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*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day
Monday, Aug 5, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anybody campaign for governor in short pants with an untucked, long-sleeved, button-down collar blue business shirt. Bill Daley recently notified the world via Twitter that he was “In Woodstock IL at the McHenry County Fair“…  Click the pic for a larger image. Wow. * The Question: Caption? Funniest commenter wins a free beverage at the Illinois State Fair - likely not in combination with a golf cart ride (oops). Last week’s winner was Calhoun Native…
CN should contact me via email so we can work out our beverage time. *** UPDATE *** Daley just called, and after saying he wore the beat-up shoes he wears every day, he joked that he was wearing black wingtips. Like his father and his brothers, he doesn’t always finish his sentences, so while he was joking about his attire, he said “I get it, but I am not gonna play…. I’m not going to suddenly be Bruce Rauner and try to be…” You get the idea. He’s not gonna do the costume thing. OK, all respect, I guess. After he hung up, he called back to ask “What if I tied a red bandana around my neck?” He does have a good sense of humor. I’ll give him that. He also answered questions about the FERC stuff from another post today. Check that one in a bit.
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- AFSCME Steward - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:51 am:
William “Orville” Daley & family ready to milk dem cows.
- Timmeh - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:55 am:
“I know why you wore that shirt. There’s no need to get snippy.”
- siriusly - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:55 am:
Look at me, I’m very comfortable down on the farm.
- John A Logan - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:56 am:
My God. My God. There is a pleat in the front. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
- Stones - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:57 am:
You can take the boy out of Chicago but not Chicago out of the boy.
- Stuff happens - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:57 am:
If you don’t take off the clothes before ironing them, the wearer ends up looking uncomfortably stiff too.
- Johnson - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:58 am:
I know this has been used before, but
“Thanks for the tour, will the cattle guard show me the exit?”
- AFSCME Steward - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:58 am:
William Daley, in his attempt to get to the bottom of the Great Chicago Fire, is about to interview a direct descendant of Mrs. Oleary’s cow.
- SAP - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:58 am:
Business on the top, party on the bottom.
- Stones - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:58 am:
“Whatdda mean..you can’t milk a bull?”
- Small Town Liberal - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:59 am:
I’ll show Quinn just how bad my tailor actually is…
- Capitol View - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:59 am:
He tried to milk a steer, and this family rescued him!
- Stuff happens - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:59 am:
It *is* possible to go too far when trying not to look like Pat Quinn.
- Norseman - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 11:59 am:
I always wear my button-down dress shirts when I’m at the fair.
- Big Muddy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:00 pm:
From the kid in the front: “I said I was supporting Dillard and this guy breaks my arm! Damn city slickers. I did get this Bloomberg approved drink though!”
- CircularFiringSquad - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:00 pm:
Lovely family portrait
Gotta wonder about the footwear….too Capt Fax phootag did not send fully framed pix
- RNUG - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:00 pm:
WHat’s the problem? I’m just wearing my daily attire.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
“Oh, so Miller’s giving me fashion advice now???”
- Say again - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
As a former bank executive and White House Chief of Staff, I am comfortable around manure.
- Norseman - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:02 pm:
No, I didn’t wear these shorts under my dress pants so I could make a quick change for the fair.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
“Maybe I should invest in some blue jeans.”
- Old Shepherd - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
“It’s too hot to wear my new Carhartt barn jacket, so I wore my new barn shorts instead.”
- Norseman - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:05 pm:
I had to change into a different pants because Mr. Do More by 7 a.m. here let me get too close to a cow doing his business.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:05 pm:
The only two McHenry Cpunty residents willing to pose for a photograph with a member of the Daley family.
- LakeviewJ - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:06 pm:
Bill Daley: J.P. Morgan executive, J. Crew shorts enthusiast.
- OneMan - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:07 pm:
The new banker in Woodstock, felt, even though he wasn’t happy with the transfer from Oak Brook that his first try and working and meeting with the farmers he would have to deal with went well.
- PublicServant - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:09 pm:
Note to self: Show up before 11am. Wear farmer stuff, drop the pleats, and make sure fingernails are dirty. Consider dropping the ‘g’ from ing-words like Bruce does.
- too obvious - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:10 pm:
Hey kid I’ll show you how to iron your shorts for a sip of that lemon shakeup.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:10 pm:
“Take a look at these shanks, Kass.”
