* “Soft circles” essentially means conditional commitments…
Gov. Bruce Rauner talks about getting a U of Ill campus in Chicago, Rockford, Peoria and the Quad-Cities. "It's totally doable, I don't want to jinx it but I got soft circles with their alumni." He said during a meeting with the @qctimes Editorial Board. @GovRauner@BruceRaunerpic.twitter.com/0M9×9JBffo
I mean once Rauner starved Western Illinois into closing someone would need to do something with WIU’s Quad-Cities campus.
That’s Rauner’s plan for a U of I Quad-Cities campus.
That is Rauner’s business specialty.
“I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor to the best of my ability.”
Vanilla Man- Don’t bring up Olney in a post with the governor. It might give him the idea to make Olney Central College into University of Illinois- Olney.
So even though I’m Episcopalian, the Cardinal offers to hear my confession. When it comes to the part about HB40, I just lie and slip him one of these.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:25 pm:
I’ll match what JB is giving to local Democratic Party organizations. Wink, wink.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:26 pm:
“It’s not that I don’t care, I care too much.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm:
“I ran for Governor to make Illinois better”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm:
“I didn’t sabotage the Grand Bargain”
- Reality Check - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm:
“I’m not anti-union.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm:
“I’m so angry at Rahm”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm:
“Diana is mild-mannered First Lady, no role in my Administration”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm:
“I buy wine off the rack”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
“I had no social agenda”
- Pundent - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
No it’s not a turnaround agenda, it’s “incremental progress.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
“I learned so much. I won’t act the same next term.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:30 pm:
“I’m not rich, I just have a few dollars here and there.“
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:30 pm:
“I love all universities the same”
- OneMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm:
How you doin…
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm:
“Hey Willy, we good?”
- A Jack - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm:
I need four more years so I can cure my insomnia with another budget impasse.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm:
You think your rich guy is going to do that much better than me or the last two guys… good luck with that
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:32 pm:
“I’m just sick over all that’s happened”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:32 pm:
I promise you, former Ives’ supporters, I only see things on the political right, now. You can trust me. No more looking towards the left.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:33 pm:
“I called Madigan, Cullerton, even Ives… “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm:
“Cardinal, don’t worry, I’m vetoing HB40”
- Yiddishcowboy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm:
Oops. 12:32 was YC.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm:
“Just to be clear, I’m lyin’ about all those U of I campuses…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm:
“Go Steelers, you know what I mean… “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:35 pm:
“I follow the Red Sox… as a hobby”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:36 pm:
“I have *some* land in Montana… it has its own zip code…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:36 pm:
“See, I do own a tie”
- Keyrock - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:37 pm:
I called Speaker Madigan election night.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:37 pm:
“The U of I was my fall back school”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:38 pm:
“Payton Prep got $250,000 from me… it happens”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:39 pm:
“I would never use clout to deny a child at Payton Prep”
- LBJ - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:41 pm:
I’m doomed.
See you in hell.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:43 pm:
“Ambassador Rauner sounds pretty sweet too… “
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm:
Hi, I’m from the gubmint, I’m here to hep ya.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm:
“You take that check, HRO, and go get yourself something nice…”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm:
I’m successful at everything I’ve ever done.
- SinkingShip - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm:
“Madigan glued my eye shut.”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm:
I like unions.
- Generic Drone - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm:
I love unions.
- Scamp640 - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm:
“It is impossible for a cyclops to wink.”
- Demitri Martin
- @misterjayem - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:46 pm:
“I yam what I yam.”
*toot* *toot*
– MrJM
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm:
I presented a balanced the budget every year of my term in office.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm:
“What’s your endorsement cost… half a mil… lemme what I have with me… “
- Scamp640 - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm:
“Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Norseman - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm:
“I’m using my wrong eye again, aren’t I? I’m sorry. That was meant to be behind your back.”
- A Jack - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:48 pm:
“Buy Illinois state bonds if I get re-elected. The interest rate is going to go through the roof.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:48 pm:
“Danny, you and Besler run the political shop, IPI runs the governmental shop… we can’t lose”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:49 pm:
“I’m just here for the free Stag beer”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:51 pm:
“Nice paper you have here. Would be a shame if Evelyn came here and fell down your stairs and sued ya… “
- wondering - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:51 pm:
Looking for the pension loophole
- Scamp640 - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:52 pm:
“Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.”
