Comments on: Behind the screaming headlines

by: just sayin'

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:38:53 +0000

It was all Pongee’s fault.

by: King Louis XVI

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:25:37 +0000

Rutherford is so busy running to every editorial board and every po-dunk radio station and every press conference that he can that he is not focused on the job.

Look at his Facebook page. He’s always boasting about every time he’s behind a microphone.

Moreover, Rutherford posted on Facebook that he was on a plane to Australia on June 1 when this whole thing started to unfold.

by: LincolnLounger

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:50:43 +0000

Whether this is a blip or not depends on how he handles it. The “advance” e-mail was sent by one of his hires and longest-standing personal friends.

Dan is one of the few bright spots for the Republican Party. I wish him well; however, at some point, the campaigning has to end and administration begin. Instead of memos to employees about the proper pronunciation of his last name and script for answering the office phone, perhaps the details of programs, administration, and ethics are in order.

by: Old Milwaukee

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:36:54 +0000

When it’s all over, this will be a blip.

by: CircularFiringSquad

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:24:12 +0000

Let’s also always remember the Tribbies continue their fruitless efforts to win major journalism awards for their breathless reporting of anythin college related. They are still batting zero — except of B. Joe White, but there is no iron in the trophy case. What a shame

by: Phineas J. Whoopee

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:37:59 +0000

A political office should not be administering savings plans. It is a recipe for disaster but at the very least the investors should have to go through an financial advisor who could explain the plan. With Bright Start their stuck with a bureaucrat and a website.

by: Tom Joad

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:27:18 +0000

Rutherford has been spending so much time on trying to get national press, campaigning with Mitt Romney and critizing Quinn that he forgot he was elected to watch over our money. Using the Treasurer’s office as a steppingstone to highher office, like his predecessor, results in little attention to the job he was hired to do.
His absurd press release about how Illinois could file bankruptcy shows how little he knows about bankruptcy laws and Illinios. It can’t happen.

by: jerry 101

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:11:19 +0000

What I don’t get is why the State Treasurer’s office is still doing business with Oppenheimer in the first place. Oppenheimer managed the funds that got Giannoulias in so much hot water, now they were managing this promotion.

Maybe Oppenheimer needs a new slogan:
“Oppenheimer…working undertime to wreck your State Treasurer’s political career.”

by: Yellow Dog Democrat

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:35:27 +0000

@Schnorf -

Rutherford is a good guy. The jury is still out on whether he’s a good Treasurer.

1. This “tempest in a teapot.”

2. Threatening to tell folks not to buy Illinois bonds, undermining our creditworthiness.

3. Flip-flopping on borrowing.

One thing’s for sure. He can’t use the “We may be incompetent, but we’re not corrupt” defense in a run against Pat Quinn.

I’m all for giving Rutherford the benefit of the doubt on this one. But the voters have largely run out of “Benefit of the Doubt” I think.

by: steve schnorf

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:08:28 +0000

Rutherford is a good guy and a good Treasurer. If this little tempest in a teapot is the most bad news about his first year in office, he will have had a good first year

by: bored now

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:05:18 +0000

well, since rutherford is running for governor, he may not care. especially if he can convince everyone to combine the offices…

by: Vote Quimby!

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:02:34 +0000

==Apparently, that check was superimposed on the photo. Not his fault.==
I missed the update on that one. Thanks for the correct info.