I wish Pat Quinn all the best in his future endeavors. I’m sure he will do fine using all of his past experience in…..uh, hmmmm, in the areas of……um…. I wish Pat Quinn all the best in his future endeavors.
Not to digress, but 24 comments so far, and not a single one from Bill Kelley using the thread to self-promote. Shouldn’t we alert the authorities to do a well-being check on him?
The pressures of office really do age a guy. Two weeks into being governor-elect and he already looks 40 years older. Or is that just bad press lighting?
As Madigan walked by near the back he nodded at the Governor-Elect and flashed a half smile that only Rauner saw at that moment.
A look that said both I understand and said ‘good luck buddy’ with a sort of fatalistic twist, like the ‘good luck’ you offer up to someone who has to go deal with an HR mess or found out a pipe burst in the basement all over the drywall.
Listen. I just spent half my salary to buy my 10th mansion only to find out it’s got a leaky roof and warped floors.
So, yes, I can break a 20 but I really need you to donate more than that so we can get that roof fixed.
- The End Is Near - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:09 am:
“The current plan is to hammer first and then to shake, but there remains the possibility that we will hammer and shake at the same time. I expect Bill Daley and Ron Huberman to make a recommendation in short order.”
Rauner says first Executive Order will name the Chicago Sun-Times as “The official newspaper of Illinois state government.” Pre-orders 300,000 four-year subscriptions.
- One to the Dome - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:31 am:
You know who I am? I’m Bruce Rauner. I buy you out, you don’t buy me out. You damn reporters really make me laugh. I got a business to run. I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right.
Who said Union bosses were corrupt? Ahhhh…baloney!
- Just The Way It Is One - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:15 pm:
“Oh MAN!!–just LOOK at the unruly, burly-lookin’ BEARD on that DudE! SHEEZ–a RePORTer?! Lucky 4 him he does THIS for a livin’! They couldn’t pay me 62 CENTS to ever hire that Scuz-bucket at GTCR, let alone 62 MILLION!!
What’s he askin’ about? Oh yeah, medical marijuana, expanding it to recreational use like in those other goofy States…blah blah blah–just give ‘em the Standard Answer on it my Campaign Ad VISORS told me to say about it–hell, if people REALLY knew how I really don’t give a hoot about all this liberal stuff!
Hey, I wonder when I can get out soon to do some good DUCK Huntin’ around these parts…Oh–yes, well, in regard to THAT, as I’ve said MANY times during the Campaign…!”
- From the 'Dale to HP - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:26 am:
“What time is my plane to Chicago again?”
- 6184life - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:27 am:
The moment Rauner realized he promised to live in Springfield the next four years .
- anon - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:29 am:
“Governor” Rauner and the press are awaiting the real Illinois Governor Michael J. Madigan.
- Obamas Puppy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:29 am:
I heard there is a Nursing Home for sale.
- Gator - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:32 am:
Is that Bernie taking a selfie in the lower right corner?
- Anyone Remember - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:32 am:
What do you mean “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” isn’t a budgetary line item?
- Norseman - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:34 am:
Really, Pat you’re not a reporter and I’m not answering your question.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:34 am:
“Hey. Hey! Where’s the Carhartt!?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:34 am:
“That suit, is it off the rack?”
- Hacksaw Jim - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:35 am:
Rauner and the media view the skeletons shortly after opening the “closet” of Illinois State government.
- Jechislo - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:36 am:
I wish Pat Quinn all the best in his future endeavors. I’m sure he will do fine using all of his past experience in…..uh, hmmmm, in the areas of……um…. I wish Pat Quinn all the best in his future endeavors.
- Pookie - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:36 am:
“I paid 20 million dollars for this headache?”
- Levois - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:37 am:
That is someone who looks SO bewildered. lol
- too obvious - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:37 am:
A hushed silence filled the room as Quinnochio demanded the State Fire Marshal post he was promised.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:39 am:
“Governor-Elect, ‘real soon’ is fat approaching to ‘now’, thoughts?”
- Tsavo - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:42 am:
Excuse me, why is Rich’s dog Oscar sleeping in my chair?
- Good One - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:42 am:
Purple tie? No sorry don’t own a purple tie
- Gooner - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:43 am:
“Ummm, the Tribune lead me to believe that there would be no math involved with the budget.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:45 am:
“When Speaker Madigan was asked about how you will do as governor, he said, quote, ‘he’ll be fine’, your thoughts on the Speaker’s quote?”
- Gooner - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:45 am:
“But isn’t `my name isn’t Pat Quinn’ good enough for you people? Ron Sandack told me that was all that would be required.”