- Taylor Swift
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:53 pm:
The truth is what ever I say it is.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:54 pm:
“You buy 2 Caucuses for $20 mil and tell *me* how cool that feels…”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:54 pm:
Looking through my circle of influence.
- Annonin' - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:55 pm:
And tomorrow we will announce new U of I campuses in Champaign, Bloomington Milwaukee at Kansas City
- Flynn's Mom - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:55 pm:
“I give you my solemn oath. Or did I just come from Solemn Oath? Anyway, have you tried their Combat Marshmallow? It’s 8%.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:57 pm:
“The SGOP will be getting my money real soon”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:58 pm:
“I just bought another farm, in Oswego”
- Henry Francis - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:00 pm:
Trying to get that camel through the eye of the needle.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:00 pm:
“My grandfather was from Sweden, or as you like to call it, Wisconsin”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:01 pm:
“I’m likable. You just have to not know me to like me”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:02 pm:
“There’s always a costume for everything”
- JoanP - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:05 pm:
“If I wink rather than laugh, will they still know I’m lyin’?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:06 pm:
“You want to write my endorsement or should I?”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:07 pm:
I’m an even bigger failure than you thought.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:08 pm:
I’m big in Streator.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:10 pm:
“You’re saying Chicago *has* a U of I campus… do they… *do* they?”
- LINK - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:11 pm:
“I yam what I yam and tha’s all what I yam.” …
Apologies to E. C. Segar from Chester…
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:12 pm:
Oswego Willy-
I am you father.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:13 pm:
I can’t even spell Ilinoies.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:15 pm:
===Oswego Willy-
I am you father.===
Does that mean I have immigrant Swedish great grandfather born in Wisconsin?
That’s was pretty good, - VanillaMan -, I laughed.
“Caption?”
“I’m in charge… except when I’m not”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:16 pm:
I voted for Ives too.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:16 pm:
Gonna go hang with da pope and es plain my signin of da hb40 in my talian tirement.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:17 pm:
In Swedish, “Rauner” means “failure”.
- Kayak - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:18 pm:
Yeah, (laughs) I musta got a little dust in my eye from harvestin’ beans on my farm outside of Springfield.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:19 pm:
…and you thought Illinois couldn’t get worse,,,
- Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:20 pm:
I mean once Rauner starved Western Illinois into closing someone would need to do something with WIU’s Quad-Cities campus.
That’s Rauner’s plan for a U of I Quad-Cities campus.
That is Rauner’s business specialty.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:23 pm:
I have a hairless cat named Mr. Bigglesworth.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:26 pm:
I eat hot dogs with ketchup, using a knife and fork carved out of illegally harvested ivory
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:27 pm:
“You AFSCME folks’ll get put at the right step October 1. Trust me.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:29 pm:
Cancer can be cured, but guess who owns the drug?
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:30 pm:
I broke up the Beatles
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:32 pm:
I can fool everyone all the time.
- Groucho - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:34 pm:
Another can of spinach please.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:36 pm:
“Diana picked out this shirt”
- Kansas City - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:40 pm:
And don’t forget to say hello to my dear friend Willie Wilson on your way out.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:42 pm:
I bring Madigan an apple every day.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:44 pm:
“And if I’m lyin’, may I get pinkeye.”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:45 pm:
I’m not a governor but I play one on tv.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:46 pm:
VanillaMan,
I dunno. We’ve got lottsa dumb people here. He MAY be big in Streator.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:47 pm:
“That’s the last time I ask Moe Howard for an autograph.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:47 pm:
“I heard JB likes Nickelback”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:48 pm:
Madigan owes me for finishing off ILGOP.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:49 pm:
That’ll do pig, that’ll do Babe.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:51 pm:
They love me in Olney so much, they gave me a white squirrel.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:51 pm:
“Cardinal, what was that you were sayin’ about takin’ the speck out of JB’s eye?”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:53 pm:
I’m declaring victory in November if I get any votes at all.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:53 pm:
“So all I did was spill my milkshake on the floor and tell Evelyn she could mop up.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:55 pm:
“Hey, Rahm. I was just kiddin’ with the tuna fillet.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:56 pm:
“Rich, bring Oscar over for a play date any time. There are no pit bulls here.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:57 pm:
I can look back and accurately say that I shook up ILGOP
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:58 pm:
“I don’t wear costumes because I think my base is a bunch of gullible hicks.”
