By Hannah Meisel
Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti appeared on WOC AM Quad Cities this morning, as she’s in the area promoting work done by the Illinois Opioid Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force. Late in the interview, the host asked Sanguinetti whether she’d be at the top of the ticket in 2022.
Host: Once Rauner’s done being governor, when are you going to put your hat in the ring, how does that work?
Sanguinetti: Well, we’ve term limited ourselves. So I won’t be running for Lt. Gov. again.
Host: I think you know what question I’m asking, Lt. Gov. Are you going to be the governor after Bruce Rauner’s done?
Sanguinetti: Well I don’t know, but the fact is if I want to —
Host: Can I just say this? If not you then who? ¿Si no tú, entonces quién? [note: this is a hearkening back from an earlier part of the interview in which Sanguinetti says her mother used to tell her in Spanish, “if not you, then who?”]
Sanguinetti: But I’m not ruling it out. And you know what, I’ve been working with Bruce Rauner for the last four years and when we win this election, we’ll be together for another four years. So I should decide that I want to be governor, nothing should preclude me from that.
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:15 pm:
LOL
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:19 pm:
===Sanguinetti: Well I don’t know, but the fact is if I want to —===
It’s either run for Governor or finally have that personal injury that will set her up for early retirement.
One or the other.
- AnonandI - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:19 pm:
Wow, I didn’t realize that the Governor had a self imposed term limited.
- Highland, IL - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:20 pm:
She’ll have to get past State Senator Jason Plummer.
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:22 pm:
Will she be sending her resume to JB today or wait for the day after the election?
- Chris P. Bacon - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:24 pm:
Self delusion is fun.
- Board Watcher - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:24 pm:
-Highland,IL- I hope that was snark? If not lol
- The Dude Abides - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:25 pm:
This was worth a good hearty laugh. I don’t know what’s more delusional, her thinking that Rauner is going to be reelected or her winning the Governorship in 2022.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:26 pm:
Just think if Ole Slip and Sue woulda been hired by Governor Quinn…
… all this delusion would be gone.
- Longtime Lurker - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:27 pm:
She’s going to have a tough opponent in Gov. Kash Jackson and his Father’s Rights crew.
- illini - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:34 pm:
@Highland - that may be a possibility, but I see a different scenario.
Sooner or later Shimkus will be ready to step down. I’m fairly confident that Jason ( and his Dad ) have their eyes on that seat.
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:37 pm:
Me neither!
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:42 pm:
I had a notion a couple years ago that Rauner would try to kick her upstairs to a cabinet job, and put Meeks on the ticket.
But the chair of the Illinois State Board of Education has been on the milk carton for quite some time now.
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:43 pm:
“Well I don’t know” “and do you know what”"we’ve term limited ourselves” yes you have
- Cheryl44 - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:45 pm:
Who?
- Saluki - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:48 pm:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 12:50 pm:
===nothing should preclude me from that.===
I suspect the voters might. Lol.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:04 pm:
I still remember how she claimed that when she worked for Jim Ryan she uncovered all sorts of corruption (yet failed to report it). So it’s either a lie or she shirked her duties.
- Henry Francis - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:26 pm:
Apparently Bruce isn’t bogartin’ the good stuff.
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:31 pm:
WW4c 2022 sanguinetti / rauner
- theCardinal - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:38 pm:
Say something nice “Well she isn’t as bad as some of thought she would be as light gov”
- Macbeth - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:41 pm:
Sanguinetti is still around?
What is she doing? And why in the world would anyone vote for her for governor?
What, exactly, has she done (or not done)?
- Jocko - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:45 pm:
==Well, we’ve term limited ourselves.==
That’s one way of looking at your (and Bruce’s) time in office./s
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 1:49 pm:
And what is she doing to get her name out there beside doing time in the office?
- Just Sayin' - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:01 pm:
What a joke. Even Rauner would be like, who???
