“Doesn’t matter who wins this staredown, Governor. Mike Madigan and I will still be around when you are gone.”
- Cook County Commoner - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:34 am:
Reverend: Governor, my boys Yusef and Jonathan are feeling the pinch. Budweiser sales are down.
Governor: Reverend, I feel your pain. But I told your kids years go to diversify into craft beers. Have them call my people. Maybe we can work out a turn around agenda.
Jackson - “Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville and compromise could be born in your itty bitty heart.”
Jackson: Governor, please explain how you ‘think’ you are helping me and my people by forcing the unions to strike and killing social services? Governor, you are no Dr. King!
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:12 am:
“Jesse, just want you to know. It’s not personal, it’s business… “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:13 am:
“Reverend, I’d like to talk to you about a business opportunity that only requires you to stand with me and say my Turnaound Agenda is good… “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:14 am:
“Governor… You really think YOU should be here today?”
- Way Way Down Here - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:22 am:
Gov: “This tie, Jesse? The Jerry Garcia Collection I think.”
- The Velour Nail - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:27 am:
I’ll Roshambo you for that last donut.
- downstate commissioner - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:33 am:
“Doesn’t matter who wins this staredown, Governor. Mike Madigan and I will still be around when you are gone.”
- Cook County Commoner - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:34 am:
Reverend: Governor, my boys Yusef and Jonathan are feeling the pinch. Budweiser sales are down.
Governor: Reverend, I feel your pain. But I told your kids years go to diversify into craft beers. Have them call my people. Maybe we can work out a turn around agenda.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:35 am:
“….I need those ministers that you carry in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes….”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:37 am:
Reverend Jackson - “No pulse, pupils dilated, cold hard skin - yup, Rauner is a zombie corpse who dines on the living flesh of his victims.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:38 am:
Jackson - “Holy crap - Rauner doesn’t even breathe.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:39 am:
Jackson - “You are a grass bowl, Bruce.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:40 am:
Jackson - “Watch out Governor, it is rascal hunting season.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:42 am:
Jackson - “…yeah - the mounted moose heads and the Michael Jackson glove is still available…”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:43 am:
Jackson - “Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:44 am:
Jackson - “Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville and compromise could be born in your itty bitty heart.”
- Mouthy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:46 am:
“No Jesse, I don’t need a hostage negotiator”..
- Wensicia - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:47 am:
Jackson: “You talkin’ to me?”
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:54 am:
“Well Jesse, lemmie tell you what he’d do if he was alive today…”
– MrJM
- Big Joe - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:54 am:
Great one, Word. LOLOL
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:58 am:
Jackson: “Psst, Governor. Those were AFSCME sanitation workers that Doctor King was with before he was assassinated.”
- Huh? - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:58 am:
I don’t care if you are governor, the back of the line is over there.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:58 am:
BR: “I’ll take care of Dunkin. Out of my end….”
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 9:59 am:
Jackson: “Governor, try to keep your speech short today. Maybe just give us a list of your accomplishments in your first year in office”.
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:00 am:
“So… you want a leg to go with that arm… is that what you said?”
- corvax - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:03 am:
Jesse: “I’ll let go of it as soon as the budget’s passed.”
- Triple fat - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:03 am:
Pardon my elbow Governor… But I’ll not have you step past me and then have you, literally, turn your back on us.
- GOP Extremist - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:07 am:
“Well hello!! Fancy see’n you pander here.”
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:19 am:
I have a dream you can champion
- Aldyth - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:21 am:
Don’t blink. Never blink.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:21 am:
King kingpin
- Blue dog dem - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:51 am:
“The last Reverend who visited Chicago skipped town without paying his hotel bills!”
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 10:53 am:
Goldberg said this was a king meeting,where’s the heads of state at?
- pool boy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:12 am:
Far right meet far left.
- sideline watcher - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:23 am:
360 degree turnaround for the win!
Those were AFSCME workers!! Yes!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:26 am:
Hello friend
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:29 am:
“Governor, does this look like a face of someone willing to be your friend today?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:31 am:
“Jesse… that’s a really nice beer distributorship your family has… shame if somethin’ happened to it… “
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:32 am:
“Governor… You want ME to talk to Rahm?”
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:33 am:
Oops 11:26
High minded people call me Bruce almighty
- the Other Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:42 am:
That cold weather we’re having started with this little chilly front.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:47 am:
BR: “Just like Dr. King did, I support AFSCME strikes….”
- ColdofWinter - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:56 am:
Jessy DiCaprio reacts after Governor Gaga brushes against him.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:58 am:
Sorry Reverend. It was a federal crime so I think he’d need the president to issue the pardon.
- Mama - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 11:58 am:
Jackson: Governor, please explain how you ‘think’ you are helping me and my people by forcing the unions to strike and killing social services? Governor, you are no Dr. King!
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:03 pm:
JJ: “My advice on running for President? Make sure you have lots of rich, powerful friends. Oh, yeah. You’ve already got that covered.”
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:03 pm:
Got room for the one percent in the rainbow coalition?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:05 pm:
JJ: “You look like you could use a good meal. Go ahead of me in line.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:06 pm:
“Jesse, do you know Ken Dunkin?”
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:16 pm:
“Reverend, wouldn’t you agree that $510 million is a heckuva lot of money?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:18 pm:
“Jesse, how many how seats in the House can you flip… for me”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:21 pm:
“I’m heading to Montana, just so happens a seat has opened up on my plane … How would like to join me… Some wine… Cigars… To talk, you and I… “
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:36 pm:
Let’s get together for a bottle of mad dog 20 20
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:41 pm:
And don’t you try any rough stuff either. I ain’t no beer baron. Yeah, I heard that story.
- DuPage Bard - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:46 pm:
Oh you are somebody Governor. The jury is out on just what that body is.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 12:54 pm:
“Jesse… Plastics… I’ve said too much… “
- A guy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:05 pm:
Do you ever miss the DC area?
- A guy - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:06 pm:
Write Hi to the kids.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:26 pm:
You ever rode a camel threw an eye of a needle?
- Amalia - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:37 pm:
I thought you moved to Flint!
- Huh? - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:40 pm:
I knew Dr. King, you ain’t no Dr. King. You are everything that Dr. King was opposed to.
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:48 pm:
The only this I can minister is pain
- Huh? - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 1:57 pm:
oh, it’s you and your turnaround agenda, I better check to make sure I still have my wallet, watch and rings.
- X-prof - Tuesday, Jan 19, 16 @ 5:16 pm:
Reverend Jackson reacts to Gov. Rauner’s claim, “They didn’t come here because we had a great welfare system or a great minimum wage. “
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jan 20, 16 @ 8:28 am:
Let me help you help me
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jan 20, 16 @ 8:32 am:
I’am the king of pain