{"id":2375,"date":"2014-10-24T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2014-10-24T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:50:16","slug":"rauner-and-the-sun-times-whats-happening-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/rauner-and-the-sun-times-whats-happening-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Rauner and the Sun-Times: What’s Happening Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What the heck is going on with this Sun-Times\/McKinney story in the governor’s race? \u00a0Here’s a summary from the Quinn campaign (received yesterday). \u00a0I was particularly interested in the resignation letter from reporter Dave McKinney<\/a>. \u00a0Troubling.<\/p>\n

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The 411 on the McKinney Story<\/h1>\n

You probably saw:<\/p>\n

Dave McKinney, the veteran reporter for the Sun Times<\/em>, resigned yesterday in the wake of Bruce Rauner’s attempts to silence his reporting. Read his letter.<\/a><\/p>\n

McKinney has been covering this race and broke the story about LeapSource, Bruce Rauner’s outsourcing company.\u00a0As a reminder, this is a story about Bruce Rauner firing a CEO for not laying off enough people, and then threatening her and her family in an attempt to bully her into not suing for wrongful termination.<\/p>\n

There’s more …<\/p>\n

It turns out that Rauner tried to use his influence as a former part-owner of the Sun-Times<\/em> to discredit McKinney and his wife in retaliation, and McKinney was taken off his beat, shortly after breaking this story.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Sun Times<\/em> reversed it’s three-year policy of not endorsing political candidates and endorsed Bruce Rauner without ever interviewing Governor Quinn.<\/p>\n

So …<\/p>\n

Still wondering who the Real Bruce Rauner is?<\/p>\n

Here are some of the people talking about this:<\/strong><\/p>\n