Two weeks after the 2014 election, Mr. Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House, met Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner for breakfast at the elegant Chicago Club. Rauner recalls, whereupon Speaker Madigan “hands me a 3-by-5 card. It’s got, I think it was seven names. I look at it and, ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘some of those look familiar.’ Any guess what the seven names were on the card? The seven governors he’s outlasted and outmaneuvered.”Mr. Rauner got the message: “You’re...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 02, 2018 22:41 UTC