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- Bruce Rauner’s campaign has accused the Sun-Times of an ethical violation.
In April 2013, Bruce Rauner called allegations that he clouted his daughter into Payton College Prep in 2008 “stuff that doesn’t matter.”
Recently, Rauner was irked by a Sun-Times-NBC5 News story about a lawsuit that cast him in a bad light. The story was authored by Sun-Times Springfield bureau chief Dave McKinney, NBC5 News’s Don Moseley, and Carol Marin, who works for both the Sun-Times and NBC5 News. Rauner’s campaign tried to get the paper to stop publication, arguing that McKinney had a conflict of interest: his wife is a partner in a media consulting firm, Adelstein/Liston, that’s working for Rauner’s opponent, Governor Pat Quinn.
Meantime, since Rauner wants to talk about ethics, let’s revisit that baloney that doesn’t matter about Payton College Prep.
Under the Society of Political Candidates Code of Ethics, if there was one, Rauner would have to disclose on his website any string-pulling he did for his daughter.
