* A Gov. Scott Walker roundup…
* Our Opinion: Walker’s tactics not applicable to Illinois
* Our View: A stalking Walker
* Our View: Land of Lincoln has a lot going for it over Wisconsin
* IL Gov.: Don’t follow Walker’s ‘prescriptions‘
* Union members protest Walker appearance
* Scott Walker Visits Springfield, Compares Self to Lincoln
* Wisconsin Gov. Walker getting mixed reaction in visits here
* Walker talks unions, budgets in IL visit ahead of recall
*Hundreds of union workers protest Walker in IL
* Wisconsin governor uses Illinois as argument against recall
* ILGOP Chair: Wisconsin on right track
* Suburban business leaders impressed with Wisconsin governor
* Wisconsin Gov. Walker says Illinois should confront union issues
* And the caption contest photo…
I’ll purchase the winner a non-Wisconsin beer.
LIVE session coverage...
- OurMagician - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:23 pm:
“I am now a proud leader of the Papa Grizzlies”
- In absentia - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:27 pm:
Macaulay Culkin mimics his interpretation of Speaker Madigan during visit to Illinois Republicans
- Hopalong Cassadeech - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:28 pm:
You’re pretty. Honk honk.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:28 pm:
“Indiana!”
“I raised my hands slowly like this … and the baby took BACK the lollipop I just took”
“I saw Quinn … I said, ‘You are getting sleepy … sleepy …’ …”
“so, I hid under Jason Plummer’s bed and sprung out and yelled ‘Boo!’ …”
“Fire, GOOD … Friends, GOOD”
(Yelling) “Puttin’ on the Ritz!”
- Ben Gazzara (may he rest in peace) - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:30 pm:
Age me 20 years, grow me a stache and lose hair from my combover and I’m David Axelrod!
- Karl - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:30 pm:
“Last time I made this face, it scared Democrats so bad they ran to Rockford for like, two weeks.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:31 pm:
“I told Mortimer to ’sell’ Frozen Orange Juice … ‘SELL, SELL!’….”
“I have 10 good reasons why Wisconsin and Illinois are better than Indiana.”
“You need to find your inner dinosaur…”
“Am I upset? … When I get upset I pounce like a mountain lion …”
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:34 pm:
In my right hand, I hold the solution to Wisconsin’s fiscal problems. In my left hand, I hold the solution to Wisconsin’s labor problems. I would be happy to share them with your state when I become a consultant sometime in June.
- unclesam - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:34 pm:
Gov. Walker pictured doing his best Austin Powers impression…”Grrrr baby, grrrr!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:34 pm:
“I’m Batman.”
- truffler - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:36 pm:
“I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…. it’s aliens, running my state….”
- Reality Check - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:37 pm:
Pull the string in back and the hands go up, like this. Of course it only works if you’re a CEO. Gov. Quinn appears responsive to the technology as well.
- Judgment Day - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:43 pm:
“Whenever I raise my hands up like this, the unions all think I’m out to steal their birthright of Collective Bargaining…”
- Irish I Was - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:43 pm:
“How do you scare a bee? Boo! Bee! Get it?”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:43 pm:
Scott Walker proudly demonstrates that he can count to ten. He said he can count to twenty if he takes his shoes off. You don’t want to know how he counts to 21.
Scott Walker strategically blocks the “N” in the sign behind him.
- L.S. - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:44 pm:
Just throw your hands in the air, and wave them like you just don’t care (about the middle class)
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:44 pm:
“Hel-LOOOO Fellow Water-Buffalo Logde members, and a ‘Wooka-Wooka-Chai-Chai’ to you all!”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:45 pm:
Look! I’m a Baldwin brother! A Baldwin!!!
