Evelyn Sanguinetti, Bruce Rauner’s Republican lieutenant governor running mate, poked fun at Illinois’ agricultural industry, and Gov. Pat Quinn isn’t taking it lightly.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported the conflict is the result of an email Sanguinetti sent in 2013 to a onetime classmate at John Marshall Law School inquiring about a position at a state agency. In the email, Sanguinetti joked, “Isn’t cow tipping a work requirement in Springfield (LOL)?”
On Thursday, Quinn chided Sanquinetti for what he considered to be a distasteful joke, and called for an apology.
"That isn’t the right way to talk about anybody or any cow in Illinois,” the governor said. “We’re proud of our cows. They’re the best that ever was.”
-Tom Butala