Mike, my work is about keeping the best interests of Ken Griffin, Richard Uihlein, Diana Rauner, and whomever else is willing to fund illinois’ destruction. That’s what I do.
We were surprised too. Bruce bought the Illinois GOP for a song, we just keep the middle-managers in line, you know, threaten them, make up things, say what Bruce is thinking… Mike, we’re the stick Bruce uses on the GA members he owns… and we’re pretty proud of that.
“So we were thinking we will reduce down school funding and send them cake instead, and they are free to consume that cake in lieu of having money for education….” /starts hummimg cake by the ocean
No. No, Mike. I either… write the Tribune’s editorials and they print it the way I send it… I let them take a crack at it, then I just write what we at IPI want anyway… or I whistle in Kass or McQueary and tell them to put their name to what we want… You recording this, Mike…
- don the legend - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
“For the record, I’m OK with Chicago just not it’s schools.”
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
” A bald eagle tussles with a gray-headed woodpecker”
IPI’s AV of SB1, I mean the Governor’s AV of SB1, will do wonders towards our goal, I mean the Governor’s goal of decimating public education in Illinois.
Mike: There has been some criticism that the lines have become blurry between IPI and the Governor’s Office.
Ted: Plans are in place to fix that by replacing the rest of the Governor’s non-IPI staff, with more IPI staff. That should clear things up and answer such criticism.
“Dabrobby had to punish himself, sir. Dabrobby almost spoke ill of his family, sir.”
“Your family?”
“The wizard family that Dabrobby serves, sir. Dabrobby is bound to serve one family forever…if Brucifer knew Dabrobby was here-Ooooo-But Dabrobby must tell Brucifer. To warn him…”
“Brucifer must not go back to Springwarts School of Government this year…There is a plot.”
“A plot to make the most terrible thing happen, Dabrobby sees this.”
“What? Who is plotting them?”
“He…Who…Dabrobby…can’t…name”
“Threats?”
“Dabrobby is used to threats. Brucifer threatens Dabrobby five times a day”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:28 pm:
“On a scale of 1 to 10, how phony is IPI?”
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
Our education funding is short. So what stringbean.
- Norseman - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
Mooch, nice glasses. Are you on a business trip for the Pence campaign?
- jade me not - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
“Um, uh, fair…next question”.
- Highspeed - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
We had to take it over, it was the “right” thing to do!
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:31 pm:
“No, the govenor does not call me “mini-me…..”
- Colin O'Scopey - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:32 pm:
Flannery: “So, Ted, let me ask you this: after you burn down the state capitol and push the State of Illinois off a cliff, where will you work next?”
Dabrowski: “I dunno, Greece maybe…”
- Porgy Tirebiter - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:33 pm:
Tyrion Lanister looks okay with a shave and modern suit.
- DE - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:33 pm:
“Were you offended by Randy Newman’s song?”
- Precinct Captain - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:36 pm:
Producer: “What’s that smell?”
Dabrowski: “Just my BS”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:36 pm:
“Dan Proft. Mentor? Friend? Boss?”
- DuPage Bard - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:37 pm:
Can we put the camera on the smaller tripod please? He’s not in the shot.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:37 pm:
I’m going to ask you a question, you just spout off whatever you want, I’ll just refute it later.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:38 pm:
Who comes up with those wacky cartoons?
- LizPhairTax - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:38 pm:
Crab and Shrimp
- DuPage Bard - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:40 pm:
Did you need to pad the resume when leaving the Lollipop Guild for the Policy Institute?
- Henry Francis - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:41 pm:
I am not working in the Governor’s Office by my own volition.
- Colin O'Scopey - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:41 pm:
Flannery: “So, Ted, do you do Dan Proft’s laundry before or after you cut his grass?”
Dabrowski: “I usually cut the grass between loads.”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:42 pm:
C’mon, people. You can do better than short people jokes. Dig deeper [exclamation point]
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:45 pm:
Tillman got the governor’s office, Proft got the political apparatus, what do you get in all this?
