* Speaker Madigan whispers to his chief of staff Tim Mapes at Democrat Day…

       

164 Comments - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 9:55 am: “You think anyone will notice my pants are an inch higher than last year?” - bloval27 - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 9:55 am: Um, psst where’s the crowd? I’m starting to think Rauner paid them to stay away, this isn’t cool you know. - Nick Danger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 9:58 am: Hey Timmy, how’s your retirement plan? Mine’s looking sweeter than a state fair caramel apple. - The Captain - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:00 am: “We agreed on green this year, we talked about this.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:01 am: “Couldn’t we find a smaller… lawn?” - chi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:01 am: “If you’re with me, you’ll pull up those pants mister.” - Arizona Bob - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:02 am: If they try to eat, we’ll tax the feed, if they try to drive, we’ll tax the street, if the beer gets warm, I’ll tax the ice….. CAUSE I’M THE TAXMANNNNN, YEAH YEAH, the TAXMAAAAAAAA…AAANNNN - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:03 am: “Where’s Franks…” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:04 am: “Don’t look now, but you’ve got my 8 by 10 glossies stuck in your armpit.” - illinoised - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:05 am: “I have ice water in my veins.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:05 am: “Tim. It’s Apple time. Where’s my apple?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:05 am: “How am I looking for the ‘Skinniest Politician Contest’?” - 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:05 am: Get me a list of every Latina cop in the ward. - KL - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:07 am: “Wanna bet I can hike my pants up even higher?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:07 am: “What do you call these shirts again?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:08 am: “They’re asking ME for autographs and YOU’RE wearing sunglasses? What up with that?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:09 am: “Keep an eye peeled for Raunerbots.” - OurMagician - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:09 am: “Hate to break this to you but your hat doesn’t match your shirt. You’ll probably be on “What Not To Wear” next.” - Mama - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:10 am: Timmy, I need an Apple Ale from the beer tent. - Wensicia - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:10 am: “Is that a basket of apples in the back of Miller’s golf cart? Go get me one!” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:11 am: “I know it draws a crowd, but stop telling people you’re Sully Sullenberger.” - the old man - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:11 am: Let’s rethink this budget strategy thing, we may have lost the people. - Not it - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:11 am: Get me some suspenders, my pants keep falling down. - 630 - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:11 am: “Smithers, release the hounds.” - Mama - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:12 am: Are we in the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time? - 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:12 am: Find out where Miller got that shirt. - Bluefish - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:13 am: Is that a pledge pin? On your uniform?!?!!? - Anonymiss - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:13 am: SC is on a roll. “I don’t want to hear any more excuses, I said to bring the high waisted khakis. These low riders are obscene.” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:13 am: “Can you believe he paid $61 K for that steer? I hope he likes $30 hamburgers!” - Langhorne - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:13 am: Get me out of here. Now. - Casual Observer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:14 am: Go get Miller a corn dog, beer and a pack of smokes. - Flynn's mom - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:15 am: That’s right…..Because me! - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:15 am: “Every time I go on that Tilt-a-whirl, it gives me a wedgie.” - Jaded - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:16 am: Hey Tim, you do know we are in continuous session, right? - Langhorne - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:16 am: You dont sweat like lapaille. That guy—sheesh. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:17 am: “Boy, this Mapes mannequin in our ‘Famous Democrats’ display is really lifelike.” - AlabamaShake - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:17 am: “Damn, Biss is good. Maybe we should have gone with him?” - Joe M - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:18 am: Tim, why are we here? - x ace - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:18 am: ” Hey, Listen , I want somebody good - I mean very good - to plant that ….. “ - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:18 am: “Ear hair inspection! You fail again!” - BBB - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:19 am: “While I will never admit it, Tim, we both know the castle is crumbling.” - Casual Observer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:20 am: Do you think Jesse really means it this time? - Joe M - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:20 am: Tim, lets go home. I feel naked without my suit on. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:20 am: “I wish I’d brought my shades too. Looking directly at Miller’s shirt hurts my eyes.” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:22 am: “What, exactly, IS a corn dog, anyway?” - TronaldDump - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:22 am: Will you marry me? - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:23 am: “That tall fellow keeps staring at me. If he doesn’t stop it, gerrymander him.” - Sarcastic - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:23 am: Have someone remove a few chairs to make the crowd look bigger. - Keyrock - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:24 am: Now I remember why I skipped this last year. - Wordslinger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:24 am: “Pull up your pants.” - Ahoy! - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:24 am: Tim, you need to pull up your pants, they should touch your third rib from the bottom. - Joe M - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:27 am: Come on Tim, lend me a few more bucks so I can go on the Ferris Wheel again. - Tom K. - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:28 am: “The bodies are buried deep, right?” - Mama - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:29 am: Where is Rahm? - Joe M - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:30 am: Maybe we should have rode up on Harleys and wore motorcycle jackets too. