Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Pritzker: Day 1 – A Complete Guide to Bruce Rauner’s Four Years of Failure

CHICAGO, Illinois, Nov. 5 -- J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat running for Illinois Governor, issued the following campaign news release:

According to Bruce Rauner himself, "failure is not an option in this election," so over the past 50 days, the Pritzker campaign has compiled and detailed the 50 most egregious ways Rauner failed Illinois.

Today our series concludes with a complete guide to Bruce Rauner's four years of failure. Let's dive right in.

FOSTERING CORRUPTION AND SPOUTING LIES

Day 50: Pritzker Campaign Launches New Multimedia Campaign to Highlight the Many Ways Bruce Rauner Failed

Day 49: Rauner Held Business Meeting on Back Porch of Governor's Mansion... Then Lied About It

Day 48: Rauner's Corrupt DCFS Failed Illinois Children

Day 47: Bruce Rauner is a Serial Liar

Day 46: Rauner's IEPA Chief Has Most "Direct Conflicts of Interest" of Any State's Top Environment Official

Day 45: Bruce Rauner's Revolving Door

Day 44: Rauner General Counsel Pens Ethics Memo, Escorted From Gov's Office Days Later

DECIMATING K-12 AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Day 43: Jobs Lost, Tuition Up, Enrollment Down at State Colleges and Universities After Rauner's Budget Crisis

Day 42: Five Universities Downgraded to Junk Status Under Rauner

Day 41: Rauner Vetoed Raising Teachers' Pay to $40,000 a Year

Day 40: Rauner Vetoed MAP Grant Funding for 130,000 Students

Day 39: Rauner Vetoed K-12 School Funding Twice and Tried to Take Credit

Day 38: Rauner Slashed After School Programs While 15,000 Youth Paid the Price

Day 37: Rauner Badmouthed Teachers and Public Schools

SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP'S RADICAL AGENDA

Day 36: Rauner Supports Brett Kavanaugh Who Could Overturn Roe v. Wade

Day 35: Rauner Silently Endorses Trump's Attacks on the LGBTQ Community

Day 34: Rauner Copies Trump's Devastation on Our Environment -- And Goes Even Further

Day 33: Rauner Piles on to Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Policies

Day 32: Rauner Took Trump Admin's Advice on Vetoing Student Loans Bill

Day 31: Rauner Sided with Trump in Vetoing Bill to Remove Illinois from Crosscheck

Day 30: Rauner Applaudin' Trump Tax Plan That Benefits Special Interests, Adds $1.9 Trillion to Debt

FATALLY MISMANAGING QUINCY VETS' HOME, FAILING VETERANS AND SENIORS

Day 29: Rauner's Fatal Mismanagement -- Admin Contributed to "Mind Boggling" Delay in Quincy

Day 28: Rauner's Fatal Mismanagement -- Years of Inaction, Excuses, New Legionnaires' Cases and Deaths

Day 27: Rauner's Fatal Mismanagement -- 12 Negligence Lawsuits from Families and a Criminal Probe

Day 26: Rauner's Fatal Mismanagement -- Blaming Anyone But Himself

Day 25: Rauner's Budget Crisis Halted Construction of New Veterans Home, Forced Cuts to Veterans' Services

Day 24: Tragic Nursing Home Deaths Dogged Rauner, But He Said They "Happen Occasionally"

Day 23: Rauner's Budget Crisis Devastated Meals on Wheels, Proposed Cuts Targeted Senior Services

RESTRICTING WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE AND RIGHTS

Day 22: Rauner Waffled on HB 40 and Still Refuses to Protect It

Day 21: Rauner Bragged About Being "Strongest Supporter" of Anti-Choice Candidates

Day 20: Reproductive Rights In Imminent Danger After Rauner-Backed Kavanaugh Confirmed to Supreme Court

Day 19: Rauner's Child Care Cuts Leave Tens of Thousands of Children Without Care

Day 18: Rauner Vetoed No Salary History Bill Aimed at Closing Gender Wage Gap -- Twice

Day 17: Rauner's Budget Crisis Decimated Women's Healthcare

Day 16: Rauner Proposed Devastating Cuts to Women's Healthcare

FISCAL AND ECONOMIC FAILURES

Day 15: Rauner's Budget Crisis Obliterated State Finances

Day 14: Rauner's Budget Crisis Cost Thousands of Illinoisans Their Jobs

Day 13: Rauner's Budget Crisis Cut Social Services for One Million Illinoisans

Day 12: Rauner Attacked Workers' Rights and Vetoed Raising the Minimum Wage

Day 11: Rauner's Past and Present Show He's the Real "Miserable Failure on Jobs"

Day 10: Rauner Made Millions Shipping Jobs Overseas, Then Took Foreign Trips As Gov and Returned Empty-Handed

Day 9: Badmouthin' Bruce Slanders Illinois At Every Opportunity

ATTACKING ILLINOISANS' HEALTHCARE

Day 8: Rauner Vetoed Protections for Illinoisans with Pre-Existing Conditions, Limits to Junk Healthcare Plans

Day 7: Rauner Grossly Mismanaged Medicaid

Day 6: Rauner's Budget Crisis Decimated Rural Healthcare

Day 5: Rauner's Budget Crisis Cost 80,000 Illinoisans Their Mental Healthcare Services

Day 4: Rauner Decimated Women's Healthcare

Day 3: Overdose Deaths Up After Rauner Failed to Address the Opioid Crisis

Day 2: Rauner Helped Trump Dismantle the Affordable Care Act and Gut Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions

"While the 50 Days and 50 Ways Rauner Failed Illinois ends today, voters will make Bruce Rauner pay the price tomorrow on Election Day," said Pritzker campaign spokesman Jason Rubin. "After Rauner held the budget and school funding hostage, fatally mismanaged government and wrecked state finances, it's abundantly clear that four years of failure is enough and Illinoisans deserve new leadership in Springfield."