Illinois guv race: Rauner sums up Pat Quinn's failures in Metro East

Republican gubenatorial candidate Bruce Rauner's "Broken Promises" tour brought him to Illinois' Metro East area, where he precisely summed up the failures of the incumbent, Chicago Democrat Pat Quinn.

From the Belleville News-Democrat:

"Under Pat Quinn, our bonds, our credit rating, has been downgraded in Illinois 13 times. We're a massive economic failure. What he doesn't understand, and what his allies don't understand, is we cannot tax and spend our way out of our problems," Rauner said.

He added: "We need to grow our way out of our problems. We need to implement a balanced budget now, and we don't need a tax increase to do that."

Rauner said Quinn and Democrats sold the tax increase as something that was needed temporarily to put the state's finances back on solid footing.

"And they've done nothing to fix the problems," Rauner said. "We still have almost $7 billion in unpaid bills."

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