“Ms. Munger’s completed lack of understanding the Office of the Comptroller, her blatent disregard of her oath, and the laws of Illinois is what I hope to show voters I agree with, 100%”
“I was told there would be math in this debate, and you can start with me, then with Ms. Munger after, but oh yes, there will be math in this debate today.”
“In short, what I’m saying is, after you take away the Rauner and Madigan stuff here, I’ve done a great job of taking Ms. Munger’s ideas and first twisting them, then making them my own… which is pretty cool when you think about it… “
“Listen, if you’re going to call me a mushroom for Madigan why can’t I call her a tool for Rauner? After all, that’s what this race has come down to and I think mushrooms are more popular than tools.”
“Whoever wins, one of us is eventually going to get sued and we will have to pay the legislators. Until then, we both got everyone buffaloed, and that, my friends, is a bipartisan agreement… “
“I know that Rauner already wrote the endorsement for Ms. Munger for your paper and all, but please stay awake long enough so I don’t get bored pretending you guys care too”
“Hey! Who ya gonna vote for? A woman with a fancy-schmancy manicure who’s scared of busting a nail on the computer, or a one-two puncher who’s gonna mix it up with that keyboard?”
“Before you fawn all over Ms. Munger and Gov. Rauner, where do I validate parking and I thought I smelled Garrett’s popcorn. Will Garrett’s be made available now, later, to go… “
- northsider (the original) - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
With apologies to TSwift:
She wears high heels
I wear sneakers
She’s cheer captain and I’m with the speaker…
“And for the record ‘I can, and I will’ is trademarked so I don’t want to see that in your newspaper or on your website without proper compensation. In front of you are the pay schedules for headlines, highlighted quote, and a special price for the line to be attached to a picture… “
“No, just because I’m Chicago City Clerk doesn’t mean I’m a rubber stamp. I know how to USE a rubber stamp. I can rubber stamp with the best of ‘em. But you call me a rubber stamp again, and you’ll SEE some stamping, lemme tell ya.”
LM: I’ll have you know that I’ve memorized my ciphering now. Unlike my opponent, I don’t need a pen to do the math. I’ve also memorized the gozintos as well.
- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
What is 7 times 8?
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
“Ms. Munger’s completed lack of understanding the Office of the Comptroller, her blatent disregard of her oath, and the laws of Illinois is what I hope to show voters I agree with, 100%”
- Mr.Black - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:29 pm:
“This is my job. Rauner gave it to me.”
-Munger
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
“And a nice woman in my ad asked me ‘You can do that?’ and I fibbed to her ‘I can and I will’ because explaining is harder than pandering… “
- Last Bull Moose - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
Why is the help talking?
- OurMagician - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
“I will pay the legislators last now that I’m not one of them.”
- AlfondoGonz - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
I should have never entered the public sector. Look at me, sitting at a table with the help.”
- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
Munger: 7 times 8… uh… 49…?
Mendoza: 7 times 8… uh… my percentage of the vote?
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:38 pm:
“I was told there would be math in this debate, and you can start with me, then with Ms. Munger after, but oh yes, there will be math in this debate today.”
- Rocky Rosi - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:38 pm:
Feels like we are in high school. Does she know your BF asked me to homecoming?
- Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
Everything Munger says, including No Budget, No Pay for Legislators, Me Too! Me Too! Me Too!”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
“In short, what I’m saying is, after you take away the Rauner and Madigan stuff here, I’ve done a great job of taking Ms. Munger’s ideas and first twisting them, then making them my own… which is pretty cool when you think about it… “
- Downstate Democrat - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
“Listen, if you’re going to call me a mushroom for Madigan why can’t I call her a tool for Rauner? After all, that’s what this race has come down to and I think mushrooms are more popular than tools.”
- Big Muddy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
“When I voted for those budgets as a representative they balanced. That’s what I was told and I do what I’m told. Is that a problem?”
- Bored Chairman - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
“Oh no you din’t,” said both.
- Meh - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:46 pm:
“I really don’t need this job.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
“I won 6 elections… understand?”
- Ahoy! - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
If I had known we were going to gym after this, i wouldn’t have dressed up.
- blue dog dem - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Who are these two women?
- Whatever - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:52 pm:
They didn’t tell me there would be math.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
“Whoever wins, one of us is eventually going to get sued and we will have to pay the legislators. Until then, we both got everyone buffaloed, and that, my friends, is a bipartisan agreement… “
- anonymous retiree - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:02 pm:
Does SM realize she won’t get paid either???
- Jocko - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:03 pm:
Leslie seethes over the fact that Susana’s Fitbit says she’s two steps ahead of her.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:03 pm:
“I know that Rauner already wrote the endorsement for Ms. Munger for your paper and all, but please stay awake long enough so I don’t get bored pretending you guys care too”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:05 pm:
“… and ‘tronc’… you call yourselves tronc now? I’d be more worried about that then asking us silly questions”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:05 pm:
“I’m prettier.”
“No, I am.”
“Am not.
“Am too.”
“Well…I’m richer.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
(I have many bracelets. And a necklace. That counts for something.)
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
Only one of them is talking about Governor Rauner.
- Romeo - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
“We both don’t want to follow the state constitution and pay legislators on time!”
- A guy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:10 pm:
LM- Everything I say will wind up on her campaign literature.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:11 pm:
“Hey! Who ya gonna vote for? A woman with a fancy-schmancy manicure who’s scared of busting a nail on the computer, or a one-two puncher who’s gonna mix it up with that keyboard?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
“Before you fawn all over Ms. Munger and Gov. Rauner, where do I validate parking and I thought I smelled Garrett’s popcorn. Will Garrett’s be made available now, later, to go… “
- northsider (the original) - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
With apologies to TSwift:
She wears high heels
I wear sneakers
She’s cheer captain and I’m with the speaker…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:17 pm:
“Who picked this place, anyway? Because I tell ya, this steel bench is giving me a pain I don’t even wanna talk about.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:19 pm:
(Is that the same shade of purple Pat Quinn used to wear?)
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:20 pm:
“And for the record ‘I can, and I will’ is trademarked so I don’t want to see that in your newspaper or on your website without proper compensation. In front of you are the pay schedules for headlines, highlighted quote, and a special price for the line to be attached to a picture… “
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:21 pm:
“See these 16-inch guns? I didn’t get these guns in a bridge game, pal. I got these guns carrying apples. Bushels and bushels of apples.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:26 pm:
“No, just because I’m Chicago City Clerk doesn’t mean I’m a rubber stamp. I know how to USE a rubber stamp. I can rubber stamp with the best of ‘em. But you call me a rubber stamp again, and you’ll SEE some stamping, lemme tell ya.”
- downstate commissioner - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:29 pm:
A blonde, a brunette,… Don’t we NEED a Redhead?
- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:32 pm:
“If you are here for Spinal Tap, their performance will be after this Puppet Show…”
- Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:56 pm:
Governors prefer blondes
- 4 percent - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 4:57 pm:
In a special one game wildcard playoff, we have the Triple AAA Rauner Mungers taking on the Double AA farm team Madigan Mendozas.
- Amalia - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 5:01 pm:
Leslie’s comment was offside. I know offside. I played soccer in college.
- Rough Rider - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 5:03 pm:
Let’s get this straight once and for all I do not know any Donna Brazile.
- Funny Pic - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 6:31 pm:
“I can’t believe I could lose to a grown up Punky Brewster.”
- G'Kar - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 6:42 pm:
LM: I’ll have you know that I’ve memorized my ciphering now. Unlike my opponent, I don’t need a pen to do the math. I’ve also memorized the gozintos as well.
- ZATOICHI - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 8:28 pm:
God, she just drones on…..
- Quizzical - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:06 pm:
Did I forget to say that my opponent is only four inferential leaps of logic away from supporting child molester?
- It's All About Me - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:35 pm:
LM “I’ll work for nothing”
SM “I’ll work for half that”
- upstater - Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:50 pm:
And then I told that teacher-lady, I didn’t need any math to be comptroller….
- Present - Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 9:05 am:
Wow,she didn’t even get her nails done.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 9:05 am:
“I’m going to do all those things Leslie is already doing!”
- Latino for Munger - Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 10:34 am:
Difficult to listen to you Mendoza, you lying corrupt Madigan Crony. Tax & spend liberal.