Aides repeatedly told the Governor that putting up the tree early wouldn’t make Christmas come any sooner, but the Governor is no stranger to wishful thinking.
“Might as well decorate now–I just picked up a weak signal on my car radio of the all-Christmas music on the Quad Cities light rock station.”
Also, regarding Christmas decorations at the Capitol. Will the Christmas Lights above the Capitol Dome be returning this year? After sidelined for a year last year due to Dome construction.
Holiday decorations come early to the Governor’s mansion this year. Real estate agents wanted to make sure the listing’s photos were festive when the house goes on the market December 1st.
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:43 pm:
IL GOP: The Governor shows he’s above the rules by not putting a mask on the gate.
“That’s a noise,” grinned Ken Griffin, “That I simply MUST hear”
So he paused. And Ken Griffin put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow.
But the sound wasn’t sad. Why, this sound sounded merry
It couldn’t be so. But it WAS merry, VERY
He stared down at Springfield. Ken Griffin popped his eyes
Then he shook. What he saw was a shocking surprise.
Every Dem down in Springfield, the tall and the small,
Was working. Without any doom-seeking at all
He HADN’T helped an implosion coming. NONE CAME.
Somehow or other, it seemed just the same.
And Ken Griffin, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”
“No implosion with ribbons. No implosion with cuts.”
“No bail out packages, ifs, ands, or buts.”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
“Maybe Illinois,” he thought, “will last forever more.”
- Matt - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:12 pm:
All I want for Christmas is my Progressive Tax.
- Ok - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:13 pm:
Looks like that tree is on wheels, ready to move out of Illinois.
Illinois Exodus has reached Christmas.
- Amalia - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:13 pm:
Time to make the donuts.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:14 pm:
===All I want for Christmas is my Progressive Tax===
Sorry, Virginia, but Santa doesn’t exist.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:16 pm:
“We had to buy it now before the state ran out of dough”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:16 pm:
Decorating for the calendar not the weather. It’s way too nice out to see this stuff.
I’m dreaming of a warm Christmas.
- Fav Human - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:17 pm:
If I can’t start working for my fair tax way too early, at least I can get the tree up way too early
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:18 pm:
“This year, The Burgermeister Meisterburger won”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:19 pm:
The Grinch left the tree. Even he felt bad for the governor.
- JS Mill - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:20 pm:
Is it just me, or is there something funny about that picture? Maybe something anatomical?
Caption..erecting the Christmas tree.
- fs - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:21 pm:
“In an apparent attempt to win over radical turkey conservation groups, Governor Pritzker signals a refusal to recognize Thanksgiving”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:23 pm:
“What do you want for Christmas?”
“I want a new progressive tax constitutional amendment.”
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”
- Cheryl44 - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:23 pm:
Too early
- View from the Cheap Seats - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:24 pm:
This now means I can throw out all that Halloween candy I keep eating, finally.
- twowaystreet - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:25 pm:
Aides repeatedly told the Governor that putting up the tree early wouldn’t make Christmas come any sooner, but the Governor is no stranger to wishful thinking.
- Dl - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:25 pm:
The kindness and spirit of the holidays wouldn’t be a bad thing to start early this year
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:27 pm:
And this is what you get when you get a tree too big for your house…
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:29 pm:
“Might as well decorate now–I just picked up a weak signal on my car radio of the all-Christmas music on the Quad Cities light rock station.”
Also, regarding Christmas decorations at the Capitol. Will the Christmas Lights above the Capitol Dome be returning this year? After sidelined for a year last year due to Dome construction.
- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:30 pm:
Bailey: “Pritzker Unleashes War on Thanksgiving”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:30 pm:
“In a budget cutting move, we eliminated Thanksgiving”
- fs - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:31 pm:
“Little full, lotta sap”
“The Governor asked voters to believe that if they cut off just 3% of the tree, it would then fit in the mansion.”
- Sayitaintso - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:32 pm:
Great balls afire - Christmas is coming
- twowaystreet - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:33 pm:
Holiday decorations come early to the Governor’s mansion this year. Real estate agents wanted to make sure the listing’s photos were festive when the house goes on the market December 1st.
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:43 pm:
IL GOP: The Governor shows he’s above the rules by not putting a mask on the gate.
