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* Pictured on the right, state Rep. Scott Drury…
@SRDrury sharing how he decided to enter into politics with @109Caruso student council. #engage109 @JulieWitczak pic.twitter.com/ETRV2BecDU
— Brian Bullis (@bbbullis) May 4, 2015
* The Question: Caption?
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:52 pm
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“Kids, before we begin, I want you yo know, while I am a member of the General Assembly, and proud of that, I am a former federal prosecutor. I know the law… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:54 pm
What I’m holding here is best known as “The Hot Seat”. Anyone want to trade places with me?
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:56 pm
“OK, Here’s what you do, tell people you will vote one way, but vote another and then play victim when they get mad.”
Comment by Union Man Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:57 pm
==As a former federal prosecutor…===
Comment by Formerly Known As... Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:59 pm
Anyone want to play a round of “Duck-Responsibility Goose”?
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 1:59 pm
Next, I’ll talk about how my political career went over a cliff.
Comment by Moo Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:00 pm
I don’t care what Michael Carrigan said. It was a bad bill for the unions. I asked all of the legal experts at MIT about it.
What do you mean MIT doesn’t have a law school?
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:01 pm
“I know what it’s like to be alone. I mean alone. It’s tough being the brightest. I sit in my chair on the House Floor and gaze around. How did a smart guy like me find himself with so ‘unsmart’ people? Right? When I was a federal prosecutor, I’ve moved on, I would remind myself how fortunate America was to have my knowledge as a tool for criminals to face justice.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re not as smart as me. It’s ok. I’m here today to make sure that even though you know so much less than me, you’ll be ok.
I was going to teach you all something but as a former federal prosecutor, and dealing with juries, I had to know my audiences. I’m comfortable knowing I don’t want to waste all of our time, yours and mine, on my concepts and thoughts that maybe only 4-6% of the world could really grasp.
No. I won’t.
So today, let’s talk about humility… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:02 pm
“Great question, yes I think honesty and integrity are important traits for most legislators”.
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:02 pm
Children, if you want to avoid giving a straight answer, then seek outside counsel from Ivy League professors and vaguely claim a concern for a hypothetical future outcome. I know none of you are federal prosecutors so that may be difficult to understand, but that’s the point.
Comment by Excuse Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:03 pm
“No, autographs and pictures are for after I tell you how it is… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:05 pm
Anybody here hiring?
Comment by South of Sherman Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:05 pm
“Sure, I do serve the people, but if it feeds into my enormous ego at the same time… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:06 pm
“….technically I didn’t lie, because I had my fingers crossed”.
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:06 pm
“Ask me that again, I’ll have 2 FBI raid teams and an armored hum-vee in your driveway at sun-up… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:07 pm
“Another great question; yes apparently 1 vote can make a difference”.
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:08 pm
“Do I tbink I’m more important that some of my colleagues? … Which colleagues… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:08 pm
“Actually, my father’s name is Geppetto…why do you ask?”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:10 pm
“I would never lie to the Speaker… accidentally… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:10 pm
“No. Mr. Sandack isn’t a real owl… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:12 pm
“So make sure you all come out to see my new mocumentary, “An Inconvenient Untruth”.
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:12 pm
“Who are my best friends in Springfield? Ken Dunkin and Jeanne Ives. Who else? Well, pretty much everyone - staffers, lawmakers, legislative assistants, maintenance personnel, cafeteria workers, security guards, grounds people, reporters and lobbyists - despise me as a brittle prig. But, it’s a small price to pay for being morally superior to them all.”
Comment by Willie Stark Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:13 pm
No, my pants are NOT on fire! Stop chanting!
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:13 pm
“And that is how you get your name known all around the State…”
Comment by Jake From Elwood Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:14 pm
“So which one of you was the smartest person in the room before I walked in?”
Comment by Reformed Optimist Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:14 pm
“Now? Well now during Democratic Caucus I’ll probably go get something from the vending machines, stroll around the Capitol, might sneak in the Senate Gallery, watch them, I mean, I’ll have things to do… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:15 pm
“So then I said “Mr Speaker, OF COURSE I’ll vote for that” (little did he now it was opposite hour!)
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:15 pm
“At least Dunkin got a vacation out of it. Am I bitter? No. But… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:17 pm
“Kids, if it’s one lesson I leave you with it’s this. Sometimes you just have to double cross your friends. That way they’ll never doubt your value in the future.”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:17 pm
Do I prefer millionaires over Mike Madigan? Well, yes I do.
