to live on minimum wage
By David Edwards
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 13:21 EDT

Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor in Illinois, reluctantly admitted this week that he had joined a wine club with $140,0000 membership fees.

While Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn was participating in a challenge to live on the Illinois minimum wage of $8.25 an hour, WMAQ on Tuesday asked Rauner if he belonged to the Napa Valley Reserve because he was pictured with a bottle from the exclusive winery in a recent profile.

“Do you belong to a wine club that cost $100,000 to be a member of?” the reporter asked.

“I have many investments, I’m a member of many clubs,” Rauner laughed, waving his hand dismissively.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. "...waving his hand dismissively."

Prick.

[Freethinker65]

2. ...but he wears a Timex

Nt

[mwooldri]

21. Off topic but wearing a Timex to me is so GOP.

Union busting company... didn't want to negotiate with the unions... The workers went on strike, Timex fired the strikers, hired strikebreakers... and ended up shutting down the factory 6 months later when management could not deliver a compliant non-union workforce.

Google "Timex Dundee"... I know it's back in 1993 but still....

I won't knowingly buy Timex products.

Back to the OP.... great way to show to the electorate how in touch they are with the community... but then it probably doesn't matter if Koch money gets involved.

[global1]

3. Quinn's Living On Minimum Wage Is Being Criticized As A Stunt......

They've completely turned around his effort to boost the minimum wage in Illinois and labeled it a political stunt - while the money that Rauner has looks like it is buying him this election. Again - people are being influenced by political ads and MSM reporting - rather than really understanding what is going on in this state and understanding the issues.

Quinn is a good person and has been a good Governor considering the mess he was left in after Blago was put in jail.

Instead - the way the polls are going right now we'll wind up with a Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan type Governor and government here in Illinois.

I wonder what the laws are in Illinois to recall a Governor. I'm afraid if Rauner wins this upcoming election it won't take the people long to realize the mistake they will have made and begin a recall campaign.

Oh - and did I say that Rahm E - mayor of Chicago is friends with Rauner.

Check out this link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/chi-rauner-declines-to-say-how-personal-relationship-with-emanuel-will-affect-political-one-20140902-story.html

[kysrsoze]

5. HA! I saw that article and thought... "Birds of a feather..."

Rahm is no friend of the common man.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Well ...

when a politician, during an election cycle, lives on minimum wage (temporarily) in order to boost attention to his efforts to increase the minimum wage ... it is a "political stunt"; a worthy stunt, but a stunt none-the-less.

[daleanime]

27. At least it shows....

that he's aware of the problem.

[1StrongBlackMan]

29. No doubt. eom.

[kysrsoze]

4. This joker is running almost exclusively on term limits

But it's so plainly obvious he has no real solutions to any of the state's financial problems or any other issues. He's more concerned with making sure the scheduled income tax rollback sticks (because he doesn't like to pay taxes) than fixing the pension funding issue or stimulating job growth. And there are still a bunch of suckers who are willing to vote for him.

[murielm99]

10. His term limits b.s. was defeated recently,

and the proposed bill was declared unconstitutional.

http://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_Term_Limits_for_Legislators_Amendment_(2014)

Quinn tried to get term limits years ago, and failed.

What that idiot Rauner is not telling people is that the bill includes more than term limits. He wants to reduce the size of the state senate, and add more state reps. That is also in the bill. That would require a constitutional amendment. He wants to make the change to the number of reps and senators, IMO, to pack the legislature with repubbies from wealthy and/or rural parts of the state.

[packman]

6. I belong to Cheap Wines of the Month Club

Membership $5.95 a month - September's bottle- Ripple Red brewed in East Chicago, 2013.

[ReRe]

8. ...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

12. Here is a picture of packman's wine cellar

[packman]

25. You're so wrong

My trailer does NOT have a cellar. We keep our wines in a styrofoam ice-block cooler in back of the pick-up.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

30. I notice that you don't deny the brand of wine.

[packman]

31. All good bouquets -

Pleasing to the tongue with a slight touch of anti-freeze to round out the somewhat over-powering aroma of fermented frog legs. Slightly reminiscent of Thunderbirds classic bottling of rot-gut '76. I am saving two bottles for the upcoming nuptials of first-cousin Jeese to my youngest one.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

32. That reminds me of my brother-in-law at my wedding rehearsal dinner.

My wife and I got married in 1973. The rehearsal dinner was at a pretty classy restaurant, where her brother asked the waitress if they had Thunderbird. The look on my father's face was priceless. (My father was something of a wine snob.)

I will say that my brother-in-law's taste in wine has improved since then.

[47of74]

33. Mine too.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

34. Incidentally, I shouldn't talk

Since I have multiple bottles of Two-Buck Chuck that I get at Trader Joe's.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Mr billionaire has very little chance of winning illinois

Even down state which is much poorer and redder doesn't think much of the guy

[ReRe]

9. K&R for EXPOSURE!

That "man" will never win this election. NOT Illinois. Never. What a POS!

[murielm99]

11. Don't be so sure.

The state Democratic party is worried about this election. I have been phone banking for Quinn, and I really can't tell how things are going. I am just trying to GOTV for Quinn.

I hope Madigan is already at work finding a way to put this fool in jail. He is a crook already. He does not need to be elected Governor of Illinois to prove that. I wish they could put him in jail now, and save the state the time and money it will take to try and incarcerate another Illinois governor.

