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* From a press release…
The Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee announced today that it raised $1.3 million since its inception on March 5 and carried forward more than $1.2 million into the second quarter. The fundraising figures include a $249,000 contribution from Bruce Rauner.
The fundraising haul comes amidst a statewide Listening Tour that has already included 20 stops. Bruce has visited with voters in Cumberland, Coles, DuPage, Effingham, Mason, McDonough, Richland, Shelby, Tazewell, and Washington counties, and Elmhurst, South Holland and Winnetka.
“The folks I’m meeting as I travel the state understand Illinois needs a political outsider willing to take on the failed status quo in Springfield, and I’m excited by their response to my exploratory committee,” said Bruce Rauner. “The amount of support we’ve received in less than a month exceeds expectations and underscores the fact that Illinoisans are looking for someone to bring a fresh perspective to solving the challenges facing our state.”
Bruce’s next stops on the Listening Tour this week include Rockford, Rosemont, and Monroe County.
“The more time I spend discussing both the hopes and the concerns of people who want to see a better Illinois, the more convinced I am that our state’s future is bright,” Rauner said. “The fact is Illinois’ greatest resource is her people. Unfortunately, they have been let down time and again by the politicians in Springfield. It’s time for an outsider.”
That $249,000 contribution from Rauner means he is just $1,000 under the self-funding law. Another grand in the calendar year and all contribution caps are off for all gubernatorial candidates.
Also, I highly doubt that most of his high-dollar, often out-of-state contributors went to any of his Downstate listening tour stops. For instance…
Interestingly enough, Rauner has not yet reported that contribution from himself.
* He is doing well in comparison to the other candidates, however…
$ Raised (01/01/13-03/31/13)
Brady - $2,000
Dillard -$86,958.75
Rutherford - $202,759.00
Lisa Madigan - $14,250
Quinn - $60,500
TOTAL = $366,467.75
* In other Rauner-related news, the possible GOP candidate is running a Facebook ad of a choked chicken. I kid you not…
Do your very best to keep it clean in comments, please. Seriously. Let’s not demean ourselves just because his ad is goofy. Go ahead and snicker first, make the joke in your own head, then proceed to comment in a very clean fashion. Thanks.
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:19 pm
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I don’t get it.
Is he campaigning as a sensible political rubber chicken?
Comment by Kasich Walker, Jr. Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:25 pm
I’ll be the consultant who approved this ad is paid 10 grand a month. #Whale
Comment by Tom B. Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:29 pm
Wow. There are so many things to say, but none are worth getting banned for.
I suppose it could only be topped if his campaign song is ‘Beat It’ by Michael Jackson.
Comment by How Ironic Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:30 pm
Bruce’s Chicken and Squeezy are working on a pilot for the WB right now…
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:33 pm
Nice job OneMan. Way to bring the snake into the choked chicken conversation!
Comment by Tom B. Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:35 pm
lefkofsky-the groupon ceo listed residence/place of business is an empty restaurant with a for rent sign. Not sure how that works.
the rest of this reads like harvard classmates/business friends.
Comment by Shore Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:36 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - When @FakeBruceRauner is using “we” when he talks, he is including me!
@TheRaunerChicken - Hey @Pongee! There is a new prop in town! #WasSupposeToBeAWoopieCushion
@TheRaunerChicken - “By sundown tomorrow”, I will have more followers than Dillard #TheYokeIsOnIllinois
@TheRaunerChicken - Hey Congressman! Chicken is good for you and your Abs. #AreYouSchockedAtThisAaron
@FakeJasonPluumer - @TheRaunerChicken, when are you coming to visit? #DadEmptiedMyToyBox
@TheRaunerChicken - I am on the Rauner Payroll for $249,000. #ExpensiveJokeIsRauner
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:37 pm
==I’ll be the consultant who approved this ad is paid 10 grand a month.==
It was probably Svengoolie.
Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:41 pm
@TheRaunerChicken -
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:41 pm
I think the photo is the perfect metaphor for Rauner’s campaign.
It’s times like these when I like to ponder: I wonder what images were rejected in favor of the chicken under duress?
