Pritzker trolls Rauner with Craigslist job ad
Thursday, Aug 24, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The Pritzker campaign just posted a Craigslist ad…
LOST: Best Team In America
NOW HIRING: ENTIRE GUBERNATORIAL COMMUNICATIONS TEAM
Seeking Best Team in America…Take 2
JOB DESCRIPTION: The communications department is responsible for crafting effective “messaging” for the governor’s office. We are currently seeking candidates for entry level to senior positions following what some are calling a “Wednesday night massacre.” Prior team members have been unwilling to show a racist cartoon, compared abortion to Nazi eugenics, tweeted homophobic and sexist slurs, advocated for the firing of all state workers, and got into Twitter fights with reporters over spelling errors. Come on board!
Ideal applicants will have the ability to convince Illinois voters that going 736 days without a budget is good and school funding is bad. Candidates need not know how many votes it takes to pass legislation or amendatory vetoes. An ideal applicant will be a self-starter. At times, it may even feel like no one is in charge.
REQUIREMENTS: Extensive experience in radical, right-wing activism. Government experience optional. Leave your G’s at home.
DURATION: 37 days… perhaps.
ATTIRE: Steam-pressed plaid shirts and Carhartt jackets.
SALARY: Commensurate with lack of experience.
LOCATION: Springfield or under the nearest bus.
Please email resumes and cover letters to BestTeamInAmericaTake2@gmail.com.
- Dome Gnome - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:01 am:
Funny and true, but not something I want to hear from my next governor.
- My New Handle - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:01 am:
I love the SALARY and LOCATION lines.
- PJ - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:01 am:
“Springfield or under the nearest bus” is amazing
- How Ironic - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:02 am:
Hilarious
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:02 am:
I applaud team pritzker. team rauner can’t respond because they don’t have enough players to field a team.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:03 am:
You ‘nember how Rauner’s Campaign Crew would troll Pat Quinn, mercilessly, daily, “hourly”, giving Quinn no chance to even breathe?
‘Nember?
That was “Skyhook”
This is “Skyhook, in reverse”…
… and it’s delicious.
Served cold, but o so delicious.
- Norseman - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:04 am:
I like what I’m seeing. Dem with OODA loops. Keep hitting and keep them guessing.
- Real - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:04 am:
Funny and true, but not something I want to hear from my next governor.
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It’s not meant to be that serious.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:05 am:
I mean that stuff is priceless. What’s been lost in all this what now becomes of the de facto Gov Proft?
- Flippy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:07 am:
Oof.
- Commander Norton - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:07 am:
- Real -
I agree it’s not supposed to be serious, and I do think it’s really funny, but I think - Dome Gnome - is right that this would be more appropriate coming from some source other than a leading gubernatorial campaign. It’s not that candidates can’t be funny; it’s just that one starts to wonder what they’re doing over there when so much of what they come out with is too-clever-by-half snark.
- Michael Westen - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:09 am:
So, why doesn’t Rauner just cut to the chase and name Profit the Comms Director?
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:10 am:
Is Goldberg secretly moonlighting for the Pritzker campaign?
- Whatever - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:11 am:
Hilarious. Nice to see humor return to our politics after so much anger and knee-jerk ideology.
- Ghost - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:13 am:
hahahah that was pretty good.
- Blue Bayou - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:13 am:
What a surreal time to follow politics.
At the national level, with Trump, it’s like watching Coke ruin its brand.
While in IL it’s like watching Pepsi compete to see if it can flame out more quickly.
- wondering - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:17 am:
Well, Dome Gnome, you are first to call it, “next governor”.
- Brother Louie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:19 am:
So tell me JB, how do you plan to pay for the expanded healthcare you talk about in your commercial. Maybe you’ll cut a personal check, or maybe increase taxes. And speaking of healthcare, you may want to push yourself away from the dinner table with those two massive arms of yours.
- Curl of the Burl - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:19 am:
So did Pritzker’s crew giggle the entire time this was being typed out? Come on. Pritker’s comm director was Terry McAullife’s comm point person so none of this surprises me.
- Sonny - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:19 am:
Best Team of People Possible doesn’t have the same ring.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:23 am:
Did Team Pritzker confirm it was their doing?
- Tommydanger - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:25 am:
So Brother Louie, I presume you were/are similarly bothered by the President’s lack of a clear plan for, well, anything?
- Modem - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:26 am:
Next Level Hilarious. Doesn’t get better.
- Rerun - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:26 am:
Yep OW, JB has the resources to troll but does he have the mettle to govern. We been down this road before, oh yeah we’re still on that road.
- Anon - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:30 am:
That’s great. Keep it up, Team JB.
- City Zen - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:30 am:
Is the ad for JB’s toilets under antiques or household?
- Sonny - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:30 am:
He’s distancing himself from IPI with his words, but I look to the ——> and his Twitter timeline is exploding with IPI retweets.
