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* From a press release…

Daily Public Schedule: February 6, 2015

What: Governor Rauner Discusses Plans to Turnaround Illinois
Where: Decatur Club
158 W. Prairie Ave., Decatur
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015
Time: 9 a.m.

What: Governor Rauner Discusses Plans to Turnaround Illinois
Where: Gateway Building
200 Northeast Water St., Peoria
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015
Time: 11:30 a.m.

What: Governor Rauner Discusses Plans to Turnaround Illinois
Where: Oakley Lindsay Center, Community Theater
300 Civic Center Plaza, Quincy
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015
Time: 4:00 p.m.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:05 pm

Comments

Gas up the van. Pack the Carhartt. Drop the g.

Comment by LizPhairTax Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:06 pm
He’s going to be in Moline on Saturday.

Comment by qcexaminer Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:07 pm
Campaignin’ “ain’t” governin’…

Just sayin’

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:10 pm
LOL - he thinks if he says it enough, it will happen!

Comment by anonymous Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:20 pm
Last scheduled performance at a “community theater” is appropriate.

Comment by Not Impressed Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:23 pm
When is going to Livinston?!

Comment by Secretariat Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:27 pm
Communicatin’ is goverin’ though. An important aspect of goverin’!

Comment by anon Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:27 pm
Is rauner utilizing a state airplane, or is he driving?

Comment by facts are stubborn things Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:28 pm
What’s he communicatin’ “I ‘ain’t’ Quinn”?

Unless he’s workin’ the Speaker or President, this is busy work at this point.

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:33 pm
Savin face after yesterday. Sorta.

Comment by Quill Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:34 pm
He’s a salesman and travelin is what salesmen do. Now is time for the free media. Later he’ll dip into the $20 million to try an pressure the solons to bend to his reality.

He’ll call it the Turnaround Tour. I’ll call it the Vilification Tour. The aim being to convince the locals that lower wages is good for them.

Comment by Norseman Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:41 pm
“Y’all’s towns are needin’ to be declarin’ they is plum broke and be bankrupted.”

I guess the Governor can say that…

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:43 pm
Coming to DuPage on the weekend. Daily Herald reports visit to Lombard Westin Hotel on Sunday.

Comment by A guy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:44 pm
When he turns Illinois around, we’ll be backward.

Comment by 11Th Hour Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:45 pm
Its really funny when I read this, because “Turnaround” is a noun. If they were talking about the verb, they should use “turn around.”

As is, it looks like “Turnaround Illinois” is some sort of building or town he has plans for.

Might as well be talking about how much he will effect Illinois.

Comment by okgo Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:49 pm
Guess he’s not too concerned about us folk here in the Deep South.

Comment by Deep South Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:55 pm
Can’t wait to see the shtick for the north of I-80 crowd. Is he going to go south-side Irish meatball on us?!

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:55 pm
Again…a good con starts by gaining confidence.

Does anyone know if questions are allowed at these pep rallies? Can the governor be asked to clarify his rhetoric, or is that off the table? If so, talk about an Employee Empowerment Zone! Amazin’…

Comment by Now What? Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:57 pm
==Guess he’s not too concerned about us folk here in the Deep South.==

Accordin’ to his Twitter pictures he’s travelin’ round Mt Vernon and Fairfield today…

Comment by Anonymoiis Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 3:58 pm
Heading straight to Iowa. 2016?

Comment by a drop in Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:02 pm
===Guess he’s not too concerned about us folk here in the Deep South.===

Y’all love your victimhood.

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:05 pm
Good.

Governor Rauner should publicly ask for commitments from every public official in every local audience that they will cut or freeze their next tax levy.

Comment by walker Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:06 pm
I understand the importance of delivering the message to Downtown audiences, but there seems to be some other political calculus at work here. Is he fine tuning the message before facing the long-knives of the Chicago media directly, or does his Downstate swing inoculate the Chicago media market from harsh reaction to his anti-labor stance? Plus, it appears he is hitting the Chicago market on the weekend, another old Quinn trick, to avoid tough questioning from the top Chicago media pros. I thought he was the anti-Quinn Governor?

Comment by Suburbanon Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:18 pm
=Is he going to go south-side Irish meatball on us?!=
Yuz got a probum with dat?

Comment by Bogey Golfer Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:25 pm
-Ducky LaMoore-
Go southside Irish meatball on us?”
Say what?

Comment by Fr. Murphy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:28 pm
grammar? what’s that?

sorry, but a professional communications shop getting paid higher salaries because that’s what it takes to recruit “the best” should know the difference between a noun (turnaround) and a verb (turn around)!

Comment by the koala Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:40 pm
OW, I disagree. By promoting his agenda around the state, he may gain some public support that will give him a few (or rather, a) chip in negotiating with the Speaker and the Senate President. If he can’t demonstrate that voters are with him, he’s hamstrung.

Comment by Soccermom Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:42 pm
“Welcome, my friend, to the campaign that never ends…”

Comment by Roadiepig Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:52 pm
- Soccermom -,

You and I did this dance before? You were more right and I was more wrong in that instance, for sure.

I think my mocking and thought(s) of this not being the best idea comes from his two rollout a at the U of C and Decatur, and with less than two weeks to try to maybe personally work the Leaders, being out there when time could be better working those Leaders before those remarks.

If both chambers weren’t super-majorities, but majorities, yeah, this is probably the best thing to do.

The legislative hills need more than banners and rallies(?)

Appreciate you calling me on it. Like anyone, I need a “think” sometimes like anyone else.

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 4:53 pm
Peoria and Decatur are industrial towns but not as much as in the past. Is he trying to sell his right to work zones there?

Maybe he sees the three as towns that would go for his red meat anti-union speech?

Will we see some union opposition there with their own slide show?

Comment by Nearly Normal Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 5:13 pm
Deep South–He was in Troy today.

Comment by Nearly Normal Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 5:25 pm
Bogey, Ducky and Murph,

Dey might trow a few questions at “Raaner” after having soda bread an’ Lemon-voxes at Reilly’s Daughter.

Comment by Jocko Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 5:26 pm
Rauner is starting to look like a clown. The fake clothes, the cheap watch, the dropped g’s, etc. The slide shows with numbers insisting that Illinois should be more like Indiana, for cryin’ out loud. If he had been honest about his desire to be more like Indiana he might have finished third in the election.

Comment by DuPage Dave Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 7:09 pm
Sorry, - Soccermom -

“I think my mocking and thought(s) of this trip not being the best idea comes from his two rollouts; at the U of C and Decatur, and with less than two weeks to try to maybe personally work the Leaders, being out there, when time could be better used working those Leaders before those budget remarks makes more sense to me”

“The legislative hills that need climbing will need more than banners and rallies(?)”

Better. Apologies.

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 7:39 pm
He tried to sneak into southern Illinois to day, but buy we still had a welcome party for him. Next time he should give us a few days notice then we can really give it to him. He is a union busting phony. He will go down like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura, guys with no idea how to governor..

Comment by Soillunion Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 8:04 pm
Jocko…Reilly’s has been closed for years. You just killed your South Side street cred!

Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Feb 5, 15 @ 9:04 pm
He starts talking in downtown Decatur at 9:30 and plans to start another one in Peoria two and a half hours later? Good luck with that.

Comment by Dirty Red Friday, Feb 6, 15 @ 9:06 am