Question of the day
Monday, Jul 25, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* AP…
The privately run and funded economic development corporation that Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner created to attract new businesses to Illinois has a new name.
The Illinois Business and Economic Development Corporation announced Monday that it will now be known as Intersect Illinois. Rauner used his executive powers in February to establish the nonprofit. Democrats raised questions about transparency and a few weeks later formed a bipartisan committee to review the corporation. […]
The corporation’s CEO, Jim Schultz, said Monday that the group knew its original name “didn’t exactly roll off the tongue or do much to sell Illinois.” He says the new name “ties together everything that makes Illinois an attractive state in which to grow a business.”
* The Question: Rejected name-change ideas?
- Precinct Captain - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:37 pm:
Superstars, Inc.
- Ratso Rizzo - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:37 pm:
Rauner’s Raiders
- cover - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:38 pm:
tronc
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:40 pm:
“cover” takes a big early lead!
lol
- Ahoy! - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:40 pm:
Economic Development Council of Madiganistan.
- Formerly Known as Frenchie M - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:41 pm:
Well, it’s better than ‘DoiT’ — the “Do It” IT transformation name - but not much.
I’d been pronouncing it as “Doit” — as in, rhymes-with-adroit — instead of “Do It”.
The superstars need some lessons in naming. “Doit” and “Intersect Illinois” are … well, odd. Neither name says anything about what they *do*.
Intersect Illinois sounds like an admonition by a disgruntled high school geometry teacher.
- Anonish - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:42 pm:
Movers and Shakers
Mission statement: you got a FOIA for that?
- DuPage Saint - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:43 pm:
How about InterSex Illinois? Probably get a larger response
- The Old Professor - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:44 pm:
Well, from a mathematical point of view, the parallel name to Intersect Illinois would be Union Illinois, but I don’t see the governor using that.
- A guy - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:44 pm:
Wing OR a Prayer.
- Trolling Troll - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:45 pm:
GTCR-Illinois
- Rabid - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:49 pm:
Dissection Illinois
- Flynn's mom - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:51 pm:
Takin Care of Bidness
- Mama - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:54 pm:
FOIA-less
- Mama - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 1:56 pm:
Come get you free IL taxpayers money.
- Honeybear - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:05 pm:
Diet Intersect Illinois, Now with 501c3 Splenda! It’s not 501c3 but it tastes just like it!
- frisbee - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:08 pm:
Uline’s but willing to share
Drop some “g”s in Illinois
Downstate is the best state
- VanillaMan - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:09 pm:
Intra-Wrecked Illinois
Northern Florida
Trans-Mississippi Missouri
Almost Illinois
Reject Illinois
Misdirected Illinois
- James Knell - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:12 pm:
Sounds like WEDC, Scott Walker’s scandal plagued excuse for economic development. It is best known giving away Apple I-pads to unknown people and for helping a crony out when he couldn’t make the payments on his 2010 Maserati.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wedc-backed-firm-after-learning-state-money-was-for-luxury-car-debts-b99525593z1-309866451.html
Rauner did name Scott Walker as one of his roll models.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:16 pm:
Fees ‘R Us
- Way Way Down Here - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
Quit Botherin’ Me Kid
- Wensicia - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
My Way and the Highways
- No Longer A Lurker - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:26 pm:
IPI Illinois
- The Mullet Speaks - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:26 pm:
Vivisect Illinois
- SAP - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:28 pm:
Turnaround Agenda
- Skeptic - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:34 pm:
“the parallel name to Intersect Illinois would be Union Illinois” Of course the Gov wouldn’t use that…after all parallel lines don’t intersect.
- drew - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:35 pm:
Roundabout Illinois
- RNUG - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:41 pm:
== Diet Intersect Illinois, Now with 501c3 Splenda! It’s not 501c3 but it tastes just like it! ==
-Honeybear-, since it’s just a club of good ole boys, it would have to be a 501c7
- RNUG - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:42 pm:
Make Illinois Great Again!
- Huh? - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:43 pm:
Where businesses crash at intersect Illinois
- Hieronymus - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:45 pm:
@1:41pm
I say, D’oh-it …
- Rabid - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
Illinois Go
- DuPage - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:08 pm:
Intersection-crash Illinois
- Bogey Golfer - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:19 pm:
Bypass Indiana.
- Jocko - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
Wine Club Welfare
- Name/Nickname/Anon - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:46 pm:
Three Runner Ups
Prairie State Opportunity
Crossroads in the Land of Lincoln
The focus group needs more chips!
- walker - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:13 pm:
(Is IllinoisGo available?)
Come2Illinois!
- Huh? - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:54 pm:
Intersect Illinois where wealthy businesses intersect with free tax payer money, no questions asked, no paper work needed.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 5:43 pm:
Shake Up Your Bidness
- blue dog dem - Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 5:42 am:
Hypocrite Illinois Policy. (HIP).
- Rabid - Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 8:02 am:
Take a dunkin Illinois
- Enviro - Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 8:41 am:
One-percent Illinois