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Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller

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  1. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:29 pm:

    “… Then… My foot seemed to miss the State Museum steps… And I’m like this…. ‘Aaauugh!’… Right before I fell… Now, what else do you need for my deposition…”


  2. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:30 pm:

    “In this hand?… My magic dust… In this hand?… A lock of Speaker Madigan’s hair… and two Apple seeds from an apple, he just ate today… Now… “


  3. - Tournaround Agenda - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:31 pm:

    “I’m going to grip the state of Illinois, just like this, and turn it around!”


  4. - walker - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:31 pm:

    Maybe she will announce how we will reduce the levels and numbers of local governments in Illinois. That’s what Rauner said would be her primary task.


  5. - Poolguy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:34 pm:

    Now watch me whip, now watch me nae nae…


  6. - Anon221 - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:35 pm:

    And a One, and a Two… good job editors, keep in step now.


  7. - out of touch - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:35 pm:

    “So the day that we won the election, I held up the microphone like this, dropped it, and followed Brucey’s orders to not speak publicly any more. Hey, did anyone else have trouble negotiating the sidewalk outside? Just curious, wink.”


  8. - Jimmy Baseball - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:35 pm:

    “And there we were in the middle of the field late one night…and I put my hands up against it like this…and BOOM! The cow tipped right over.”


  9. - walker - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:36 pm:

    “I’m your new intern.”

    (”At least you can find some humor in this situation.”)


  10. - burbanite - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:36 pm:

    When Bruce asks how much I love him, I say Sooooo Big…


  11. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:37 pm:

    I was here, in Lincoln County… No, there’s a Lincoln County… Look…. Here’s Lincoln County… Here’s like McHenry or Edgar or DeWitt County… (Pause, puts her hands to her sides, regroups)… I’ll start over. Here’s Lincoln County… “


  12. - Tony - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:37 pm:

    I’m the real “wing man” to the Governor. I do this much better than Leslie does.


  13. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:39 pm:

    “So I sent the email to get a job with Governor Quinn… And it was floating… Floating… Just. Like. This. … And then, I didn’t get a job with the Quinn Administration… Guess the email got lost in the air… “


  14. - @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:40 pm:

    “And then Yukon Cornelius said, ‘Look what HE can do!’ and the Bumble put the star right up on top of the Christmas tree!!!”

    “My question, Lt. Governor, was about the budget…”

    – MrJM


  15. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:40 pm:

    “No, I’m here, she’s… Here… Below me… I’m much more sane than Jeanne Ives… This much more sane… “


  16. - A Jack - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:46 pm:

    And this is how we make our puppets at the Tribune editorial board speak …..


  17. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:46 pm:

    “Then… Then I got to fly on the state plan… Up, up, up, I went… I was really high in the sky… I looked down… Cows… Pastures and pastures of cows… Like little black and white and brown dots… Grazing… It was spectacular… “


  18. - Wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:46 pm:

    “My papers, Mr. Trump? What papers are you talking about? I’m one of the good ones…”


  19. - Norseman - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:46 pm:

    I looked at Bruce way up there and he patted me on the back and said, Evy, just stay in you office so you don’t get in trouble.


  20. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:47 pm:

    “Now, keep in mind, this is a hurricane up here… And down here… Kristen McQueary… Now, she’s on her roof, but the storm is still up here… “


  21. - thechampaignlife - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:51 pm:

    Lt. Gov. Sanguinetti shows off The Emperor’s New Budget.


  22. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:52 pm:

    “I don’t understand why you don’t get this. (Sigh) Here is Lincoln County…”


  23. - former southerner - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:54 pm:

    I am now very good at Wax on, Wax off and pretty soon Mr. Rauner-San say I ready to use my karate skills to take out Mikey Madigan.


  24. - How Ironic - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:54 pm:

    My right hand approximates the top of the stairwell, my left hand the wall that I always manage to hit at the bottom. Every. Time.


  25. - Give Me A Break - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:54 pm:

    I’m telling you, the last Lt. Gov was at least this tall.


