By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan has opened a criminal investigation into Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s handling of the Legionaries disease crisis that killed 14 at the Quincy Veterans Home. Meanwhile, Rauner and his challenger JB Pritzker sniped at each other about it at another feisty debate Wednesday night at ABC7.
Rauner said he took time to sound the alarm at Quincy to avoid panic and get the solutions right.
Pritzker pounced, “This was a cover-up all along. Remember that Gov Rauner knew about this. Days went by without notifying people. People got sick as a result of that.”
And then Rauner pounced on Pritzker, “Mr. Pritzker, shame on you for politicizing the health care challenges of our veterans! Our veterans are our heroes. They deserve our utmost support and you are politicizing this for your own personal gain.”
Rauner also got personal, “He is trying to buy the governorship to be something for the first time in his life because if he wasn’t a trust fund baby, he would be nuthin’!”
The latest independent poll has Rauner trailing by 22 points.
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