- Huh? - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:47 pm:
A pox on decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving. Next there will be chemical music in the stores. Ugh.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:48 pm:
“That’s a noise,” grinned Ken Griffin, “That I simply MUST hear”
So he paused. And Ken Griffin put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow.
But the sound wasn’t sad. Why, this sound sounded merry
It couldn’t be so. But it WAS merry, VERY
He stared down at Springfield. Ken Griffin popped his eyes
Then he shook. What he saw was a shocking surprise.
Every Dem down in Springfield, the tall and the small,
Was working. Without any doom-seeking at all
He HADN’T helped an implosion coming. NONE CAME.
Somehow or other, it seemed just the same.
And Ken Griffin, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”
“No implosion with ribbons. No implosion with cuts.”
“No bail out packages, ifs, ands, or buts.”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
“Maybe Illinois,” he thought, “will last forever more.”
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:49 pm:
A Jewish governor decorating for Christmas is not a phallus-y after all.
- thoughts matter - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:53 pm:
2020… the year without a Santa
- OneMan - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:57 pm:
Later the Governor had no comment about the large lump of coal with fair tax on it that was found under the tree
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:58 pm:
Gifts will be socially distancing the Pritzker Administration
- JS Mill - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 2:58 pm:
Cubs in ‘16 definitely gets it.
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:00 pm:
===Cubs in ‘16 definitely gets it.===
First thing I saw. Not sure what that says about us. lol
- Mama - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:05 pm:
A Christmas to go….
or
On the move for a virus-free Christmas…
- MakePoliticsCoolAgain - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:06 pm:
Too early… plus, who needs an reminder that Scrudge isn’t handing out anything but a deadly virus this year?..
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:08 pm:
‘But I’ll….have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas’
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:12 pm:
==A pox on decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving. Next there will be chemical music in the stores. Ugh==
“Dollar General and Walmart said it’s okay–they have had Christmas decorations up and for sale since Labor Day.”
- Monroe Steet View - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:13 pm:
The wheels on the tree go round and round . . .
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:14 pm:
==‘But I’ll….have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas’==
“At least the ornaments and lights are not all-blue, unlike say, about 12-17 years ago.”
- From the far, far western suburbs - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:15 pm:
I’ll give the front gate wreaths a week before they disappear…
- @misterjayem - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:23 pm:
After the last ten months, I’d be perfectly happy if we put the New Years decorations out ASAP.
– MrJM
- bball_coach - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:36 pm:
curbside Christmas
- RNUG - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:36 pm:
The weather was nice. I put my outside Christmas lights and manger up this past Saturday.
- Grandson of Man - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:37 pm:
Hint: Start your holiday shopping now. Illinois really needs the revenue.
- RNUG - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:40 pm:
- JS Mill - Do you think the photographer was deliberately trying for that effect?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:41 pm:
===Do you think the photographer===
Take it easy
- RNUG - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:44 pm:
Executive Mansion manager: Whew (banned punctuation). I’m glad we bought this with a voucher before the Fair Tax failed.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:46 pm:
“You think that’s a big tree, you should see the squirrel that was living in it”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:47 pm:
“Why is the floor wet, Todd?”
“I dunno, Mar-go”
- Responsa - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 3:58 pm:
Smart state Workers take advantage of a nice warm day to put up the tree and wreath. No fools they.
- We'll See - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 4:10 pm:
a reminder that better times are ahead - family gatherings, reflecting on a bountiful year….. scratch that
- Ducky LaMoore - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 4:26 pm:
“Hey Pritzker, what are you going to do with a tree that big?”
- Precinct Captain - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 4:36 pm:
Still not as early as the Holiday Lite!
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 5:27 pm:
“Mmmmm….Doughnuts”
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 8:48 pm:
“Like the Mansion, did that tree and all its ornaments once also belong to Gov. Matteson?”
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 8:49 pm:
==“Mmmmm….Doughnuts”==
With corporate sponsorship this year by Mel-O-Cream.
- Too soon? - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 10:40 pm:
Sorry, Fair Tax didn’t pass, so we had to use last year’s decorations.
- Quizzical - Monday, Nov 9, 20 @ 11:29 pm:
Fair tax, Madigan, pandemic …
It’s always Christmas when you inherit $3.4 large
- Big Rocker - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:11 am:
What kind of fertilizer are u going to feed it and watering to keep it alive thru Christmas? Hope more than your tax agenda.