By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(SPRINGFIELD) In the Springfield budget standoff, Governor Rauner is on the attack, again.  This time, against Senate president John Cullerton on the subject of school aid.

“President Cullerton and some others have made a threat,” said Governor Rauner. “They’ve basically said, publicly,  ‘We won’t support funding schools, unless we come up with a plan to bailout Chicago.’  This is a big deal – big deal.  That is not fair to the students and the families of Illinois, that we hold up school funding for a Chicago restructuring and a bailout. Chicago Public Schools has been mismanaged for decades,” said the Governor.

Even if Rauner’s claim is half-true, he’s asking the Democrats to give up their leverage when the governor won’t give up his own with his Turnaround Agenda.

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