* After five days out of the public eye, Gov. Rauner spoke to the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce today. I’ll have more on what he said either for subscribers or the blog, but let’s lighten it up a bit for right now. As I mentioned below, the governor also talked to reporters…

* The Question: Caption?

       

142 Comments - Fashionista - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:46 pm: Hey look! I am wearing a blue plaid shirt instead of a red plaid shirt with silver threads running through it. - MOON - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:48 pm: Madigan did what? - Spliff - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:48 pm: You kids get off my lawn! - Anon - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:49 pm: Bruce couldn’t avoid looking like a deer in the headlights by wearing his hunter costume. - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:50 pm: No it wasn’t me! It was Madigan! He’s in charge. - Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:50 pm: I don’t remember Meth Rancher being part of the Village People. Great look gov. I’m sure you impressed the heck out of the black business leaders. - Keyrock - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:50 pm: So I told them “Get off my lawn.” - Macbeth - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:51 pm: Crazy eyes. He’s obviously talking about either unions or Madigan. Or, perhaps, both. - Steve Rogers - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:51 pm: “I’m not in charge” - A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:52 pm: Rauner proves that he was in fact the original Alfalfa. - FormerParatrooper - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:52 pm: This is my clueless face… Any more questions? - Red Ranger - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:55 pm: “The Maestro was right, there isn’t one place available in Tuscany, and trust me, Diana and I asked everyone” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:55 pm: On my new farm… we got eggs… and milk… there’s bales of hay… a barn with a workin’ hay loft… oh sure… cows… brought back those prop chickens I used in 2013…. think there’s a horse… one of those “A” “T” “V”s… think I saw a pick ‘em up truck… I really like my new farm… - PublicServant - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:55 pm: You’d think a dude with his substantial wealth could afford a comb. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:56 pm: So after escaping from the trunk of Madigan’s car….. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:56 pm: You find me a tie to match this shirt, I’ll wear it… oh… hadn’t thought about a bolo… - spencer - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:56 pm: Madigan made me wear this shirt. - Shelby Thomas Weems - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:56 pm: “Think about it this way, I look this disheveled and yet in the 5 days I was gone I made more money than you’ll ever sniff in your life.” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:57 pm: They call it the Janus case… they call it that… but it’s my case, really… - Albany Park Patriot - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:58 pm: “The people I pay to buy my absurd wardrobe don’t get health insurance.” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 2:58 pm: What does Missouri know about work and it’s rights… they call their state Mizzou… k… Mizzou… and you want to talk Missouri and right to work… outrageous. - JS Mill - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:00 pm: “uhh…this is my uhh…Jim Ignatowski look, you like?” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:00 pm: I wore jorts because I look good wearing them… how about that… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:01 pm: You keep this up, if I lose, I’ll resign and leave the transition in Slip… in Evelyn’s hands… so tread lightly… - Nick Name - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:02 pm: Gov. Rauner accidentally wears coal seminar costume to Black Chamber of Commerce convention. - Res Melius - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:02 pm: … and that’s when I chopped that huge oak tree down so I could go walkin’ with Babe across the Mississippi to get them Iowa jobs … - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:02 pm: You tell JB… owning a party isn’t as great as one thinks… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:04 pm: No… no… all I’m saying is JB might like rainy days and cats… - Shelby Thomas Weems - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:05 pm: “Sorry guys, I was house shopping in Italy.” - Dutch3001 - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:05 pm: You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it. It was you, Madigan. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn’t have to take them dives for the short-end money. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:05 pm: Caught in the headlights again. He must have just been asked another question that he was unprepared for and didn’t want to answer - such as “Governor, how many of your upper staff and your cabinet level officials are African American?” - 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:05 pm: We’re the Good Ole Boys. I’m Bruce Rauner, lead singer and driver of the Winnebago. - Come on man! - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:05 pm: Pictured: Governor emerges and sees shadow signifying an early end to election season. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:06 pm: No… remind me… who’s running with me for Secretary of State… oh… not that Dodge fellow…. yeah… Darlene… I remember her… - Christopher - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:06 pm: I stubbed my toe on Madigan’s office door. That door is corrupt. I bet J.B. Pritzker installed it ’cause he does whatever Madigan says. - Yiddishcowboy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:06 pm: I actually like his shirt… for a change. I think I have the same one. Gee, I’m not quite sure what to make of that realization. Perhaps it means that I, too, can run for and be IL governor. After all, my wife already tells me I’m not in charge. I’d be a perfect fit. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:07 pm: No… the Senate Republicans don’t need my money… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:08 pm: Look, I’ll be honest. By this time I woulda torpedoed the state and sold off the assets. Once year three started… i didn’t know what the heck to do. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:09 pm: Evelyn… it says wet floor… stop… no… Ev… - The Chairman - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:10 pm: Cluck, Cluck - Ambrose Chase - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:11 pm: “I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:11 pm: I’m leaving for a Far East trade mission September 1st, I’ll be back… November 15th… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:13 pm: Why should people vote for me?