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  • Bruce Rauner secured an endorsement from the Sun-Times.

When the Tribune published a we-can-barely-contain-our-lack-of-enthusiasm endorsement of Bruce Rauner for governor, I commented that it was now the turn of the Sun-Times to make “the equally feeble argument for the other guy. But then I remembered that the Sun-Times doesn’t do endorsements any longer.”

But here’s some other language:

Jim Kirk ran the story, but he took McKinney off the election beat for a few days while he looked into the charge of bias. “Inaccurate and spurious” is what he told Crain’s Chicago Business, for a story last Friday. In a statement published in Monday’s Sun-Times, Kirk upped the ante to “inaccurate and defamatory.” He elaborated: