Rauner brings reelection campaign to Peoria

Posted on April 12, 2017

By WMBD-TV

PEORIA – Gov. Bruce Rauner brought his bid for reelection to Peoria on Tuesday.

The governor made a campaign stop at Brewer’s Distributing to talk about the importance of small businesses. He told news partner WMBD-TV lawmakers need to come together to help future growth of small business.

“We can’t only do a tax hike,” Rauner said. “What we’ve got to do is create the structural changes to help grow and grow more jobs and the key to that is persistence and the key to that is getting the people here in Peoria and around Illinois to come together,” Rauner said.

Rauner said that starts with a balanced budget. Opponents of Rauner accuse him of leaving the capitol to campaign instead of working toward a balanced budget.

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