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:31 am: “Write this down: ‘Look into a bill to put video poker in Porta-Potties.’” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:33 am: “Tim, ‘Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground.’” - TF - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:33 am: “So, who quit staff this week?” - Springfieldish - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:33 am: “I didn’t get a ‘Harumph’ outta that guy!” - Casual Observer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:33 am: Madigan: where are all my friends? Mapes: they’re in the front row, sir. - OneMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:36 am: You said the kids dig the trousers up high… - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:36 am: “Then the Duke would lean forward like this and say, ‘I’m not gonna hit you, Pilgrim. I’m not gonna hit you…’” - Bored Chairman - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:36 am: Yep. Looks like the earwig Goldberg planted has almost made it through. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:38 am: “See? I TOLD you we should have worn those plaid shirts from Farm & Fleet!” - VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:38 am: How’s my breath Tim? - OneMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:39 am: Statler and Waldorf make an appearance at the fair to promote the new Muppet show. - VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:40 am: He is wearing a tie-died t-shirt and riding in a golf cart. Make it happen Mapes! - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:40 am: “Sneak over and let the air out of Miller’s golf cart tires.” - Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:42 am: You’re looking very masculine… - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:42 am: Where are my protestors at? - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:43 am: That’s Goldberg with a lip reader - Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:43 am: Next time you set the staff vacation week….THINK! - GOP Extremist - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:45 am: Seriously??? So you’re telling me pleaded pant are no longer in fashion? - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:45 am: Telling the wing man it’s time to fly - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:48 am: Put a tracker on the tracker - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:51 am: Go throw miller a biscotti - Button is broke... - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:52 am: Apparently all the people that were here last year WERE here to see Quinn and not me… - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:54 am: Where’s your jester outfit? - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:55 am: “Do you think it will hurt to take my medication with a lemon shake-up?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:57 am: “You said there would be paparazzi. Where are the paparazzi?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:58 am: “Don’t move! You’ve got a hornet on your shirt. I’ll call an intern to swat it.” - 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:59 am: Who’s that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib. - Quizzical - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 10:59 am: On the plus side, nobody is going to make me shake hands with Blagojevich this year. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:00 am: “First thing Monday morning, buy me a pair of those flip-flop things.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:03 am: “Did you take Rauner’s Frozen Strawberries, just like I asked?” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:04 am: “Shoo those Republicans away from the apple exhibit. I want to get some free samples.” - Common Cents - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:05 am: Thank goodness Jim Harbaugh came through on this emergency pair of khaki slacks! Shirley has been falling behind in the chores while I have been away for continuous session. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:05 am: “I believe I have some cow doo-doo on my wingtips.” - walker - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:05 am: Move to reconsider. - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:06 am: Release the trolls - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:07 am: “Do you really think that barbed wire behind us will keep reporters away?” - Triple fat - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:08 am: They tell me the Governor was seen crying Wednesday evening… Amateur! - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:09 am: “I’ve been asked to judge the prune pie competition. Do you think there’s any hidden meaning behind that?” - Concerned - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:10 am: “Are you sure you sent them memo to all the legislators I control?” - Former Titan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:10 am: Next time, use the crowdsourcing app like I told you, a’ite? - Casual Observer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:11 am: If anyone asks just tell them we had a “moderate” turnout. - Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:12 am: “Tim, what’s a biscuit eater?” - Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:12 am: “I’m sorry Speaker but we had all our people here yesterday heckling the Republicans” - Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:13 am: “I don’t care if you have to pull people off the Ferris wheel get some bodies here pronto” - Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:14 am: “Of course I’m wearing blue you think I’m color blind” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:14 am: “That boy in the Batman T-shirt called me ‘The Puppetmaster.’ Is that some new super-hero?” - burbanite - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:16 am: Where are those people that we were busing in? - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:17 am: “Why did that woman laugh when I told her we’re the Young Turks of the Illinois Democratic Party?” - Cheswick - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:19 am: “Have you seen my sunglasses?” - OneMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:22 am: I can’t wait to go see Fallout Boy - OneMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:24 am: we put the active in active adult. - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:25 am: Are my pants high enough? - Bogey Golfer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:26 am: Did you catch Styxx Wednesday? They’re still awesome!!!! - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:27 am: Who says I’m out of touch? Look at us just hanging out here with all the common folk! - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:28 am: Great turnout, eh? Mr Speaker, have you had your eyes checked lately? - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:30 am: “Go grab me a couple handfuls of those Jesse White pencils.” - Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:31 am: “On my signal, unleash Hell.” - zatoichi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:31 am: That Canoe or Old Spice? - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:32 am: “I like lamp” - Georg Sande - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:33 am: “Glad you wore the blue casual outdoor uniform, Tim.