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* From the Twitters…
No better way to end a long July 4th weekend than grilling with the family pic.twitter.com/V93VGRmcPf
— Bruce Rauner (@BruceRauner) July 6, 2014
If you look closely, he’s wearing a Super Bowl XLIII t-shirt while he grills. The Pittsburgh Steelers played in Super Bowl XLIII. Rauner owns part of the Steelers team.
Have fun.
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:01 am
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“No, these aren’t steaks! They’re just really thick…hamburgers. Yeah, hamburgers. With bones. That’s the ticket.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:04 am
“Make sure you get my $17 watch in the picture. “
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:06 am
Yep, looks like the average multi-millionaire to me. “As you can readily see, Mr. Quinn.I am practicing removing the fat from the pork before I get down to Springfield.”
Comment by Coffee Cup Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:07 am
After eating the chicken, this is all we had left.
Comment by PublicServant Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:07 am
“Oh Reginald, these tongee things are burning my hand. Come back to the grill and finish my steaks. And here’s your watch back.”
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:08 am
“OK. Picture done? Good. Take over, Jeeves, and remember medium rare this time. Chop chop!”
Also note the crumbling infrastructure by his feet. His Summer Shack #8 appears to be in need of some repair.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:09 am
Must be hard to choose which one of his 9 homes he wants to celebrate the 4th at.
Comment by Obamas Puppy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:09 am
“Rich, I got the t-shirt with my subscription to SI…”
“Caption?”
“You sure the Carhartt would be too much? How about one with the Carhartt, one without?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:11 am
The Quinn campaign quickly released it’s own photo showing the governor grilling soy patties, because everyone knows how much he loves good Illinois soy, raised by Illinois farmers good a true.
Comment by OneMan Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:12 am
the hedge funds, they smell the meat a cookin’.
Comment by Amalia Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:13 am
Not pictured: Any sign of a family.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:13 am
I can smell the meat-a-cookin, Steelers boy!
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:14 am
They can really do terrific things with veggie burgers these days. These look just like bone-in Rib Eye!
Comment by Stones Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:14 am
Is that a pool in the background too?
Comment by hisgirlfriday Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:14 am
Inspired by OneMan:
The Quinn campaign immediately anounced plans to put a fillet mignon tax referendum on the ballot. “This is an important question for the people of Illinois to opine on. Gerrymandering their vote into meaninglessness and refusing to hear their 60-15% desire on term limits can wait until, well, forever.”
Comment by lake county democrat Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:15 am
Barring unforseen circumstances, I am going to be Illinois’ next Governor.
Comment by politics junkie Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:15 am
Quinn was going to attempt a similar picture, but couldn’t find his grill under all the weeds in his yard
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:16 am
“Should I roll my sleeves up so they can see my 9-inch guns I built up from pumping bags of money?”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:17 am
“My team went to the SuperBowl, and all they got me was this lousy tshirt”
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:18 am
Rauner says “Steaks from prime Illinois beef, fed with Illinois corn, gas grill uses Illinois natural gas, and grilling utensils purchased from a local Illinois store. Goodness, I love Illinois.”
Comment by Apocolypse Now Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:20 am
He paid Ed Rendell $300K for the shirt and I notice that isn’t chicken on the grill - it looks like pork!! Who got the chickens??
Comment by veritas Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:22 am
“I’ll have you know these prime rib steaks were flown in from Texas, yesterday, on Griffin’s plane.
I did not use taxpayer funded transportation!”
Comment by Wensicia Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:22 am
“I love the Steelers so much, I became part owner!”
Rauner Crew, seriously, you have to be some of the most inept buffoons.
You put your Principle in shorts and a t-shirt to seem ordinary, and not one of you Dopes think a t-shirt can remind people he is in the “.01%”, except THAT one?
Are you guys in that Crew even trying anymore?
I would have loved a Red Sox hat on too, with a Nulls championship ring on his hand, you know, casual, ball cap, t-shirt, modest jewelry. Next tome put a “Payton Prep Dad” t-shirt on if you want to just straight out mock people.
