Pritzker reviews the first draft of the opposition research report his team prepared detailing all of Rauner’s campaign promises and public statements as Governor.
I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande,
But my legs ain’t bowed and my cheeks ain’t tan.
I’m a cowboy who never saw a cow.
Never roped a steer cause I don’t know how.
Sure ain’t a fixin’ to start in now.
Yippie yi yo kayah
[Future picture, building over shoulder of female is the IL Supreme Court]. JB spreading mulch around the fully mature trees Rauner paid to plant in the Y Park across from the mansion.
Woman: “Several former Illinois governors have told me the next part of our training session proved invaluable. Now if you’ll please switch to the sledgehammer and move over to that pile of rocks…”
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:33 pm:
Hurry and take the photo, will ya? I’m dying here.
- StraightOuttaCobden - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:33 pm:
I don’t have mulch to add to this thread…
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:34 pm:
“I’m burying the toilet so Mr. County Assessor can’t find them.., “
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:35 pm:
“No. The map says the tapes are here… “
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:35 pm:
Would you have any Grey Poupon?
- Anonymous - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:35 pm:
JB changes tack, burns calories.
- OneMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Your saying that acting like a man of the soil worked for Bruce?
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Pritzker digs into his debate preparation.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
“I saw the gardener use a pitchfork once, I just want to try it.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
*Costume Not Included
- OneMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
My people have people for this sort of thing.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
No, I’m going to keep digging. There must be a horse down here somewhere.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
Looks like you’re right - no ponies in here.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
“Julie? Who’s Julie? I’m JB, and you said you wanted a hole dug”
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
As a trust fund kid, I used to find magic unicorns in every work task my folks assigned.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
There’s six months to go until the election. We’re going to need a bigger wheelbarrow.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
“Would be easier just to talk about my tax issues and keep digging in that hole”
- Anonymous - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
After not being asked back for Flatliners remake, Oliver Platt takes landscaping job.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
“Maybe the world has enough people digging ditches.”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
Oh, and remind me to burn these clothes as soon as we’re finished here.
- RFR - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
Mr. Bonpensiero offers a demonstration on proper body disposal techniques.
- Chris P. Bacon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
No pictures, this is a union job.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
This isn’t a pitchfork, it’s my personal KFC spork.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
“A lil more dirt… and that tuxedo is gone forever”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
And this is where I buried Dan Biss’ political future.
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:41 pm:
JB cleans up following Rauner’s most recent press conference.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:41 pm:
“I was told you bury one absentee ballot, ten absentee ballots grow it it’s place… “
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:42 pm:
JB digs into the details of the Rauner Budget.
- Chris P. Bacon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:42 pm:
New evidence surfaces that the Pritzkers do in fact own their own private Jurassic Park.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:42 pm:
When you get to the bottom of the bowl, you get yummy chocolate milk.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:43 pm:
“It’s not Arbor Day, it’s 4-20. I’m planting another kind of tree… “
- Uncle Ernie - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:44 pm:
Hey at least he didn’t go to Penney’s to buy a plaid shirt before this photo op!
- DuPage Saint - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:45 pm:
Is that manure? Debate prep i guess
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:46 pm:
Pritzker reviews the first draft of the opposition research report his team prepared detailing all of Rauner’s campaign promises and public statements as Governor.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:47 pm:
Muttering under his breath: “It’s just a photo-op, Galia said. We’ll only be there a few minutes, she said. No worries, she said.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
“If we cover the front, no one will realize it’s the same wheel barrel Rauner used 4 years ago… “
- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
“I’m going to need about another $100m of this to sling by November.”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
He should have traded the silver spoon for some golden nose plugs.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
Until we reinstall the toilets we have to bury it here.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:49 pm:
I know it’s his hand because I see his pinky ring right there.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:49 pm:
“Now I know why Rauner wears costumes, this kinda stuff ruins my real clothes”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:51 pm:
“Bruce is in Europe. At a dinner having German beir… me?… well… “
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:51 pm:
That was a perfectly good pickle he composted in here - just needs to be washed off.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:52 pm:
“You lose one Eagles bet to Caprara… “
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:52 pm:
Galia, am I holding this thing right? What? Less like a croquet mallet you say?
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:55 pm:
“I have a lotta bank records… “
- 37 - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:57 pm:
OK, I get it; If I want to be Governor, I need to learn how to shovel [it].
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:57 pm:
So folks have their gardeners spread this stuff around their golf courses?
- 37B - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:58 pm:
37 with a B at 3:57.
- lake county democrat - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:58 pm:
I’ve been searching for that case of Canadian Club for years and THIS TIME I’m sure I’ve got it!
- Anonymous - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:58 pm:
If I spread enough of this around, I become governor, right?
- Uncle Merkin - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 3:59 pm:
“I had so much fun at Illinois Governor Fantasy Camp!” said a weary JB Pritzker, smelling of compost and remorse.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:01 pm:
…farm livin’ is the life for me…land spreadin’ out so far and wide…
- A guy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:02 pm:
Using a pitchfork is a luxury..
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:03 pm:
I bet a Pritzker has never done this.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:05 pm:
George and Rod told me that life after the governorship requires skills like these.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:06 pm:
Guv runnin’ is the life for me.