  26. - AC - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:55 pm:

    I’ve moved on to cow pinching and cow slapping, and it’s made my visits to Springfield more fun than ever!


  27. - siriusly - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:56 pm:

    So then I said “Bruce - leave all the first part of the word, all the other letters up here. And then take the G sound and that’s down here. Just drop the G and it you will be very authentic soundin’”


  28. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:56 pm:

    “No. No, the Dome is up here. You need to take stairs to get to the tippy-tippy top… people tell me,… so my Staff keeps me down, like over here… “


  29. - Mama - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:59 pm:

    This is how you do the state-house tango.


  30. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 2:59 pm:

    At the State Fair… you haveta be ‘This’ tall to go on the big slide… I’m only “This” tall… So, I just rode a pony… “


  31. - Don't Worry, Be Happy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:07 pm:

    Utilizing her skilled abilities as a mime, Evelyn Sanguinetti demonstrates how her job as Bruce Rauner’s Lt. Governor feels just like being trapped in a silent, invisible box.


  32. - Steve - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:09 pm:

    “Mike Madigan’s bank account is even bigger than this.”


  33. - Jorge - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:13 pm:

    “The Laffer Curve starts way up here and when it’s done is goes way down here into the theoretical dumpster. Just ask Kansas.”


  34. - ToughGuy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:14 pm:

    “So I was holding the cow’s ear with my right hand and nudging it with my left hand trying to get it to ttip over. I’m not sure what was wrong with my technique.”


  35. - Jaded - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:17 pm:

    I’m a little tea pot short and stout,
    Here is my handle here is my spout……


  36. - Wensicia - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:27 pm:

    I’m using sign language because Bruce said I couldn’t speak publicly after the election.


  37. - D.P.Gumby - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:28 pm:

    Let’s all sing that great campaign song “I’m not a witch!”


  38. - Joe M - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:29 pm:

    First I would like to thank Governor Rauner for letting me talk today. Usually he will not let me talk or leave Chicago.

    However, he told me though to just talk a teeny weenie bit (pinching her right hand fingers together to signify small) - and to be sure not use any long sentences or big words or talk to very long (waving her left hand to across to signify long)

    With that I thank you for this opportunity. Good bye and be sure to support the Governor’s turnaround agenda. The Governor told me to say that. Good bless you all.


  39. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:32 pm:

    “For the camera this time?… Sure… You ready?… Ok, here’s Lincoln County… “


  40. - Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:33 pm:

    Channeling her inner Ditka “This is your IQ buddy, zero”


  41. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:47 pm:

    Original commenters 29, that weird ow guy 11 ! Really?


  42. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:51 pm:

    - A Citizen -,

    Sorry I made you take off your shoes to get to 11. You ok?

    “Caption?”

    “So… That lil ‘Bill’… He’s sitting way up there… Way up there, and hopes… and he prays that they will… But today his still… and this is important… just a ‘Bill’… And that’s what Madigan is doing to the Turnaround Agenda. Understand?”


  43. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:54 pm:

    “… ‘How do you get to Lincoln County?’… Well, up there, they have a train station, I think, a train depot… They have a small airport too… I think that’s where I spoke, the small airport… Can’t believe you’ve never been there. I know its way up over there… “


  44. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:55 pm:

    12! Good lord, quantity isn’t quality. Surely you can work harder on the latter, please. Thanks


  45. - Wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 3:57 pm:

    – Sorry I made you take off your shoes-

    This one goes to 11


  46. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:01 pm:

    Geesh Word, he needs no encouragement from you! Recount - my count was correct except for the toes valuable one.


  47. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:02 pm:

    “Everyone’s a critic”.

    I promise, I won’t comment on your blog.

    “Caption?”

    “I have Jiminey Cricket up here, Tinkerbell on my desk, that’s all the brain trust any Lt. Governor needs…”

    (Tips cap to - Wordslinger- )


  48. - Chicago 20 - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:06 pm:

    You hold the bag up here and the tube goes around back,and then you just wait a few minutes..


