On your caption photo today, if you look on the governor’s left side, next to the “sheriff’s badge” pin, you can see that he is wearing a Local 150 pin.
“So - you wish to join in my hunt? I have riches nailed upon the top of my administration’s mast for the first man who assists me in making the Union Whale MINE!”
Warlocks, eh? I was a Mongol once. No, that’s fine, I don’t roll with them anymore. Met that gang who only drinks wine–weird–but I like to try new things.
“Huggy Bear behind me is what I call, “road ballast”, but if something happens to him, well - then the position of “road ballast” would be open then, wouldn’t it? You look svelte enough, big man!”
Just thinking, someone had to actually go and get that governor patch made, I’m sure they don’t stock them at the bike shops.
“yes, one patch that says Governor”
“Governor? That’s a weird nickname”
“No, no nickname, it’s for the Governor”
“Yeah ok whatever…”
“No seriously, the Governor of Illinois wants it”
“Illinois? Is the patch a prison thing?”
“No, not yet, we hope not”
That’s the Perfect Attendance Award and the Punctuality Award. I got those at Rushmore. I thought you could choose which one you like more, and you could wear one and I could wear the other.
(Though ABATE as known primarily as the fierce lobbying group that has helped Illinois maintain its helmet-optional status for motorcyclists, Rauner is a helmet-wearing member. - from an ABC7 interview in 2014. Also, do a Google Image search of ‘rauner no helmet’. He seems to have “turned around” on the helmet thing. And scroll down a bit to see a remarkable likeness between the Guv and a certain Simpsons character from another Springfield.)
Emmis: “I wish I knew how to quit you! We could ‘a had a good life together, Bruce! All we got now is Brokeback Government! Tell you what… truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it…”
Rauner: “Friend, that’s more words than you’ve spoke in the past two weeks.”
Ennis: “Bruce, that’s more words than I spoke in the past year, since you announced.”
Don’t look at it as me having too many patches. It’s good for people like me to have lots of patches, because then the patches trickle down to everyone else. That said, can I have some of your patches?
“You know, they do make beards in men sizes - like I should talk, right? BUT I AM, so listen up. Vegas is jumpin’ and the Speaker is a-poppin’, ya know what I’m saying?”
- Hawkeye in Illinois - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
Yeah, folks are always telling me I look just like the Peter Fonda character in Easy Rider — Capt . America that’s me! Without the um controlled substances of course.
No I didn’t get each of these badges out of a cereal box. I bought them. A medal for each company I drove into bankruptcy. Wait a few years and you’ll really see some medals on this jacket. I’m going to add one for each municipality and school district I drive into bankruptcy during my administration.
“Nice bluetooth. I don’t use one, personally, when I ride because it feels weird when I pull this black hood up. Can’t pull off the Emperor Palpatine look with a bluetooth. Buzzkill, man.”
Rauner, “You give me this name, and a sob story, like I’m suppose to care. I’m here to ride, Bud, for my pleasure… They’ll figure it out on their own.”
- Wordslinger - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:02 pm:
“I really don’t want to talk about my flair…..”
- stlboy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:03 pm:
See all these little badges? All the communities that signed my pledge so far.
- Elo Kiddies - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:03 pm:
Rob Halford being told he’s arrived at the wrong state fair….
- Precinct Captain - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
“Governor, please pull the plug on kids with ventilators because this state needs more complete subsidizing of motorcycle lessons.”
“Done.”
- Stones - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
Hells Raunerbots
- Calhoun Native - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
Mission acomplished.
- Forgottonia Republic - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
Bikin’
- Bill White - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
No, I don’t read the comments on my Facebook page. Why do you ask?
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
Leader of the pack
- White Stripes - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
Goose is waiting for me in the plane.