- anonymice - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:46 pm:
“And then the evil union boss snarled at the helpless schoolchildren and said, ‘Give me all your milk money.’”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:48 pm:
“NIAGARA FALLS!! Slowly I turned …”
- Homer J. Simpson - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:50 pm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C8TdLx3-xs
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:51 pm:
So, I grabbed that big wheel of cheese with both hands and took a huge bite! And, when I woke up, I was the governor!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 12:52 pm:
“And I said … ‘Help me tear down that Union Wall’ … so … I raised both hands like this, kinda like the ‘Emperor’ in Star Wars ….”
- CLJ - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:00 pm:
“I’m hear to take you back to Wisconsin with me.”
- Scott McCoy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:00 pm:
In Wisconsin, we are just picking your small businesses from you like ripe fruit from the dying Illinois tree…
- Been There - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:00 pm:
You slowly bend the cheese like this. Then when it gets into shape you put it on your head and go to the football game.
But make sure the cheese is made with milk from non-union cows.
- LakeviewJ - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:01 pm:
“We can go when we want to
The night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise ‘em with the victory cry
Say, we can act if want to
If we don’t nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile”
- Plutocrat03 - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:02 pm:
And then the Illinois Democrats will take your pension away……. and spend on their own benefits
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:04 pm:
Brooooooooomski!
- Emanuel Kant - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:10 pm:
“Where the Wild Things Are”
- Bluefish - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:12 pm:
Pattycake. Pattycake. Baker’s man.
- radio guy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:14 pm:
“I am on a drug – it’s called Scott Walker. It’s not available because if you try it, you will die. Your face will melt off and they’ll take your pension away.” #badgerblood
- Ray del Camino - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:15 pm:
So I said, “I was just trying to read your t-shirt,” and she slapped me!
- Champaign - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:17 pm:
Tune in to Tokyo?
- Amused One - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:18 pm:
And then I attached Wisconsin’s fiscal and labor problems just like a “Badger”.
- G. Willickers - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:25 pm:
Gov. Scott Walker, demonstrating his keen sense of up-is-down direction, campaigned in the wrong state yesterday.
“My recall election is in this state here, see. But I like being the belle of the ball so I’m taking a day to yap in this other state over here,” he said.
- Ubecha - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:26 pm:
“Warriors…come out and play”
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:31 pm:
I am now channelling the Koch brothers…
- Small Town Liberal - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:32 pm:
I mean, just last month Wisconsin landed a big Illinois fish, literally, it was this big!
- No Peotone Airport - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:47 pm:
Here’s what else these big union bosses are trying to do to me… They have petitioned the Glacier’s Edge Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Janesville to recall my rank of Eagle Scout by having them revoke my American Labor merit badge!
- Dirty Red - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:48 pm:
Since when has Dan Aykroyd been Governor of Wisconsin?
- Jem - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:49 pm:
Obviously, it would be better to have a firm grasp on unions (like the Dems in Illinois, than to try and work with them!
- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 1:57 pm:
I am just going to act scary and growl.
- D.P. Gumby - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:03 pm:
Booga Booga Illinois, I’m coming to geeeettt yooouuu! (psst, Doug, does Quinn look scared yet?)
- annon - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:24 pm:
Paws Up! I was born this way.
- Anon - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:32 pm:
How many Illinois governors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- steve schnorf - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:34 pm:
Is it just me, or is that photo eerily Nixonian?
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:35 pm:
Gov. Walker showed the crowd what Sesame Street would look like without government funding. He said, “We can cut funding for PBS, and the kids won’t even notice.”
- siu alum - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:45 pm:
“and just then, in the middle of his speech, Gov. Walker froze with his hands up and mouth wide open while a puff of smoke appeared from his shirt collar. Witnesses claimed that two men resembling the Koch brothers were seen running out the fire exit, and
- siu alum - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:49 pm:
Sorry continued… “one of the men was holding a large remote control”.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:50 pm:
Like my new public-employees-who-have-rights puppets?
- le geek - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:52 pm:
I’ve got tiger blood in my veins. Tiger blood!
- One of the 35 - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 2:57 pm:
Identical! A perfect match between the Michelin tire tracks and the tires on the get away vehicle that robbed the Sack o Suds!
