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Bruce Rauner
Bruce Vincent Rauner is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he had a decades-long career in investment management before entering politics, serving as the co-founder and chairman of Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR. As of 2026, Rauner and his lieutenant governor Evelyn San…
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Born 18 February 1957 · Q15972549
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Chicago Tribune: Former Gov. Bruce Rauner jokes as his Capitol portrait’s unveiled: ‘Most gentlemen hanging here did not go to prison’
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2021· 1 entry
Rauner made a $250,000 campaign donation to Ron DeSantis in March 2021.
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2018· 22 entries
Election lost: 2018 re-election campaign.
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Published video “Bruce's Childhood Home (Deerfield) | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “"Unholy Union" | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “Bruce & Diana on Illinois' Future | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “"Discrimination" | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “What They're Saying: Pritzker Staff Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Their Own Campaign”.
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Published video “Pritzker: Tax Hike Must be "Negotiated with Legislature"”.
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Published video “Bruce Rauner Joins Steve Cochran Radio, 10/15/2018”.
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Claimed: “"For decades, Madigan kept property taxes high and made a fortune helping cronies like Pritzker dodge them."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Published video “Brewskis with Bruce Ep. 2 | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “"Change Doesn't Come Easy" | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Published video “"Scheme To Defraud" | Bruce Rauner | Illinois”.
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Claimed: “"J.B. Pritzker’s tax plan" includes a "new tax per mile you drive with government tracking device."” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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PBS: Candidate Free Time 2018: Bruce Rauner
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Claimed: “"Newspapers have framed this election as my fight against the Illinois mafia."” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Rauner narrowly won the Republican primary, with 52% of the vote; Ives received 48% of the vote
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PolitiFact rated the claim “"Rauner made you pay for abortions in all nine months of pregnancy."” False.
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Rauner officiated the wedding of a same-sex couple
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Campaign: 2018 re-election campaign.
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Narrowly fended off a primary challenge from conservative State Representative Jeanne Ives
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Rauner called for the death penalty to be revived along with imposing it on people convicted of killing police officers
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After losing the 2018 election, Rauner moved to Florida.
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2017· 12 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “"I released way more (tax) information than Bruce Rauner has."” False.
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The United States Department of Justice announced that a preliminary conclusion had been reached that Illinois was now a sanctuary jurisdiction in violation of 8 U
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Claimed: ““I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor.”” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Earning him harsh criticism from conservative Republicans
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Claimed: “"My grandparents were proud immigrants to the United States of America, here to Illinois in the late 1800s. My grandparents did not speak English when they were young."” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Rauner signed a revised version of the automatic voter registration bill
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Rauner signed a bill into law that prohibited state and local police from arresting anyone solely due to their immigration status or due to federal detainers
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Claimed: “As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago’s broken teacher pension system.” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"Our families have the highest property taxes in the country. We must change this."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Says he presented "a balanced budget."” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005, costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Rauner signed Senate Bill 1947, which moved Illinois to an "evidence-based model" of education funding, taking into account each district's individual needs, as well as its local revenue sources, when appropriating state
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2016· 4 entries
A Winnebago County Circuit Judge issued a preliminary injunction, which temporarily prohibited the State of Illinois from enforcing the law after it went into effect on January 1, 2017
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Rauner vetoed a bill that would have automatically registered as a voter anyone in Illinois who sought a new or updated drivers license as well as other services, unless they chose to opt out
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Just before the beginning of the next fiscal year, Rauner signed a temporary bipartisan stopgap budget that would allow public schools to continue operating for an additional year and for necessary state services to cont
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Rauner confirmed that he would run for a second term; he formally announced his re-election campaign on October 23, 2017
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2015· 9 entries
Illinois became the first state in the US to explicitly punish boycotts of Israel as the bill SB 1761 was signed into law by Rauner
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Rauner vetoed the Illinois state budget passed by the legislature, which would have created a deficit of nearly $4 billion but which covered what Illinois Democratic lawmakers called "vital services"
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Rauner signed an executive order blocking so called "fair share" union fees from state employee paychecks
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Rauner signed legislation banning the use of conversion therapy on minors
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Suspended the Illiana project, pending a cost-benefit review
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The income tax increase automatically decreased, with the personal income tax rate falling from 5% to 3
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Which gradually declined during his term
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Rauner reported earning over $180 million
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Career landmark: Governor of Illinois (2015–2019).
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2014· 9 entries
Institutional Investor: The 2014 Pension 40: Bruce Rauner
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Rauner was elected Governor of Illinois; Pat Quinn conceded defeat the next day
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Election won: 2014 gubernatorial election.
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Dave McKinney, a Chicago Sun-Times political reporter and bureau chief, resigned from the paper, citing pressure brought to bear on him by Sun-Times management with regard to his coverage of Rauner
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Said that he had no comment on same-sex marriage but would not change the law legalizing gay marriages
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“government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures”
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Rauner's election campaign was helped financially by Kenneth C
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Campaign: 2014 gubernatorial election.
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Rauner stated that he opposed the existing Illinois law that restricted abortion coverage under Medicaid and the state employee health plan
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2013· 4 entries
Rauner stated that he would favor reducing Illinois's minimum wage from $8
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Rauner officially announced his candidacy for governor, telling Chicago magazine's Carol Felsenthal that his platform would include overhauling tax policy and freezing property taxes
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Rauner opened an office for a self-financed venture firm, R8 Capital Partners
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“s minimum wage from $8.25 to the federal minimum wage of $7.25. The Chicago Sun-Times also uncovered video of Rauner at a campaign event in September 2013, where he said that he was”
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2012· 1 entry
Rauner shifted his focus from business to civic and political involvement, leading Chicago's tourism bureau and the Chicago Public Education Fund
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2003· 1 entry
Rauner received the Daley Medal from the Illinois Venture Capital Association for extraordinary support to the Illinois economy and was given the Association for Corporate Growth's Lifetime Achievement Award
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1994· 1 entry
And the lowest percentage of the vote received by a Republican candidate since 1912
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1988· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Governor Rauner has called every year for eliminating funding for afterschool programs for at-risk youth, homeless prevention services and programs that help autistic children.” Mostly True.
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1981· 1 entry
After his graduation from Harvard through his retirement in October 2012
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1980· 1 entry
Separated from in 1990, and was legally divorced from in 1993
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-02-18.
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