Wonkette: Bruce Rauner (GOP IL Gov cand.) makes an ad featuring a 20-year-old VW camper van [View all]
This crap's almost as funny as the commercial where Rauner's wife claims to be a lifelong Democrat--despite the fact she's contributed 3 times as much money to Republican candidates over the years as she has to any others.
The Rauners are just the Romneys minus the charm and common touch.
He brags that the van not that hed call it by its EUROVAN model name has nearly 200,000 miles on it, and says, My kids call it the rolling trashcan. I call it reliable. Because Bruce Rauner knows that living simply is the way to go, a lesson that surely rubbed off on his daughter in 2009 when Rauner donated $250,000 to an elite public high school. That completely magnanimous gift and a personal phone call from Rauner to the principal mysteriously changed the girls application status from rejected to Oh please come and drink deeply from the font of knowledge, to which we have affixed a plaque thanking your daddy for his generosity. Again, this is just an example of what a regular everyday guy Bruce Rauner is. Some parents pitch in with setup for the choirs annual Madrigal Dinner, and some contribute a quarter-million dollars to their daughters school.
And just to drive home the important point that he knows the value of a dollar, or several billion of them, a radio interview from January of this year has surfaced in which Rauner acknowledged that he once supported eliminating the minimum wage, although he does not think so anymore, because he has been convinced that its {del}economically{/del} politically unwise:
I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage as part of increasing Illinois competitiveness. Ive said that many times, Rauner told WJBC host Scott Laughlin.
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