Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday likened his old friend, Gov. Bruce Rauner, to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and condemned Rauner’s blame-game tour of the state.Rahm sure liked getting campaign contributions from Donald Trump.
“Schools across Illinois need a leader and instead, Bruce Rauner is following the Donald Trump playbook of demonizing one group of people for his political advantage,” the mayor was quoted as saying in an emailed statement.
“Yesterday, people across the state were looking for solutions. Instead of uniting, the governor was dividing. Instead of leading, he was playing politics, pitting parents and students in one part of the state against parents and students in another.”
Rauner responded to the comparison at an appearance in Itasca on Thursday afternoon, likening the mayor’s words to that of Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who frequently speaks out about the governor.
“I don’t know where all these goofy personal attacks come from,” Rauner said. “That’s not helpful. Sometimes I think Rahm has taken his speaking lessons from Karen or something. This is not helpful. This is not helpful. We’ve got to focus on the facts and what’s constructive.”
The mayor’s decision to use Trump’s name in vain — again — comes one day after a Hollywood Reporter story that quoted Trump as claiming that Emanuel’s brother, Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, is a “very good friend of mine” who “calls me a lot.”
Friday, June 03, 2016
Emanuel likens Rauner to Donald Trump for blame-game tour
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
