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Snarkoleptic

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11. Rauner used to own a 10% stake in Wrapports, LLC , which owns the Sun Times.

Reply to ChairmanAgnostic (Reply #9)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 09:20 AM

Oct 2014

He sold his stake just before announcing his candidacy for Governor.

It would seem that his influence lingers on as noted in reply #7 above about intimidating a Sun Times journalist.
And then there's this sudden policy reversal.

After insisting for nearly three years that it would no longer endorse candidates for political office, the Sun-Times is reversing itself and formally backing Republican Bruce Rauner for governor.

http://www.robertfeder.com/

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Will the Real Bruce Rauner Please Stand Up? [View all] Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 OP

He is a special kind of dick marym625 Oct 2014 #1

Some of the new Quinn ads are reall scorchers- Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #2

Those are good ads. Between those and the info in the OP, it's surprising more people haven't seen Louisiana1976 Oct 2014 #3

Rauner has a seemingly bottomless pit of money he's shoveling Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #5

We get 4 or 5 different phone calls from "different" orginaizations Drale Oct 2014 #8

I know four precinct committeemen here who are absolutely refusing to support Rauner. ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #4

the suntimes and trib endorsements are a real disappointment to say the least mucifer Oct 2014 #6

I suspect those were bought and paid for, just like the majority of Rauners supprt structure. Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #7

The Trib was no surprise. But the Suntimes? Endorsing Rauner? ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2014 #9

I have a very bad feeling about this. mucifer Oct 2014 #10

Rauner used to own a 10% stake in Wrapports, LLC , which owns the Sun Times. Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #11

Ok thank you snark and rob feeder . We were just trying to figure out at home why the lunasun Oct 2014 #12

The corporatocracy is.alive and well. Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #13

GROPING? Someone should follow Rauner around with a videocamera. NOW. raging moderate Oct 2014 #14

In private moments, I imagine him saying "boundaries are for saps and little people" Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #15