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* I told subscribers about this last night, but the Sun-Times also had a story on its blog yesterday

In a House district that is 51-percent Latino, state Rep. Angelo “Skip” Saviano said Tuesday he has lined up backing from the best-known Latino politician in Illinois.

Saviano (R-Elmwood Park), who is running against Democrat Kathleen Willis for the 77th House District, plans to announce an endorsement by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) during an event Tuesday at Saviano’s Wood Dale campaign office.

“The leaders of the community know what I’ve done, and I’ve been working to get that message out,” Saviano told the Chicago Sun-Times.

“This just solidifies my whole record with the community,” Saviano said of Gutierrez’ endorsement.

* Here’s a photo of Democratic Congressman Gutierrez with GOP Rep. Saviano after last night’s big endorsement announcement…

* The Question: Caption?

Best comment wins a hard-to-get invitation to my election night party, which is being co-sponsored by Google. Yes, Google. I’m not making that up. I swear.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 1:49 pm

Comments

  1. “I’m supporting Tom Cross for Speaker because I don’t want to see any of ICIRR’s bills ever called for a floor vote in the House.” Congressman Gutierrez

    Comment by Can I come to the google party? Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 1:55 pm

  2. “Trick or Treat Mr. Madigan”

    Comment by BigDaddyGOP Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 1:59 pm

  3. Yep, the taxpayers will make BOTH of us rich, regardless which party we align with.

    Comment by Jeff Trigg Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 1:59 pm

  4. Seperated at birth … Skip finally gets in touch with his long lost brother.

    Comment by Spliff Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:01 pm

  5. Luis “Sorry Mike.. but us Latinos we got to stick together. Blood before party, you know? Mike?…..Mike?……MIKE!”

    Comment by Irish Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:06 pm

  6. “Miguel, como se dice ’sore loser’?”

    Comment by ChicagoR Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:06 pm

  7. The demeanor of Skip Saviano and Luis Gutierrez improved upon learning that Rich Miller has some kind of connection to Google.

    – MrJM

    Comment by MrJM Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:07 pm

  8. Now remember Skip, Imma need your help in Cicero.

    Comment by Hispundit Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:16 pm

  9. “Remember all those bad things I said about you at your roast Rich? I take them all back now” - Skip

    Comment by Doug Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:19 pm

  10. “Brothers from a different Mother!”

    Comment by SportShoz Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:20 pm

  11. FYI : Google somehow sent me an invite to my personal account this morning. Not sure why they invited me, or how I got on their list, but I RSVP’d. (I don’t even use gmail.com either.)

    Comment by Not It Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:21 pm

  12. Skip: “Now Louie, smile real good, this is gonna be my christmas card this year, and the first one goes out to Sandoval and madigan”!!!!!

    Comment by PQ's Primary Opponent Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:21 pm

  13. Louie confirms that after being dropped on his head he forgot Skippy and the GOPies tried hard to slice and dice his CD so there be no Hispanic members from IL.

    Comment by CircularFiringSquad Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:23 pm

  14. ===FYI : Google somehow sent me an invite to my personal account this morning. Not sure why they invited me, or how I got on their list===

    I put you on the list.

    Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:25 pm

  15. “Republican, that’s English for Democrat, right ?

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:29 pm

  16. “Lookout — Big Jim’s behind you and he looks mad.”

    Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:32 pm

  17. Our mothers taught us to brush and floss. You could have this million-dollar smile if you had done the same!

    Comment by Nearly Normal Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:37 pm

  18. Jason Plummer-”Dad, can you buy Google before next week so I can go to Rich Miller’s big party and meet some of the other Lt. Congressmen? There might even be some minorities like Mexicans and Eyetalians there. You know I’ve always wanted to meet some real minorities.”

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:41 pm

  19. “Meet Luis he’s a Democrat
    and folks wish that he’d remember that
    But Skip is a Republican
    Who’s in a war war Madigan
    What a crazy pair

    Still they’re cousins
    Identical cousins and you’ll find
    They laugh alike, they walk alike
    at times they even talk alike

    You can lose you’re mind
    When cousins, are two of a kind.”

    Comment by Jaded Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:42 pm

  20. “We just soaped the Speaker’s windows and wrote Pat Quinn!”

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:44 pm

  21. Did Gutierrez have to stand on the Marty Sandoval chair to look that tall?

    Comment by What's a google? Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:46 pm

  22. I’m backing Skippy because on Family Ties he was funny…..and on Diffren’t StrokesI always liked Arnold better than Willis. Weeeee!!!

    Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:50 pm

  23. Skip gets Lip.

    Comment by amalia Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:51 pm

  24. Skip, why are you so red? Don’t be embarrassed, I’m just a Democrat.

    Comment by Joe Bidenopoulous Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:52 pm

  25. Hey, Marty!

    Comment by Rayne of Terror Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:54 pm

  26. @Stanley77 - I took this picture of my st. Rep getting an endorsement from Cong. Gutierrez. I didn’t even get my finger in the picture this time #StanleyCanTakeGreatPics.

    Also…

    AA!

    I am a one-trick pony, you stealing my bits can’t be tolerated, otherwise “I got nuttin’…”

    Sincerely yours,

    The Comically Challenged

    Oswego Willy

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:57 pm

  27. I told him if he endorses me he’ll be as tall as me.

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 2:58 pm

  28. No chairs here Marty!

    Comment by Highland, Il Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:01 pm

  29. Sorry …

    “Luis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

    Had to …

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:12 pm

  30. “Leave the pistola, take the cannoli.”

    Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:15 pm

  31. “And with the $15,000 I got from Michael Madigan, that should cover our printing an mailing expenses …”

    “Luis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

    There … better.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:15 pm

  32. Don’t vote along party lines! Try racial lines instead!!!

    Comment by SG8prl Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:16 pm

  33. Olvidate de eso.

    Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:27 pm

  34. Sandoval sleeps with the fishes.

    Comment by Because I said so... Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:29 pm

  35. “I may be white from the outside, but I’m brown on the inside, TO THE BONE.”

    Comment by ItGirl Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:30 pm

  36. “Google esta Sandoval!”

    Comment by WazUp Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:43 pm

  37. Now the guy’s got Luis as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Luis. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Luis. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Madigan, he can call Luis. But now the guy’s gotta come up with Luis’ votes every election, no matter what. Business bad? “#@%! you, deliver them.” Oh, you had a fire? “#@%! you, deliver them.” Place got hit by lightning, huh? “#@%! you, deliver them.”

    Comment by Small Town Liberal Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:45 pm

  38. Today’s Headline
    Gutierrez endorses Saviano

    Tomorrow’s Headline
    Gutierrez lobbies for massive INS funding increase

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:52 pm

  39. STL!

    Winner!

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:53 pm

  40. Willy, you may be right.

    Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:56 pm

  41. “I’m Luis Schmenge.”
    “And I’m Skip Schmenge.”
    “And we are the Happy Wanderers!”

    Comment by Boone Logan Square Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 3:59 pm

  42. Guiterrez is to Saviano as
    Mendoza is to Schock.
    “Elephants may have long memories, but
    Democrats kick their own and then everyone forgets.”

    Comment by Webs we Weave Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:03 pm

  43. Anybody wondering why Marty Sandoval is in the State Senate and will never move any further need look no further than this photo.

    Want to move ahead? Smile, get along, reach across the aisle when it can serve a cause, represent your district’s interests, and don’t act like an idiot.

    Comment by Skeeter Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:05 pm

  44. Luis a former cab driver and a member of an extreme radical group endorses a Republican. Is Luis thinking about running for mayor of Chicago again.

    Comment by Steve Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:09 pm

  45. Vatos locos forever ese (google it ;) )

    Comment by ItGirl Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:10 pm

  46. Bosley? Who needs that? Receeding hair is THE LOOK this year.

    Comment by zatoichi Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:12 pm

  47. Willy, I bow at your one-trickishness.

    I only aspire to reach you’re level.

    AA

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:18 pm

  48. Rich, you almost won your own contest.

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:22 pm

  49. Skip and Luis audition for a Certs commercial.

    Comment by Cheswick Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:25 pm

  50. AA,

    You got the green light …No bowing, Bud.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:34 pm

  51. A better version…

    “Deje la pistola, prendete i cannoli”

    Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:40 pm

  52. OOhhh Rich,

    Now you MIGHT win … in 2 languages!

    “For best capiton in the International Catagory … The Nominess ARE …”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 4:45 pm

  53. You don’t need the Google to like that one.

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 5:00 pm

  54. Blood In, Blood Out

    Comment by ItGirl Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 5:16 pm

  55. Which one is which?

    Comment by gentlemen, behold! Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 5:27 pm

  56. “More to come…. Lisa Madigan endorsement tba”

    Comment by Estubborn Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 5:41 pm

  57. rolling with the homies

    Comment by ItGirl Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 6:30 pm

  58. Luis when this is over come by and ma will teach u how to make a nice brajole

    Comment by regular democrat Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 7:10 pm

  59. Rosemont casino brings people together.

    Comment by Steve Bartin Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 7:49 pm

  60. This canary tastes YUM-my!

    Comment by Hyperbolic Chamber Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 10:14 pm

  61. I was gonna have Joe Walsh endorse me, but all he could bring to my election night party was an attitude. This guy is bringing cubanos, cubans, mojitos and bonitas.

    Comment by Quizzical Wednesday, Oct 31, 12 @ 10:34 pm

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