“Steve wanted me to also say that the Twitter-ring, um, things saying things for the Caucus is news to all of us, but if those who are Twitter-ring-ing the name were funny, we’d all appreciate that… very much.”
Based on its outstanding record in the past, I’m here to offer my full support, and a large financial contribution to Gov. Rauner’s upcoming “Fire Madigan” ad campaign.
“I’d like to take a moment to remind my House colleagues on the other side if the aisle of the fact a GOP Map designed to keep the House in GOP hands failed 4 of 5 times.
Madigan: So if you add all of that up, $400,000 to buy a couple dozen present votes, a $2 million fine by the Board of Elections, $1 million attacking me personally, another $20 million or more to rent the next General Assembly, pretty soon Governor Rauner will be the bro with no mo’ dough.
Mr. Brown is holding a copy of a news report faxed directly to my office this morning, claiming that Governor Rauner will cease his anticipated negative advertising blitz if I re-establish contact with his office. I would ask the Governor to listen closely because here is my answer…
“Thanks for coming, I’m going to read this, hopefully I’ll do it justice, Steve thinks it’s pretty good. Here I go;
Call me the problem,… call me a mule
Right at this moment… I’m totally… cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel.., like I’m in… the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels… the process’ too fast
I don’t know how long THAT feeling will last
Maybe it’s only Rauner
You guys… I don’t know why… Bruce goes to extremes
Too high… or too low… there ain’t no in-betweens
And if I stand… or I fall..
It’s all or nothing at all
You guys, seriously… I don’t know why Bruce.., goes to extremes
Sometimes… it’s tired, sometimes… It’s a shot
Sometimes… I don’t know… how much more… Lance has got Rauner… he says… I’m over the hill
Maybe… I dunno… maybe I’ve set myself up for the kill
Tell me… how much do you think… I can take
Until the trust… in Bruce… will start to break?
Sometimes… it feels like it will
You guys… I don’t know why… Bruce goes to extremes
Too high… or too low… there ain’t no in-betweens
You can be sure… while he’s gone
I won’t be out here… taking to you guys.., too long
You guys… I don’t know why Bruce… goes to extremes
Out of the meetings… into the light
Leaving the room… in a huff
Either I’m wrong… or I’m perfectly fine every time
Sometimes, not often… but sometimes… I lie awake… night after night
It’s Coming apart… at the seams
I’m eager to deal… but ready to fight
Why does Bruce… go to extremes?…”
Finke: Mr. Speaker, have you tried the new Saputo’s on the west side of Springfield?
MJM: What is this “West Side of Springfield” of which you speak?
Brown: Next.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
From left: Steve Brown, (unknown person not worth mentioning), Doug Finke’s head, Speaker Madigan…
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
“I want to thank Steve Brown for this opening statement, which will be brief, ambiguous, and yet pointed…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
“You can follow me on The Twitter, you can ‘like’ me on The Facebook…”
- Wensicia - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
Spokesman for Steve Brown takes questions from the media.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
“Steve wanted me to also say that the Twitter-ring, um, things saying things for the Caucus is news to all of us, but if those who are Twitter-ring-ing the name were funny, we’d all appreciate that… very much.”
- Gooner - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
Based on its outstanding record in the past, I’m here to offer my full support, and a large financial contribution to Gov. Rauner’s upcoming “Fire Madigan” ad campaign.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
MJM: Your word is ‘raunerized’.
SB: Can I have that in the form of a sentence?
MJM: You know you have been raunerized when…..
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:44 pm:
“ok, ok, here’s another one: “what’s the phone number to the Vatican?” I’ll bet my alter-boy Steve knows this one.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
“Steve Brown will now give the sign laguage version of what ‘You’ll be fine’ means to those supporting the Rauner positions…”
- John A Logan - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
Steve Brown: Wonder if the Salukis are playing today…
Finke: Wonder if The Sliders are playing today…
Madigan: Wonder if Rauner remembered the Steelers tickets I asked for ….
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
“Steve wanted me to remind all of you I have Mushrooms, Rauner has Owls, and please, don’t confuse the two…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:53 pm:
“I’d like to take a moment to remind my House colleagues on the other side if the aisle of the fact a GOP Map designed to keep the House in GOP hands failed 4 of 5 times.
It’s micro. Bring it on.”
- siriusly - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
I think we should focus on the budget.
When the Governor rolled my apple off the desk and onto the floor, I found that to be not very productive.
- Iron Duke - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:56 pm:
Rauner you’ll have nothing and like it
- Boone's is Back - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
“And now my spokesman Steve Brown will do an interpretive dance as to how disappointed I was with Governor Rauner last week.”
