Election 2014: Gov-elect Bruce Rauner says he called legislative leaders - News - Rockford Register Star - Rockford, IL

 

….Rauner said he’d already taken steps in that direction.

“Just a few minutes ago, I placed two very important phone calls,” he said. “I called Speaker Madigan. I called President Cullerton and I said to them this is an opportunity for us to work together. This is an opportunity to work together on a bipartisan basis to solve the problems, the challenges, facing families in Illinois.”

However, Cullerton and Madigan said through spokesmen that those comments weren’t made directly to them. A Cullerton spokesman said a Rauner campaign staffer contacted a member of Cullerton’s staff, but Rauner and Cullerton did not speak directly to each other.

Madigan spokesman Steve Brown went further. Not only did Madigan and Rauner not speak to each other, he said, but there’s not “any indication that any phone associated with Mike Madigan got a call. So that never happened from our end of it.”

Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf stuck by Rauner’s statements.

“He left the speaker a voicemail and called the Senate president,” Schrimpf said.

Schrimpf added that he was in the room when the call was placed to Madigan.

He did not address why Rauner indicated in his remarks that he had spoken to both Cullerton and Madigan when he had not.

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