By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) In an interview with Bill Cameron for Sunday’s “Connected to Chicago” show, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is calling Governor Rauner “evil.”

When discussing Rauner’s promise to veto pension money for Chicago Public Schools because he thinks it’s a Chicago bailout, Preckwinkle dispensed with attempt at diplomacy saying “A profoundly inept and mean-spirited governor. I’ve lived in Chicago for 50 years. In that time Jim Thompson was governor, Jim Edgar, George Ryan. I disagreed with them sometimes, but I never thought they were unfit for their jobs or evil people. That’s where I am with this governor and it’s profoundly disturbing.”

When presses if she really meant to characterize the governor as :evil”, Preckwinkle responded, “Yes, this is a person who cut funding for autism programs on National Austism Day.”

For his part, Rauner is promising to veto the money for Chicago in order to “provide adequate and equitable funding for students in Illinois no matter their zip code.”

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