I am deeply grateful for the “honor” you have bestowed on me. I enjoyed “talking” to Madigan and Cullerton on election night so much that I can’t wait to start “working” with them. I look forward to presenting my “budget plan” “shortly.” First things first, I’ll “banish” “patronage” from Illinois.
Unlike Rahm I have all my fingers. That and tens of millions of dollars is why I’m Governor elect and he’s merely a “mare”. I mean does he even have a school named after him?
I will be as “successful” over the next two years with the legislature in opposition control as the President will be with the legislature in opposition control.
- anon - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:21 pm:
“Two plus two equals a whopping deficit in FY 16.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
Little bunnies Foo Foo hopping through through the GA. . .
- Anonymous - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
This is how many million I have in each of my pockets right now.
- garlic bread - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
Speaker and President kept referring to a so-called “crushing budget deficit.”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:26 pm:
Sock it to me.
- Commander Norton - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
I am deeply grateful for the “honor” you have bestowed on me. I enjoyed “talking” to Madigan and Cullerton on election night so much that I can’t wait to start “working” with them. I look forward to presenting my “budget plan” “shortly.” First things first, I’ll “banish” “patronage” from Illinois.
- Concerned - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
I need sharks with “lasers” attached to their heads.
- Soccermom - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
The “voters” have “spoken.”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:29 pm:
I never did get the handle on that “touch typing” thing on my typewriter or computer keyboard! These four babies do it all for me!
- Frenchie Mendoza - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:34 pm:
“Details”
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:34 pm:
This is how many prairie chickens I will need to present with my State of the State address.
- chi - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:34 pm:
“So you’re saying DON’T make this gesture when the feds come. OK, got it.”
- Stones - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:35 pm:
“One of my favorite shows growing up was My Favorite Martian. He used to have these two antennae…”
- Jeff Trigg - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:35 pm:
“Republican”
- train111 - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:36 pm:
“And this is how long of a chain MJM is going to keep me on”
- West Side the Best Side - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
I’ve got one too many fingers raised on each hand to let you know what I really think about Madigan and Cullerton.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
Since my election, this is how many political careers have ended - Lane Evans, Phil Crane, Jane Byrne, and mine.
- IrishPirate - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
Unlike Rahm I have all my fingers. That and tens of millions of dollars is why I’m Governor elect and he’s merely a “mare”. I mean does he even have a school named after him?
- LINK - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:39 pm:
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch my back too…
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:39 pm:
I love that poster!
The kitten is holding on like this!
Evelyn sent it to me with a note, “hang in there!”
- Will23 - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:40 pm:
At the February budget address:
“This is what I call pulling a ‘Jim Thompson.’”
- anon - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:40 pm:
The so-called “experts” say I can’t balance the budget while slashing taxes and boosting spending.
- Amalia - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:41 pm:
“I’m a public servant.”
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:41 pm:
People want to know if their governor is a crook. Well I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got…
- Anonymour - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:42 pm:
How do my budget numbers add up? “Magic beans.”
- Anon - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:43 pm:
In the voice of Dr. Evil: “One Billion Dollars”
- anon - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:44 pm:
“budget, smudget”
I have a “plan.”
The GOP will have a majority in the GA within 8 years. Scout’s honor!
- SO. ILL - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:44 pm:
Not that any of this fits, but its what I thought of: It is work appropriate btw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cAS-mvV20
- Suburban Dad - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:49 pm:
When I said that Madigan and Cullerton were “corrupt,” I really meant they are honorable public servants with whom I look forward to working!
- Reformed Public Servant - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:50 pm:
“”Shake up” Springfield was a slogan, now that I’m here…”
- Demoralized - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:51 pm:
I’m going to “Shake Up Springfield.”
- Demoralized - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:52 pm:
Bruce Rauner gives the Richard Nixon wave.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:53 pm:
“Mautinoed”
“New to Insiders”
“Friend of the Speaker”
Evelyn is now “qualified”
“Mike Z-eed”
“Republicanized”
“The Peanut Gallery”
“My Buddy Rahm”
“Constitutionally-speaking”
- NorthbyNorthWest - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:53 pm:
“minimum wage”
- garlic bread - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:54 pm:
If it costs less than 100 grand, it’s not wine, it’s “wine”.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:56 pm:
I will be as “successful” over the next two years with the legislature in opposition control as the President will be with the legislature in opposition control.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:57 pm:
“Average Joe”
“Carhartt weather”
“Balance Budget”
“Media Savy”
“Open book”
“Don’t read the negative”
“Thin skin”
“Bodies are buried”
“Political lingo”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:57 pm:
When I go like this I am mocking your intelligence avid giggling inside.