Pathetic.
“Caption?”
“No, the lobsters go on after the phony photo is tweeted.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:23 am
Three small pieces of meat for a grill? No one coming over? That gas even on? At least put some PBR cans in the picture, get some ribs/pork steaks going, and get a Card’s cap.
Comment by zatoichi Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:25 am
To consultant off camera holding Bears t-shirt and package of Johnsonvilles:
“Let me get this straight, you want me to wear the apparel of a team I DON’T EVEN OWN, and eat GROUND MEAT OUT FROM THE SUPERMARKET? How droll…”
Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:31 am
Those steaks look an awful like A5 Kobe Strip Steaks, a cut which is about $160 per pound. Confirmation?
Also, is that an Olympic size pool in the background?
Comment by Mittuns Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:32 am
I name my food. “Time to flip Quinn and Vallas”.
Comment by A guy... Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:38 am
Willy, there are a lot of Steelers fans in Illinois. You’re really reaching with that last rant.
Comment by Jaws Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:39 am
You’re right — I don’t think that grill is even lit. Aw, geez….
Comment by Soccermom Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:40 am
“Whadda mean there’s not meat on those bones? Oh, you’re talking about my body? What, me pumping iron? I have others do the heaving lifting!”
Comment by Nearly Normal Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:42 am
I think it’s a pool in the background too!
Comment by justbabs Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:43 am
I’ve eaten enough chicken this week.
Comment by walker Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:45 am
Looks like he is cooking for all his friends too.
Comment by Gabe Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:49 am
===Willy, there are a lot of Steelers fans in Illinois. You’re really reaching with that last rant.===
…that own a piece of the Steelers too, that market themselves as a Carhartt wearin’ Harley ridin’ See-Gar chompin’ ordinary Steeler fan?
Yikes. This was Dopey by Rauner’s Crew.
“Caption?”
“Excuse me, do ‘we’ have any Grey Poupon?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:50 am
This chicken, just like Quinn, was cooked and done on the 4th of July.
Comment by Ghost Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:59 am
Those “steaks” look an awful lot like pork chops.
It’s a bad photo, looks unnatural and staged, but I imagine that’s because he is mugging for the camera and it is staged. You can’t fake practiced comfort with the tongs, you’ve either done the time with them or you haven’t.
Caption: “I’m here to shake up springfield by grilling out the other white meat - pork barrel spending on flying chickens..”
Comment by Shark Sandwich Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 10:59 am
===Willy, there are a lot of Steelers fans in Illinois. You’re really reaching with that last rant. ====
Actually I agree with you about the number of Steeler fans. But I believe there would be a tad few more Bear fans that are not impressed.
Comment by Been There Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:06 am
Pushed right up against the wall, under the eave, in front of a window, like a real guy who obviously really does this all the time.
Oh well, I’m sure the Dwelling 8 poolhouse is insured.
Comment by crazybleedingheart Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:08 am
“Yes, Mr. Rauner, back again. I need to take some shots of you grilling…’grillin’…yes sir. No, no stuffed dogs again… You’re grillin’, you don’t need the dogs sir. …Can we take off the Carhartt too?…, it’s summer, Mr. Rauner… I know it’s your trademark… Ok, so what are we grillin’?… No lobsters…No… I brought some prop grilled meat.., does it matter…you aren’t eating it, so I don’t know how the quality is… Grab the tongs… No…no…not those…there….there… Over. There! Those! …yes…. Through your fingers …yep…what’s that? … No Harley by the grill…’Why?’, who has a Harley by their backyard grill? …No, no Harley.., yep, just stand like that… yes…just like that… No. Dogs! … Just stand there … (click, click…click)…ok, happy 4th sir…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:10 am
It is a funky spot for a gas grill. I’m guessing it was moved from the pool area for the shot.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:15 am
Government, business, football, etc. Winning!
Comment by Black Ivy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:23 am
His tongs are not even dirty!!!
Comment by chicagomary Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:26 am
“The Don doesn’t wear shorts”
Comment by Jake From Elwood Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:31 am
“When I get to Springfield, there will be alot less pork available, so I’mm coking up what I have now!
