Bobert, the man had a 13% approval rating in October. He's looted the Teachers' Retirement System even though he was backed by the teachers' union. In January he's facing an ethics inquiry by the State Legislature. He's a scumbag politician who doesn't know enough to maintain deniability, something every Precinct Captain in Chicago learns with their first breath. The reason he was elected the first time was because of the teachers' union backing and the second because he promised to do better for the schools (nobody, of course, got anything except his cronies).

I grew up there in Illinois and I've seen the politicians. Some of them you wash your hands immediately after meeting. This guy requires sandblasting.

You should hear what my brothers (who still live there and who are NOT Republicans) say about the man they and others call "Rod Sonuvabitch." I suspect that this is the top of a great big pile of, well, what you plow into the garden.