How Bruce met Rahm
Monday, Jan 25, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Good stuff in here. Too much to excerpt. But they go back a long way…
MODERATOR DAVID KAHNWEILER: Do you mind talking about Rahm a little bit?
RAUNER: OK.
KAHNWEILER: I’ve known you for a very long time. Rahm’s been at all the family events, the bat matzvahs and, I mean, I remember at, I think, at Meg’s bat mitzvah where you were in private equity and he was in Congress and you’re paying for dinner and he’s razzing you about threatening, you know, to raise taxes on your, uh…
RAUNER: On capital gains, yeah. Yeah.
KAHNWEILER: On capital gains. And your relationship has always been one of just needling each other. So is this just more needling going on in the last few weeks or is it getting to be a little sharper than needles?
RAUNER: No. It’s way more sharper than – there’s really a lot on the line.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 2:59 pm:
When I read this, all I kept hearing was Billy Batts describing, to his Crew, about how he met Spit Shine Tommy…
- Anon221 - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:04 pm:
Rauner: “I said, ‘But we take risk. We have to show judgment and we don’t get paid for eight years. We have to do – we have to make a lot of money for our partners first and then we make money. And we have to take risk. And we get paid eight years later. This is an apprentice business. You don’t get – you know, it’s hard. If you want to be an apprentice, I’ll train ya.’”
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The eight years comment stuck out to me. Runnin’ Illinois like a bidness! /s
- crazybleedingheart - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm:
I always forget Rauner’s kids are Jewish. I guess because he didn’t instagram it while droppin’ by Charlie Parker’s after church yesterday.
- My New Handle - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:09 pm:
Talk about “meh.”
- Grass Bowl - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:10 pm:
OW wins the day
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
Long before Ernest and Julio sold their first bottle of wine, they had to to sow some seeds.
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:39 pm:
“Way more sharper than”?
Oy!
- Anonymous - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:44 pm:
OW - I think you found a title for one of your future HBO episodes. It could be one of those that starts out in the present and then goes back in time as Bruce looks off into the distance.
- Uber Man - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
OW - could call but it’s more like Billy Bats meets Gordon “Greed is good!” Gekko.
You have to wonder what the investments were that MRE brought to BR and whether in his haste to get rich quick any corners were cut? If Clinton White House information was used it could be a campaign issue this Fall.
This post is absolutely great insight on the City of Chicago’s pathologically competitive mayor and his will to succeed quickly and by any means necessary.
- sideline watcher - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:56 pm:
The biggest irony in this is Rahm saying he wants to be a partner. Bruce asking him if he knows anything about finance. Rahm saying no but he’s gonna start at the top anyway. Bruce asking him if he even knows what a spread sheet is and basically tells him he can’t be a partner because he doesn’t know anything.
Sooooo Bruce? Do you know anything about government? Have you ever negotiated with anyone you couldn’t just fire? I mean, maybe you should run for something first to see how this works.
Bruce: No. I’m gonna be Governor. And I don’t fail at anything.
Wow.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
+1 to Sideline
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:01 pm:
(Tips cap to - Grass Bowl -)
- Anonymous -, you could do a “Remember when” episode. Bruce and Diana reminiscing, each character come in, tell a remember when story, lots of guest stars… I hear ya.
- Uber Man -, yeah, like a hybrid of the two, “but with a dark side”
Maybe for another project in its own, “DHS” is still just excited having a staple cast character back, lol
- Chicago Guy - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:12 pm:
Rauner tells a good story.
I’m surprised he didn’t know who Rahm was before agreeing to meet with him. Rahm was a well-known White House adviser on issues like NAFTA and the Crime Bill.
As a smart and busy businessman, I would expect Rauner to have a brief summary on Rahm before the meeting to help focus the discussion. If I was meeting with someone high up in the current presidential administration I would be prepared to ask some questions that could inform my business decisions.
- AC - Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:46 pm:
When I read the headline, I imagined the theme to Somewhere in Time playing in the background while Emanuel and Rahm were brought together to pursue the kind of wealth that hadn’t been seen since the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 26, 16 @ 9:09 am:
I don’t believe a word of it.