It's probably mostly because he's governed the same way as, say, Charlie Baker has: as a blue-state Republican. Bruce Rauner never got that message and was your typical confrontational, cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face Republican governor.
I understand your partisan bias, but that's just not true. Rauner was elected - regardless of what anyone says - because Illinoisans do not like where this state is. And they haven't liked it for a long time. Taxes continue to rise along with spending and the debt. Unemployment is ridiculously high. Businesses are leaving for places like Indiana, and everywhere outside of Chicagoland and some rich surrounding "suburbs" of Peoria, Bloomington and Champaign are REALLY hurting (I don't care where the majority of the population is, those people are human beings who the governor can't just leave to waste away) ... is Rauner supposed to do NOTHING to try to fix the state's problems? Everything he tries gets blocked by the retarded legislature that got us in this mess. And now he's some right-winger? GMAFB.
Couldn't agree more. Nobody can say Rauner's ideas havent worked out because he hasn't gotten an opportunity to get a single piece of his agenda implemented. The general assembly has blocked EVERYTHING, absolutely no budging. And unlike Rauner, this assembly is not representing what the people voted for. Their districts are so ridiculously gerrymandered there are no consequences for them blocking every single thing.
