* Check out the date of the letter, the date of the appointment and then look at the expiration date…

This is either the shortest gubernatorial appointment in history, or the governor is in possession of a magical time machine.

*** UPDATE *** They’ve resubmitted the appointment. It now concludes in January of 2017.

       

56 Comments - Michelle Flaherty - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:44 pm: Please let it be a time machine. Session just got sooooo much easier. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:45 pm: “EVELYN!!!!….” - Namaste - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:47 pm: LOL @ OW. - Demoralized - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:47 pm: They haven’t exactly been on the ball with regard to these appointment letters. They still claim to be in “transition.” I’d like to know how long this transition is going to last. - Anon. - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:48 pm: Looks to me like Stephens owes us 3 days pay. New way to balance the budget? - Chicago Cynic - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:49 pm: That damn math again… - LizPhairTax - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:50 pm: It runs on poor peoples’ tears but it’s one helluva machine. - Cable Line Beer Gardener - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:51 pm: Being a former proof reader, these types of mistakes are amateurish. Attention Governor’s staff-earn the big bucks given to you. - MrJM - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:52 pm: “Sentence first; verdict afterwards.” — The Queen of Hearts, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) by Lewis Carroll. – MrJM - JS Mill - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:55 pm: @MrJM, OW, Word and a few others…you guys are really on firs today. Thanks, I needed the laughs. - lil' enchililada - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 12:58 pm: Don’t they waste time typing all those G’s at the end of ing words? That’s the time they could take for a quick proof-read. - Finally Out (and now very glad to be) - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:01 pm: Is there an order somewhere that says Rauner’s term expires January 12, 2015? - How Ironic - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:02 pm: If it weren’t for those damn unions, he could go back 2 weeks! Right now, his hands are tied at 3 days. - Levois - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:04 pm: So is this part of the 90 day honeymoon period the lack of proofreading? I mean there is a mistake made here even if it’s not related to punctuation, grammar, or spelling. - Levois - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:05 pm: Or should I say 100 day honeymoon period. I think we make so much of the first 100 days of any administration local, state, or federal. - Jorge - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:10 pm: Hopefully the administration doesn’t quote Timecop anytime soon…..”I watched Tyson beat Spinks on TV.” - Rasselas - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:11 pm: Catching these is fun, I suppose, but I wouldn’t read too much into them as a metaphor for the Rauner administration. I kept an eye on appointment letters coming out the Blago/Quinn office for more than 10 years, and they had quite a number of ‘typos’, too. Sadly, it seems to be a job that isn’t taken seriously and given to a succession of junior flunkies who worked on the campaign. - Madame Defarge - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:12 pm: your title for this reminds me of an uncle who would say “I don’t understand, I have cut it twice and it is still too short” - Old Shepherd - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:12 pm: Now I get it! We are in an alternate 2015! All I have to do is go back to 1955, prevent old Bruce Rauner from giving young Bruce Rauner the Sports Almanac, and everything will go back to normal!! - No Peotone Airport - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:13 pm: This puts “temporary appointment” into a whole new dimension. - Amalia - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:15 pm: ah, yes, people from the business world who come to government are so perfect. - Original Rambler - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:18 pm: From what I can tell, the GO has not assigned anyone to Boards and Commissions. Until they do, expect more of this (and there are more). - Tommydanger - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:28 pm: The pension impact should be minimal. - Anon - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:29 pm: “Bring me the fellow who made this mistake. Ah, there he is. ‘You’re doin’ a great job here! Now just hold still while I take this selfie…” - Empty Suit - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:32 pm: Time Machine and you are now behind the times, unless of course it’s all ready tomorrow. - jerry 101 - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:33 pm: Did Bruce buy a DeLorean by any chance? - Norseman - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:34 pm: We just misunderstood what Rauner meant by turnaround team. Evidently it means that they turnaround dates and the names of agencies in their letters. - siriusly - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:38 pm: We are going to run state gonerment more like the privet sectr. - hold on - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:40 pm: What happened to Syverson getting this? - VanillaMan - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:41 pm: Yesterday Once More - The Carpenters, enhanced by VanillaMan I used to listen to Bill Brady-O Warnin’ us about government wrongs When he spoke, we’d nod along It made us smile! Those were such happy times, but we’re elected now And we wondered where they’d