Senator Kirk Diller, who's a curator of candidate in the studio with us now. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. You know my won't be don't be fooled again. Oh, there we go. A little who saw it right in right in with the run. Wait a minute. Are you committing to the who right now? Or do you also like other groups that have performed in half time of the Super Bowl? Well, I like I like I truly and I'm not pandering here. I'll like accused of it all the time. Chicago would be my favorite group of all time because it shows you my vintage and I also went to Nepal University. Sure. Any of them what so when you say don't be fooled again. You're making reference to what? I mean, you know, make sure we know what we're doing and today's theme I think will be be aware. I mean Bruce Rarner is back in the news with another couple of guys from a company called Converge X. Where prosecutors said it was an amazingly scandalous way that company he invested in the built investors built charities. It's it's time and time again. I mean Bruce Rarner has more close business associates in a federal penitentiary and we have governors there. The operative word would be close. I guess Mr. Rarner would be close. Well, close, you know, the Korean Chicago business had one two weeks ago frontage of their paper where it's a hunting buddy. So it's more than just a business relationship. All of Bruce was a major investor. The SEC comes into the St. Louis company shuts it down and his buddies in the federal pen. And it's happened in Michigan 8,000 people got unemployed and the CEO and others went to a prison. Bruce got tens of millions of dollars. Everybody else lost 285 million and a university of Detroit law professor said that the scheme that Mr. Rarner's firm was in if it wasn't for World Common In-Run would have been the largest accounting fraud in American history. But how many of these can we have and expect this guy's electable in November? But to be fair, Rarner, his firm, haven't been charged with wrongdoing and unlike World Common and Ron where you had the CEOs go to prison for long time and Rarner hasn't faced anything associated with being accused of criminal or even civil wrongdoing. There's many of these situations. I mean, if it was one, I might fluff it off, but my mother always taught me where they're smoked, there's fire. We haven't seen the end of a nursing home kinds of issues where these cases have been kicked back and his firm was, in fact, had a number of more than a billion dollars. At this point, zero plus zero plus zero, eight, zero, zero. There's no drips, there's no nothing yet. You don't have it. I'm going to say, like you big-time attorneys do, you know, used to be with Lord Bissle and Brooke, right? Yeah, I know that I remember the ampersines. Assuming Arguendo for the sake of argument that all these things are true, you're still taking money from the teachers union. Illinois's education system is in bad shape and the pension systems in bad and those two converge with teachers union and you're taking money from them. Well, I'm not for a progressive income tax. I have broad-based support, Bruce. I was endorsed by the State Rifle Association yesterday. I'm endorsed by both pro-life groups. And if you want to beat Pat Quinn, I'm the only guy that's going to beat Pat Quinn. And I have broad-based support. The teachers union support me. My father was a teacher. I got kids in public schools. They know where I'm at. I voted for Reverend Meeks Voucher Bill to let the poor's performing school kids go where they want to. I support charter schools. So they know where I'm at. They're not going to get everything they want. But you know what? When is it bad to thank a teacher? And a third of the membership of the Illinois Education Association are Republican primary voters. The operating engineers support my candidacy. Half of their members are Republican primary voters. And this is about addition, Bruce. It's not about subtraction. And if you want to beat Pat Quinn, I'm the only guy that's going to be able to beat Pat Quinn. I want to tackle both of those. But the first, the electability who could be Pat Quinn. You've said in a previous debate that talking about one of the runner companies that he invested in. This is one of a thousand reasons why Bruce Roner is unelectable. I mean, if he is the nominee, do you think Pat Quinn gets reelected? I think the Democrat Governor's Association, and this is like sports Bruce, you're broken down old sportscaster. Well, it is, and I mean that flattering. I used to laugh at you. I didn't. I used to like, I like you. All right, I'm ready. Now you have to say something nice about me. I like you. And you're from Wheaton. Yeah, there we go. From God's country. You know, you put the pay to play things together. The Democrat Governor's Association, I may not have the money to get out the word, but I guarantee you the Democrat Governor's Association will. And if this is like athletics, it's about matchups. And you know, Pat Quinn, a populist, in his playbook, he matches up best to beat a guy like Bruce Roner. You know, I'm about competency. I don't have lots of commercials or slick commercials like Bruce Roner. I don't have slogans. I have solutions. And I just think match up wise, Pat Quinn is just salivating as are the Democrat governors, especially if Jim Oberwice is the US Senate nominee to have Bruce Roner, the Republican nominee. They'll knock him down. Well, he may be running in Florida, not Illinois. But the objection. I know. It's good to hear that. The the teachers union just to go back to that. 66% of kids in fourth grade in the state do not read a fourth grade level. Do not do math at fourth grade level. It's my supposition, as you know, that the teachers unions, I'm not talking about the one in three Republican primary voters, and I talk about rank and file teachers. But the teachers unions are the ball works against rethinking and restructuring K through 12 education. And so how can you make that claim that you're similarly interested when you're being financed by organizations that have been the purveyors of the status quo and Springfield for generations? Dean, I hear where you're coming from. And I, you know, I've got a 12-year-old and a 10-year-old. I ask tough questions to teachers. I've got a best in class education program, and I'll listen to you, Dan, and you will come with me and we'll go talk to teachers, and we will try to do what we need to make sure is done that our education system improves. I'm not for the status quo.