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* From an e-mail to supporters…

Over the Christmas Holiday, more than 300 letters, notes, and emails of grassroots support flowed to the Rauner Team regarding my application for Illinois Comptroller.

THANK YOU!

Governor-elect Bruce Rauner decided to appoint North Shore businesswoman Leslie Munger as the next Illinois Comptroller. It’s a good pick which I support and respect.

Here’s what I texted her yesterday morning…

Hi Leslie, Congratulations on Comptroller appt. I personally wish you much success! Time to Shake up Springfield. Again, Best Wishes and Congratulations- Adam Andrzejewski

Thank you for your outpouring of support. The Rauner team described it as a “flood.”

I especially appreciated these supportive notes, because you took time out of your Christmas Holiday. Volunteer Susan Petty, founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, and IL Tea Party Denise Cattoni and many others did much to organize support.

Our teams at For The Good of Illinois and OpenTheBooks.com work extremely hard to protect taxpayers and fight spending abuse. Your support further steeled our spine for the long road ahead.

Thank you to U.S. Senator Tom Coburn who sent a supportive email to Bruce Rauner. As Dr. Coburn leaves the Senate, we will work hard to carry his legacy of transparency and aggressive spending oversight.

Thank you to Solidarity founder, Nobel Laureate, and Polish President Lech Walesa for his 2010 endorsement and continued friendship. The possible appointment was a leading story in the largest Polish weekly newspaper, Wprost- here.

Thank you to Deroy Murdock at National Review who wrote an incredible biography piece, Let Andrzejewski Open The Books in Illinois.

Thank you to Michael Flynn at Breitbart for his early piece- IL Governor-elect Faces First Test of Leadership.

Thank you to the ten elected members of the General Assembly who backed my application, members of the GOP State Central Committee, GOP County Chairman, leaders of center-right persuading organizations, pro-family organizations, prominent business people across Illinois, donors and of course… regular people across our state.

From the bottom of my heart, I deeply appreciate all of you. Thank you. All of you put your good name next to mine. It’s a charge that I will not forget.

It’s good news that Rauner picked from the deep well of Illinois business talent and not from politics. All of us have high hopes. We wish Bruce Rauner and his team the best!

Now, let’s get back to work. All of us have a lot of work to do.

For The Good of Illinois.

ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI
Founder & Chairman, For The Good of Illinois

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:09 am

Comments

  1. To quote Cheap trick: I want you to want me.

    Comment by zatoichi Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:13 am

  2. Andrzejewski’s attempt to be appointed Comptroller was completely unrealistic, it’s not like Rauner was going to appoint someone to statewide office who had never won an election for anything.

    Comment by The Captain Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:14 am

  3. All I can say is we dodged a bullet when AA wasn’t appointed.

    Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:15 am

  4. Little did he know that acting like a politician doomed him.

    Comment by Pot calling kettle Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:18 am

  5. This email isn’t quite…finished.

    Nope.

    “I kept readdibg these notes, about me. Over. And over. And, what really struck me, about me, is my modesty. If I do say so myself, I am the most modest person you will ever meet in your life. If you put all the modest people you ‘think’ are modest, I knowi woukd be THE most modest person in that room or any room you put me in…with modest people….”

    I got a longer version from Adam A. that concluded a bit differently, and without the modest part too…

    “If you look past the fact I sued Judy Baar Topinka, just looked past ALL that, and just that, besides the bipartisan love she generated, and I am seen as frustrated and angry because of my irrelevancy…if you look past all that, I’ll be just as bitter as I always have been, but let’s all pretend I hit slighted fir something I had no chance of getting…”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:19 am

  6. “The possible appointment was a leading story in the largest Polish weekly newspaper”

    Wow, I can’t believe the Tribune missed that lede!

    Comment by Wensicia Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:22 am

  7. “…if you look past all that, I’ll be just as bitter as I always have been, but let’s all pretend I got slighted for something I had no chance of getting…”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:24 am

  8. this is more an entertainment move circa 1940s, but had he shortened his name to Adam Andrews I think he might have had an easier go. The problem with young rich people with ambition like this sadly is that they never go away.

    Happy New Year and expect a lot more of “North Shore Buisnessperson appointed by Gov Rauner over the next few years”

    Comment by Shore Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:25 am

  9. Thanks Rich, for the morning humor.

    Comment by walker Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:28 am

  10. LOL I’ve met Adam. You REALLY have to be full of yourself to have your own smiling photo as your phone wallpaper!

    Comment by anon Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:31 am

  11. He can always run in 2016…or 2018.

    Comment by Bluefish Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:32 am

  12. Floods are dangerous. Thank goodness we didn’t get caught up in this one.

    Comment by Jaded Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:33 am

  13. bahahahahaha. This guy really thinks highly of himself.

    Comment by k3 Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:37 am

  14. Thank goodness Gov-elect Rauner said No(-ah) to this “flood.”

    And a whole 10 out of about 66(?) GOP GA members (who apparently don’t want to be named) supported his bid? Look out for that stampede, folks.

    Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:37 am

  15. Quite the name dropper. It takes a real effort to work Lech Walesa into a forensic audit of how you got blown off for a gig.

