Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Rauner Requested $50 Million, But Fix Could Cost $265 Million

Chicago, IL – Bruce Rauner’s fatal mismanagement of the Quincy Veterans’ Home could now cost Illinois taxpayers $265 million, over five times the amount Rauner requested for “Legionella control” in his latest budget proposal, according to a new Rauner administration estimate.

A report on the new estimate also showed the project is expected to take at least four years to complete, one year longer than last month’s estimate of at least three years. Yet, just weeks ago, Bruce Rauner said “nothing has taken long…there was nothing that somehow taken too long, or we didn’t do or we waited on. Nothing whatsoever.”

“While Bruce Rauner allows costs to skyrocket and pushes back timelines to fix the Quincy Veterans’ Home, the wellbeing of our nation’s heroes remains at risk,” said Pritzker campaign spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh. “This failed governor should have given the Legionnaires’ crisis his full attention from day one, but three years later and after 13 Veterans and spouses died on his watch, Rauner is still failing to address the issue.”

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