SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner (ROW’-nur) says Gov. Pat Quinn’s annual address to the Legislature was “a campaign speech from a governor that is failing the people of Illinois.”
Rauner spoke following the Chicago Democrat’s State of the State address Wednesday in Springfield.
The Winnetka businessman says Quinn has been in office for five years and is now proposing a new five-year plan for jobs. Rauner notes Illinois has one of the country’s highest unemployment rates and higher income taxes than when Quinn took office.
Rauner says Illinois is in an “economic death spiral” and Quinn “is trying to cover it up and put a rosy picture on it.”
Rauner is facing Republican state Sens. Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady and Treasurer Dan Rutherford (ROOTH’-ur-furd) in the March primary.
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