95 Comments - East Central Illinois - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:05 pm: Anything having to do with fish. - Old Shepherd - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:05 pm: Whip VS. Nae Nae: Pro’s and Con’s - Precinct Captain - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:09 pm: He should avoid the….bad blood - Concerned - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:09 pm: Anything in the extreme. Moderation only! - Timmeh - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:09 pm: Building a wall between Indiana and Illinois. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:10 pm: Agendas - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:10 pm: Cell phone taxes - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:11 pm: The nutritional value of apples vs. strawberry milkshakes. - Ahoy! - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:13 pm: Compromise & governing, he doesn’t really know much about the topic. - Name Withheld - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:13 pm: Who Ken Dunkin’s Secret Santa is. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:13 pm: The semantic difference between stubbornness and obstinacy. - Cubs in '16 - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:14 pm: Ken Dunkin: Friend or Foe? - Dome Gnome - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:15 pm: “Madigan and the audience he controls.” - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:15 pm: Caucus Unity - logic not emotion - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:16 pm: The budget impasse. - thechampaignlife - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:17 pm: Everyone he is “never, ever, ever, ever getting back together” with. - Bogey Golfer - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:17 pm: Cutlery options for slicing apples. - Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:18 pm: Whether or not Andre Smith was making a chess reference last week. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:18 pm: New legislation to ban trash can vans. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:18 pm: Any use or form of the word(s), “grid”, “lock”, or “gridlock”. - 360 Degree TurnAround - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:20 pm: BCS ratings - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:20 pm: Owls making good pets… - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:21 pm: A retrospective exhibit of the Speaker’s argyle socks coming to the Illinois State Museum. - 360 Degree TurnAround - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:21 pm: Don’t use the terms “status” and “quo” together, but try to fit them into the speech multiple times. - 360 Degree TurnAround - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:22 pm: The merits of apples, peeled and unpeeled. - jerry 101 - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:22 pm: He should be discussing whether he’s ever gonna give you up. If he’s ever gonna let you down. If he’s ever going to run around and desert you. He should go on to discuss whether he’s ever going to make you cry, or say good bye. He needs to go on record about whether he would ever tell a lie and hurt you. - Lucky Pierre - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:22 pm: He is bringing a Dale Carnegie book and will tell the audience How to Win Friends and Influence People - @MisterJayEm - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:22 pm: “Topics that Speaker Madigan should probably avoid during his City Club address?” Pat Quinn’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign. – MrJM - 360 Degree TurnAround - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:23 pm: Drinking game time for audience. Every time the Speaker says “reasonable” - shot of tequila for everyone. - Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:23 pm: That time he bucked the trade unions and opposed a major capital bill. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:24 pm: The dilemma of having a daughter who is more popular than you are. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:26 pm: The sweet science of parliamentary maneuvers - Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:26 pm: Streator Curmudgeon, I think that’s a problem for most fathers. lol - John A Logan - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:26 pm: A 12 step plan to lowering blood pressure. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:27 pm: His close, personal friendship with Millard Fillmore. - zatoichi - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:28 pm: Quality wine - boxed, twist cap, or corked? - Give Me A Break - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:29 pm: Why Mapes understands all Apples are not created equal. - Almost the Weekend - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:30 pm: If he misses Pat Quinn, who will probably be in attendance. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:31 pm: Chris Kaergard and the “Budget Beard” - 47th Ward - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:32 pm: Will Ken Dunkin be the next Gary LaPaille? - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:32 pm: Who is snarkier: Goldberg or Oswego Willy? - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:35 pm: How to toilet paper the trees at the governor’s mansion without getting caught. - Jose Abreu's next homer - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:36 pm: Probably just talk about tax appeals for Madigan & Getzendanner. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:38 pm: Fashion tips for wearing your pants under your armpits. - D.P.Gumby - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:38 pm: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a groundhog could grind ground…. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:41 pm: Republican Leader Durkin and when he was a Committee Chair under him. - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:43 pm: Blago’s “indiscretions.” - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:44 pm: Is 100 too young to retire? - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:45 pm: Terrence Goggin. - A guy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:46 pm: September, October and November of 2015. Possibly December. - Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:46 pm: Advantages of the 55550-8C Easy Wedger / Apple Corer over the Martha Stewart Collection Apple Slicer. - Dance Band on the Titanic - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:49 pm: Why Oswego Willy is his favorite Cap Fax commenter. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:53 pm: That, um, Dorothy Brown sidebar discussion… - walker - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:53 pm: Bricklaying - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:55 pm: “Goin’ to the Burke’s Christmas Party this year?” - Hickory - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:56 pm: Rod and prison - A guy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:57 pm: How many tickets he bought in the first 5 minutes they were on sale, to see him. - @MisterJayEm - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:59 pm: “Madigan’s City Club speech was sold out 5 minutes after going on sale.” And tickets are still unavailable on the secondary market: https://www.stubhub.com/find/s/?q=mike%20madigan – MrJM - LizPhairTax - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 2:59 pm: Sons in Law and the luncheons you agree to speak at in exchange for them being kept occupied - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:00 pm: Dem House members that Mayor Emanuel controls… - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:04 pm: Voicemail - Wensicia - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:05 pm: The Rauner, Emanuel, Madigan triangulation and why it’s unsuccessful. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:06 pm: Ounce of Prevention - Blue dog dem - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:10 pm: Syrian refugees? - Jeff Trigg - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:11 pm: Hot dogs: Are they sandwiches? - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:11 pm: Any and all talk of Museums - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:13 pm: Why he stopped tweeting at @SpeakerMadigan. - Anonymous - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:16 pm: Reciting Goldberg’s correspondence - Tommydanger - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:17 pm: How to core an apple using only Goldberg’s sharp wit. - Always right - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:19 pm: @tommydanger Impossible to core an apple with a dull knife that only thinks its sharp. - Anonymous - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:20 pm: Taxing baby boomers - Orzo - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:23 pm: Whether his cover of Taylor Swift’s break-up song “Dear John” is about the Senate President. - Buzzie - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:24 pm: How Fan Dual and Draft King can fund the state pensions. - In a Minute - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:36 pm: Rauner should crash it. - Jake From Elwood - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:42 pm: The subject of why others should not talk to Rich Miller. - @MisterJayEm - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:43 pm: “Rauner should crash it.” For old times’ sake, he’d probably ask someone to have Dave McKinney booted and then take his seat. – MrJM - Anyone Remember - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 3:49 pm: The comparative differences between Red Delicious and Granny Smith apples (knife demonstration included, but no big screen monitors). - Six Degrees of Separation - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:04 pm: How to beat Chuck Goudie in a neighborhood drag race. - Arizona Bob - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:05 pm: That attendees are there to kiss the ring and show allegiance to the crown, NOT ask pertinent questions. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:12 pm: Why it used to be good to be the king. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:21 pm: Is Ken Dunkin out of the will? - A guy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:23 pm: ===Waiting list almost 1,000=== Just like Springfield only there the waiting list is 11,000,000. - cover - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 4:43 pm: re: jerry 101 @ 2:22 pm Dang it, I never expected to be rickrolled on CapFax… why you gotta be so mean? - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 5:05 pm: Floating Brownie a loan until his State contracts start paying again - Anonymous - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 5:31 pm: Debate an empty chair - Lt. Guv. - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 5:47 pm: That he sold out quicker than Miller by 2 minutes. - Keyrock - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 6:18 pm: Joe Berrios. (Aside, that Terrence Goggin answer was a good one.) - anon - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 6:53 pm: Who’s his Alderman that he controls? - wordslinger - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 7:40 pm: How he knew today that there would still be a “budget impasse” to talk about on Dec. 9. - Harvest76 - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 9:17 pm: December 9th he is scheduled to discuss the impasse? Isn’t that after the December 1st meeting with Rauner and the other leaders where they, ostensibly, intend to work on the impasse? - Mouthy - Monday, Nov 16, 15 @ 11:55 pm: Who’s playing the Grinch in the House Christmas Variety Show.. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 17, 15 @ 4:09 am: Would you go to a meeting where the other side believes I should have twice as much time? 40 vs 20 minutes? - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 17, 15 @ 8:02 am: Keep pushing for a public meeting. My governor’s position does not pass the smell test - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 17, 15 @ 8:16 am: Invite the governor for a public debate dec 9 - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 17, 15 @ 8:46 am: The Springfield meeting should be 20 minutes of public submitted questions then leave Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.