On Oct. 19, we made a simple records request: What is Gov. Bruce Rauner’s email address? Instead of revealing how folks might reach His Raunerness, the governor’s staff this week told Illinois Times that the governor needs an additional fi ve business days to disclose the governor’s email address. The state Freedom of Information Act, after all, allows public offi cials to extend by fi ve days the fi ve-day deadline for responding to requests, so long as there is good reason. The law specifi es fi ve acceptable reasons. So we asked for the reason. “The requested records have not been located in the course of routine search and additional efforts are being made to locate them,” replied Christina McClernon, a lawyer in the governor’s offi ce, quoting from the statute. Really? Did you get the dizzy spells when aiming at the excuse-of-the-day dartboard? Oh, well. In a somewhat related development, the governor, rather than turn over his appointment calendar in response to an opinion from the attorney general who says that it’s a public record and a FOIA lawsuit from Illinois Times, has hired Brown, Hay and Stephens, a Springfi eld law fi rm, to argue that how the governor spends his time is none of the public’s business. The state museum is closed. The homeless are more homeless than ever. The comptroller says the state is broke. The state is stiffi ng lottery winners. Wall Street says our credit sucks. And Rauner has the money spigots open to keep his offi ce operations secret.