State Week: Rauner Cleans House

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Sean Crawford,

Brian Mackey, Christopher Z. Mooney

Published July 14, 2017 at 12:51 PM CDT

Gov. Bruce Rauner is replacing several top aides with employees of the Illinois Policy Institute, a libertarian-conservative advocacy organization. It comes days after a bipartisan group of legislators ended Illinois' two-year budget impasse by overriding Rauner's veto.

Sean Crawford hosts with regular panelist Brian Mackey and guests Greg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business and Chris Mooney of the Institute of Government & Public Affairs at the University of Illinois.

State Week | July 14, 2017

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Brian Mackey

Brian Mackey formerly reported on state government and politics for NPR Illinois and a dozen other public radio stations across the state. Before that, he was A&E editor at The State Journal-Register and Statehouse bureau chief for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

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Christopher Z. Mooney

Christopher Z. Mooney is the director of the University of Illinois’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Springfield. He studies comparative U.S. state politics, with special focus on state legislatures.

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