- AP Photo/Seth Perlman
- Bruce Rauner at the state fair in August. Yesterday he offered a second version of his stance on the minimum wage.
When a politician says something that doesn’t go over well, he’ll often try to distance himself from his own remark. He’ll say his comment was taken out of context, or was misunderstood, or that he misspoke. This is called “walking it back.”
In his interviews yesterday, Rauner said he favors tying the Illinois minimum to the national minimum, and that he’d even support efforts to raise the national minimum under certain circumstances. As we noted that morning, President Obama and Democrats in Congress are pushing to increase the federal rate to $10.10. Rauner yesterday told NBC Chicago he could see raising the Illinois minimum to $10 “in the context of probusiness reform.”
