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* “Saving Illinois taxpayers” via jet helicopter? From the Illinois Review…
Aboard a jet helicopter this morning, on his way from Joliet’s Lewis University airport to Cahokia, For the Good of Illinois founder Adam Andrzejewski just sent Illinois Review a photo of the Illinois River with these words, “It’s a beautiful state and we are going to restore our historic greatness.”
Andrzejewski will join House Republican Leader Tom Cross, State Senator Kyle McCarter, State Representative Dwight Kay and GOP candidates at the first of four planned stops in Wednesday’s “Save Illinois Taxpayers” fly around in Cahokia at 10:00 am.
* The photo…
* The Question: Caption?
*** UPDATE *** There’s now a video. Leader Cross talks about the helicopter ride at around the 4 minute mark. Among other things, Andrzejewski claims that the Democrats want another $2 billion tax hike…
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:06 pm
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Governor Quinn issued a statement saying he was going to start his massive grass roots pension thing today but someone had taken his chopper…
Comment by OneMan Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:15 pm
If you have to deal with 47%’ers, this is the only way to do it - high overhead in a jet copter.
Comment by just sayin' Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:22 pm
Look at all the money we’re saving in tolls!
Comment by Lil Enchilada Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:26 pm
“Lech Walesa would have endorsed our fly-around from high above Illinois if he were here…”
Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:26 pm
The sun sets on Republican statesmanship.
Comment by Tommydanger Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:30 pm
The Milkman should have tried this view instead of Soldier Field.
Comment by Give Me A Break Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:36 pm
Smoke continues to rise off the bonfier of $100 bills contibuted to campaigns by various individuals and political groups who quite frankly can’t relate or don’t care about the lives of average American’s What recession–policical campaigns have plenty of money to burn!!
train111
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:38 pm
“Hey, did someone forget to load Leader Cross’ Golf Clubs?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:40 pm
The Illinois is a beautiful working river - ecologically and economically. What flying around has to do with this fact is beyond me…
Comment by Carpe Diem Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:42 pm
Common sense tells me to just shut my computer off or risk being banned….
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:45 pm
“The Ole Miss … Named for a Pioneer of the West in 1909, Miss Sara Issippi, or as we here in Illinois call it the Mississippi. We are formal that way.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:46 pm
“As close to poor people as we ever want to get.”
Comment by Skeeter Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:46 pm
“There’s a Romney sign, there’s a Romney sign … There’s a Romney 4×8 …there’s a Romney sign … Look, a Plummer sign!”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:47 pm
I can see your house from here!
Comment by Cheryl44 Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:48 pm
Adam: “Look as far as you can see, my friends … this is my Kingdom.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:49 pm
Adam: “Sorry Fellas, my private Concorde was in the shop. Oh well, we’ll ’slum it’ and move on.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:52 pm
“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it’s safe to surf this beach! I mean, I’m not afraid to surf this place, I’ll surf this whole ***** place!”
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:52 pm
Adam: “Leader Cross, I would invade Missouri here, here, and at the river bend …. there. It’s a gamble, but it just might work.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm
“Lieutenant, bomb that tree line about 100 yards back! Give me some room to breathe!”
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm
Rich! … lol
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm
“Oberweising”
Comment by The Captain Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm
“I love the smell of Tax Forms in the morning”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm
“Sell the house. Sell the car. Sell the kids. Find someone else. Forget it. I’m never coming back. Forget it.”
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm
“The horror …the horror”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:00 pm
It’s the return of Air Wolf with Adam “Jan-Michael” Andrzejewski as Stringfellow Hawke.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:01 pm
Hey, man, you don’t talk to Adam A., you listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas…”
“Calm down, Cross, Geez.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:01 pm
47 percenters don’t surf!
Comment by Nuclear Bozo Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:02 pm
“What the heck do you know about surfing, Cross? You’re from Oswego!”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:04 pm
Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers’ jobs, drive down wages and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care, and you pay. How many? Ten thousand illegal aliens a day. Enough to fill Monk’s Mound every single week.
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:04 pm
“See you’re thinking. Don’t. ‘Cause Sergeant, you can’t control who gets hit or who doesn’t or who falls out of a chopper or why. It ain’t up to you. It’s just war.”
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:06 pm
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
Comment by Old Shepherd Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:10 pm
Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:11 pm
Any women or children?
Sometimes!
How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ‘em so much! Ain’t war hell?
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:12 pm
“I was going to the worst place in the world for Republicans and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away from Election Day, and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the state like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Madigan. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Madigan’s memory any more than being back in Cahokia was an accident…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:12 pm
“I can see 5th place in the Governors race from here!”