- Six Degrees of Separation - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Two ‘Rats and a Finke.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
“Steve wanted me to read this, I guess as a reminder, or a math reminder, or something, so here it goes;
47 isn’t 71.
If someone can ask the governor where he hopes to find 24 votes, please feel free to let Steve Brown know.”
- Amalia - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:01 pm:
Steve Brown waiting for Speaker Madigan to release the invisible nuclear dart.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:12 pm:
“Steve wanted me to remind all of you there is still plenty to do IN Springfield, so please, explore Springfield, ‘Where Lincoln Walked’…”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:17 pm:
Madigan: So if you add all of that up, $400,000 to buy a couple dozen present votes, a $2 million fine by the Board of Elections, $1 million attacking me personally, another $20 million or more to rent the next General Assembly, pretty soon Governor Rauner will be the bro with no mo’ dough.
Brown: Fo’ sho.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:18 pm:
“Steve, do I read this? … Really… Ok… This press statement is being brought to you by Saputos. Saputos, I let their great food Speak… for itself…”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:30 pm:
Mr. Brown is holding a copy of a news report faxed directly to my office this morning, claiming that Governor Rauner will cease his anticipated negative advertising blitz if I re-establish contact with his office. I would ask the Governor to listen closely because here is my answer…
Thank you. Steve will answer your questions now.
- A guy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:45 pm:
SB, “he truly is mythical, isn’t he?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:47 pm:
“Thanks for coming, I’m going to read this, hopefully I’ll do it justice, Steve thinks it’s pretty good. Here I go;
Call me the problem,… call me a mule
Right at this moment… I’m totally… cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel.., like I’m in… the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels… the process’ too fast
I don’t know how long THAT feeling will last
Maybe it’s only Rauner
You guys… I don’t know why… Bruce goes to extremes
Too high… or too low… there ain’t no in-betweens
And if I stand… or I fall..
It’s all or nothing at all
You guys, seriously… I don’t know why Bruce.., goes to extremes
Sometimes… it’s tired, sometimes… It’s a shot
Sometimes… I don’t know… how much more… Lance has got Rauner… he says… I’m over the hill
Maybe… I dunno… maybe I’ve set myself up for the kill
Tell me… how much do you think… I can take
Until the trust… in Bruce… will start to break?
Sometimes… it feels like it will
You guys… I don’t know why… Bruce goes to extremes
Too high… or too low… there ain’t no in-betweens
You can be sure… while he’s gone
I won’t be out here… taking to you guys.., too long
You guys… I don’t know why Bruce… goes to extremes
Out of the meetings… into the light
Leaving the room… in a huff
Either I’m wrong… or I’m perfectly fine every time
Sometimes, not often… but sometimes… I lie awake… night after night
It’s Coming apart… at the seams
I’m eager to deal… but ready to fight
Why does Bruce… go to extremes?…”
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:55 pm:
Finke: Mr. Speaker, have you tried the new Saputo’s on the west side of Springfield?
MJM: What is this “West Side of Springfield” of which you speak?
Brown: Next.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 3:59 pm:
Steve looks proudly at his creation and thinks to himself, “He almost looks human.”
- Dozer - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 4:15 pm:
illinois’ version of Ed McMann, John Carson and the Muppet hecklers of the balcony
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 4:15 pm:
MJM: “I’m squeezing this microphone like a pension python, thus making this whole photo blurry.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 4:19 pm:
MJM: “Everybody tilt their head to the side. HA! Gotcha, Finke. I didn’t say, ‘Speaker says’ tilt your head to the side.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 4:20 pm:
MJM: “Hey, who switched our official seal with a hubcap from Rauner’s van?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 4:23 pm:
MJM: “Yes, Ma’am, I WILL answer your question, as soon as Steve explains to me what ‘Mutha’ means.”
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 5:53 pm:
I’m here to endorse the Jeb! /Rauner ticket
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 6:13 pm:
Leverage don’t work when I am the fulcrum where just teeter tot ting till I move then your up in the air
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 7:18 pm:
“On the contrary. I think the citizens of Illinois DO want to know who put the ram in the ramma lamma ding dong.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 7:19 pm:
“Yes, Jak, I DO happen to wear a necktie and wingtips with my pajamas. What’s so unusual about that?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 8:11 pm:
“Steve bet me I didn’t know where this room is. Well, I found it…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 8:13 pm:
“I’m going to read from a sheet Steve prepared for me of all the negative tweets the Rauner Adminstration tweeted about me…”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 8:14 pm:
“Steve will point to you and say your name, so bare with me… “
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 8:48 pm:
Is this mic hot?
- Lynn S, - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 9:10 pm:
Streator Curmudgeon may have won this one. Sorry, Oswego Willy!
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 15, 15 @ 9:13 pm:
Rauner thinks freezing property tax will hurt my business.