- IllinoisBoi - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:32 am:
A hit, a palpable hit.
- Oneman - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:33 am:
As Norseman has pointed out, someone in JB’s team has been reading their Boyd.
- Retired Educator - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:35 am:
Good Stuff, this guy allows for this type of humor on a daily basis. Rauner just can’t get a handle on this governing stuff, and his people choice skills are really lacking.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:36 am:
Get the transcript. I’m pretty sure he dug the hole a little deeper in the Q&A.
- Sonny - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:36 am:
Public service is so hard they only lasted 37 days. Is that Bruce under that lion pelt standing at the lectern or gd Hercules caught in a time warp and transported to modern day Naperville, I can’t tell from here.
- Anon0091 - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:37 am:
That is some grade A level snark and so richly deserved.
And as to the whiners and attempted defenders of Rauner, “sauce for the goose” or “hoisted on your own pitard”, pick your poison. LP has been awfully quiet around here.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:39 am:
- Rerun -
If Rauner is the measuring stick, right now I can’t see any Dem announced candidate that has as their agenda the destruction of Illinois. Do you?
Agree - 47th Ward -
Rauner added days to this, himself, by “some believe” from his own mouth.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:39 am:
Ridiculous. Don’t think this will impress too many.
- Brother Louie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:40 am:
Yes TommyD, I am very bothered by the insane actions of our President. We are headed nowhere quickly under his so called leadership. I fear that soon the entire country may look like Illinois.
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:42 am:
===Don’t think this will impress too many.===
Only those with a sense of humor.
- Norseman - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:47 am:
=== Don’t think this will impress too many. ===
It’s not meant to impress. It’s meant to get people to think about Rauner’s incompetence in a humorous manner.
- RNUG - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:49 am:
I’ve always said politics is a great spectator sport.
- dbk - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:50 am:
Boy, somebody on JB’s team really knows how to write. We need political humor of this caliber in deadly serious times.
so many great lines … under the nearest bus… with lack of experience … no budget good, school funding bad … nobody in charge.
I want to to see this quality of writing up its game to, say, JB’s plan for the economic redevelopment of the state.
Now that would be something.
- Montrose - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:54 am:
Brother Louie - Pro tip - When your critique starts to focus on a candidates appearance, everything else you say that might be valid is lost.
- the Patriot - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:56 am:
Tells me nothing other than he thinks the election is a joke. Tell me again JB how you plan to handle Madigan which is where the 4 prior governors failed. Oh yea, you are doing everything you can to avoid answering the only question that matters.
Choosing between two incompetent billionaires, one in Madigan’s pocket one not, Rauner will be re-elected.
Better get serious about real issues, real fast.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 10:58 am:
Dear “critics” of this top shelf trolling.
Rauner’s Crew did the very same in tactics to Quinn for over a year.
Get over yourselves.
That’s one of the other layers of sheer genius this is.
If that’s lost on ya… lol
- don the legend - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:01 am:
Tell me again JB how you plan to handle Madigan…
Well Patriot, You don’t “handle” the leader of a co-equal branch of government. You negotiate and work with them.
- Ipso Facto - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:02 am:
==Choosing between two incompetent billionaires==
Well, apparently Rauner’s own cheerleaders are beginning to own his culpability in that part of the narrative. It’s a start, I guess.
- Did we forget - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:09 am:
Did we forget that JB has a misdemeanor conviction for writing bad checks? Is he eligible for this job with a record?
- Brother Louie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:10 am:
Thanks Montrose, I am always open to learning new things. Of course, it would be hard to vote for JB, no matter what he said or promised, because any person who has so little self discipline as to let themselves become morbidly obese is not the candidate for me.
And morbid obesity is a significant cause of the country’s healthcare costs. So before JB starts talking about expanding healthcare, he should lead by example and drop a few.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:10 am:
- Did we forget -
Do you know the difference between misdemeanors and felonies?
lol
- Piece of Work - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:10 am:
Outside of getting pummeled in a political race in the late 90’s and inheriting a boatload of money, what has Pritzker accomplished?
- Ipso Facto - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:13 am:
==bad checks==
Many have “736 reasons why” such outrage is clever by a half.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:13 am:
- Brother Louie -,
Your concerned trolling for JB’ body shape is noted, LOL…
What else ya got?
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:14 am:
Pat Quinn fails.
Bruce Rauner fails.
Get use to it. It’s a path to win, and thus trolling is part and parcel of that path.
Using Rauner’s game plan against him so deliciously cold is fun.
- Responsa - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:16 am:
For those who know they aren’t going to vote for Rauner a second time the “other” candidates are all on trial right now. I don’t think JB’s team fully gets this nuance yet and they seem to think he is just preaching to the insider choir for lols when in fact he has a much broader audience observing him for seriousness and intellectual depth. Yes, this job ad is clever and funny trolling but it sure doesn’t make me view JB as a first choice or induce me want to vote for JB for governor of a state in trouble, either.