    Comment by Wordslinger Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:38 am

  16. I understand that AA will have a press conference saying that he really did want the job. Make sure to bring your wing tips

    Comment by SonofSuperAbe2014 Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:38 am

  17. @Captain - Good one.

    Comment by PublicServant Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:38 am

  18. What a humble chap I must say. What a nice and humble man that the Illinois Review touted out as there hand picked candidate. I bet you 2/1 that this humbling gibber jabber will be all over IR today

    Comment by Outside the lines Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:42 am

  19. Is that why the Rauner Transition team was last seen building an ark?

    Comment by Knome Sane Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:45 am

  20. Cute.

    Comment by AlabamaShake Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:45 am

  21. Hilarious. So a photo with Walesa qualifies him for office? Isn’t he the same guy who staged a press conference to announce he was announcing for governor and then didn’t announce? Ultimately another silly PR stunt.

    Comment by anonymous Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:46 am

  22. @FakeBruceRauner - I told Adam that we need a bigger boat #ToothlessShark

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:47 am

  23. Having known Adam for 30+ years, anytime he can hold up the Polish flag, he will.

    Comment by OurMagician Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:47 am

  24. When did experience, knowledge, and education be a prerequisite for political appointment in this State? It’s always been who you know and who sent you. Glad this time honored tradition will be continued by the Rauner Administration.

    Comment by norhtshorecynic Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:48 am

  25. You would think he just got done with a 2 year statewide campaign that had a long recount battle, that had volunteers staying up nights on end or knocking on thousands of doors for him, etc. Instead he asked maybe 500 people to write him a letter of recommendation.

    Comment by Been There Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:49 am

  26. Could they really find 300 people in this state that can spell that name?

    Comment by Homer J. Simpson Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:49 am

  27. Wow. Unbelievably smarmy, tacky, and self absorbed.

    ANy contact the rauner folks have w AA is at their peril

    Comment by Langhorne Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:50 am

  28. Gee,
    I spent my holidays convincing Queen Elizabeth not to write to Rauner on my behalf. She agreed, reluctantly.

    Comment by Publius Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 10:51 am

  29. He couldn’t even spell JBT’s name right in the press release announcing the lawsuit.

    Buh bye.

    Comment by Dirty Red Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 11:07 am

  30. This man is not only a poor story teller, he is flat-out delusional. Adam, you ran a business? You got lucky with the obvious lack of skills you have been demonstrating at the Illinois political level for the past few years.

    You might have been able to tell a pizza joint that their full page ad would bring them customers and do it repeatedly for many years, but you can’t try this kind of Sales 101 crap with voters.

    Listen, you might be sincere. I probably agree with your views on more than one issue. Yet your approach is just plan bad. It is one thing to believe government should be sustainable, efficient and not a drag on our economy, and it is another thing to make that case using embarrassingly fake tactics that wouldn’t work in a grade school election.

    Don’t become another Oberweis. It is bad for the cause. Each tone-deaf stunt like the one you attempted this month just makes anyone pining for a better government cringe.

    Thanks, but no thanks, on that political future you think you have. You are hurting us.

    Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 11:24 am

  31. Memorandum

    To: AA

    From: Illinois

    Re: GO AWAY!

    Comment by Adam Smith Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 11:24 am

  32. Too chocked up to type anything…

    Comment by Ghost Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 11:41 am

  33. Golly, a whole 300 people?! 300 people who did nothing but feed the ego of someone who had zero chance of being appointed.

    Comment by Anonymoiis Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 11:46 am

  34. Adam your grandstanding will get you nowhere.
    The State will better off without you help.

    Comment by Mokenavince Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 12:03 pm

  35. In Jan. 2010, I walked five precincts for Adam. Last month, I didn’t care whether he was appointed to be comptroller. I hope that, in 2016, he’ll run for the state legislature or county board. If he has that lower office for 6-8 years, he should run for a higher office.

    Comment by Conservative Veteran Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 12:27 pm

  36. A disgrace to the initials AA.

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 1:18 pm

  37. “And finally I’d like to thank my ego because with you, no room can contain me.”

    Comment by LGHB Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 1:22 pm

  38. To borrow a phrase from OW…What a dope!! He makes William J. Kelly look relevent. Ah, no he doesn’t. I wonder if those two clowns were seperated at birth.

    Comment by Anon Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 1:33 pm

  39. Oh.

    Comment by A guy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 1:45 pm

  40. Anon, I’ve had Adam gollyjeepersjewski’s number since 2010 but don’t believe me, watch this video of me. http://youtu.be/QfdRERrdmxY

    Comment by William j Kelly Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 1:58 pm

  41. Delusional.

    Comment by Buster Brown Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 2:10 pm

  42. Um, Adam. Reviewing the above posts, it seems your massive ego may have overlooked a broad disdain for your person.

    Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 2:35 pm

  43. Adam, You’ve had your 15 minutes!!!! See you next election

    Comment by DownState Greg Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 2:39 pm

  44. Arthur Anderson, i skimmed this initially and thought Rich was being a little hard on you; i had to go back and decipher it was another A A:)

    Comment by Ghost Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 3:01 pm

  45. I. Just. Can’t.

    Comment by Black Ivy Wednesday, Jan 7, 15 @ 4:57 pm

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