- AFSCME Steward - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:10 pm:
Guy in the gray teeshirt: “Does he really think I’m going to vote for him ?”
- LakeviewJ - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:10 pm:
“One quick picture, then I gotta split. I’m signed up for the 11:30 Groundhog’s Day walking tour.”
- Stones - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:11 pm:
Daley (thought bubble) “Just who is this John Deere guy anyway? How does he get all these people to campaign for him?”
- leonard - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:13 pm:
So this is southern Illinois!
- siriusly - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:13 pm:
William Daley shows of the diversity of his campaign supporters.
- Soccermom - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:14 pm:
So far, I’m voting for Stones. Although STL gets some points as well.
- Norseman - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:14 pm:
Daley rejects staff’s suggestion that he wear makeup on his head to prevent reflections.
- unclesam - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:14 pm:
While on the campaign trail, fashion icon Bill Daley shows off the newest in Illinois political campaign fashion…tear away trousers! Great for downstate campaign visits. Buy yours today! Available in both pleated and flat front!
- too obvious - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:16 pm:
Watched every episode of Green Acres before hitting the sticks. #nailingit
- Cincinnatus - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:18 pm:
“Who wears short shorts… Thank God it’s not this.
- Jack - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:20 pm:
“Bill Daley is found by a group of friendly members of the Nonchicago tribe after wandering too far from the lake.”
- MrJM - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:20 pm:
“No, no… I was never mayor of Chicago… I’m just a folksy Washington insider who made millions working for a Wall Street bank — you know, a regular fellow like yourselves.”
– MrJM
- Keyrock - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:22 pm:
In this photo, Bill Daley poses with the Jones family at the McHenry County Fair, not realizing that Farmer Jones had just used a pair of shears to remove the bottoms of Daley’s khakis.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:24 pm:
===Gotta wonder about the footwear===
He just emailed me about a subscription. I thanked him in my reply then asked about his choice of footwear.
I’ll follow up with the FERC stuff. Gotta reel ‘em in first. lol
- jimbo26 - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:24 pm:
This kid thinks he knows B.S. I am the real B.S expert.
- Chathamite - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:24 pm:
These are my “work” shorts - as you can see, they still have the factory crease in them
- A Modest Proposal - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:25 pm:
Bill Daley outside of Chicago trying to convince voters that he is a moderate Democrat. Notice the light blue shirt?
- Anon - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:25 pm:
Daley, already reaching into the pocketbooks of downstaters!
- Cincinnatus - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:25 pm:
The “D’s” Knees
- Tommydanger - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:29 pm:
“I cash more checks before 7am than most people do all day”
- Wensicia - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:29 pm:
“I threw this shirt on for the photo; I’m wearing an “Anyone But Quinn” T-shirt underneath.”
- Boone's is Back - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:32 pm:
Yuppie farmers for Daley
- Jake From Elwood - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:41 pm:
“A don doesn’t wear shorts”
- Gregor Samsa - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:43 pm:
These shorts are how I counter the “deep pockets” accusation. I have a Duck Dynasty t-shirt on under this office shirt, but I just couldn’t force myself to go that low and show it yet.
- Illinoisan - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:46 pm:
Daley Campaign’s new theme song: I Got You Babe
(The movie Groundhog Day was filmed in Woodstock)
- Arnold Ziffel - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:47 pm:
“Ohh, my pants. It’s an old conductor’s trick I learned from Leonard Bernstein… You keep a perfect crease by not sitting in them before the performance.”
- train111 - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:49 pm:
Elect me governor, and I’ll be visiting these county fair thingies Daley.
- low level - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:50 pm:
DaleyDude?!?
- Jack - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:50 pm:
“Bill Daley dressed for a rock festival mistakenly goes to the wrong Woodstock.”
- DukeCoin - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:51 pm:
Rauner ate deer sausage? Big deal. I just bit through this kid in the John Deere hat’s arm. Dress shirt/creased shorts 1, barn coat 0.
- Esquire - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:54 pm:
If I am elected, I promise to inaugurate a Cook County Fair! Plenty of jobs for patronage hires, ahem, fun for the whole family. Chicagoans need to experience the whole urban farming thingy.
- Barton Lorimor - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:56 pm:
NO GOLF CARTS?! But I just replaced the flip cam with a GoPro!
- bobby dylan - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:58 pm:
Sorry Rich, I meant, walk of shame.
- Deep South - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 12:59 pm:
“You mean to tell me the Butter Cow is in Springfield? Where’s that?”
