Governor Bruce Rauner has the most thankless job in politics: trying to rescue Illinois from its economic and fiscal morass. But someone’s got to do it, and this week he won another small but crucial victory in his trench warfare with Democratic legislators and the government unions that own them.
Democrats hold supermajorities in both houses of the legislature, but they failed for a second time to override the Governor’s veto of a bill to let the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme) cut Mr. Rauner out of negotiating its contract. The union wants to return to the days when it was on both sides of the negotiating table—that is, when it negotiated with politicians who want to please the union rather than represent taxpayers.
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