A number come immediately to mind, along with their accompanying verb, but I guess I’ll just have to keep them to myself.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:42 pm
A man’s hand tightly rapped around a (rubber) chicken’s neck? So many things could be posted , but I really don’t want to be banned for life so…
I will say that whoever is doing the consulting work for him is proving on a weekly basis that they are highly overpaid.
Comment by Roadiepig Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:42 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - My Fedge Fund Manager has been on a listening tour. I have no ears, so My Hedge Fund Manager will have to use our “special languange” #WeTalkIn50s&100DollarBills
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:43 pm
For ALL of us “holding our tongues”
@TheRaunerChicken - (Censored) #(Censored)
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:44 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - Please @FakeJasonPlummer, stop with the jokes about @TheRaunerChicken, or we will call your Dad and he will put the Parental Locks #ItsAMedaphorNotAJoke
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:48 pm
@TheRaunerChicken Sorry didn’t know I couldn’t take homestead exemption on three nests #SimpleMistake
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:51 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - “We”, My Hedge Fund Manager and I, have been listening, but only My Hedge Fund Manager has been eating. #ImARubberChickenButNotACanibal
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:52 pm
In other news, Bruce Rauner has promoted Harry Palms as his new communications director.
In what is proported to be a campaign first, all new employees are to have their vision checked monthly to ‘prevent blindness’.
Comment by How Ironic Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:52 pm
@TheRaunerChicken See I listen to the patty people and raise money from the Pâté people
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:54 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - Riding shotgun with My Hedge Fund Manager. Can someone “tweet” where Lincoln County is? #ChickensSquawkNotReadGPS
@TheRaunerChicken - Somewhere, my old friend, the “Unknown Comic”, is missing me. #TakeMyWifePlease
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:55 pm
Hey Oswego Willy,
You claim that you’re an expert on GOP politics. Do you agree that Cicero Dan Proft and his hypocrisy are destroying the GOP? Also, Willy, what does Cicero Dan think about Senator LaHood’s child support/gambling bill? I wonder if Proft will run for Governor and break 5%?
Comment by Jon Zahm Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 12:55 pm
- Jon Zahm -,
Rauner posted that, i didn’t.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Sincerely yours,
Oswego Willy
@TheRaunerChicken - Please refrain from making fun of My Hedge Fund Manager. He will make it worth your while. #CostPerVoteNotAnIssue
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:02 pm
If Proft runs for Governor and gives up the WLS gig so he can (figure they would force him) then IMHO he has the sense of a rubber chicken…
Unfortunately the Cicero stuff is too inside baseball to make one iota of difference to most folks.
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:03 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I use to lay golden eggs, now look at me? #StillOnThePayrollBut…
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:04 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - Would you let a goof hand choke you on “the facebook” for $249,000? #NotDoingItForTheMoneyHonest
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:08 pm
Serious question - RM you noted that if he breaks the $250k barrier, all gubernatorial caps for fundraising are off. Is that true? The law is pretty clear on the various cycles. Wouldn’t the caps just be off for Republican gubernatorial candidates in the primary, and then NEW caps would be placed on for both candidates in the general election?
Furthermore, if that is the case - which I believe it is - I think Rauner would be smart to blow the caps off, give himself as much money as he needs, pummel his way through the primary to the general, and then have way more money than any Democrat would, given their handicap of the caps.
The example above is ridiculous, but I think it is in line with the law. Just shows how ridiculous the post-blago finance laws actually were. Try to fix it and just make it worse.
Comment by Empty Chair Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:09 pm
Somebody on Rauner’s team watched too much Son of Svengoolie back in the day.
Berwyn!
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:10 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - “We” are planning a meeting of all the donors, but we need to pick a central location, “tweet” me @TheRaunerChicken for thoughts. #KansasOrNebraskaIsCentralUSA
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:10 pm
“This chicken is freaking golden!”
Comment by Mike Huntoon Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:11 pm
I thought I had heard that Schock was a chicken but now I learn I was mistaken.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:11 pm
Personally, I find the ad rather fowl.
Comment by Tommydanger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:13 pm
How about a Rauner/Proft ticket? One who has unlimited money, and one who knows how to spend a rich guy’s unlimited money (ask Ron Gidwitz).