- Wordslinger - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
“A bear? No, but I do have a couple of dogs….”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
“Of all my costumes, this is my favorite…”
- Boone's is Back - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
Governors of Anarchy
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
“So - you wish to join in my hunt? I have riches nailed upon the top of my administration’s mast for the first man who assists me in making the Union Whale MINE!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:11 pm:
“The van is a gag, I love to ride…”
- Democrat Grrrl - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:11 pm:
I’m wearing leather so you will know that I am the toughest and baddest, and you’ll forget that I wimped out on a debate that I requested…
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
“Captain Rauner, sir - is that a badge from a Happy Meal?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
Thanks for your email. My office will be in touch…you’ll hear fr ‘ck’…”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
My motorcycle is powered by dollars originally earmarked for autistic kids.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
“Will your group vote to support my Tournaround Agenda?”
- not so simple - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
“Sure, I’ll judge a contest of men wearing leather vests. Let me just check my schedule.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:15 pm:
“I’ll never cut the funding for motorcycle training. You have nothing to worry about…”
- Dave Victor - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
“As your attorney, I advise you to buy a motorcycle. How else can we cover a thing like this righteously?”
- Belleville Rookie - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Warlocks, eh? I was a Mongol once. No, that’s fine, I don’t roll with them anymore. Met that gang who only drinks wine–weird–but I like to try new things.
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
“It excites me to know that riding outfits can be found large enough for my corpulent riding companions!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
“My job is ridin’. The governor thing is to pass time between ridin’ and not ridin’…”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:19 pm:
“TONIGHT we rumble with FRITCHEY and his LAVENDER PLAID GANG!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:20 pm:
(Biker to Rauner) “Stay gold, Ponyboy.”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
easy rider meets TGIF server
- Precinct Captain - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
“Yeah we’re neo-Confederates, but we hate unions!”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
Look at the cool “Governor” patch I got. When I get to be President, I’m gonna have the presidential seal on my jammies, too.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
Rauner, “I’m a ‘ride in the sidecar’ guy now. Evelyn rides the bike.”
- Former Titan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
Oh, I’ve got a helmet. I’ve got a beauty.
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
“See my badges? There is one for every business I bought, stripped of assets, then sold to a senior citizen!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
“My nickname? You’d think it’d be ‘Guv’ or ‘Boss’, but it’s ‘Wine Glass’. I know, crazy”.
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
“It’s May Day and you know what that means, right? We ride to union halls and debate them! NAH - just joking! I’m scare to death of them!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
“The troopers over there said I have to be home when the streetlights come on.”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
“Huggy Bear behind me is what I call, “road ballast”, but if something happens to him, well - then the position of “road ballast” would be open then, wouldn’t it? You look svelte enough, big man!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
“Yeah, I know Henry Winkler. Good man.”
- mcb - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
On the back it reads: “Live to Govern, Govern to Live”
- Stones - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:32 pm:
“I don’t need no stinkin’ helmet. I’m as hardheaded as they come!”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:32 pm:
“OK, yeah - I’m angry. See that poster? It looks like my Good Friday Budget Cuts won’t be “Coming Soon”, so I’m a little ticked off.”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
“Is that a camera in your ear? Are you recording this? Am I on video?”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
Yeah, and I got long-johns under the sweatshirt, too…
- mcb - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
Just thinking, someone had to actually go and get that governor patch made, I’m sure they don’t stock them at the bike shops.
“yes, one patch that says Governor”
“Governor? That’s a weird nickname”
“No, no nickname, it’s for the Governor”
“Yeah ok whatever…”
“No seriously, the Governor of Illinois wants it”
“Illinois? Is the patch a prison thing?”
“No, not yet, we hope not”
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
Now youse can’t leave.
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
“You can’t change my mind. No one can. This card says how to get to Lincoln County and there is no turning back.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
“When I’m on my bike, with you guys, it’s the only time I can honestly say I’m not a phony…”
- quicknote - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:39 pm:
That’s the Perfect Attendance Award and the Punctuality Award. I got those at Rushmore. I thought you could choose which one you like more, and you could wear one and I could wear the other.
