Question of the day
Tuesday, Jul 17, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller
* From a press release…
Lt. Governor Sheila Simon will host the nation’s lieutenant governors in Chicago this week as the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) convenes its 50th annual conference in Illinois.
Expected to generate over $600,000 in hotel, transportation, restaurant and tourism revenue, 30 lieutenant governors and their staffs will meet at the Drake Hotel on Wednesday through Friday to identify policies that can improve college completion rates, link veterans to employment, increase access to locally grown food and combat domestic violence, among other issues.
Simon, the NLGA’s Midwest Region Chair, and Governor Pat Quinn will conduct the conference’s opening ceremonies Wednesday morning.
“I value this opportunity to showcase Chicago and share innovative strategies to grow our state and nation,” Lt. Governor Simon said.
* The Question: What should be the National Lieutenant Governors Association’s Chicago convention slogan this year?
- JustaJoe - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:17 am:
Your Tax Dollars At Work?
- Pleading the Fifth - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:19 am:
Banjo Picking to a Brighter America
- Esquire - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:19 am:
Lieutenant Governors: Totally Ignored and Irrelevant, But Only a Heartbeat Away!
- Tom - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:20 am:
“We’re Number 2″
- pingu - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:20 am:
We will not be ignored!
- Rebel13 - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:21 am:
One indictment away!
- x ace - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:21 am:
Second City Welcomes Second Stringers
- titan - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:22 am:
Finding Things To Do (Other Than Monitoring The Boss’ Health).
- RetiredStateEmployee - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:23 am:
The governor of Chicago welcomes you
- Jechislo - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:26 am:
“Brother can you spare a dime”?
- Bluefish - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:27 am:
50 Great Years of Pretending to be Relevant
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:27 am:
Second bananas in the second city.
- Vitaman - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:32 am:
Duck!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:33 am:
You just have to wait ’til the boss starts living Jailhouse Rock!
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:36 am:
“Politicians Anonymous”
- RNUG - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:36 am:
You can end up #1; subtitle - helping the feds investigate
- downstate hack - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:36 am:
“Expected to generate over $600,000″
Over $700,000 if they all just buy a couple cartons of Illinois taxed cigarettes.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:42 am:
As Ready As We’re Gonna Be
Political Purgatory
The “Other” Governors
The “Bullpen”
- Mr. Grassroots - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:44 am:
We’re number two!
- frustrated GOP - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:45 am:
How much staff would an Lt Gov. need or need to bring to a conf. Kustra drove his own car.
I think a better question would be what kind of seminars are at a Lt Gov. Conf.
What to do with your time while you wait.
Hobbies for Lt Gov.
How to leak info to the Feds.
The FBI is your friend.
Comparison of impeachment statues, state by state.
Here’s a seminar Quinn should have taken: How to balance a budget once you’ve taken over.
- Mr. Grassroots - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:46 am:
Sorry, I saw it was taken!
- Mr. Grassroots - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:47 am:
We have no place to go but up!
- HCM - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:55 am:
Relevance is just a heartbeat away
- Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:56 am:
A Stepping Stone to Higher Office.
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:00 am:
More Popular Than The Real Governors!
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:01 am:
Please Wear Your Name Tags
All the Perks, None of the Power
Seat Fillers
In the Wings
- John Bambenek - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:02 am:
National Lieutenant Governor’s Association: Where Reading the Obituaries is our only Job
- CircularFiringSquad - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:06 am:
“We Want To See The People WHo said ‘NO’ to Daddy’s Lil DeDuction, IL Mitt Wanna Be — Jason The WoodieMan”
Little long but it years for what might have been
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:10 am:
NLGA 2012:
Chicago Welcomes National Lieutenant Governors Anonymous
- Dave Victor - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:12 am:
There’s always hope your governor will go to jail.
- DE - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:13 am:
‘Let’s Hear It For The “Executive” Branch’. If you’ve ever had one in the Drake bar you’ll know what I mean.
- Downstate - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:18 am:
“Boosting the economy of Chicago…..during the height of their tourist season!”
Want to boost an economy? Hold this in January in Chicago, or anytime in Detroit.
- Wensicia - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:19 am:
How to make a meaningful impression from a meaningless position.
- one day at a time - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:21 am:
Governors….are they relevant or just like us?
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:24 am:
Meh
Someone Put This on the Schedule
Our Yearly Use of the State Plane!