… I dunno… Madigan, I guess… oh a positive reason… - WhoKnew - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:14 pm: Who would have thought it? This shirt polls 7% higher without the vest… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:14 pm: How are things going… I’m polling better in Montana than Illinois… k… that’s how it’s going… how’s it going…. outrageous… - Matt Vernau - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:15 pm: ” I am Not paranoid. Madigan is out to get me. - JoanP - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:16 pm: “OMG [exclamation point]. Governors own? Really? Why didn’t Oswego Willy tell me?” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:17 pm: I fixed the mansion… fairgrounds… yeah I heard that… whadda gonna do… - Mittuns - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:18 pm: MFW I check the calendar and January 12 is still over five months away. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:21 pm: Oh… well, good for Urlacher… I’m more in tune with the Steelers and Red Sox… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:22 pm: My Swedish Grampa once said… never take cold questions from Mary Ann Ahern… but he said it in Swedish… so… - Chunga - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:24 pm: I am a farmer. I raise cows that give chocolate milk. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:24 pm: Uihlein gave him… $3.5 million… wow… I’ll check with Griffin to see if he knew… - d.p.gumby - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:25 pm: “I know, I should have used a better creme rinse.” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:26 pm: I told Dartmouth to put Illinois on the football schedule… for one, Dartmouth could use the non-conference win… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:27 pm: I’d like to maybe be president of a state university… like Northwestern or DePaul… maybe University of Chicago… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:28 pm: I could be an Ambassador tomorrow if I say the word Trump… tomorrow… so there’s that… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:30 pm: I think the biggest thing to having me sign a budget this year is that Diana didn’t have to ask the Pritzkers for another $5 million… because of me… that’s the biggest thing to signing that budget… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:32 pm: I’m the most vulnerable and worst Republican governor… you find another governor who can claim that… - Jocko - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:33 pm: I did what now? You must have me confused with Mike Madigan. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:34 pm: I didn’t know… $112 million… wow… you say it that way, that sounds like a lot of money I wasted… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:36 pm: When I go to Montana, I wear 3 piece suits with a pocket watch, derby, and cane… - Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:37 pm: I’m here to cooperate with you a hundred percent. A hundred percent. I’ll be just right down the line with ya’. You watch. - wondering - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:39 pm: Addressing Madigan’s empty chair in Eastwood fashion, albeit a little older look. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:41 pm: Deer in Headlights. This pic is the perfect summary of his term as Governor. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:41 pm: I’d like to think people like me… I’d like to think that… probably not measurably true… but I like to think it… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:45 pm: Of those two… I’d like to be Mitch Daniels… well he’s retired now and ruined Indiana on his own terms… Scott Walker is still working… I want this over as soon as possible, so Mitch if I’m choosing… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:47 pm: Until this election is over… I’m not appointing no one to nuttin’… why… why… you serious… - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:49 pm: Man picked up by police as homeless vagrant, revealed to be Lame Duck governor. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:51 pm: Man picked up for possible DUI, revealed to be governor. - I Miss Bentohs - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:51 pm: Rosco? Enos? Those Duke boys got away again? - Reese's Pieces - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:52 pm: Not to worry, folks. I’m a fire marshall. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:53 pm: Man picked up by police as possible missing billionaire Howard Hughes, revealed to be missing multi-millionaire Bruce Rauner. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:55 pm: “I was on an Appalachian Trail hike with Mark Sanford” - CumberlandCoHick - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:56 pm: Who am I? Why am I here? 2.0 - A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:57 pm: “You guys are voting for McCann?” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:57 pm: Pritzker spending $200,000 a day… that’s crazy spending, and that’s me saying that… - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:58 pm: All he needs right now is a bottle in a paper sack. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:59 pm: I am running my positive ads… yes… right now… - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:59 pm: Found dumpster diving behind a Peoria Chuck E. Cheese. - Cheswick - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 3:59 pm: “Evelyn, get off my trash can van.” - Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:02 pm: “I would like to make a prepared statement: E - I - E - I. O. Questions?” - Neveranonymous - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:03 pm: That doesn’t seem like the right costume for the occasion. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:04 pm: Well, Tom is painting a picket fence, and Becky Thatcher went to the General Store to get licorice whips… - A Jack - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:06 pm: “Kash Jackson is beating me in the polls?” - IllinoisBoi - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:07 pm: Wait a minute, who am I here? - G'Kar - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:11 pm: This is the first thing that came to my mind: - Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:15 pm: “Howdy Doody was a wholesome character—unlike Madigan.” - Spliff - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:15 pm: who in their right mind would want to be governor? - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:18 pm: No, no, I tried to pass my agenda but Madigan wouldn’t let me. - Precinct Captain - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:19 pm: How you look after the time change from a quick vacation to Italy. - SAP - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:20 pm: Stuck my finger in a light socket? That’s outrageous (exclamation point) - Wading in... - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:21 pm: Madigan approached me, had something in his hands. I thought it was an apple. Turned out it was a balloon. He rubbed it on my shirt, held it over my head, and… - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:24 pm: 1.4% terrified look when informed that Madigan is standing behind him. - Johnny O'Veritas - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:26 pm: Whoa, wait, wait, wait. I’m in charge? ME? - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:26 pm: I win at everything that I do - 13th one - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:29 pm: Goodbye city life. Green Acres is the place for me…… - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:29 pm: Wait a minute, why am I here answers questions from the media? - GOPgal - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:30 pm: I know one of you took my duct tape!!!! - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:40 pm: I went into the UFO and these humanoids looking like Michael Madigan began probing me with shiny cold objects. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:42 pm: The officers wouldn’t believe me when I told them that I was governor of Illinois. - GOPgal - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:46 pm: You don’t understand, Mike Madigan is keeping me from dressing like the governor of a major state! He even took my comb! - zatoichi - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:47 pm: Just got this shirt this morning at Rural King, over by the baby chicks. Big R’s also has them. Love those farm stores. - Stuntman Bob's Brother - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:49 pm: So I was in the library, when this big green floating apparition came around a bookshelf and flew straight toward me. It was a Ghost, I swear…. - Nobody Sent - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:54 pm: Because he’s rich - he looks eccentric. If he were like the rest of us, we’d say he looks crazy. - 37B - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:56 pm: What does a Governor do? - 37B - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:57 pm: Your sure it was only a moth that flew in there? - 37B - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 4:58 pm: It’s bad manners to govern with your mouth open? - Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:01 pm: Phoning it in? I don’t think so. I mean, look at this shirt. - 37B - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:01 pm: “You’re sure” @4:57 - 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:09 pm: I am a man of constant sorrow. - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:09 pm: Hey, that’s not fair. I’m taking my ball and going home. - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:11 pm: It’s true, I tried really hard, really hard bbut that meany Madigan wouldn’t let me be in charge. - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:14 pm: The Quincy Veteran’s Home is safe. I even stayed over night a couple of times to prove it. I played cards with the veterans and everything. It was bad weather than caused all the problems. Contaminated water from the river. I love veterans. We did everything right. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:21 pm: Well… I blame Tammy Duckworth… you should too. - Teddy Salad - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:34 pm: Ahhh! But the strawberries! That’s where I proved Madigan wrong with logic! - Anon - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 5:45 pm: Can you get a message to the Koch brothers for me? They’re not returning my calls. Ask them if I can go home now? Please? I did my part now they need to do theirs. - Lynn S. - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 6:07 pm: @ Yiddish Cowboy: 1. You might want to consider burning that shirt. If I were your wife and saw this CapFax thread, it would be disappearing in about 30 seconds. I absolutely wouldn’t allow you to leave the house wearing it. 2. If you run for governor, will Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys play at your rallies and events? - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 7:03 pm: I said I would take the arrows. I just didn’t mean the real ones. I’m not to blame for what has happened. It’s been years of corruption by Madigan and his insiders who have been bleeding this state dry. This state is broken. The unions are corrupt, especially that afscammy. - Huh? - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 7:06 pm: What do you mean I can’t lower property taxes? The state doesn’t levy property taxes? That’s done by local governments? Well that is just wrong. - Anon221 - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 7:32 pm: Rauner trying out his impersonation of the “Yodeling Kid” before he hits the State Fair circuit. - Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 8:18 pm: Catfishing is not eating stink bait on a saltine - Billinois - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 8:36 pm: And then in 1965 I started playing the role of Eb on Green Acres. I’m sure everyone here really enjoyed that show. - Anon - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 8:46 pm: #unhinged - Ashante - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 8:55 pm: While looking at Maze Jackson… ” I have been the best candidate for black folks ever…..” - Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 9:01 pm: That national award just follows me around like a little puppy - My New Handle - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 11:06 pm: No, this is Ferrari. I’m still working on Blue Steel. - dbk - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 11:33 pm: “What deer? What headlights?” “You like my hair? Diana calls it the ‘disheveled’ look.” “Is Mary Ann Ahern here? I’m not taking her questions.” “That door behind me? It’s an emergency exit.” - Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 11:44 pm: Stable genius - Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 8, 18 @ 11:44 pm: I was just in Peoria last week - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:03 am: Come on down, call br 549 - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:06 am: The Rauner brand ugliness - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:20 am: The only off shoring I do is in the cayman islands - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:23 am: As a white male those IPI cartoons crack me up - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:39 am: Harold is still in possum lodge - Rabid - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 12:53 am: I tried catfishing, got all scratched up baiting the hook - Steward As Well.... - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 6:49 am: I can’t believe I’m going to lose. - Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 7:52 am: How did I get myself into this mess. - Fool On The Hill - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 8:13 am: My polls numbers are WHAT?? - Ryan - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 9:00 am: “Hey, what’s wrong with my shirt?” - Uncle Ernie - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 9:18 am: Help me, I’m lost. Mom put my new JC Penney shirt on me this morning, but I forgot my comb…where am I again??? - South Sider - Thursday, Aug 9, 18 @ 9:23 am: The BCC event is an annual event made of well dressed Black business men and women, on a serious mission to learn and match make with other businesses. No one had messed up hair and a cheap cowboy shirt on, his attire was disrespectful to the audience. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.