Comment by Shore Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:17 pm
==It’s the return of Air Wolf with Adam “Jan-Michael” Andrzejewski as Stringfellow Hawke.
Who is Ernest Borgnine then?
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:19 pm
“I was always scared of black helicopters until today.”
Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:22 pm
“Hey Adam, why are you, and your crew, sitting on your helmets?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:24 pm
We’re off to see the Wizard…
Let me know when you reach the Emerald City, Adam.
Comment by Esquire Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:26 pm
“This is a free-fire zone, son.”
“Why are we standing up?”
Comment by walkinfool Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:27 pm
@Oswego Willy:
Man, the first quotation sounded like something from a speech by former Governor Blagojevich during the final days of his administration. I know that you are quoting Dennis Hopper’s character from “Apocalypse Now,” but man it reminded me of the prison inmate in Colorado.
Comment by Esquire Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:32 pm
==Adam: “Leader Cross, I would invade Missouri here, here, and at the river bend …. there. It’s a gamble, but it just might work.”
Have I mentioned my plan to invade and take Saint Louis from 270 inwards? I’d even vote for Adam if he did that.
Adam–call me–I have intel behind enemy lines.
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:34 pm
–“I can see 5th place in the Governors race from here!”–
Winner.
Comment by Thoughtless Penny Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:59 pm
Is Adam A still pushing term limits on this tour? that’d be a fun one to discuss with leader Cross.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:04 pm
Cross’ Purgatory.
Comment by walkinfool Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:12 pm
I love the smell of tax breaks in the morning.
Comment by just sayin' Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:17 pm
AA - “Leader Cross, why do you sit on your helmet?”
Cross - “Let’s just say I don’t want my voice to end up sounding like yours…”
Comment by Small Town Liberal Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:27 pm
I havent’ seen a part like that since the 38th parallel
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:32 pm
Shore wins. There is no second (or sixth) place.
Comment by soccermom Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:42 pm
Push one out first, the rest rest will talk.
Comment by x ace Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:58 pm
While Shore’s was in fact brilliant, I give my vote (not that we are voting or that this is any sort of contest or anything) to Arthur Anderson, who wonderfully captured the paranoia of so many on the far right.
Comment by Skeeter Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:14 pm
It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.
Comment by Insider Baseball Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:22 pm
===It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.===
So … When I mock that you call Cross ‘Leader’ instead of Minority Leader … is that called “inside baseball” …- Inside Baseball -?
Could it be by PLAYING that ‘Leader’ word, I am mocking the fact that ‘Leader’ Cross is Minority Leader?
Thanks for the lesson… appreciate it.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Sincerely yours,
Oswego Willy
(- Inside Baseball - , I am embracing the MJM aka ‘Speaker Michael J Madigan’ warm closing. Yeah, that is kinda inside baseball too, - Inside Baseball -)
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:29 pm
Adam don’t surf!
Comment by Colonel Flagg Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:31 pm
- Insider Baseball -,
IF…
You are saying the word “Minority” may be referring to … ethnicity, then Oswego Willy gave you too much credit. You are right on, like I was with President Bush!!!
Yours in Ethnicity,
Kanye West
(I am mocking your undertones, if in fact you went down that road. That might be too Insider Baseball …)
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:40 pm
To factual it would/should be “Republican leader”
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:44 pm
- Michelle Flaherty -
True that! I also remember signs around the statehouse that clearly stated Democratic Leader Michael J Madigan … when Lee A Daniels had the Gavel.
Sorry, I digress.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:51 pm
“It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross”
Come On Man
It’s Billboards
Does ChopperAdamAnt think by invading MO he gets the Cardinals
Did Billboards get to rest his golf cart? Good for the the Election Day tee time.
So many questions
So little time
Fire, Aim, Ready!
Comment by CircularFiringSquad Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:14 pm
A.A. “Ok ten minutes until we are over Quinn’s house. Get the water balloons ready”
Comment by WazUp Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:17 pm
I want Tom Cross to answer whether he will support or oppose the tax on cable TV. Its likely scheduled for a vote and he and many in his caucus are seemingly in favor of taxing satellite TV. It would seem to conflict with their anti-tax pledge.
Dwight Kay who was part of today’s charade has indicated he supports the tax.
Comment by 1776 Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:20 pm
Thank you, Skeeter.
With kindest personal regards I remain,
Snarkily yours,
Arthur Andersen
Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 6:28 pm
If we buzz the river can we really catch carp by reaching out the door?
Comment by zatoichi Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 9:14 pm
- Esquire -
I can see the Blago part. I just thought about Cross, without his golf clubs, flying around and being indocrinated by Adam A. and then being so brain-washed that Cross becomes THAT guy.
But I get that Blago thought.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Oct 11, 12 @ 7:15 am