  49. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:07 pm:

    So on the Trump scale, Bruce is down here and Donald is up here. So I told them, heck ya I’m available. I can start right away. I don’t even have the governor’s cellphone number.


  50. - JS Mill - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:08 pm:

    Who is Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti? That is the question……


  51. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:09 pm:

    Meet my little friend Jose Jimenez


  52. - Wensicia - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:10 pm:

    Keep going, OW, AC can’t get beyond twenty.


  53. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:12 pm:

    I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their governor gave them a budget to slash. But I didn’t. I got to admit the truth. It made me happy.


  54. - Jocko - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:14 pm:

    Wheaton’s cash reserves started up here and then, after my settlement, were down here.


  55. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:14 pm:

    A Citizen, when you grow up and get your own blog, then you can go after one of my favorite commenters. Until then, back off or just fly away. Thanks.


  56. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:22 pm:

    “Up there… That’s the hill… I’m the lil engine. I can… K?”

    Thanks, Rich.

    I’m lucky you like the way I sing “Chicago”…


  57. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:26 pm:

    “So I opened the window… Said a spell… And ‘woosh’, I saw all the bad karma fly out before my eyes… That’s how I help… “


  58. - AC - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:30 pm:

    Wensicia, I feel as if I’m the victim of mistaken identity and thoroughly enjoy OWs posts. I know, AC was shorthand, and I’m hoping no one adopts “OW” as a Nickname because “Oswego Willy” is too much to type out sometimes!


  59. - Former Titan - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:30 pm:

    The LTG shows off her man hands.


  60. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:35 pm:

    - AC -, lol.

    “…I lifted up the hood on the trash can van… Smoke billowing out… I knew right then and there, the gasket seal broke on piston 3… “


  61. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:35 pm:

    Geez Rich, my apologies - Really.


  62. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:37 pm:

    “Every day, one of my staffers brings in a chart of all the state agencies, even the teeny-tiny ones, and we start at the top; Aging… and… Aging… and… they’re all there… and we just go over them… “


  63. - Wensicia - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:39 pm:

    Sorry, AC. it was shorthand and I meant no harm.


  64. - GA Watcher - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:45 pm:

    “So when he asked the people in the room, who wants to be my lieutenant governor, I shot up my arm just like this. And the rest, as they say, is history.”


  65. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:49 pm:

    “… ‘My biggest fear as Lt. Governor?’… Wisconsin is up there… They invade… We take them on… Then… Indiana swoops in on our flank… Goodbye Illinois… ‘Biggest fear?’ … Wisconsin and Indiana attacking… At the same time… “


  66. - AC - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:49 pm:

    Wensicia, no offense taken, I was enjoying it. Now, if I could just get my tablet to memorize Willy and not Willie I’ll be set.


  67. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:54 pm:

    On one hand you chop on the other hand you rip out guts


  68. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:55 pm:

    AC you need to edit your tablets spellcheck.


  69. - JS Mill - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 4:56 pm:

    =A Citizen, when you grow up and get your own blog…….=

    And that is what you call being taken to the woodshed.


  70. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:00 pm:

    One hand on the handlebar the other makes a right turn signal


  71. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:05 pm:

    I drive looking under the wheel like this


  72. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:07 pm:

    “When pet Owls ‘molt’,… you can help them… by holding them …by the talons, …upside down, like so… and just pick off the feathers…”


  73. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:09 pm:

    Before you fly off on your broom check the bristles first


  74. - sal-says - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:09 pm:

    And, I’m going to be lecturing about, I dunno, uh, how far apart my hands are showing how far Brucie is out of touch with IL voters?


  75. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:12 pm:

    JS Mills - Perhaps, but I haven’t gotten the dreaded “Bite Me” for a very long time!


  76. - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:16 pm:

    “I have seen them together. Oswego Willy is about this tall, and Arthur Andersen about this much shorter.”


  77. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:20 pm:

    Hold the voodoo chicken in this hand and swing it with this hand


  78. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:22 pm:

    - A Citizen -, this is usually the part where I buy you a drink and all is well…

    “Caption?”