Comment by LisleMike Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:37 am
==Actually I agree with you about the number of Steeler fans. But I believe there would be a tad few more Bear fans that are not impressed.==
Meh, many Bears fans, including me, rooted for the Steelers as their “AFC Team”, especially during the Bill Cowher years. It’s not like he’s wearing a Packers shirt
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:41 am
That grill is too close to the house. Not smart.
Comment by Cheswick Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 11:48 am
“Just because my t-shirt is spotless and I don’t have a beer in my hand doesn’t mean I’m not really grillin’!”
Comment by Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:06 pm
Rauner: “I thought I’d visually answer all those critics asking ‘where’s the beef’”
Comment by Norseman Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:07 pm
I’ve always loved sport. Some of my friends own football teams. Heck, I own part of a football team.
Comment by Quizzical Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:22 pm
Low income humans are the most dangerous yet most delicious prey. MWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Comment by bennigans Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:26 pm
“Don’t hate me because I’m rich!!! I’m just like you guys”
Comment by Fed Up !!!! Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:39 pm
Makes me nauseated…..those turkey burgers (ready-made for. Camera shots!) don’t do much for me either.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:43 pm
You guys really going to vote for someone who can’t even fake a good grilling picture? The grill is too close to the house to be safe, those tongs are for salad, not flipping hot stuff.
If this is real, I’d have to question his sanity.
Comment by Cheryl44 Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 12:55 pm
==those tongs are for salad, not flipping hot stuff.==
Your criticizing the type of utensil he’s using to flip meat? Now who’s being haughty one…
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 1:23 pm
“Meals on wheels.”
Comment by Cheswick Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 1:42 pm
Meals on wheels for the wealthy.
Comment by Cheswick Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 1:43 pm
“Why’s my thumb so pink? It’s swollen from counting money. Next question!”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 1:59 pm
“Hey, the paint on that door frame melted because I had the red hot grill lid too close to it. Honey, time to buy a new house.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 2:02 pm
“I bought the team to correct how they spelled it, but they said I couldn’t name it after me.”
“These are Illinois steaks - yup, they’re Donners.”
I need a beer for this shot - anyone got a Dom Perignon?
I grill my steaks because Charlie Trotter can no longer grill my steaks.
I like my steaks tartare.
Laundry day - it was either this or the Hooters t-shirt I got from Bill Brady.
Comment by VanillaMan Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 2:20 pm
What the Hell do you mean you forgot the dog?! Damnit we finally find lifelike meat to put on this grill-thing…you won’t let me wear my Carharts, my family’s at the other home, and now you forget the dog? Just snap the damn picture and let’s get back on the jet!
Comment by Commonsense in Illinois Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 2:22 pm
“Hey Ken. How do you like your steak cooked? Medium well or well done? Oh, by the way, any chance you can send me another one of the 2.5 million dollar checks?”
Comment by No Longer A Lurker Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 2:23 pm
The two gubernatorial candidates issued press photos for this July 4th this weekend.
The Rauner campaign issued a photo of Mr. Rauner wearing a Pittsburg Steelers t-shirt, grilling steaks over a flameless grill.
Governor Quinn issued a photo of the Mr. Quinn shirtless and sporting a marijuana leaf tattoo.
EDITORS CORRECTION - The Governor’s tattoo is not of a marijuana leaf, but of an Irish four-leaf clover, covered in back hair.
Comment by VanillaMan Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 2:26 pm
=== Also note the crumbling infrastructure by his feet. His Summer Shack #8 appears to be in need of some repair.===
Don’t be silly. That’s hand-chiseled Egyptian limestone pavers, the same rock used to make the Pyramids. In fact wasn’t there a story recently about blocks being taken off the Great Pyramid and sold?
Comment by TwoFeetThick Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 3:22 pm
Just remember: where there’s no smoke, there’s no fire…
Comment by LCP45 Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 3:41 pm
Careful Evelyn, that hose is a tripping hazard
Comment by Samurai Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 3:52 pm
“Are you guys sure we can fake a ‘grilling’ picture and no one will notice? I don’t have to move the grill or light it? Okay, you’re the experts. Oh, and should I change clothes? I just finished waxing the Ford.”
Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 4:21 pm
“Skipper! Gilligan! How do you like your pork chops?”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 4:44 pm
“Well, sure, I appreciate you photoshopping my head in so I didn’t have to show up, but did you have to use Mike Madigan’s body?”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 4:55 pm
“Really? This is how the 99.99 percent spend their holiday? And what do you call these things in my hand again?”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:00 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - grillin’ out like the simple folk. I guess grillin’ this close to the house without a flame is safe for staging. #DidYouExpectRealityFromMe
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:30 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - there is rub on this meat, the rub is that it’s as phony as I am #RealBaloney
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:31 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - I started the fake grill with my tax returns. #JustKiddingNotReally
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:33 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - I started the fake grill with the Payton Prep Clout Reports. #JustKiddingNotReallyAgain #2ndVerseSameAsTheFirst
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:34 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - I started the fake grill with the Payton Prep Donation Check. #JustKiddingNotReallyAgainAndAgainAndAgain
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:35 pm
@FakeBruceRauner - I started the fake grill with…
…Parts 4 thru 612 of my Fiscal Plan
…The vetting docs of “Slip and Sue” I ignored
…the proof that 1/3 of the GOP GA corrupt members
…my 401(k) plan for state workers
…Stu Levine’s resume and pay stubs
…the closing docs of my 8 other homes
…the 2 other homeowner exemption approvals
…pictures of Rahm and I at the ranch
… “Slip and Sue’s” liability riders for the parades
#JustKiddingNotReally
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 5:42 pm
you sure the 99% eats road kill?
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 6:52 pm
Upon further review, this photo gets funnier and funnier.
Dude, stop blocking the door with the grill. Get it away from the side of the house. You’re a fire hazard.
Move it back by the pool, get some chairs and a table with an umbrella. It will be nice.
And if you’re really chillin’ with the family, three chops probably ain’t gonna cut it.
Geez, who sets up this stuff? If you really think it’s necessary to create these fictions, put in an effort.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 7:04 pm
Here are some realities…
If you have to stage being ordinary, you aren’t.
If your staff can’t recognize a failed staging, they aren’t that good.
If you are looking to seem normal, a Super Bowl t-shirt of a team you own, out of all the t-shirts to wear is a fail…
… and reminding people you own multiple professional teams subliminally is a Staff fail and a personal fail of consciousness.
Learn to count. How many pieces for that grill are needed to look pathetic? We now know it’s 3
Bruce Rauner, your Crew is failing you.
Chickens, staged photos, lack of Oppo research on yourself…money covers all sins, but at done point, when you aren’t genuine, you just aren’t.
Be yourself. Otherwise, this Dopey picture is a clear image fail, and as phony as the fire grillin’ those …”meats”.
Pathetic.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 7:21 pm
@FakeBruceRauner-I started the fire grill with the AWillyWord Con$ulting Contract! #ImAFunnyGuyToo
Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 7:29 pm
“Okay, I think this looks phony enough to give Oswego Willy a heart attack, and if this doesn’t do it, I know a guy who has some great chicken hand puppets for my next press conference.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 7:43 pm
“God is my State Fire Marshal”
Comment by crazybleedingheart Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 8:58 pm
Rauner film crew: Stack the empty chicken cages by the grill, fill the grill with thighs and legs, get some flame going, put sauce on those tongs, Mountain Dew in the left hand, eyes on the grill flipping something, Bears cap, two people in chairs. Make it an action shot.
Comment by zatoichi1 Monday, Jul 7, 14 @ 9:43 pm
Candidate Rauner was quoted at the gathering while laughing out loud and ignoring trying to answer the Reporters’ questions as he usually does, “Yeah, ya just gotta love those STEELERS! By the way, somebody tell me, please, WHAT’S the name of that LOcal “Pride and Joy of Illinois” Football Team again…?!”
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Jul 8, 14 @ 8:20 pm