36 Comments - Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:39 am: Does anyone else think he looks like Silvio Dante attending a funeral? - Grand Avenue - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:41 am: Some one should take a picture of the audience. I want to see their reactions. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:42 am: I was going to say it looks like Silvio giving a eulogy… - Rocky Rosi - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:43 am: J.B. has a lot of resources so I will laugh at his jokes but to IL GOP this is not a laughing matter. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:43 am: At first thought it was jackie gleason, but the fred flintstone reference was spot on. - Precinct Captain - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:44 am: ==- Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:39 am:== He really does! - Ducky LaMoore - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:45 am: I think he has a later-in-life Babe Ruth look to him in this pic. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:46 am: Ducky. Yes indeed. Great call. - 47th Ward - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:48 am: I guess that’s his Uncle Joe seated behind him then. - Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:49 am: Maybe the “B” stands for Bambino. - 47th Ward - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:49 am: Also, where is this meeting? A hunting lodge? - A guy - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:49 am: The resemblance is….canny. - DuPage Bard - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:51 am: Did Pawar say he’d step aside if not slated? That may be a really quick Governor run? - @MisterJayEm - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:52 am: “Does anyone else think he looks like Silvio Dante attending a funeral?” Naw — the comedy routine makes me pretty sure I saw him open for Sinatra at the Sands, e.g. http://i.imgur.com/qUT4IGk.jpg – MrJM - TinyDancer(FKASue) - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:52 am: =Also, where is this meeting? A hunting lodge?= My thoughts exactly. Elk heads? Where ARE they? - JoeMaddon - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:53 am: **Also, where is this meeting? A hunting lodge?** LOL - close. Its in the back smoky room of the Erie Cafe. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:54 am: The Babe - perfect. If only he had the ‘27 uniform on, holding 3 hot dogs, 2 beers, and a real babe, it it him. Just ducky - walker - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:54 am: That’s Joe Berrios’ excited face. - LizPhairTax - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:54 am: Oh the irony of the billionaire being a poor man’s Silvio… +1 on Ducky’s observation. Well done. Berrios’ thought bubble: is this what I looked like from behind?So glad I had the surgery! - Grand Avenue - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:56 am: Kurt Summers needs to close his suit jacket! - Ratso Rizzo - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 10:56 am: Pritzker: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter’s wedding… on the day of your daughter’s wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty. - LizPhairTax - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:09 am: @ Grand Avenue $100 says that is not an option - Bogey Golfer - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:32 am: In the middle, the fish is ready to take Biss’s bait. - Arock - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:37 am: “Biss agrees with Sen Harmon that new state budget unlikely during Rauner’s first term. Biss says he’d work quickly to tackle if elected” - Tackle it now, show us what you can do. You are already elected to an office that is part of the budget process, do your job. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:50 am: ===Tackle it now, show us what you can do. You are already elected to an office that is part of the budget process, do your job.=== Hmm… “Tackle it now, Governor Rauner, show us what you can do. You are already elected to the office that proposes balanced, “non-sham” budgets. As Chance told you Governor Rauner. do your job.” Better. - Ignoring is bliss - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:50 am: It looks like the people behind Biss are ignoring him. Just like his facebook announcement video. - Lucky Pierre - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:53 am: Senator Harmon says there won’t be a budget for the next year and half Senator Biss agrees and said he would work quickly to address if he is elected Umm he is elected today Of course no specific fixes to the budget crisis - Sue - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:54 am: Too bad JB didn’t inherit Mike’s physical traits - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 11:56 am: It’s 30, 60, clean signature. Rauner has crushed and stalked the “Grand Bargain” Getting 60 and 30 and Rauner’s signature isn’t looking all that “great. After 2 years, the Rauners business decision to destroy social services and higher education make them happy. That was the plan Rauner had. Now it’s real. - Not It - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 12:29 pm: Nice shot of Berrios in the background. Those picture won’t show up on social media at all. - Michael Westen - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 12:45 pm: Why are they having this meeting so early when they don’t even know who all the candidates are going to be? - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 1:20 pm: Wonder where JB got that hat? Looks a lot like a hairpiece - Boone's is back - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 1:40 pm: http://green-mamba.deviantart.com/art/Batman-Nolanverse-PENGUIN-96161387 - Earnest - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 1:47 pm: I’ve got to say, I love the “biological father” line. Good counter to the Madigan message. - March - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 2:08 pm: I couldn’t believe that was Kurt Summers. I remember how young, energetic, and fresh he looked when he took office. He looks 50+ lbs heavier now. Maybe the collar counties and downstate won’t care because they didn’t know him previously. - PlayK8 - Monday, Mar 27, 17 @ 3:02 pm: Looks to me like he is trying to channel Sam Kinison. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.