- not right - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:41 pm:
Has the look of a certain Soviet leader?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:42 pm:
Rich wins, lol.
“Go watch the bikes?”
- Stones - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:42 pm:
“The Black Hills has nothing on Illinois. We have the Piasa Birds!”
- 100 Miles West - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:44 pm:
first, we roar through town, then we burn down the Dairy Queen.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:45 pm:
“I painted my helmet like an ‘8 Ball’, like in pool. Pretty rad…”
- Slippin' Jimmy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:45 pm:
Yeah, in my Harvard days my gang called me Bad Boy Bruce-I can’t lie!
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
“So WILLY - If that’s your real name - you know Arizona Bob behind me, right? BUCKO?”
- Anon - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
Does the poster behind him say, “Coming Soon 666?” Because it would be great if it did.
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:48 pm:
Yeah, don’t worry. I remembered to photoshop all the confederate flags out of the pic this time. Thanks! ck
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
“Westview Village. Got a score to settle there. Won’t be pretty. YOU RIDING OR WHINING?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
“Does your social organization have a 401(k) plan? I have this card here of a guy that coukd really help you with investing…”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:50 pm:
“There is a Sonic Drive In with our name on it!”
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:52 pm:
Man to Rauner: “You’re still fighting, aren’t you. You’re always fighting. Why do you hate everybody?”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:53 pm:
“After we ride, we smoke cigars, drink a few PBRs, then ride over Pat Quinn’s yard - YA IN?”
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:54 pm:
Unidentified Man: Why are you trying to be so rude?
Rauner: I don’t like unions!
- Anon221 - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
“Now keep that card to remember- no helmet!”
(Though ABATE as known primarily as the fierce lobbying group that has helped Illinois maintain its helmet-optional status for motorcyclists, Rauner is a helmet-wearing member. - from an ABC7 interview in 2014. Also, do a Google Image search of ‘rauner no helmet’. He seems to have “turned around” on the helmet thing. And scroll down a bit to see a remarkable likeness between the Guv and a certain Simpsons character from another Springfield.)
- yo - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:56 pm:
“I cu, cu, cu, cu, cut. Cut to the bone.”
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:56 pm:
“I think I’ll order kidneys, ’cause I left mine out there on the road somewhere.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:57 pm:
Rauner, “Whadda sayin’? I’m too mean for the ‘Toys for Tots’ ride?”
- throwing stones - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Excuse me sir, I’m new around here, and looking for a spot called The Blue Oyster.
I’ve made some changes, go to that building over there with the dome on it, tell em i sent ya, code word “Vegas”.
- 47Chief - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
“No kiddin’? I’m a one percenter, too.”
- Ryan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
No, empowerment zones will not apply to membership dues to our Illinois Chapter of SoA.
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Emmis: “I wish I knew how to quit you! We could ‘a had a good life together, Bruce! All we got now is Brokeback Government! Tell you what… truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it…”
Rauner: “Friend, that’s more words than you’ve spoke in the past two weeks.”
Ennis: “Bruce, that’s more words than I spoke in the past year, since you announced.”
- Slippin' Jimmy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Totally American dude, see this POW-MIA badge? I went missin’ in Quang Tri province ‘69, almost captured- killed lots of Cong then, Believe it!
- Man with a plan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:04 pm:
Don’t look at it as me having too many patches. It’s good for people like me to have lots of patches, because then the patches trickle down to everyone else. That said, can I have some of your patches?
- A guy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:06 pm:
Young Man….you don’t need to feel down…I said young man….
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:08 pm:
Where’s Zell?
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:09 pm:
“You know, they do make beards in men sizes - like I should talk, right? BUT I AM, so listen up. Vegas is jumpin’ and the Speaker is a-poppin’, ya know what I’m saying?”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
“Its called SAPUTOS and its going down my friends!”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
“Its strippin’ and flippin’ tahm!”
- Tommydanger - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
“Badges!? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
“Governor, take this card. That’s my anger management sponsor. Call him.”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:12 pm:
“I’m a-itchin’ for a new little badge that damn, if I can-not buy!”