gone But thanks to a time-typo mistake We can still shake this state Right back to a pre-progressive dawn! Every union can go - whoah, whoah, woah! And die! Every budget can sing, now that Bruce is our king! In Versailles When he gets to the part On that Power Point Chart Where demand finally meets supply In the year 1904 Its yesterday once more! When Chicago can go - whoah, whoah, woah! And die! We can backdate this thing, now that Bruce is our king! And lie! - Empty Chair - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:47 pm: I’m confused, if this is a temporary appointment, shouldn’t his title be “Acting Director?” If it’s for two years and his title will be Director, why is it a “temporary appointment?” - Bigtwich - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:49 pm: Does he have to be confirmed twice? - Wordslinger - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:50 pm: Simple typo. Who doesn’t mix up March 2015 and January 2017? EC, I share your confusion, as do the Rauner peeps, obviously. - Demoralized - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:51 pm: ==It now concludes in January of 2017.== It’s not really a temporary appointment then. - anonin' - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:54 pm: In the good old days, when people accepted advice, the SOS probably looked at the document and said,”uh you know you just name a dude to a negative three appointment…” but since the leaders of Scabistan don’t want your corrupt advice the docs just get stamped and filed. - Wordslinger - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 1:55 pm: If Rauner does have a time machine, maybe he can take us back to March 2013, the last time an Illinois D-1 school made the Big Dance. Or maybe zoom Opening Day to mid-June, so Chris Bryant can start the season up north. Both situations boggle the mind. - Amalia - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:04 pm: wow, that Southside Irish parade did a number on the governor! - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:07 pm: word, did you have to remind me of that statewide fail? I can barely bring myself to fill out a bracket. - MrJM - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:12 pm: “This is either the shortest gubernatorial appointment in history, or the governor is in possession of a magical time machine.” He never said that. It is 100% false. – MrJM - one of the 35 - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:13 pm: Governor: Your attention to detail is inspirational! - illinifan - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:18 pm: I can here him saying during the campaign that they will run government like private business. This must be what he meant….in private industry you pull an old letter, copy and paste the new info and heck with checking to see if done correctly. - Anon - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:41 pm: Poor Rich. Now so petty about Rauner that he’s doing clerical errors. - Gone, but not forgotten - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:43 pm: The last line is also puzzling: “Former Member”? I think this may have been a “type-over” for a letter that was done for a Commission. Oh well, I guess those campaign workers just aren’t working out as clerical help. - Anon. - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:58 pm: ==He never said that. It is 100% false.== Well, Mr. JM, it may have been false today, but it will be true last Friday. - Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 2:58 pm: ===Now so petty about Rauner === It’s a fun little diversion on a Monday. Lighten up, Francis. - Wordslinger - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 3:16 pm: Well, AA, just choose the out-of-state teams that the best Illinois players are on, because there sure are plenty of them in the tournament, year in and year out. Another former Illinois high school player will likely be the No. 1 overall NBA pick again this year, but he’s playing for another former Illinois high school player at Duke. Lou and Self had recruiting years where they could lock down the state, but the new guys, not so much. Bradley used to get big-time players, and, of course, DePaul. But I think DePaul is moving on to the casino business down at McCormick Place. - RNUG - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 3:21 pm: == I’d like to know how long this transition is going to last. == Four years or until removed from office, whichever comes first. - RNUG - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 3:22 pm: Memo to Rauner: The unions want to borrow your time machine for a short trip back … about 6 months before the primary. - Old Timer - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 3:28 pm: Typos in these types of letters should not be made. - Casual Observer - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 3:54 pm: I think Quinn’s staff back-dated their computers before they left. Boy are they laughing now. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 4:07 pm: Was March 13, 2015 the expiration date of the former member and the vacancy was not filled until this appointment? - Union Man - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 4:19 pm: Maybe he can work some magic on the pension issue!! It never really happened. - Union Man - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 4:20 pm: Wish I could make that salary in -1 day! - Anon III - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 5:04 pm: Is this the place to ask why Indiana got seeded in the NCAA, or is this thread just for serious policy issues? - Black Ivy - Monday, Mar 16, 15 @ 7:26 pm: An honest mistake…and it has been corrected, so move along! - Northern Light - Tuesday, Mar 17, 15 @ 12:14 am: So I guess Senator Dave Syverson didn’t get his coveted appointment after all… Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.