Emanuel: Compromise Needed In State Budget Battle
(CBS) -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the increasing war of words in the battle over the state budget isn't likely to help resolve the differences, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Mayor Emanuel is clearly not happy to see the state budget standoff between House Speaker Michael Madigan and Governor Bruce Rauner escalate with a campaign-style TV ad aired by the governor.
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"Campaigns are for the campaign season and governing is for the governing season," Emanuel said. "As Mario Cuomo once said, 'Campaigning is like poetry and governing is like prose.'"
As someone who lived through a federal government shutdown when he was in the Clinton White House, the mayor says both sides need to work toward a win-win situation.
"How do you create a context for people to make compromises so that people see that there is enough victory?" Emanuel said. "Nobody is going to sign on to something where they lose and you win and you're not going to sign on to something where I win and you lose."
He says everyone should just lower the temperature and keep a dialogue going.