- GOP Extremist - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:46 pm:
“Interview with the Oligarchic Blood Sucker” 2017 Horror
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
Mike, the sooner Illinois collapses, the sooner I can move on and destroy another state
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:50 pm:
Mike, my work is about keeping the best interests of Ken Griffin, Richard Uihlein, Diana Rauner, and whomever else is willing to fund illinois’ destruction. That’s what I do.
- Earnest - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:50 pm:
Democrat party: yore Madigan will not bale out Chicago. His bill belongs in the passed.
- OpenYourEyes - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:50 pm:
Fox 32 interviews the actual author of the AV.
- GOP Extremist - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:51 pm:
“Illinois is a nightmare, it was must easier to influence policy in Poland.
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:51 pm:
No. We said we’d shake up Springfield, not LaSalle St.
- A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:52 pm:
“I am down here in the financial district panhandling…. er looking for IPI funding.”
- A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
“I vaguely remember having a tie before I went to Lollapalooza last weekend.”
- Earnest - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
He may not have run up sum numbers, but the Governor certainly ran his ideas up the flag poll first.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:55 pm:
Mike, I guess you could say… We got one of our own as a made member now… Capiche?
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:55 pm:
IPI VPP looks up to journalists. Especially when they are 7′2″.
- DuPage Bard - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:55 pm:
Today is a great day to be Governor. Oops I meant to say “an impassioned observer of Illinois politics”.
- Earnest - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:56 pm:
Governor Rauner wants to see local districts billed their schools locally. That’s why he put the break on SB1.
- A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:57 pm:
Dang it, I had a good one about Lollapalooza and a cover of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit… but never mind.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
“Why don’t I wear a tie?…because I lent mine to Woody for Toy Story 4″
- Quizzical - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
We’re actually a separate organization from the Fox News Channel, so I won’t start the question with, “Unlike evil communist Barack Obama,”.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
Ted… A tank that thinks or a thinking tank, which are you guys?
- Earnest - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
After the Governor issued his AV, he sat back and had a fine whine.
- GOP Extremist - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:59 pm:
“We need to be more like Gary, IN… except, ah, for the crime..and, ah, the poverty of course”
- 37 - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 2:59 pm:
Dean of Students for BTIA standing outside their downtown dorm. “You should see the library.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:00 pm:
“You stick that finger in this hole and I promise you, you’ll be in for a surprise”
- Earnest - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:00 pm:
In preparing his AV, Governor Rauner spent a lot of time righting the school funding formula.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:02 pm:
“Like I said, when you become a VP, you get a little green light ball to strap on your head”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
We were surprised too. Bruce bought the Illinois GOP for a song, we just keep the middle-managers in line, you know, threaten them, make up things, say what Bruce is thinking… Mike, we’re the stick Bruce uses on the GA members he owns… and we’re pretty proud of that.
- 37B - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
Oops. 2:59 was me (in some sort of a hurry I guess).
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:05 pm:
Kritsen McQueary? John Kass? No, they’re way too liberal to be a part of IPI. Mike, we just use them on certain things, nothing more…
- IPI - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:05 pm:
Your such a small man. How do you fit Bruce in your pocket?
- Ghost - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
“So we were thinking we will reduce down school funding and send them cake instead, and they are free to consume that cake in lieu of having money for education….” /starts hummimg cake by the ocean
- Mama - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Its time to spin the spinners…
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
No. No, Mike. I either… write the Tribune’s editorials and they print it the way I send it… I let them take a crack at it, then I just write what we at IPI want anyway… or I whistle in Kass or McQueary and tell them to put their name to what we want… You recording this, Mike…
- don the legend - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
“For the record, I’m OK with Chicago just not it’s schools.”
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
” A bald eagle tussles with a gray-headed woodpecker”
- Jocko - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
MF: Are you going with the “no tie” to impress the boss?
TD: No comment
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
But I’m taller than Madigan.
- We'll See - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:14 pm:
“So then we told Bruce we have the best damn team in America and he begged us to loan him a few, I swear that’s how it went down.”
