Question of the day
Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute has published an “exit essay” by our old pal Steve Brown…
How does a three-month contract become a 38-year communications project? The ultimate gig economy job?
It was May 1983. Congressman Harold Washington won the Chicago mayoral general election. My then-boss, Mayor Jane M. Byrne, lost. Just days after the inaugural, my resignation was sought and accepted. No ill will. I expressed an offer to help the City Hall administration. It was not needed.
Included photo…
Pretty certain that was an overtime session day, hence the casual attire.
* The Question: Caption?
- flea - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 2:59 pm:
He is not guilty.
- Huh? - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:02 pm:
Yes, I ate an apple today.
- OneMan - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:02 pm:
This was us before we tried Grecian formula.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:04 pm:
I’m a retired investor living on a pension. I came home to vote in the Presidential Election because they wouldn’t give me an absentee ballot.
- OneMan - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:04 pm:
Steve Brown: I don’t have to have hair like Rich, hair like the Speaker’s would be fine…
- NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:07 pm:
“Hurry up so we can get to Saputo’s.”
- NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:09 pm:
Steve Brown: “I’m getting a little sleepy–we had a long session night last night, then had to be up early for Madonia’s show, then a long session day, plus a big lunch meeting at Saputo’s. Then we might be going close to midnight tonight.”
- AfscmeEmployee - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:11 pm:
So your stating you like what on your pizza?
- Sayitaintso - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:16 pm:
Evidence of the bulldog persistence of Miller, who got to Madigan despite the efforts of Security who ripped all the buttons off his “Thursday Shirt” to keep him away.
- Earnest - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:19 pm:
The Howard brothers in their glory days, (L-R) Moe, Curly and Shemp. Moe is saying, c’mon pick two.
- Dotnonymous - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:24 pm:
Call Security…I don’t like the way Millers looking at me.
- Asteroid of Caution - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:28 pm:
I believe that is under review.
- Bruce( no not him) - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:30 pm:
One of these guys hasn’t changed a bit. The other publishes the Capitol Fax.
- SAP - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:31 pm:
I always tell McClain to put it in an e-mail so we don’t have to rely on memory
- Give Me A Break - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:35 pm:
Speaker to Rich: “For the Love of Pete, don’t tell me this another of those years you are refusing to get trimmed and groomed until a budget is passed”.
- Can - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:41 pm:
Rich: “Speaker, it’s an overtime session day. I thought we were wearing casual attire.”
Madigan: “This is my casual attire.”
- Northsider - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:43 pm:
The most intense three-way standoff since the Graveyard Incident of 1862 took place at the Capitol in Springfield today…
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:44 pm:
Is that a milk carton missing persons image of the lost budget on your tee shirt?
- Al - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:47 pm:
The Speaker responds to an inquiry on why the Cannabis statute was going to exempt the licencees from the FOIA statute. “What do you think we are doing, running a democracy or something?”
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:48 pm:
Glad I never took that offer to work for ComEd.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:50 pm:
Steve Brown, in a moment of chaos, contentedly remembers that he is, in fact, not the stupid one.
- Huh? - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 3:54 pm:
Miller is getting grumpy about the non-answer responses.
- Lurker - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:00 pm:
“Why are you a peasant with an old fashioned mic like that. Being modern and hip like my friend Rich here is where it’s at.” said the guy that refused cell phones
- Shield - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:05 pm:
“Bite me.”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:07 pm:
47th, yes
- sulla - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:14 pm:
“Slavoj Zizek politely asks Spike Jones to record a humorous voice mail greeting on his phone.”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:16 pm:
Does anyone here have any doubt that Brown included that photo in his exit essay specifically so it would become a caption contest and get people talking? The man knows his stuff.
- Keyrock - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:27 pm:
“Rich Miller, displaying ‘amazing energy and pace.’”
- Been There - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:30 pm:
The Man, The Myth, The Legend.
(You pick which one)
- PublicServant - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:32 pm:
Mr. Miller, you’re in my right-hand man’s spot. Please remove yourself.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:36 pm:
===The man knows his stuff===
Yes, he does. lol
He called me this afternoon and specifically mentioned that there was a photo of us in the piece. They didn’t call him the Press Secretary General for nothing.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:53 pm:
“First, you’ll all be fine”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:55 pm:
“It’s not over until both me and Brown walk away”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:58 pm:
“My legacy? I will be living rent free in the minds of my enemies long past I leave. My friends, even my adversaries will move on. My enemies, you’ll know who is who by this”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 4:58 pm:
“I’ve been here so long even Brown saw the PAR students work and then retire”
- Anonymous - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:01 pm:
He’s still spinning
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:02 pm:
“After this governor, Governor Rauner, if we Democrats elect a millionaire or billionaire governor… I’ll retire. You can print that”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:09 pm:
“I have enjoyed McAuliffe, Saviano, and Jim Durkin being chairmen of House committees with me as Speaker”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:12 pm:
My sincere best wishes to Steve Brown, cannoli to you sir.
Go Salukis.
Oswego Willy
“Caption?”
Steve Brown looks on as Speaker Madigan discusses the parallel between ripe apples and ripe legislation, and picking the ripe time as the right time.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:24 pm:
“I’m not confused about the constitutionality on it. I helped write it”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:32 pm:
“Who knows. Maybe in the end Rauner and I will take each other out”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:36 pm:
“When it comes to the budget, or campaigns, or whatever, it’s not personal… I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out. Just my enemies.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:37 pm:
“They made a documentary about me, now a podcast, what’s next, an action figure?”
- Manchester - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 5:58 pm:
The good, the bad and the ugly. Rich is the good of course. Love them or hate them, they knew their stuff.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 6:45 pm:
“I think Steve has answered this, and lord knows I have, but my favorite apple is a red delicious. I am all things Illinois but I like the apples from Washington state.”
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Oct 21, 21 @ 7:50 pm:
Two notable Salukis and a guy who went to some out of state college no one has ever heard of.
- NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham - Friday, Oct 22, 21 @ 9:23 am:
Steve Brown looks on as Rich and the Speaker perform an “American Idol” tryout for their rendition of “It’s Just a Bill.”