Comment by Jon Zahm Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:13 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - Again, My Hedge Fund Manager is not too happy with this mocking, someone spent a great deal of time to think of me! #AndWastedAGreatDealOfMoneyButIDigress
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:13 pm
Holy Cow! We get Svengoolie here in Texas!
As for Rauner, money can’t fix stupid. The GOP needs a fighter who knows how to fight and win the Dem game.
It ain’t Rauner.
Comment by qcexaminer Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:14 pm
“lefkofsky-the groupon ceo listed residence/place of business is an empty restaurant with a for rent sign”
Um, no. It’s the very-much-still-open UPS Store at the south end of the building. Obv his PO Box for public-disclosure-address stuff.
Not that it’s hard to figure out where he owns an actual house.
Comment by Chris Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:15 pm
- Jon Zahm -,
If you think I am Dan Proft… I’m not. Sorry.
@TheRaunerChicken - Also, Oswego Willy is NOT Clarabel the Clown, Batman, or Ronnie “Woo-Woo” #GoodGuessButWrong
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:16 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I am looking to do my OWN tour, but I cant drive My Hedge Fund Manger’s “Taurus”… the car he uses, every day. #CauseICantDriveStickShift
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:18 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - Yep, its true. I, @TheRaunerChicken, donated $3.9 million to My Hedge Fund Manager’s Coffers. I am real, and not a funnel to add to My Hedge Fund Manager’s Own Donations. #Skirting250KMarkIsEasy
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:22 pm
#Rauner “Oberweis warned me that political consultants are overpriced. Rich guys like us know what we are doing. The chicken in every pot slogan is time tested. Politics is not that hard.”
Comment by Endangered Moderate Species Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:25 pm
Reminds me of the last episode of MASH. Rauner had to squeeze that chicken’s neck so he wouldn’t make any noises to save everyone from Squeezey.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:25 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - Actually, My Hedge Fund Manager is making fun of ME and not politicians. If My Hedge Fund Manager wasn’t paying me so well, I would be offended! #LeaveTheLogicTakeTheMoney
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:28 pm
Mustignorethechickenmustignorethechicken…
Hey, GOP folks. Very recently we had 8 years of the MBA President running the country as if it were a business. That didn’t work out very well. Why on earth does this guy think we’re going to try that again at the state level?
Comment by Chavez-respecting Obamist Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:31 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - You think its easy for @Pongee to tweet? Think how difficult it is being choked and using your beak to tweet! Much harder! #TakingOnPongeeIsGoodPolitics
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:32 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - “Illinois isn’t Broke …It’s Chicken Soup!” #ProftWasOnToSomething
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:35 pm
Is it unconventional? Yes.
Is it the way I would approach a campaign? Probably not.
That said, I don’t think it’s all that goofy.
Comment by Just Observing Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:35 pm
Separating a millionaire candidate from his money is as easy as…
Comment by anon sequitor Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:36 pm
I am sure there are going to be lots of folks who are happy to help Bruce spend his money
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:38 pm
PS. I hear the Rubber Chicken Defense League has hired a former PETA lobbyist to fight back.
Comment by anon sequitor Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:39 pm
Well we have tried middling attorneys with government experience here and that has worked out really great as well….
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:40 pm
Wow, must be really nice to be a student and an intern and be able to donate $5,300 - come on really! This guy is a freakin joke!
Shah, Bipin
Occupation: Chairman and CEO
Employer: Universal Business Payment Solutions 1100 Wyndon Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 $5,300.00
3/18/2013 1A
Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee
Shah, Elle Lang
Occupation: Consultant
Employer: Universal Business Payment Solutions 1100 Wyndon Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 $5,300.00
3/18/2013 1A
Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee
Shah, Sarah Lynn
Occupation: Intern
Employer: Rachel Zoe, Inc. 1100 Wyndon Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 $5,300.00
3/18/2013 1A
Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee
Shah, Genevieve
Occupation: Student
Employer: Student 1100 Wyndon Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 $5,300.00
3/18/2013 1A
Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee
Shah, Nelie
Occupation: President
Employer: NFS Inc. 1100 Wyndon Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 $5,300.00
3/18/2013 1A
Bruce Rauner Exploratory Committee
Comment by some old stuff Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:42 pm
What, no one has noticed the parallel with the Cubs? Choke? Get it? He’s doomed.