- Joe M - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
IPI’s AV of SB1, I mean the Governor’s AV of SB1, will do wonders towards our goal, I mean the Governor’s goal of decimating public education in Illinois.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
Flannery interviewed Dabrowski because Governor Tillman wasn’t available.
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
When I’m done here I’m moving to Kansas, I hear they could use some sound policy people there.
- A guy - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:22 pm:
I’m Flannery…and this is my world.
- Joe M - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:24 pm:
Mike: There has been some criticism that the lines have become blurry between IPI and the Governor’s Office.
Ted: Plans are in place to fix that by replacing the rest of the Governor’s non-IPI staff, with more IPI staff. That should clear things up and answer such criticism.
- City Zen - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:25 pm:
Have you tried growing a creepy mustache like Ralph Martire?
- Tommydanger - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:32 pm:
Flannery: “I’m here at a rally for those in support of the Governor’s amendatory veto….”
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
“Dabrobby had to punish himself, sir. Dabrobby almost spoke ill of his family, sir.”
“Your family?”
“The wizard family that Dabrobby serves, sir. Dabrobby is bound to serve one family forever…if Brucifer knew Dabrobby was here-Ooooo-But Dabrobby must tell Brucifer. To warn him…”
“Brucifer must not go back to Springwarts School of Government this year…There is a plot.”
“A plot to make the most terrible thing happen, Dabrobby sees this.”
“What? Who is plotting them?”
“He…Who…Dabrobby…can’t…name”
“Threats?”
“Dabrobby is used to threats. Brucifer threatens Dabrobby five times a day”
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:38 pm:
“Dabrobby is used to threats. Brucifer threatens Dabrobby five times a day”
- Living it daily - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:46 pm:
Men’s Warehouse $199.99 on sale now.
- Swift - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:52 pm:
Not sure why this picture is worthy for the caption contest today, it’s just a group photo of IPI’s minority staff standing behind IPI’s spokesman.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:52 pm:
“Boy’s department….why do you ask?”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:54 pm:
“My hero? Napoleon”.
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:55 pm:
“Are you sure you want to badmouth Chicago when you’re standing smack in the middle of downtown?”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:56 pm:
“My political muse? Pinocchio”
- A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:59 pm:
“Ted, you are even too far out there for Fox News.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 3:59 pm:
“Well, yeah, I’m short, but at least I don’t have a camera lens stuck to my head.”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 4:04 pm:
“Care to comment on reports of new state employees who make more than the people they replaced?”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 4:05 pm:
You know Mike, there’s nothing better than the sweet smell of diesel…ya know what I mean?
Next question.
- Chicago 20 - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 4:52 pm:
The IPI is still around?
I thought they all got state jobs from the Governor.
- Amalia - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 5:02 pm:
IPI, shrinking influence
- Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 5:48 pm:
Look around you everything you see was built with union labor,is that what Illinois wants
- Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 9, 17 @ 5:55 pm:
Is Rauner bailing out over chcago without a parachute
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:02 am:
shrunken head of the shrink tank thinkers
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:15 am:
In depth reporting,north shore drinking party bouncer
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:26 am:
IPI’s diminutive stance
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:29 am:
boss madigan the movie, stunt man
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:33 am:
SB1 is a holocaust
- Red tower - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 1:52 am:
Do you buy your cloths in the children’s department?
- Red tower - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 2:02 am:
Is the cheap suit a character statement?
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 7:37 am:
I message money and power
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 7:45 am:
Think small
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 7:54 am:
the fictional turnaround agenda author releases essential elements
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:03 am:
You know what I used to be six foot eight with a pony tail
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:14 am:
Chanel 32 question, what bothers you the most 32% taxes or 32 year speaker
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:19 am:
Whoever go’s around saying” I was 6′8″ with a full head of hair” thinks lying is funny
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:29 am:
I only drink rainwater
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:32 am:
I’m here to tell Chicago to go jump a lake
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:45 am:
Panhandler looking for change
- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 8:48 am:
Singing telegram from the govenor
- A Jack - Thursday, Aug 10, 17 @ 9:08 am:
You should see our austerity butter cow. Less fat for everyone but the IPI.