- AC - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:58 pm:
“I will make her radioactive” - Bruce Rauner from his new post apocalyptic sci fi novel titled “Shake up Springfield”
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 2:58 pm:
Yes the Governor did call to “congratuate” me.
- Southwest Cook - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:01 pm:
You don’t have Rauner to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference, and … oh I won? They actually bought it?
- Stuff Happens - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:01 pm:
My $18 watch “fell” off.
- Chicago Cynic - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:03 pm:
No, I did not understand the Speaker’s push for so-called “revenues.”
- zatoichi - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:05 pm:
It felt like American Ninja, but I was just able to hang on by my fingertips.
So I told them, these are the hands you can talk to.
- Soccertease - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:09 pm:
Peace, Bros.
- Poster - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:10 pm:
I “spoke” with Madigan and Cullerton election night.
- AC - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
Then I told the Speaker, having “my people” call “your people” was what I really meant.
- OneMan - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:17 pm:
The commentators on CapFax where sure “rational” about me…
- Anonymous - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:18 pm:
I am going to have an administration of REPUBLICANS and “democrats”. When I say “democrats” I mean a token here and a token there.
- SkeptiCal - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:19 pm:
In the voice of Richard M. Nixon,
“I am not a billionaire.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
“Chicago resident”
“Humble beginnings”
“Mandate”
guy like “me”
“Props”
- ArchPundit - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:28 pm:
The Speaker referred to me as “Who Cares Elect”
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:30 pm:
“I told you guys I’d take him by 5!”
- sal-says - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:33 pm:
You can assume I put double-quotes around everything I say; it’s like having my fingers crossed.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
“Charles Foster Kane-like”
I’m the “New Guy”
“Business as I see it”
- RMN - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
“I’m innocent.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:37 pm:
My detractors have nothing to “fear”
I’m “forgiving”
I don’t hold “grudges”
I won’t have all “yes” people around
The mansion is “perfect” for a governor
Legislation may be a “weak” point
I see my cabinet as a cabinet of “rivals”
Illinois has “free-thinking” electoral boards
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:39 pm:
Editorial boards made a “smart” choice backing me
I know Bill Daley “in passing”
- Wumpus - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:41 pm:
2 easter bunnies or my budget, which is more real?
- Levois - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:42 pm:
I so got here late because I sure would’ve made some references to bunnies and rabbits. lol!
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:50 pm:
“Republican”
- Jechislo - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:51 pm:
This is the number of previous Illinois governors out of the last seven, excluding Quinn, who did prison time. Maybe Quinn will make it five?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 3:54 pm:
I’m a “funny” guy
I “dabble” in pro sport ownership
Winning is another “success” story
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:20 pm:
“Co-Governor”
- MrGrassroots - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:25 pm:
Which one of you clowns said “four,” that is correct.
- Wensicia - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:26 pm:
One word: “Plastics”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:29 pm:
“Superstars”
The Combine is “dead”
I know Rahm *cough*…”in passing”
I actually love the term “Raunerites”
I have enough “help” learning about government
I call Forrest Claypool “wacky” but not silly
The office inside the Capitol “needs” new drapes
I don’t “measure” drapes, I have others do it for me
I’m a “fan” of the Bears, but my heart and checkbook belong to Pittsburgh football
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:33 pm:
Evelyn is the “Lt. Governor” but Diana is my #2
- MrJM (@MisterJayEm) - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:49 pm:
“I ‘called’ Speaker Madigan. I ‘called’ President Cullerton and I said ‘to them’ this is an opportunity for us to work together.”
– MrJM
- Enviro - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 4:52 pm:
I do too have a budget plan.
It’s called “voodoo economics”
- Black Ivy - Friday, Nov 14, 14 @ 5:07 pm:
“Fumigation” indeed! I’m coming for y’all!
- Union Leader - Saturday, Nov 15, 14 @ 1:29 pm:
I had “nothing” to do with the Dave McKinney situation.