- CircularFiringSquad - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:04 pm:
Sure you get a new subscriber…hopefully you signed up for the 100 year plan… and CFS does not get the fax…err facts …like full frame pix
Can’t wait for the FERC ’splainin’
“Very complicated, sophisticated transaction designed to smooth market movements in times of varying demand”
That is all BS for we borrow lots and lots of cheap money and buy and sell options and derivatives which zig zag prices and leave customers screwed on the sidelines.
- A guy... - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:04 pm:
The answer is obvious, duh. My play clothes are last year’s dress clothes.
- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:04 pm:
“I need some jorts? Jorts? Those a real thing?”
- OnlyinIL - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:04 pm:
best pressed shorts I’ve ever seen on the campaign trail.
- Jack - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:05 pm:
So was Bill Daley wearing white, brown, or black socks with those tan shorts and black wing tips?
- Abe the Babe - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:07 pm:
Gubernatorial candidate Bill Daley gets confused for a republican at the McHenry County Fair. Upon learning of the candidates real political leanings, little Johhny (pictured front right) exclaimed, “he better not ban my 30oz sodee!”.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:08 pm:
“I had to cover up my sleeveless t-shirt. I’m telling ya, I had no idea people called them by that other name. Mr. um, ah, Deere, here kindly loaned me his ‘Church Shirt’ for now.”
- Snucka - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:13 pm:
Wait a minute. The guy wants to be governor and is just now subscribing to the Capitol Fax? As a wise man once said– come on, man.
- Bluefish - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:17 pm:
Brand new pair of shorts…$78
Entry fee to county fair downstate…$7
Lemonade for kid with broken arm…$4.50
Finally getting Rich to do a caption contest about me…priceless
- walkinfool - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:22 pm:
“You want me to go shopping for campaign clothes?”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:22 pm:
I got nothing. My Oliver Wendell Douglas lines, while hilarious, are too obscure for this contest.
I can look at this picture though, without seeing him wearing boots up to the knees. I think that’s why they cropped it. If they crop it a little more and airbrush in a pitchfork, they can do a nice little American Gothic thing for their facebook page. I’d like that.
- Oozlefinch - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:22 pm:
“So this is a barn…amazing… You know, I’ve been told I own several… not really sure where they are though…”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:23 pm:
*can’t* look at it.
- Empty Suit - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:25 pm:
Campaign Add: - It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
Daley- “Somebody help me roll up my sleeves, my cuff links are caught in my French Cuffs”
- Snucka - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:33 pm:
“This is my kind of place. Lots of open spaces, the corn is just the right height…”
- Dirty Red - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:34 pm:
“How much did we pay that staffer with the T-shirt to Daley’s right?” - Pat Quinn
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:39 pm:
“That’s right, everybody smile nice and pretty or the kid loses another arm.”
- Midstate Indy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:42 pm:
The kid, even though well paid by the Rauner campaign for fair espionage, still needs a drink before posing with Daley.
- Underwhelmed - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:48 pm:
To Aide: Oh man… I thought you told me today was the “calf” show.
- too obvious - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:48 pm:
This is almost as fun as when my bank foreclosed on farms.
- too obvious - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 1:50 pm:
Little boy gets a painful lesson in “the Chicago Way.”
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:03 pm:
Won’t you come and take me home?
I’ve been too long at the fair.
And lord I just can’t stand it
Any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYEzqzA686k
- flea - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:04 pm:
“I am going to shave my eyebrows and work the whack-a-mole booth at the state fair to get to know these folks down south”
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:06 pm:
I just realized something.
He looks like my dad in that photo. lol
- Roamin' Numeral - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:08 pm:
“I think I went too far north. This has got to be Wisconsin. No way this is Illinois.”
- My Thoughts For Whatever - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:09 pm:
Bill Daley modeling the modern-day farm attire for milking cows! (Somehow he doesn’t look like the best choice for the modeling! He doesn’t look very natural or comfortable.) He looks like a “Duck out of the water” !!
- Cincinnatus - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:09 pm:
“I’m an Outsider, what am I doing Inside this barn?”
- one of the 35 - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:11 pm:
Portrait of a farm family and a fish out of water.
- Observation - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:17 pm:
“Uh oh. I hope the kid doesn’t realize that my lemonade shakeup has vodka.”
- Empty Suit - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:18 pm:
“No dad those are cows, deer have antlers..oh never mind!”
