Capital Business: Former Gov. Bruce Rauner looks back on four embattled years in Springfield. – Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

"Politics is 'brutally hard—it’s nasty, it’s dirty and ugly,' he tells me in our first discussion, at the end of December. 'There’s a big sacrifice. I lost 22 pounds and most of my hair in the four years. The stress level—worrying about the well-being of twelve-and-a-half-million people all day every day while the press is kicking the stuffing out of me every day and my enemies are trying to kill me every day—oh my goodness, it was hard. But I loved most of it—I mean, 80 to 90 percent of it I loved.'"
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debtsor
2 years ago

This article is a thinly veiled hit piece against a bonafide reformer governor who happened to have the R label next to his name. I feel stupider for even reading it. Selective quotes, attacks at his governing style, a complete ignoring of the factors that led to his ineffective tenure, not a single mention of Mike Madigan who made the political decision to smoke him out for four years. I hate journalists and reporters. I can’t believe I wasted 4 minutes of my life reading that article. But Bruce, if you’re reading this, Thank you for your service. Illinois doesn’t… Read more »

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