    “On session days, if I’m outside in the Rotunda… I reach up… grab the top of the Rail… then I let all the lobbyist rush past me… and I’m safe. No spills.”


  79. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:25 pm:

    The Rauner salute and one hand clap


  80. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:30 pm:

    - AA -, not going to lie, I was wearing lifts… Medical reasons.

    “Caption?”

    “It’s a dream, really, I leave it way up there, way up there. I just wipe away all those dreams, wave them away with my hand… I mean, me being ‘Governor’… Do you realize all that would have to happen for me to be governor?… Really?… And then I’m governor?… That can’t be right… “


  81. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:30 pm:

    Oswego Willy said this is the way you snipe hunt


  82. - Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:36 pm:

    I put a spell on you because you’re mine
    You better stop the things that you do
    I ain’t lyin’, no, I ain’t lyin’
    I just can’t stand it babe
    The way you’re always runnin’ ’round
    I just can’t stand it, the way you always put me down
    I put a spell on you because you’re mine


  83. - 4 percent - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:37 pm:

    It’s Groundhog Day and Lt. Governor Sanguinetti just came out of her hole. She saw her shadow and will go back into the hole for another six months.


  84. - Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:42 pm:

    So I reach up…just like this…I reach up and pinch his kneecap…and I say, Hey Buddy!….yeah, just like that…Hey Governor…my eyes, they’re down here!


  85. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:53 pm:

    So I grab Goldberg by the scruff and put sense into him with this hand


  86. - sal-says - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 5:59 pm:

    No, really. My intellect is WAY up here; Brucie? Like down here, oh, maybe lower. But, geez, don’t tell him I said that; I’ll never get out in public again.


  87. - sal-says - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 6:03 pm:

    ck and me? We’re about this close, yeah, closer than me and The Emporer.


  88. - sal-says - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 6:05 pm:

    Me and the gov? We’re having This.Much.Fun!


  89. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 6:06 pm:

    “And when I slipped I tried to grab onto something like this.”


  90. - illini - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 6:08 pm:

    Willy, you have come close to exceeding your best series of postings. The only ones that are better are when we are talking about and referencing to Jason.

    Keep up the snark - you do it far better than I could ever expect to be able to do - enjoy your comments. You have few peers and no competitors on this blog.

    The cannolis are still on me.


  91. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 6:18 pm:

    First you hold up the budget then insert the turnaround


  92. - My New Handle - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 7:36 pm:

    “First, you make your hand like for the ‘O’…then, well, the Willy gesture is….”


  93. - qualified somebody nobody sent - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 7:49 pm:

    Watch me again Governor, when riding the Brown line with Rahm grab the overhead rail like this and then slap the crap out of him!


  94. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 8:00 pm:

    (Tips cap to - illini -)

    “Caption?”

    “…I looked at the Board and I saw all these ‘yellow’ colors next to Republican in the House and the Senate, I pointed and asked about it. I’m still pointing and I was ushered out of the balcony by my staff, and I haven’t been back in either chamber since.”


  95. - XDNR - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 9:16 pm:

    The “Turn Around Agenda” is like this or is it like this, Ok I’m confused, sorry!


  96. - kj - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 9:16 pm:

    “Now watch me whip…now watch me nae nae”


  97. - Quizzical - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 10:30 pm:

    So there I am at the table, ready to make decisions and Bruce says that he’s already decided to make no decisions until the Democrats betray their central political beliefs. So I am like, ‘Whoa! That’s how you made the big bucks.’


  98. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 10:41 pm:

    The governor said I had to be present so I wore yellow


  99. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 10:49 pm:

    Knock-knock joker


  100. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Sep 22, 15 @ 11:13 pm:

    “Maybe if I give you a visual it will help. Up here, this is Bruce’s Agenda, the Governor’s agenda. K? All this other stuff down here, all this open space, everything else in… everything… We don’t care about it. Me and Bruce. The Governor. Nothing else matters. They told me that, so I believe it I guess… “


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