Comment by Skeptic Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:45 pm
For Immediate Release.
RUBBER CHICKEN LOCAL #3882 TO PICKET RAUNER
Chicago - After showing incredible disregard to a beloved comic prop, the Rubber Chicken Union #3882, based in Lincoln County, Illinois, is threating a picketing campaign, and a multi-million dollar lawsuit, unless a formal apology is issued from Millionaire Bruce Rauner and his “Exploratory Committee” for using one of “its own” Chickens, and not paying the Union Scale for a politcal Ad.
Rauner, on a “listening tour” with the Chicken who tweets under @TheRaunerChicken, was unavailable from his Ford Taurus, that Rauner drives everyday, …honest.
“We rubber chickens do not mind being part of jokes, but when we are put front and center, as a symbol for a campaign, and doing that without consulting OUR Union, our Local, we will call then out on it,” said Pimples, the Shop Stewart Rubber Chicken for Advertising and Promotional rubber chickens. “You just can’t go into a joke store and think we agree with you enough to help a political message. Bruce Rauner should know that.”
The Local hopes that The Rauner Chickem will join them in the lawsuit, which will also include exploding gum and itching powder as concessions the Local as asking the Rauner campaign to consider in future ads.
###
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:54 pm
Oswego Willy,
That was an interesting denial. Beware He Doth Protesteth Too Much. Who are you, so we can evaluate the credibility and bias of your commentary? You use people’s names a lot so you should not be allowed to disguise yours.
Comment by Jon Zahm Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 1:56 pm
===That was an interesting denial===
- Jon Zahm -,
I am not Proft. I wouldn’t mind the radio gig, but sadly, I am not Proft.
Attacking me, because I mock Bruce Rauner, is not a good way for a campaign to spend its time. You have more to worry about than me.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Sincerely yours,
Oswego Willy
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:01 pm
–You use people’s names a lot so you should not be allowed to disguise yours.–
He’s really billionaire Bruce Wayne. He lives in stately Wayne Manor.
“should not be allowed.”
Who are you to say?
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:01 pm
I recognize that chicken! It was from the Bozo show! Rauner was using a collectible.
Howdy Doody will probably be next.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:02 pm
Hmm, if I were trying to guess who Willie really is, I wonder, based on his years of posting, where I would put Dan Proft on my list of guesses?
How many people are there on Planet Earth?
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:08 pm
anonymous @ 1:11 pm was me.
Comment by dupage dan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:16 pm
Keep it clean? Really? Sorry, you really can’t post questions like that and say keep it clean.
I love the whole “listening tour,” misnomer. The whole point of the tour is to talk about yourself, not to listen.
Comment by siriusly Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:17 pm
Rauner has ads asking for donations on Salon.com.
Curious placement.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:21 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_chicken
Comment by Cincinnatus Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:21 pm
Zahm, move along or leave. Last warning.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:22 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I want to thank my Union, and my Local for thinking of me. My Hedge Fund Manger said he will give me a an additional $999.99 from his own pocket, and not a cent more #KeepItUnder250K
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:23 pm
To be clear, I am not a Bruce Rauner supporter. With Adam A. out of that race I am uncommitted.
Sorry to offend you, Rich.
Comment by Jon Zahm Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:27 pm
Bruce boy has a long way to go before he catch’s up on the big dough he and his straight “D” voting wife have contributed to Mayors Daley and Emanuel , Bill Foster, Jan Shakowsky and the $200,000 to the Democrat Gov. of Pennsylavania who then double the amount of state pension $$$ to Rauner’s firm!
Comment by some old stuff Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:45 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - When My Hedge Fund Manager talks about shutting down the state for a few weeks I explain it so everyone understands #JustLikeSundaysForChickFilA
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:46 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I am also an “Outsider”… when My Hedge Fund Manager speaks, he leaves me outside… in the Taurus! #ThisThingOn?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm
You are invited to an exclusive evening with Bruce Rauner and the rubber chicken. Bring your questions, your hashtags, your checkbooks. But, do not bring your chopping block. Please, we implore you.