- Rudy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:16 pm:
You cut wages, benefits and taxes, then say: “Ka-zaam!”, and watch the economy grow like magic.
- OneMan - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:18 pm:
I just reached up on the shelf and took all of Rod’s hair dye it isn’t like he can use it now…
This is the dance move I used to become king of Bollywood.
You have a brat this this long and this thick you can cook it on a Weber grill if you put it in a circle.
On one hand you have Wisconsin on the other you have Minnesota, can you tell the difference? I didn’t think so.
I sometimes go up to windows at union meetings and go Rarrrr and do this with my hands, you should see them freak out.
- WazUp - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:19 pm:
illi Weenie Chili Beanie the spirits are about to speak
- OneMan - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:19 pm:
Insert get me banned joke about the Koch brothers here….
- Anon - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:27 pm:
Governor Scott Walker trying to regain his balance after being hit by a block of cheese from an angry protester.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:32 pm:
Gov. Walker’s impression of the lawyer in My Cousin Vinny.
- Anon Spfld - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:35 pm:
“Let me just sum up…on track…stay the course…1,000 points of light…stay the course.”
- See 'n Say - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:48 pm:
Moo! I’m a bear.
- It's Just Me - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:58 pm:
I once caught an Asian carp this big!
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 3:59 pm:
In his best Dana Carvey “Bush 41″ voice: “Deficits in Wisconsin?! Not-gun-due-it!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:20 pm:
“Twinkle, twinkle little Star …”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:21 pm:
“I will then take my ‘Laser Beam’ …”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:22 pm:
“Sit down … Sit down … SIT DOWN! … The cookies and milk are coming!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:24 pm:
“Woah … easy … easy there Mr. Big Teamster, Sir … I am the governor of Wisconsin … you’re ok here in Illinois, I am just visiting …”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:28 pm:
“I am not going to continue if you guys keep yelling ‘Free Bird’ everytime I take a pause …”
“Look … LOOK! … see, … I didn’t do that fingerpainting about Unions and the ‘bad word’…”
- Huggybunny - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:40 pm:
Hey, all you Union folks in the back…Talk to the hands!!
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 4:41 pm:
For my next magic trick, I’ll make myself disappear. Didn’t I do a great job getting the recall election started?
- Du Jour - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 5:16 pm:
His head is blocking the “N”.
- Du Jour - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 5:20 pm:
Wisconsin, the land of milk and funny.
- Going nuclear - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 5:24 pm:
I wanna be your man. Tax breaks and more for anyone in the room that moves their business to Wisconsin. I luv picking winners and losers.
- RFR - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 5:42 pm:
Wisconsin Governor and apparent Sith lord Scott Walker prepares to unleash lightning at business leaders who refuse to join him in Wisconsin.
- State Worker - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 6:40 pm:
He looks just like the giant rat we had outside his hotel at our protest
- Wumpus - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 7:12 pm:
Since we rejected Medicaid Funds, here is my plan for mamograms.
- Fred - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 7:15 pm:
“What a competent leader looks like”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 7:59 pm:
Du Jour, that’s very funny. Well done.
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 8:23 pm:
I wanna take you higher…higher
Wanna take you higher…higher
Boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka
- anon - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 9:14 pm:
“I’d thrash him from top to bottomus.”
- Mom - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 9:30 pm:
“…and here’s the correct way to handle a woman.”
- Jack - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 10:43 pm:
I am going to find out once and for all if Gov Pat is a boy or a girl.
- Bemused - Wednesday, Apr 18, 12 @ 11:18 pm:
And then I said
“Get out Devil, Heal this State”
- KurtInSpringfield - Thursday, Apr 19, 12 @ 8:08 am:
“Rowr, put ‘em up! Put ‘em up! If I only had a heart.”
- Das Man - Thursday, Apr 19, 12 @ 8:19 am:
…and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!
(with apologies to JWR)