Stock photo is the intinery.
Prop manure spreadin’ out so wide
Keep the Gold Coast, just give me that photo smile.
- Henry Francis - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:07 pm:
This would have been so much easier if they let me bring my trash can tractor.
- Anonymous - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:08 pm:
Every politician who has to campaign in Illinois, especially against Carhartman, needs to know how to handle a manure rake.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:09 pm:
I own a Van Gogh painting of people doing this work.
- Earnest - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:10 pm:
*huff* Maybe I should just go buy a Carhartt.
- SAP - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:10 pm:
Kid: “Bummer, I thought those were tickets for Pitchfork Music Festival”.
- Amalia - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:10 pm:
Green Acres, Springfield edition.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:13 pm:
Could somebody please check WebMD for blister treatments?
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:15 pm:
- 47th Ward -
My bad.
“Isn’t this Lt. Governor stuff? I suppose to practice cutting ribbons and eating Brie Cheese.”
- TinyDance(FKASue) - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:15 pm:
I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande,
But my legs ain’t bowed and my cheeks ain’t tan.
I’m a cowboy who never saw a cow.
Never roped a steer cause I don’t know how.
Sure ain’t a fixin’ to start in now.
Yippie yi yo kayah
- Anyone Remember - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:18 pm:
[Future picture, building over shoulder of female is the IL Supreme Court]. JB spreading mulch around the fully mature trees Rauner paid to plant in the Y Park across from the mansion.
- PlayK8 - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:20 pm:
So dis guy here tells me to go home and get my shine box.
- FormerParatrooper - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:25 pm:
I usually shovel this behind a microphone
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
“When I was bad, I had to go and dig up my own truffles…”
- Huh? - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
Digging through 1.4% BS, looking for 1 true factoid.
- Trapped in the ‘burbs - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:40 pm:
RFR-well played.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:44 pm:
Look at me Downstaters - I am one of you.
- DuPage - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:49 pm:
Pritzker gathering mud for retaliatory mud slinging after Rauner’s attacks in the primary.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:52 pm:
“There’s water beads … on my forehead… How did they get there… “
- Rich Miller - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:53 pm:
===There’s water beads … on my forehead===
I’m leaking!!!
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:56 pm:
“What a ridiculous tool. One handle. Who made this? One handle… makes no sense… “
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:57 pm:
The Speaker told me the only way to get out of a hole is to keep digging.
Actually I might have that backwards
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 4:58 pm:
“… I promise… I’ll never tell anyone that sweat equity doesn’t matter… “
- FDB - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:08 pm:
PRITZKER: Folks with the amount of BS the Governor has said the past four years you could fill a pile THIS HIGH
AIDE [Frantically]: Mr Pritzker, sir, that’s a pile of dirt not manure.
PRITZKER: …….there’s a difference?
- Truth Squad - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:10 pm:
Let’s be real, I pay people to do this.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:14 pm:
“I can’t believe Penny is making me do her gardening in exchange for taking that casino stock off my hands How rude.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:24 pm:
“Ye gads! You mean people actually engage in this kind of activity without anesthesia?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:27 pm:
“Where’s my body double? He should be here by now.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:28 pm:
“I can’t seem to find the ON/OFF switch on this device!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:31 pm:
Woman: “See? Doesn’t it work much better when you use the pointy end facing down?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 5:34 pm:
“This reminds me of the time Sappington hid my house slippers under a pile of old dollar bills. Ho, the good old days!”
- McKinley Bob - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 6:08 pm:
“Turn the camera, we don’t want that shiny new asphalt plant to pop up in the attack ads.”
True story. They just built an asphalt plant across from McKinley Park over the winter. Talk about clean parks for all!
- Christopher - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 6:52 pm:
JB Pritzker combs through a pile of press releases from Bruce Rauner and the ILGOP.
- VanillaMan - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 7:14 pm:
I’ve done this before - in my nightmares.
- Roger - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 7:41 pm:
Don’t worry Rod I’ll dig you out like El Chapo did.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 7:47 pm:
Woman: “Several former Illinois governors have told me the next part of our training session proved invaluable. Now if you’ll please switch to the sledgehammer and move over to that pile of rocks…”
- Billinois - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 8:36 pm:
“I wonder if stabbing yourself in the foot is as bad as shooting yourself in the foot?”
- Angel's Sword - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 10:37 pm:
“I wish burying this was as easy as burying Rauner…”
- Anonymous - Monday, Apr 23, 18 @ 11:59 pm:
“Blob Evans, Down on the Farm.”
- 44th - Tuesday, Apr 24, 18 @ 7:25 am:
The girl in the pic has the same expression as JB’s.
“Hope he doesn’t stab MY foot”
- Stand Tall - Tuesday, Apr 24, 18 @ 7:39 am:
The stench is not near as bad as the manure I spread during the primary.
- revvedup - Tuesday, Apr 24, 18 @ 8:06 am:
JB: He’ll bury Rauner any way necessary.
Pritzker for Governor: Hiding his assets the old fashioned way.
- BigDoggie - Tuesday, Apr 24, 18 @ 8:32 am:
Attempting to shovel mulch with a wide-tined pitchfork. Dangit, there’s an Illinois state government analogy here somewhere….