Wonkette: Bruce Rauner (GOP IL Gov cand.) makes an ad featuring a 20-year-old VW camper van

[Gidney N Cloyd]

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 he’d 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 girl’s 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 choir’s annual Madrigal Dinner, and some contribute a quarter-million dollars to their daughter’s 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 it’s {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. I’ve said that many times,” Rauner told WJBC host Scott Laughlin.


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[Fred Sanders]

1. Damn those infernal voice recording machines!

“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. I’ve said that many times,” Rauner told WJBC host Scott Laughlin, in a January radio interview.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. Here's more on our very own Rick Scott.

http://illinoisfreedom.com/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. That's a great site!

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Yeah, they do a nice job exposing Rauner for the fraud he is.

In one of his earlier ads, Rauner (who's a billionaire) shows off his $17 plastic Timex watch in attempt to get people to think he's just like them.

[murielm99]

5. Quinn has answered him with a very clever ad

in which he drives a van made in Illinois by the newly hired workers here, reflecting the growth in our economy. I love it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Oh my gosh, I've seen it and didn't even make the new Ford/old VW connection.

That was clever.
I think Quinn comes off well in all his commercials. He seems like a person of both substance and character.

[murielm99]

7. I know that Madigan has made fun of

the cheap old watch commercials. He was doing that in person at Governor's Day. (Madigan keeps out of the spotlight).

I thought the push lawn mower commercial may have been a subtle jab, too. The push mower saves energy and shows frugality, without being self-righteous.

I don't know where you are, but I have been phone banking for Quinn. I go every Wednesday night. There are different nights in different parts of the state.

p.s. I love the way Quinn says, "I'm driving" in the Ford spot.