- iggy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:16 am:
this is incredibly juvenile, no one is laughing at this second rate prank. For a Billionaire you think JB could afford to hire someone with some actual ability to produce something witty.
- Huh? - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:16 am:
Keep it up. Anything to keep 1.4% off balance is good.
- A State Employee Guy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:17 am:
This is kind of dumb, and it bums me out that Jordan A probably had a hand in this; she was a solid reporter, now she’s just another flack doing bad flack things.
- Anonish - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:19 am:
You mean he didn’t always have access to piles of money and wasn’t all that smart with how he managed what money he had in college? The horror.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:27 am:
===…Pritzker accomplished?===
Pritzker and a sitting governor of Illinois for 3 fiscal years have the same amount of signed, full year, state budgets, LOL
What else ya got?
- Dublin - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:32 am:
Signing bad checks
- Brother Louie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:33 am:
Rauner is a disaster. No argument here.
Here’s what else I got on JB. He is another billionaire, but he didn’t even make it himself. One of the “do as I say, not as I do” guys (think property taxes). A guy with a lot of promises that are going to cost a lot of money, in a state that still won’t be able to pay for anything but pensions even with the last income tax increase. So where is JB going to get the revenue?
He offers promises without solutions. That’s what I got.
No lol required.
- Dublin - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:33 am:
Got cut off. Signing bad checks in college is not equal to signing government contracts in which you never intend to pay.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:35 am:
- Brother Louie -
Rauner won with “Shake up” and “Bring back” and not much else.
Rauner wasn’t Quinn.
Pritzker isn’t Rauner.
Being a sitting governor that is sitting at 63% disapproval… it’s just reminding people “Bruce Rauner fails”
How do I know?
Candidate Rauner showed me.
- City Zen - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:37 am:
The key takeaway here is tone. Rauner’s messaging seems to weave between anger and despair. JB’s camp uses humor and sarcasm to get their points across. Maybe that’s the benefit of being outside looking in.
Rauner messaging has been poor since Day 1.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 11:41 am:
===Rauner messaging has been poor since Day 1.===
That’s not true at all.
Until Goldberg left, every day from getting the Raunerite Party (renamed in retrospect) nomination until that day Goldberg left… Rauner won just about every single day.
Nearly every single day, Rauner won.
Now, since Goldberg, Z, et al left, Rauner hasn’t won many, if any, days.
Be honest to the past.
Thanks.
- Ma'at's Feather - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 12:04 pm:
The humor is priceless. Especially the Location…loved it. It’s a much-needed jab from the light-hearted side of the pen.
- Pundent - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 12:45 pm:
=Oh yea, you are doing everything you can to avoid answering the only question that matters.=
You forgot to add “to me” at the end.
- Langhorne - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 12:46 pm:
Hilarious, because it is true.
Has bruce seen it? (New catch phrase)
Has diana seen it?
If diana switches to a private email server, are the emails FOIA-able, if the recipient is a state employee?
- JS Mill - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 12:49 pm:
=Is the ad for JB’s toilets under antiques or household?=
No, it is under the BTIA heading.
- Piece of Work - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 12:53 pm:
So Willy, you don’t know if Pritzker has ever accomplished anything either. Good to see we agree on something.
- WhoKnew - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 1:00 pm:
OW-
I would agree with that, but you got to admit this “New” Rauner is a lot more fun to watch! /s
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 1:29 pm:
===you don’t know if Pritzker has ever accomplished anything either. Good to see we agree on something.===
I guess reading is just too tough for you. It’s fundamental.
Equating that both Rauner and Pritzker have the same amount of full year budgets signed isn’t what you want it to mean.
When you figure out what I’m saying, get back to all of us
===I would agree with that, but you got to admit this “New” Rauner is a lot more fun to watch===
It’s like a game “pick the wrong decision” and see what happens.
*popcorn not included.
- Aldyth - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 2:19 pm:
In a time when politics is mostly about failure, this is a gem and offered the best laugh I’ve had in months. I hope we’ll be seeing more of this.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 2:35 pm:
Funny Stuff by JB: see above.
Funny Stuff by Rauner: I’ll never forget that time we kicked all those old folks out of the nursing home…..HA….and those in wheelchairs were slidin’ sideways down the sidewalk ’cause of the ice…OMG……and the geezers topplin’ over each other with the walkers a-flying…..man, what a day.
- Shytown - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 6:10 pm:
This hit is award-worthy
- walker - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 6:44 am:
Well, he can afford to hire plenty of good talent. They will be useful in wider contexts in the coming months.
Pritzker vs Rauner accomplishment message: One helped start ups and created jobs, while the other dimembered companies and cut jobs.