Comment: Sure didn’t take him long to start changing his story.

More than half a million voters in collar counties voted in favor of blocking the General Assembly from creating a statewide property tax, despite there being no such tax proposed.

Comment: Notables include Michael Sacks — Rahm’s favorite finance guy and the one who brought us the idea of the $10B Chicago pension obligation bond, and Jim Edgar — currently making nobody-knows-how-much as Chairman of one of the companies that buys payables owed by the state of Illinois.

“Here’s the first step: Mend the fracture between establishment and conservative Republicans — Rauner supporters and those who backed his primary opponent, Rep. Jeanne Ives — and begin the rebuilding process. Find common ground and bury old grudges. Coalesce around new, fresh leadership in the House and Senate.”