Rauner responds to comptroller appointment

Posted on December 20, 2014

By The Associated Press

Illinois' governor-elect says outgoing Governor Pat Quinn's
appointment of his budget chief as a short-term replacement for late Comptroller
Judy Baar Topinka is appropriate.
 
 Republican Bruce Rauner (ROW'-nur) released a statement Friday after Quinn
named budget director Jerry Stermer to the post.  Stermer was Quinn's chief of
staff during his first term.
 
 Rauner had called on Quinn to name Topinka's longtime chief of staff Nancy
Kimme as her replacement. But Quinn says that Kimme now plans to stay
in her current role.
 
 Stermer will serve until Rauner takes office on Jan. 12, when the new governor
will announce a full four-year replacement.
 
 Rauner says appointing a “temporary placeholder'' and keeping Topinka's staff
in place “is an appropriate decision'' that ensures continuity of services for
the people of the state.

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