Illinois: What This State Needs Is A Plutocrat

Matt Farmer, Crooks and Liars
Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:12pm

What do you give a guy who owns nine homes, made $60 million last year and wants to be governor of Illinois? I decided to give him the gift of music. After all, a guy who loves Wrangler jeans and Carhartt coats as much as Bruce Rauner does would probably enjoy blasting a good country song over the stereo in his 20-year-old van. So last weekend I wrote the only song in the world that mentions charter schools, the bourgeoisie and reproductive rights.

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