- bloval27 - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:45 am:
Is this guy serious? You’re asking me if I have some magic beans to save this state?
- How Ironic - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:45 am:
Why is there a python on that desk? And why is it wrapped around the budget book?
- Great Caesar's Ghost! - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:46 am:
“What are those headlights coming at me?”
- x ace - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:46 am:
Rookie sweatin in the “Fishbowl”
- Anon - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:49 am:
“Whats’s that noise? Oh, it’s just Evelynn, she slipped and fell again.”
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:50 am:
“Ray Long appears to be making an obscene gesture at me. I am going to turn the other way.”
- Dirt Diver - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:50 am:
Are you sure you want to ask ME THAT question? Don’t you know I can you put on suspension?
- Gooner - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:50 am:
Not to digress, but 24 comments so far, and not a single one from Bill Kelley using the thread to self-promote. Shouldn’t we alert the authorities to do a well-being check on him?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:51 am:
“Mr. Rauner, the Speaker’s right here, seems your story isn’t quite accurate… Like to tell the truth this time?”
- atbat - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:52 am:
“Buyer’s Remorse”
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:52 am:
“Dough in the Headlights”
- John Birch - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:53 am:
Someone tell Oscar I’m not a fire hydrant !
- Gooner - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:53 am:
“A sharp eyed photographer catches the last minute that Gov. Elect Rauner was able to meet the press while looking away from the Exit sign.”
- Former Titan - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:54 am:
Squirrel!
- Jeff Trigg - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:56 am:
“Ask that question again and I’ll call your owner about a suspension.”
- AC - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:58 am:
The moment when Bruce Rauner realized he was going to have the worst job in Illinois.
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:59 am:
Batman’s arch-nemesis Two-Face takes questions on impending doom.
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 9:59 am:
“Mr. Long, get used to that position.”
- Quizzical - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:01 am:
How many times do I have to tell you? My policy on fracking is to take on the corrupt insiders and bring back Illinois for the people.
- lil enchilada - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:01 am:
you better be clipping my Rolex outa the picture.
- LaFlare1017 - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:01 am:
The newest member of Death Row Records #ThugLife
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:01 am:
Pat Quinn, yelling & interrupting, “Good luck there, Pally…
- Jay Dee - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:02 am:
“This is my impression of a deer in headlights.”
- I wanna play - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:02 am:
I paid a lot of dough to be governor and I have to deal with these people?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:02 am:
“Mr. Rauner, $63 million spent. Overpaid?”
- That Guy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:04 am:
The pressures of office really do age a guy. Two weeks into being governor-elect and he already looks 40 years older. Or is that just bad press lighting?
- Hank J - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:05 am:
Who let that AFLAC Duck in here??
- OneMan - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:05 am:
As Madigan walked by near the back he nodded at the Governor-Elect and flashed a half smile that only Rauner saw at that moment.
A look that said both I understand and said ‘good luck buddy’ with a sort of fatalistic twist, like the ‘good luck’ you offer up to someone who has to go deal with an HR mess or found out a pipe burst in the basement all over the drywall.
- A. Nonymous - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:06 am:
Listen. I just spent half my salary to buy my 10th mansion only to find out it’s got a leaky roof and warped floors.
So, yes, I can break a 20 but I really need you to donate more than that so we can get that roof fixed.
- The End Is Near - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:09 am:
“The current plan is to hammer first and then to shake, but there remains the possibility that we will hammer and shake at the same time. I expect Bill Daley and Ron Huberman to make a recommendation in short order.”
- walker - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:11 am:
“Illinois is back. Next question?”
- too obvious - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:12 am:
John Kass told himself he would never be late with the coffee again.
- Nuance - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:13 am:
Oh no! I won.
- walker - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:14 am:
“This doesn’t look like my usual fawning crowd.”
- D.P.Gumby - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:15 am:
And as the room began to shake, the Governor-elect thought…”did I do that or is it the fracking?”
- walker - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:16 am:
“You want real answers? Why now?”
- Wensicia - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:17 am:
Rauner using his best De Niro: “You talkin’ to me?!!”
- Steve Douglas - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:21 am:
Why the hell is the Exit sign backwards?
- A guy... - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:23 am:
Who went to the groomer, Rich or Oscar?
- NW Illinois Dem - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:25 am:
“Next time I have to figure out a better escape route through the elevators.”
- too obvious - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:28 am:
Rauner says first Executive Order will name the Chicago Sun-Times as “The official newspaper of Illinois state government.” Pre-orders 300,000 four-year subscriptions.
