{"id":2150,"date":"2014-01-26T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2014-01-26T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:00:12","slug":"just-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/01\/26\/just-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Just sayin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2151\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/01\/26\/just-saying\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2151\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2151\" alt=\"Bruce Rauner\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Bruce-Rauner-1024x545.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Bruce Rauner<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/norauner.com\/2013\/08\/14\/exclusive-rauner-made-another-very-poor-personnel-judgment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Rauner<\/a> = GTCR = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinmediallc.com\/2011\/06\/gtcr-announces-agreement-to-partner-with-emmis-communications-to-acquire-merlin-media-llc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin Media<\/a> = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/01\/03\/take-a-bow-randy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Michaels.<!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2154\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Randy-Michaels.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2154\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2154\" alt=\"Randy Michaels\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Randy-Michaels-105x150.jpg\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Michaels<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe marriage of GTCR and Mr. Michaels seemed like an odd pairing from the start,\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20120927\/NEWS06\/120929783\/merlin-media-may-shed-assets-after-missteps#\" target=\"_blank\"> Crain\u2019s Chicago Business <\/a>reported in September 2012. \u201cGTCR, the city's second-biggest private equity firm after Madison Dearborn LLC, is led by prominent Chicagoans such as Bruce Rauner, while Mr. Michaels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/blog\/robert-feder\/over-and-out-tribune-co-cancels-randy-michaels\" target=\"_blank\">exited <\/a>as CEO of Tribune Co. in 2010 following allegations of mismanagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rauner retired from GTCR in October 2012. He announced his candidacy for governor in June 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Rauner = GTCR = Merlin Media = Randy Michaels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}