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:34 am: “Maybe ‘reindoctrination’ is needed for some mushrooms… “ - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:35 am: “Tell the Governor when he wants to be an adult… “ - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:35 am: “Tell Z that I know how to count to 71… “ - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:36 am: “Tell the Governor I didn’t want to do it, but I felt I owed it to him… “ - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:36 am: “Don’t look now, but isn’t that woman with the funnel cake Kim Kardashian?” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:37 am: “My pocket is vibrating and you’re telling me it’s a cell phone. When did I get one of those?” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:38 am: “Look at Goudie, melting in the heat… “ - Union Man - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:39 am: You were suppose to where a green shirt and a hat like mine!! Lose the glasses too! - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:40 am: “I want my golf cart running after I speak. I don’t wabt to be stuck talking… “ - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:41 am: “Go up to McQueary, nice and slow, and just say, ‘Looks like rain’… “ - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:42 am: “I dropped my caramel apple in some straw. Would you mind cleaning it off for me?” - OneMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:43 am: Go down the giant slide without a sack you said, your pants will not ride up you said…. - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:44 am: “I bid $3 for a jar of pickles. That counts for something, doesn’t it?” - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:44 am: Smart move don’t invite anyone then just the trackers show up get there vehicle description later - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:45 am: ==Go down the giant slide without a sack you said, your pants will not ride up you said….== OneMan, that’s a classic! - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:48 am: “Tim, talk to Miller about those Caption Contests. They’re starting to get on my nerves.” - Keyrock - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:49 am: I know I said I didn’t want an extreme turnout. But we may have taken moderation a bit too far. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:49 am: “Go tell Goldberg, off the record, I love his letters, you know, unofficially.” - dupage dan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:49 am: Where are all the paid mourners, er - I mean - supporters? And what is that sound? Keening? Oh, heavens help us! - Amalia - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:51 am: is that the blue ribbon pig, or is that Rauner I smell on you? - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:52 am: Mapes: I always thought it would be Drury Speaker: It’s the smart move. Franks was always smarter. - Amalia - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:55 am: we’ve got Rauner on the run, he actually believes Republican red will get him out of the Matrix. - yeoman - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:56 am: Did you see the Blago impersonator? - Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:58 am: “Do these pants make me look high-waisted?” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 11:59 am: “I don’t care who it is, tell him I won’t sign those Rauner signs for anything less that 3 apples.” - Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:00 pm: “Make like your Ray Donovan and pay a visit to the Governor.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:00 pm: “I see, so Rauner is wearing ‘SC colors. Yesterday it was Michigan’s maize and blue. It’s getting personal.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:06 pm: “Why does my golf cart have a “Fire Madigan” bumper sticker on the back? - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:09 pm: “Here comes Evelyn, make her sign those papers you have before she talks to me…” - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:35 pm: It’s miller time - bluecollargal - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:42 pm: “Tim, do think my AFSCME green shirt is over the top? I hope Roberta likes it.” - Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:43 pm: “See if you can find me an organic corn dog.” - Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:44 pm: “Oh geez, is that Rauner on the Harley again?” - Jeff Trigg - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:45 pm: You know why I wear my pants like this, Tim? Deez Nuts. Bofa. - Ghost - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:52 pm: Go get some people off the street to fill this place up, the cricket noise is distracting - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:59 pm: Stop negotiating the governor’s about to become ill relevant - Tsavo - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:07 pm: “Tim, what is that under your collar, are you wearing a wire?” - Ginhouse Tommy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:30 pm: Do I look like Erkel in these pants? - Downstate Illinois - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:31 pm: Does the high waist on these pants make me look old and out of touch? - GA Watcher - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:33 pm: Where are all the Democrats under my control? - ToughGuy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:43 pm: Tim, I want you to go out and buy me a pair of cowboy boots and hat. I’m going to see Hank Williams Jr. tomorrow night. - @MisterJayEm - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:57 pm: “I’m not one to complain, but many of these attacks are hitting me below the belt.” – MrJM - Cook County Commoner - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:00 pm: Remember Timmy Boy, if I go down, you go down. - bored now - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:13 pm: “no, you are *not* too old for this ____!” - PublicServant - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:30 pm: See whether you can scrounge up an apple here, and it better not have taffy on it. - Brilliant - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:12 pm: Rough crowd today Tim….I was just reminded that I was the one who wouldn’t let Lisa run last time. - Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:16 pm: Wait until next week, we are going to sock it to Rauner. - getthis - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:29 pm: Time to retire–boy do we look old - Hedley Lamarr - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:37 pm: When I retire, are you going to work for Lou? Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.