- One to the Dome - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:31 am:
Is my van ready?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:32 am:
“Mr. Rauner, yes, math IS required…”
- RoPo Ranger - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:35 am:
“I’ve made a huge mistake”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:37 am:
“Go to the Light.”
- Goonhammer - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:38 am:
I think I shook it too hard…
- Tommydanger - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:38 am:
The first phase of the Madigan Eclipse was noted. Whether it will be a partial or total eclipse remains to be seen.
- Jeff Trigg - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:40 am:
Security, bring me my hairbrush.
- Steve Douglas - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:42 am:
I thought the Blagojevich bedroom was in Chicago?
- walker - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:44 am:
Trigg: Wicked good comment.
- Steve Douglas - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:50 am:
Why aren’t you reading the questions on the note card Ferro have you?
- Steve Douglas - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 10:54 am:
Yes, I do use Putin’s media strategy as a model.
gave not have…
- Skeptical - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:23 am:
“I’ve been swallowed by Leviathan and I just realized it for the first time!”
- The Colossus of Roads - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:26 am:
It’s true what they say, this job does age you faster.
- Wordslinger - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:30 am:
What would you guys do? Because, I tell you, I’m at a loss here…
- Dirty Red - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:30 am:
“Horrible fiscal standing is right. Their exit plan is even backwards!”
- Anonymous - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:36 am:
“I do not get to fire them all yet?”
- efudd - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:45 am:
“Obviously, these people don’t know who I am!”
- Under Further Review - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:47 am:
“What did I do to deserve this?”
“What was I thinking?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 11:59 am:
“Sir, this isn’t ‘2 truths & a lie’, you have to tell us the truth, that’s how this all works now…”
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 12:58 pm:
What? Who slipped and fell down the Capitol stairs? Oh God, no! Tell her she can’t sue me or the State of Illinois.
- Bill White - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 12:59 pm:
“John Cullerton said what?”
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:06 pm:
You know who I am? I’m Bruce Rauner. I buy you out, you don’t buy me out. You damn reporters really make me laugh. I got a business to run. I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right.
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:07 pm:
John Kass to Speaker Madigan…
Mike! You do not come to Springfield and talk to a man like Bruce Rauner like that!
- Dirty Red - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:07 pm:
Tribune bureau chief Ray Long spontaneously erupts into the best rendition of The Righteous Brothers the Capitol has heard in 12 years.
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:11 pm:
What do you mean Evelyn wants to having sleeping rights in the Mansion?
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:12 pm:
Who said Union bosses were corrupt? Ahhhh…baloney!
- Just The Way It Is One - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:15 pm:
“Oh MAN!!–just LOOK at the unruly, burly-lookin’ BEARD on that DudE! SHEEZ–a RePORTer?! Lucky 4 him he does THIS for a livin’! They couldn’t pay me 62 CENTS to ever hire that Scuz-bucket at GTCR, let alone 62 MILLION!!
What’s he askin’ about? Oh yeah, medical marijuana, expanding it to recreational use like in those other goofy States…blah blah blah–just give ‘em the Standard Answer on it my Campaign Ad VISORS told me to say about it–hell, if people REALLY knew how I really don’t give a hoot about all this liberal stuff!
Hey, I wonder when I can get out soon to do some good DUCK Huntin’ around these parts…Oh–yes, well, in regard to THAT, as I’ve said MANY times during the Campaign…!”
- Mittuns - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:16 pm:
Vulture capitalist, meet vulture journalists.
- Mittuns - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:19 pm:
Does anyone know a confused, elderly, disabled man that I could pawn this job off to?
- Union Leader - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:30 pm:
All those Republican legislators are in line for an appointment to a state directorship?
- TravelingGal - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:30 pm:
“I have nothing to tell these people. If I don’t look at them maybe they will go away.”
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:44 pm:
Can I leave now?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:47 pm:
“Governor, Willy, ‘Oswego Patch’…”
- VanillaMan - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:47 pm:
What, I don’t announce my 2016 GOP presidential run yet?
- Anonymour - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 1:56 pm:
“Marvin . . . What do we do now?”
- I'm Strapped - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
A Hundred Billion? Are you kidding me? I’m only worth one Billion soo yeah, that is a lot of Jack!
- Tree - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
Being Governor is awesome? They sold me a billagoods!
- Concerned - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
“You want me to live where?”
- HGW XX/7 - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
“I didn’t call this press conference to answer a bunch of questions.”
- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 4:31 pm:
Oh no I’m blocked in by reporters and there is no way out!
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 4:40 pm:
“Who the heck is John Belz?”
- Yeah. It's me. - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 4:58 pm:
Just like the EXIT sign in the background, this state is BACKWARDS.