- Jocko - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:00 pm:
I raised my left hand during the swearing in ceremony, so I get a mulligan for my first term.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:01 pm:
Wouldn’t it be ironic if I lose by 13 votes in Chester?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:01 pm:
“One of my greatest joys in the past four years has been bein’ the subject of those delightful Cap Fax caption contests.”
- RNUG - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:02 pm:
Just wait until after the election. I’ll have more flexibility then.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:04 pm:
“That’s the third time I’ve mistaken that plastic lemon for my Visine.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:07 pm:
“I’ve got my Clint Eastwood impression half perfected.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:09 pm:
“It sure wasn’t ME who sicced the Illinois Department of Revenue on Oswego Willy.”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:12 pm:
“I’ve got my Clint Eastwood impression half perfected.”
Slipped in the shower. Need to get those non-slip sticky things to put on the shower floor.
- Rthur Andersen - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:17 pm:
“Mario Kart, eh”
- Streator Curmdgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:18 pm:
“Has anybody seen my monocle?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:25 pm:
“I can’t imagine WHO would stoop so low as to put a flaming paper bag on JB’s front porch.”
- Kayak - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:30 pm:
So what if JB wants to legalize it, I’ve had my card this whole time! *wink*
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:37 pm:
Tens of thousands of offshore jobs are right around the corner
- Al - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:40 pm:
Yup my dough is all in a 100% taxed onshore totally blind trust, and that is not all…I work for free. Insert rimshot.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:42 pm:
Diana said I stopped the insanity and delivered
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:08 pm:
“I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor to the best of my ability.”
- Rural Stuff - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:21 pm:
Vanilla Man- Don’t bring up Olney in a post with the governor. It might give him the idea to make Olney Central College into University of Illinois- Olney.
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Got my fingers crossed so I can say anythin’.
- Jack - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:59 pm:
Cathartic is sewn to my Ralph laurens
- SAP - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 4:01 pm:
Eardrops-eyedrops…Who knew there was a difference?
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 4:17 pm:
Talking to his cabinet, “I’ll take the arrows.”
- XDNR - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:33 pm:
I’m not going to sign SB40 Cardinal Cupich, wink…wink…
- 37B - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:55 pm:
So even though I’m Episcopalian, the Cardinal offers to hear my confession. When it comes to the part about HB40, I just lie and slip him one of these.
- 37B - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:56 pm:
Other times I nod. It’s all the same to a blind horse.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:42 pm:
Thats the truth, I don’t have a heart, so I stuck a needle in my eye
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:44 pm:
Last 4years I was half asleep or half awake
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:49 pm:
Term limits get job creators excited
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 7:26 pm:
“The check’s in the mail, Jerry.”
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 7:53 pm:
I’d rather fight than switch
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:04 pm:
McCann blind-sided me
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:07 pm:
“I’m a conservative. I’m a Republican.”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:08 pm:
AFSCAMY
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:08 pm:
Turnaround agenda, my eye
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:18 pm:
The future’s so britght i gotta wear shades
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:27 pm:
I always keep an eye out for madigan
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:38 pm:
You got that good red dress on
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:43 pm:
I measure my success by standing ovations
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:55 pm:
My investments are in a blind trust I have no control over them. There were no back porch dealings.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:59 pm:
It breaks my heart to see the things that are happening to illinois from the back porch of my Winnetka house.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:00 pm:
I’m from the great State of Illinois.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:07 pm:
I’m full of it right up to my eyeballs
- Huh? - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:07 pm:
I eat soft circles with a dab of mustard and a sprinkling of kosher salt. Wash em down with a can of stag beer. Most people call em soft pretzels.
- Mongo - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 10:21 pm:
“is that spit”??
- Rabid - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 10:42 pm:
Profile in courage
- Blago's Hare - Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 11:40 pm:
I’ve got old J.B. right where I want him.
- XDNR - Wednesday, Sep 19, 18 @ 8:47 am:
I think I’m going to add an eye patch to my costumes.