- NIU Grad - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:11 pm:
My thing is: Is there anything she could have done during her term as Lt. Governor that would have led to those commenting here to take her seriously? I’ve seen her being made fun of on this site since 2014, but she’s been a noticeable improvement from her predecessor on the issues she’s been tasked with and relationship with the Governor (such as sharing policy staff).
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:15 pm:
Has accomplished more than JB
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:20 pm:
Everyone else will rule her out.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:25 pm:
@ Illini “Sooner or later Shimkus will be ready to step down. I’m fairly confident that Jason (and his Dad ) have their eyes on that seat.”
No, that’s McCarter’s seat. /s
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 2:32 pm:
An Illinois constitutional officeholder “practicing politics”
- Stark - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 3:08 pm:
Who?
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
What a slip of the tongue.
- Chris Widger - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
==Is there anything she could have done during her term as Lt. Governor that would have led to those commenting here to take her seriously? I’ve seen her being made fun of on this site since 2014, but she’s been a noticeable improvement from her predecessor on the issues she’s been tasked with and relationship with the Governor (such as sharing policy staff).==
This comment section isn’t really for analyzing politics or learning things. Let’s face it: This is the most expensive state election in the history of the country. Giving a bunch of people small stipends to make sure the narrative is on “your side” is so cheap and important that it’d be electoral malfeasance for Pritzker not to do that.
- Annonin' - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
Or they pull a Shimkus and stay. But that means GovJunk wins…..
- Arsenal - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 4:18 pm:
== Is there anything she could have done during her term as Lt. Governor that would have led to those commenting here to take her seriously?==
Had she not just up and disappeared after about March 2015 I certainly would take her more seriously as a politician in her own right, even if I probably wouldn’t approve of her performance.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 4:26 pm:
“Has accomplished more than JB”
By repeating her first day in office for the last three and a half years?
- NIU Grad - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 4:33 pm:
“Had she not just up and disappeared”
She’s been travelling throughout the state at both party and state events, including frequently in local press these past few weeks highlighting local anti-opioid efforts.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 4:35 pm:
===Is there anything she could have done during her term as Lt. Governor that would have led to those commenting here to take her seriously?===
Let’s see… where o where to begin…
Ah, the beginning…. (rub chin… cut to wavy screen flashback)
Slip and Sue… probably the only personal injury victim in the history of ever to never fully explain how much money she won, her attorney costs… and claimed she sued only to make things better, but took all the money… “how much did she keep for herself while teaching that lesson… after expenses”
She was a first term… city board member… nowhere near the quality experience to run, then, “the 5th largest state in America”… but she got “hired”
Hired… interesting turn of a phrase, Ole Slip and Sue, with emails to the Quinn Administration looking to be hired, and a “Hey girl” salutation to boot…
She’s magic, though. Just ask her. There’s that whole magic she has, and saying utterly ridiculous things on the trail, so silly, she was an embarrassing surrogate for her boss who hired her.
Let’s talk… accomplishments…
Is it me… or during all the budget crisises, year after year, Ole Slip and Sue was rarely, (if ever) at a presser, working the caucuses, being a conduit, or helping behind the scenes, for Rauner or for a deal. Slip and Sue was missing during, arguably, the most significant budgetary crisis any state may have had in American history. She slipped and fell missing on the job.
Consolidation? Ok, that’s it? Three years of budgets, crisises, hostages, with a person who hired her but couldn’t trust her to be his advocate for ANY of it… and you want to ask what could she have done… the reality is… she was never prepared… never suited… and never trusted to be anything but what the Constitution requires of her… be the person legally in line to become governor “next”.
Slip and Sue, after these 4 budgets, the turmoil, the governing and the politics… and her obvious and purposeful public absence thru it all… is she even qualified NOW to be the Lt. Governor?
I dunno.
- Alex Ander - Wednesday, Jun 20, 18 @ 5:26 pm:
LOL