(Crickets)
- Ghost of John Brown - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:25 am:
Ready to Serve When the Indictment Comes Down
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:29 am:
Lean Forward
Value - Creation and Maintaining
Common Issues in a Changing World
Put me in, Coach
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:31 am:
Total Recall
- Frank - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:34 am:
If Pat Quinn can become Governor, someday so can we!
- Panopticon - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:38 am:
If everyone makes their own clothes like the Lt. Governor, the great State of Illinois can grow the textile industry without creating any jobs. Cut out the middle man, move over Quinn!
- Union - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:43 am:
We’re better then a bucket of spit
- Carl Nyberg - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:44 am:
Almost Famous
Chicago: Where Indictments Come True!
- Elo Kiddies - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:46 am:
@ Esquire - More like “50 heartbeats away.”
But having it in Illinois must give some of them reason to think the waiting around is worth it — will erstwhile member Pat Quinn be addressing them with his “never give up hope” speech?
- Kerfuffle - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:47 am:
Lt. Governors - its okay to be irrelevant
Hobbies you can take up while waiting for the governor to die or be indicted
- stateandlake - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:51 am:
Best practices for finding out when your governor is leaving the state
http://www.klfy.com/story/19023345/jindal-doesnt-tell-dardenne-when-he-leaves-la
- 1776 - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:51 am:
Illinois: Where Lite Governors actually have a chance at moving up.
Illinois: Where the office is more productive when vacant.
- amalia - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:52 am:
We try harder.
- Carl Nyberg - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:56 am:
Chicago: Because the Appalachian Trail Was Booked
- Excessively Rabid - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:57 am:
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- Anon - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:57 am:
Enjoy Chicago! Next meeting is in Des Moines in Dec.
Opening Event - Cubs vs Marlins - Be There!
- Tommydanger - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 10:58 am:
Lt. Governors: We put the “M” in Meaningless!
- Esquire - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 11:02 am:
Who is the favorite in the Stelle-Shapiro Most Likely to Succeed Contest?
- Shore - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 11:10 am:
30 people over 3 days are going to generation $600k worth of stuff? This is what they call, fuzzy math.
- one day at a time - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 11:22 am:
Welcome Signs…
Welcome to Illinois, check you weapons at the state line.
Welcome to Chicago, Illinois….Where our shooting high temperatures are lower than our body count.
- MrJM - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 11:25 am:
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
– MrJM
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 12:18 pm:
“I’m the Indictment that sideswipes Mr. Ethics. I’m the sexting scandal that scrapes the paint off your Family Values vaneer. Mayhem is coming. Are you in good hands?”
Hattip: Allstate and Leo Burnett.
- In absentia - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 12:19 pm:
How to shine in the shadows
- Stooges - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 12:44 pm:
We’re in charge when the governor leaves the state.
- Panopticon - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 1:03 pm:
Illinios—puts the C in Chicago and the C in Corruption!
- Elijiah Snow - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 1:11 pm:
“Lt. Governoners - No, Really, It’s a real thing!”
- Tommydanger - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 1:48 pm:
Lt. Governors: The toe jam of government!
- Give Me A Break - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 1:54 pm:
LT GOVS: Where the heck is Biden?
- JustaJoe - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 1:56 pm:
Lt Governors For Jobbing Their States!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 2:06 pm:
We got elected, now what?
- been there - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 2:50 pm:
movin’ on up!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 3:15 pm:
What we do is so easy, even a caveman can do it!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 3:29 pm:
Think small.
Smaller.
Almost…
Stop! Don’t blink!
We are Americas political footnotes!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 3:33 pm:
Political victory can come with a humiliating cost
- 618392dem - Tuesday, Jul 17, 12 @ 9:28 pm:
Our time at the big kids table
- Jerry101 - Wednesday, Jul 18, 12 @ 12:02 am:
NLGA ILLINOIS 2012! It could happen to you, too!
NLGA ILLINOIS 2012! Leading Lt Governors to the Big Chair
NLGA ILLINOIS 2012! How You Can Drop the Lt, too!
NLGA ILLINOIS 2012! Featuring a Special Appearance (via Skype…he wouldn’t want to get to close to all you wanna-be’s) by the Nation’s Most Famous Ex-Lt Governor, (real) Governor Pat Quinn!!’mm
Actually, those all sound more like panels or a keynote speech than a slogan…