- Cheap Seats - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:14 pm:
“You smell like Union…”
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:14 pm:
“I just bought all of Madigan’s wine and we’re riding to dump it in his yard!”
- XDNR - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:15 pm:
Raunerite Angels - Wanna join?
- VanillaMan - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:15 pm:
“Empty your bladders! McCarter tells us there ain’t no rest stops in Indiana!”
- Old Shepherd - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:18 pm:
Governor Rauner seeks support for his new political committee…”ABATE Collective Bargaining”.
(A)
(B)rotherhood
(A)imed
(T)oward
(E)liminating Collective Bargaining
- Hawkeye in Illinois - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
Yeah, folks are always telling me I look just like the Peter Fonda character in Easy Rider — Capt . America that’s me! Without the um controlled substances of course.
- archimedes - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:21 pm:
I told them, “Governator”, but they spelled it wrong…
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:21 pm:
I can’t make it on Good Friday, I have so social services I want destroyed, but here’s my card, maybe another day…”
- Wensicia - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:22 pm:
“Hey Brucie, what are you rebelling against?”
Rauner: “Whadda you got?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:23 pm:
Rauner, “I took your patch off my jacket. You guys are too nice.”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:27 pm:
No I didn’t get each of these badges out of a cereal box. I bought them. A medal for each company I drove into bankruptcy. Wait a few years and you’ll really see some medals on this jacket. I’m going to add one for each municipality and school district I drive into bankruptcy during my administration.
- One of the 35 - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:29 pm:
“Mad Bruce” prepares to lead the attack on the desert refinery!
- BlameBruceRauner - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:32 pm:
Told you the French Horn was a lot of fun!
You wont be too sore tomorrow I promise.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:33 pm:
Rauner, “Yeah, I can make problems…disappear… Why?”
- Anon. - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:33 pm:
Is this the Mad Max casting call?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:34 pm:
“This is Arne Duncan’s cell phone. I dunno if he can help with your kid and Payton Prep, but my daughter got in, so it’s worth a shot.”
- Belleville Rookie - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:35 pm:
“Nice bluetooth. I don’t use one, personally, when I ride because it feels weird when I pull this black hood up. Can’t pull off the Emperor Palpatine look with a bluetooth. Buzzkill, man.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
“Here’s an address… I don’t want to know anything else…”
- Politix - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
Overcompensation time!
- The Colossus of Roads - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:37 pm:
Right now James Dean and Glenn Martin Hughes are rolling over in their graves.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:39 pm:
Rauner, “You give me this name, and a sob story, like I’m suppose to care. I’m here to ride, Bud, for my pleasure… They’ll figure it out on their own.”
- Kevinho - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:40 pm:
Rauner takes the black.
- Left of Central IL - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:40 pm:
Rauner: “No…I said I BOUGHT HARLEY-DAVIDSON…not A Harley-Davidson!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:44 pm:
Rauner, “Oh! ‘Do I have a heart?’ No, no heart. Thought you said Harley, yeah, I got one over there…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:46 pm:
Rauner, “Let’s just say you should be glad I like you guys. K? K.”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:53 pm:
Can we hold are next secret meeting at your clubhouse?
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:57 pm:
This vest is reversible it says president on the inside.
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 3:58 pm:
Wild hogs 2
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:00 pm:
Heading for the next turnaround vote
- Amalia - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
Bruce cuts a promo shot for the campaign for his new movie, Coming Soon…..Right To Work!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:04 pm:
To the Update,
Love me some Local 150.
OW
“Caption?”
“Oh no, Local 150? We’re friends. Like with the Speaker, and um, everyone. I’m friends with all those guys, great guys, good guys…”
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:04 pm:
No this is faux leather like my fake budget
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:12 pm:
These are all organizations pins I’m going after.
- Anonymous - Friday, May 1, 15 @ 4:16 pm:
Malcom Forbes wannabe