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* Michael Cabonargi, a member of the Cook County Board of Review, is considering a Democratic bid for state treasurer.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. Michael who? What the heck? But he had almost $350K in the bank as of January 1st.
So, let’s welcome him to state politics, shall we? Here is Cabonargi with Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon…
* The Question: Caption?
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:48 pm
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Looks like “American Gothic” gone very wrong.
Comment by Stones Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:51 pm
“Will I support you if you run for AG, Sheila?…I don’t know, it depends on who else is running”
Comment by phocion Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:56 pm
Cabonargi was appointed to replace Joe Berrios on the Board of Review.
Given the property tax hikes in Cook County despite declining real estate values, it may be a good time for him to move on. Some voters seeking tax relief are unhappy that their property tax valuation appeals are being rejected as a matter of course.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:57 pm
Sorry. I just can’t come up with a single caption that wouldn’t be unbearably cruel. And I’m basically a nice person so I’m going to pass on this opportunity.
Comment by Responsa Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 2:59 pm
===Given the property tax hikes in Cook County despite declining real estate values===
If you change “despite” to “at least partly because of” you’d be far more right.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:00 pm
I’m not sure that anybody is ever gonna be able to top Stones’ comment.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:01 pm
Simon: “Meeting Michael is twice as exciting as my last root canal!”
Comment by Precinct Captain Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:30 pm
Sheila gets ready to tour Illinois with her new manjo.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:32 pm
Mike Cabonargi is a really sharp guy and really nice too. Best of luck Mike!
Comment by Because I said so... Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:33 pm
Mike has cleaned up the Board of Review. He’s a former securities law prosecutor, Simon and Durbin protege and all around good guy. That said, a caption contest is a nice welcome to politics.
“Beauty and the Beast enjoy a quiet moment”
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:33 pm
47 - perfect!
Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:35 pm
Sheila who? and Michael what’s his name? pose for a picture at a rally for whatever office.
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:37 pm
(Sheila thinking), (Cabonargi thinking)
“Why do I have to take this picture? I know, i am probably helping, but really, who know this person next to me? I bet when I show this to my supporters, they are going to ask me who this is. Ok, just be a team player and help. Smile and take the picture…”
Sheila: “Ready?”
Michael: “I was thinking the same thing. Ready.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:39 pm
Nobody, meet Nobody.
Comment by Empty Chair Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:39 pm
Separated at birth?
Comment by Boone's is Back Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:41 pm
Leave the Sheila, take the Carbonargi…
Comment by D P Gumby Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:44 pm
“Does anybody know what time it is?”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:45 pm
Today the cover of ‘Mad Magazine’,
Tomorrow the cover of ‘Time Magazine’
Comment by Anonymous1001 Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 3:54 pm
OMG!!! Where is Dan Hynes?
Comment by Levois Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:03 pm
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon announces her support for the pictured gentleman, rumored to be somebody few have ever really even heard of, who thinks he’s qualified to be Illinois’ Treasurer apparently, by enthusiastically asserting, “I’m supporting ANYbody who says they’ll support ME for the Statewide Office I’ve announced I’m running for–the Office which no one knows what it IS because I won’t SAY what it is–AND because I’m endorsing ANYbody who doesn’t look like Pat Quinn–not because I don’t like or respect him as our Governor, but, well, ‘cuz like I used to tell my Pops to his utter dismay when I was a little ‘Crumbcrusher,’ and he was insisting on an answer or reason for something I was doing…’just BECAUSE’!!!”
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:05 pm
Empty Chair and Boone’s is Back up above: excellent! And, as noted before, more than an Honorable Mention to Stones…classic–AND hilarious!!!
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:08 pm
“In a world where bland meets boring, two crazy kids decided to turn the world … upside down.
Meet Joanne Humphries, college tutor to Athletes at Southern North University, City Campus. Joanne loves poetry, geometry ‘proofs’ and frozen custard with … sprinkles.
Joanne tutoring partner, Davis O’Sullivan-O’Hallorhan, an Irish immigrant, when not tutoring, is on a world-wide quest for the perfect closet organizer, at a reasonable price.
How these two crazy kids solved the biggest algebraic scandal since the ‘2000 Computer Glitch’ of 1999 is the stuff legends are made of. Their only hope to stay awake was something so dispicable, Chicagoans cringe at the mention of it.
