The Top 10 Quotes from Madigan and Cullerton on Budget Talks with Rauner

Excerpt from Reboot Illinois:

An odd but predictable pattern has developed in the deadlocked talks to produce a state budget and avoid a state government shutdown on July 1 — two weeks from today.

It goes like this:

1. 1. 1. Gov. Bruce Rauner, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton meet in Springfield.
      2. Madigan and Cullerton emerge to describe the meeting as “cordial.”
      3. Rauner publicly derides Democrats Madigan and Cullerton as beholden to, dependent on and operators of a corrupt political system.

Rauner added a new twist this week when he began airing a 30-second TV ad that singled out Madigan, the state’s most powerful Democrat, as the source of the state’s financial woes and chief impediment to their solution…

Here’s the ad and the top 10 quotes from Madigan and Cullerton on budget negotiations with Rauner.