Comptroller Susana Mendoza and Governor Bruce Rauner continue their battle over finances

 

Illinois comptroller Susana Mendoza and Illinois governor Bruce Rauner are exchanging harsh words in their ongoing battle over the state's finances. Mendoza blasted Rauner in a speech to the City Club of Chicago Monday, claiming that the governor is "prepared for the state to collapse financially if he doesn't get his way on the budget and has begun squirreling away hundreds of millions of dollars in 'special funds' to protect his political back," according to Crain's Chicago Business. Rauner's office says that Mendoza has been cutting spending on programs for the elderly since she took office in December 2016. "It's pathetic and hypocritical that a Springfield insider who helped create the very mess we are now in is abdicating responsibility and pointing fingers," a spokeswoman for the governor said in a statement. "Comptroller Mendoza will literally say or do anything to distract from the fact that she used taxpayer dollars to buy herself an SUV while cutting funding to human services."

 

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