- Soccermom - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:19 pm:
Thanks, Rich. Now I can’t get this out of my mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFgfHB0_L0
“Step aside, you ornery tenderfeet — let a big, bad buckaroo pass…”
- SAP - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:22 pm:
Just need to tan my legs a bit before I run in Abe’s Amble.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:29 pm:
one of the 35 just took the lead.
- Cook County Commoner - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:29 pm:
What’s that smell. Is a Chicago alderman close by?
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:40 pm:
47th-
“Forget Chicago, just gimme that countryside”
- A guy... - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:47 pm:
Miller has me in a caption contest. Quick, let’s tie the bottom of this Dior shirt in a knot and make it a halter.
- siriusly - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 2:48 pm:
Is that a bulldozer over there? Yeah, I know how to drive one. My brother taught me how to make giant Xs with them.
- wordslinger - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:07 pm:
“Hey kid, could I get a sip of that? I need to wash down that Cow Pie I just tried. Do you guys eat that a lot? It’s really good, isn’t it?”
- Now - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:08 pm:
Can anyone tell me why “wealthy” candidates for public office are less caring for the ” little guy” than politicians who’ve been be holding to lobbyists since elected. Check the D’2s and you’ll know what I mean.
- Rufus D Doofus - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:14 pm:
Yeah, I’ve always been in politics and Wall street banking but to tell yous the truth, I always wanted to be a farm guy person.
- Now - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:23 pm:
Both are honorable professions!
Take it from one who knows
- zatoichi - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:35 pm:
Bill just needs some John Deere sock suspenders to complete the look.
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:51 pm:
The Johnson family won “Best in Show” for their entry in the “Dress the City Slicker for the Fair” competition. The judges cited the Johnsons for creative use of the city slicker’s native dress. The Johnsons will be showing their entry at the State Fair on August 14.
- Motambe - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:52 pm:
“And here is Bill Daley, modeling our Brooks Brothers fall line of casual-farm-visit clothing.”
- Spliff - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:55 pm:
Wow this is better than driving all the way to Springfield to get our picture with that butter cow … who woulda thought they stacked s#*t this high?
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:56 pm:
“No, that WAS the best picture …”
“Nice Job! You guys photshopped the wrong picture. Now that picture of Bill in overalls standing on the floor of the board of Trade makes sense …”
“Ok, before we take this …tucked in or out?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:57 pm:
“Mr. Daley, we forgive ya for passin’ out in our barn last night. How about a picture and we call it even…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 3:59 pm:
“Oh geez, who let Bill wear that t-shirt with the swear words again? Jimmy, give him your dress shirt for the pictures…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:01 pm:
“Cutting those dress pants to make shorts was ‘pure genius’, but what do we do about the shirt?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:03 pm:
Daley, thinking, “This is the last time I leave the packing to the ‘Harvard Intern’…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:06 pm:
Bill Daley was all casual today on a farm in Woodstock, leaving the bathrobe, fuzzy slippers, and pipe in the Lincoln Town Car before posing for pictures…
- phocion - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:16 pm:
“Gold Coast is where I’d rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore the penthouse view.
Dahling I love you.
But give me Goethe Avenue.”
- Dizzy Cow - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:17 pm:
He was clearly wearing the same grey t-shirt but didn’t want any confusion.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:19 pm:
“Yeah, its a nice shot, but after we take this one, Bill needs to take a few with the barn coat on…”
- Rail Sitter - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 4:36 pm:
Won’t you come home, Bill Daley, won’t you come on home
I’ve moo’d that whole day long
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 6:02 pm:
SAP should win. Brilliant!
- Rollo Tomasi - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 7:00 pm:
Your crazy if you think I’m wearing a Armani Suit in the cow manure!
I should be having lunch with Ty Fahner and Rahm on LaSalle Street not hear in this sh…….
- Now - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 7:22 pm:
Looks like the days of Jim Thompson
- DoubleDown - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 8:38 pm:
Peotone voter here,crossing over party lines to vote D for the primary to vote for Daley, signing the Peotone bill was the last straw for me.
- just demoralized - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 9:12 pm:
Buttoned down blue oxford shirt, khaki shorts (with a crease OMG). Might play on the yacht club circuit, but this is 4H. Oh well he has a few months to get his downstate look .
- TooManyJens - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 10:58 pm:
The crease is amazing. Those shorts look like they were carved out of something.