Comment by Cheswick Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:57 pm
- some old stuff - Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:45 pm:
“… the $200,000 to the Democrat Gov. of Pennsylavania who then double the amount of state pension $$$ to Rauner’s firm!”
Hey, he can double money? Sounds perfect, this ability would solve the state fiscal problems. Is this a Super Hero ability?
Comment by Cincinnatus Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:58 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - On April Fools Day, My Hedge Fund Manager gave me Rubber Chicken Feed in my bowl! He is silly that way #Pankster
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:02 pm
The Aristocrat!
Comment by Boone Logan Square Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:49 pm
Who in the heck are these people throwing their money out the window who actually believe he has a reasonable chance of actually winning?
As Obi-Wan Kenobi once queried in Star Wars Episode IV, “Who’s more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?” Interesting to ponder…
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:19 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - When My Hedge Fund Manager shuts down the state of IL for weeks, I hope that includes health inspectors to chicken coops. I have about 2,618 cousins laying eggs here and I want them working not in ovens. #PositivesOfStateShutdown
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:35 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I was first a gift to Chad Koppie from Jack Roeser. I guess I am ‘GOOD’ luck, right? #ChickenByCommittee
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:57 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - I use to work Birthday Parties, now I work ‘Tea’ Parties, looking crash pensions, and shut down IL. Being a prop is hard! #AintShowAndTellFun
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 5:53 pm
@TheRaunerChicken - A quick “Fowl Poll”, who do you THINK is NOT listening more to people? My Hedge Fund Manager, or me, @TheRaunerChicken. #RememberIHaveNoEars
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 6:05 pm
@TheRaunerChicken I almost choked when I heard that some wingnut thinks Oswego Willy is Dan Proft! #whatthecluck
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 6:29 pm
word and Willy, at this point, we really should get that consulting proposal up to Mr. Rauner, perhaps with a fee adjustment.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 6:47 pm
AA, way up, I think, given some of the challenges:
Sell as an “outsider” a dude who’s dropped $1.5 million on state and local politicians of both parties;
Explain why paying public employee pensions are bad, but making money of public employee pension funds is good.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:23 pm
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:23 pm:
Explain why paying public employee pensions are bad, but making money of public employee pension funds is good.
Good point Word- have been wondering the same thing. Maybe because he could make even more money with excessive fees from all the state employees when they get moved into defined contribution retirement savings plans (that his firm somehow would receive exclusive control over)after they get those pesky pensions cut/eliminated?
Comment by Roadiepig Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:42 pm
It isn’t fair that Facebook doesn’t have a “dislike” option. A VERY strong “dislike” option.
Comment by Wallendar Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:47 pm
word, and don’t forget “trying to screw Cook County out of a couple hundred bucks a year on his third luxopad.” Way up indeed.
Roadie, to be fair, neither Rauner’s old firm, GTCR, or the boutique he currently runs would be qualified to run a Statewide DC plan and they would be the first to tell you so. Nice theory, though.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 8:05 pm
All these guys like Rauner and Romney made their fortunes in part on the risks they took with public employee pensions. Maybe they just want to cut off potential competition by destroying the once golden goose?
I really don’t get these guys at all. SEIU had something called GTCR watch.org but it is no longer online. Anyone know what they found?
Comment by RNUG Fan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 8:09 pm
- wordslinger - & - AA -,
Let me know when we should meet and have lunch, and dinner and drinks so we can hash all this out.
We couldn’t do worse than the chicken, that I do know, for sure!
Both of you, as well … thinking I am Proft is quite comical, luckily - wordslinger - was there to, um, clarify … that I am not.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 8:41 pm
Willy, we’ll be in touch. Probably not at a chicken place lol.
You know, back in the day, when Rich first got the Blog really going, a couple of the Blago gang accused AA of being Judy Baar Topinka. I told them best I could that I was definitely a dude, and JBT had forgotten more than AA ever knew. But Proft-that’s an insult!
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 9:11 pm
- AA -,
I will wait for the “Bat Signal” for our meeting, since I am Bruce Wayne, and you and - wordslinger - must be either Commissioner Gordon and/or Chief O’Hara.
@TheRaunerChicken - I will release my fees when My Hedge Fund Manager discloses me on his D-2. #250LargeToBePosted
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 9:28 pm