Sheila Simon …Michael Cabonargi
The Ketchup Hotdog Diaries…
Getting the Plain, Bland, truth, was NOT on the menu …On petitons, coming soon.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:13 pm
Both were thankful the photographer had the camera on a timer, becuase he fell asleep in mid-shot.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:24 pm
“No, that is not a caricature, that is actually them …”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:41 pm
Ms Sardonicus meets the Invisible Man.
Comment by dupage dan Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:41 pm
“We are here to judge the Science Fair”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:41 pm
“Please welcome our Veeps from ‘Corporate’ …”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:43 pm
Phocion’s initial comment has not gotten the respect here that it deserves. Brilliant.
That being said, it just hit me. The Dems choice for AG may come down to either Sheila Simon or Kwame Raoul? Please tell me there will a third candidate. Somebody who has a real record. With all the lawyers in Illinois, we have got to come up with a better choice than either of these two.
Comment by Skeeter Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:46 pm
I agree with Chicago Cynic. Cook County tax bills were mailed on time for the first time in over 30 years last year.
Cabonargi: “Shiela - is this the line we wait in until Lisa makes her 2014 decision?”
Comment by Source Code Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:48 pm
Whom benefits, politically, from this shot? One, both or neither? It is a nice picture, though.
Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:49 pm
Apparently Instagram now has a funhouse mirror filter.
Comment by Rail Sitter Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:49 pm
“Hello, I am Susan and this is Gerald. We are here to do your Audit…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:50 pm
Cabonargi is a good guy. The BOR in Cook County is significantly more transparent since Mike joined their ranks. Funny picture, but I think if these 2 start running a lot of folks on this thread will be eating their words
Comment by Doug Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 4:55 pm
“Introducing our coaches for this year’s ‘Math-A-Thon’ team …”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 5:01 pm
Before we give Michael the award for the “Greatest and Most Ethical Cook Co Pol of All-Time”, lets wait for the day when an average Cook County property tax payer can fight their bill without the assistance of a connected property tax lawyer. Then we can say “Michael really cleaned up the BOR.” Until then, it is business as usual over-by-der.
Comment by Red Ranger Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 5:12 pm
Sheila Simon courts the votes of Luke Wilson lovers.
Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 5:20 pm
The Illinois Democrat Party: For White people too.
Comment by Steve Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 5:59 pm
Anyone new at the BOR would have been an improvement upon Joe Berrios.
Caption: “Sheila Simon and Dude the Obscure.”
Comment by Esquire Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 6:02 pm
“Where’s the Actuaries’ Conference?”
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 6:21 pm
Howdy DudE
Comment by A Citizen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:26 pm
Skeeter…and Lisa Madigan HAD a “real record” when it came to qualifications for Attorney General? Just askin’
Comment by Commonsense in Illinois Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:29 pm
Calling Dr Pol, Dr. Pol…….calling Dr Pol…..
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 7:59 pm
Mike’s a good guy. Occasionally bump into him in the neighborhood and at policy events. Exactly the kind of person you’d want as treasurer.
Comment by Quicknote Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 8:17 pm
And the Dem Party Mascot look alike contest winner is …..
Comment by A Citizen Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 8:18 pm
Michael brought on-line filing to the Board of Review in the last 2 years. Before he arrived, the Board used a 3-part form with carbon paper in between.
Comment by Rudy Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 9:02 pm
Vote for Bland and Blander
Comment by Concerned Voter Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 9:44 pm
Alfalfa meets Stevie from East Bound and Down.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 2, 13 @ 10:00 pm
I thought I was watching a Jerry Lewis telethon.
Comment by Rob Roy Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 7:51 am
I’m sorry, she’s a really nice lady, and smart, and hard working, and reputed to be honest and all that… but she just isn’t photogenic.
$350k is a pretty substantial campaign warchest for an obscure office (like Treasurer).
Comment by titan Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 8:48 am
Sheila I knew and worked for your father … your no Paul Simon!
Comment by Spliff Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 8:57 am
Our fair governor started out at this board when it was known as the Board of Tax Appeals. There is precedent from going from this office to Treasurer.
Comment by Niles Township Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 1:49 pm
I know, hearsay is bad - but here it goes: I heard from someone that worked with him that he’s not a nice guy. I won’t be voting for him.
Comment by Anonimo Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 5:32 pm
@anonimo, I”ve met the guy and talked with him and he’s very smart and quite cordial.
Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Apr 3, 13 @ 6:54 pm