Even if he is elected, the Democratic majority here will not work with him. He has already, on two occasions, threatened to shut down the state government if he cannot get his way. We saw how well that worked out for the federal repubbies and the the economy, didn't we? Illinois is in fragile enough financial shape without this nonsense.

[ReRe]

13. Relax!

Have a little faith. Stop listening to the naysayers. If you live in Illinois, GOTV. Wipe out the negative stuff they've been pumping out.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

15. I suspect that Rauner will be elected

Remember Unruh's Law, "Money is the mother's milk of politics"? Jesse Unruh, who spent over 30 years in California politics, was speaking from experience.

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. Remember Meg Whitman?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

17. True. She spent over $300 million on the California governor's race

And still lost. Of course, she had a lot of baggage -- she opposed gay marriage, was a climate change denier and so on.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. He's generating baggage of his own. Hope Illinoians Sour for Rauner!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. So do I

Why is it that rich people think they should enter politics at the top. Rauner has never held office, and is trying for governor, just like Meg Whitman did. Ross Perot's first try for office was the Presidency. David Koch's one run was for Vice President.

In 1961, then House Speaker Sam Rayburn looked at the people around JFK, all from industry or academia, and remarked that he wished at least one of them had run for dogcatcher or something like that.

[toby jo]

20. 140k for a wine club??? Christ, I wonder what his country club dues are?

Somebody needs to find the list and get it out in front of the people.

[markmyword]

23. Rauner Relates to the 1% Not Me!

Rauner made his billions like Mitt Romney buying a company loading it with debt, it goes into bankruptcy, or they out source the jobs. His company is paid fees every step of the way.

He also made millions when he invested union pension funds, but now he wants to privatize the pensions so workers have to open a 401k!

He said he'd TAX Social Security, now he's having second thoughts about that. What does he want seniors to live on?

He doesn't believe in ANY minimum wage, but now he's changed his mind on that too!

All the Chicago ads have Rauners wife saying how great he is. I've never seen a politicians wife do political ads like this. Is she running for office?

Who knows who Rauners running mate is, we never see her, she's tucked away and out of sight.
I thinks she's Hispanic and a college professor? She's suppose to get the spanish vote?

What else does Rauner stand for?

The 1%, a membership in a wine club for $140,000, seven luxury homes, ranches out west, 23,000 acres of land, private jets, having secret bank accounts in the Caymans, friends with Rahm Emmanuel and family who went to his Montana ranch, Arne Duncan who pulled a few strings and got his daughter into Walter Payton Academy, and then donated $250,000 to the school as a thank you.
Oh Rauner wants term limits , and he won't raise taxes, but he'll let your local communities do that dirty work. THATS ALL I know about the guy.
I just wish he'd go away, Illinois doesn't need another Scott Walker!

[Skittles]

37. worthy of its own thread

yup

[kysrsoze]

28. Where are the Quinn campaign ads highlighting this huge piece of red Rauner meat?

They should be running this a LOT, along with all his other negatives. I do applaud Quinn's positivity, but Rauner doesn't care and has often (incorrectly) put Quinn on the defensive.

[RoccoRyg]

22. AFSCME

I work for the state here in Illinois, and the people in AFSCME are really scared. We've been warned about Rauner's vows to shut down the government and fire state employees that he made behind closed doors, similar to Romney's infamous 47% tape. If this corporate parasite is elected, we're all in for some dark times.

[lunasun]

24. He shared one of those wines with Rahm. Read the article

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-rahm-emanuel-bruce-rauner-20140829-story.html#page=1

[Stellar]

26. And he had the nerve to have his wife, 'the lifelong Democrat' as she called

herself in the Ad, out pushing Ads for him.

Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor in Illinois, reluctantly admitted this week that he had joined a wine club with $140,0000 membership fees.

She once was a Democrat and she's trying to convince other Dems to vote for him? Witch please!

[Stuart G]

35. Please don't let this rich scumbag get in...

Pat Quinn has had a boatload of problems since he took over for Blago...the sell the senate seat gov.. He is an honest decent person in a very tough job....Rauner is just another rich republican jerk...

[lunasun]

36. They are neck in neck Quinn needs help downstate and all collar counties of Chicago gotv

Any contributions from out of state for Illinois and Quinn as he is running against a Walker Romney Scott hybrid who has more money
Don't let them take Illinois . We have seen the other greet lake states deteriorate with pukes in charge
.the Great Lakes are one of the largest groups of freshwater on earth. Lake Michigan will all be under repukes .
So it is not just the state but the region that can use support this fall

Quinn does not have much support from Chicago's mayor because Quinn as you say is honest and decent so they do not get along. Usually the mayor machine could bring out the votes to counter downstate

Plus Robner and Rahm have banking connections

I do not think the rest of the country realizes what kind of scum bagger is running here

For instance Robner wants to lower the minimum wage in Il
that is right lower
He did not want any min wage at first then some handlers must of told him to go light and he keeps changing the story but you know this type wants private slave labor or near
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/09/04/vallas-renews-quinn-campaign-attack-on-rauners-minimum-wage-stance/

[redstatebluegirl]

39. Was raised in the middle of Illinois politics.

It is a spectator sport, but truth is, Democrats have to get out the Chicago vote to win. Downstate has always been a different cat. When Chicago numbers are down, Democrats lose the governorship every time. The further south in the state you get the deeper the shade of red.

[redstatebluegirl]

38. Two Buck Chuck at our house!

It can double as bathtub cleaner