Comment by pool boy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:17 pm
“What grade is usually in this room?… 7th… knew it didn’t look familiar, see I skipped 7th grade. Didn’t NEED it. Seventh grade, for me, was like the Educational System wasting my time and holding me back fro being great… so I skipped it… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:19 pm
“Committee chairmanships, and extra responsibility are really overrated at this point. I mean who needs it? Amiright, amiright?”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:22 pm
“Doing my job requires me to care about 3 things; my district, my conscious, and my ego, not necessarily in that order, but you get what I’m saying… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:23 pm
“…so in closing I’d say that the double cross is a tricky move, but if played has some great ‘teachable moments’ afterward.”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:25 pm
“If I was down there to make friends I’d be wasting everyone’s time. I have a dog, k?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:26 pm
“…telling the truth is an ideal that we should usually try to live up to. At least for most people, at least part of the time.”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:28 pm
“Kids, I always try to start these meetings with an ice breaker. Anyone play 2 truths and a lie before?”
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:30 pm
===“Kids, I always try to start these meetings with an ice breaker. Anyone play 2 truths and a lie before?”===
Leader in the Clubhouse??
Well done.
“I have 3 bills still waiting for votes, but I’m not as optimistic as I once was, to be honest… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:32 pm
Caption: Today’s lesson was to teach kids the literal meaning of the word ostracized. Thank you for coming Representative Drury.
Comment by 360 Degree TurnAround Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:33 pm
OW - Thanks. I’m like a blind squirrel. Once and a while I come up with a nut.
Comment by How Ironic Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:35 pm
“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
–Leo Tolstoy
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:36 pm
Scott Drury finds the only group not inclined to turn their back on him.
Comment by Jocko Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:45 pm
“I never ask a question I don’t already know the answer to. Speaker Madigan, he forgot that.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:45 pm
OK, who called me a DINO?
Comment by Wensicia Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:47 pm
“How do I feel? You guys know how Wyle E. Coyote look like right before an anvil or a piano or even dynamite is about to cause havoc upon him. Just about like that, actually. I feel how he looks… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:47 pm
“That’s why I prefer a wall behind me… and not people.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:49 pm
“What do I think of my colleagues? I think very little of them actually… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:50 pm
“I did, I asked all 176 members if one would join me and stand up here with me today, and they were all busy. Ironic, I know.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:53 pm
As a federal prosecutor, I sent kids younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to, but I felt I owed it to them.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:55 pm
“I love that I’m not really liked. I love it. It feeds me. It makes me want to be even less unliked. I want sneers when I’m seen, I want hisses when I speak. I want eyes rolled by my seat mates, I want laughing when I’m done speaking. It means my genius scares them. Let me repeat that; it scares them. Greatness is never appreciated, and some are more popular, sure, well liked, most are even highly respectedm, but give me jeering colleagues, and I’ll show you a winner. That’s me…”
“Mr. Drury, no one asked you anything yet…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 2:59 pm
“Oh. So you guys read Capitol Fax?”
(Pause)
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:04 pm
Rep. Drury,
Would you sign a shirt with your famous “Former Federal Prosecutor” quote on it?
Asking for a friend…
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:06 pm
“When you are in a Caucus you never give a straight answer, they hold yiu to it. Be wishy-washy, then, when you have to lie, just make sure it’s ine person. That way, you won’t face the problems I have now… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:29 pm
Up against the wall, Rep. Drury tries to explain himself.
Comment by PublicServant Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:29 pm
After we’re finished, can one of you kids start my car?
Comment by Century Club Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:32 pm
So then, Terry Link told me there was no way in hell I would ever be Lake County State’s Attorney, and I wound up here lecturing my inferiors.
Comment by horse w/ no name Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:33 pm
- 47th Ward -
How about a Fresca?
“Caption?”
“Yeah, it’s a session day, but I’m hanging out in my district, until the heat dies down… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:44 pm
horse… lol
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:50 pm
I missed you yesterday on the Dunkin caption Willy. It just wasn’t the same without you.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:51 pm
- 47th Ward -,
That’s nice of you to say that, thanks, bud. Appreciate that.
Windshield time yesterday, but I enjoyed yours, and all the captions yesterday.
Dunkin will find his way back into another caption contest I bet…
Hope you’re well.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:57 pm
I asked the Speaker for permission to run.
Comment by jt Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 3:57 pm
‘And here’s the cool thing, kids. You don’t wanna go in to work for a vote on respecting your constituent’s wishes, no problem, just don’t show up. How’s THAT for a cushy job?’
Comment by sal-says Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 4:45 pm
Hey can someone please tell me why the Moody Brothers are knocking on doors in my district?
Comment by Retirement Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 4:45 pm
Geez, one bad vote and he sends me back to junior high?
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:07 pm
++- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:07 pm:++
Thanks for the laugh.
Comment by Mama Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:12 pm
“Governor Rauner and ‘ck’ asked me to come here today and ask your student council to pass the Turnaround Resolution… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:12 pm
“Hi Rich-
Rep. Drury reported back that Caruso Jr. High passed the Turnaround Resolution & added 30 minutes for lunch and recess.
Thanks!
ck”
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:14 pm
I consulted people out of the State of Illinois to find out what is best for you. I know what you want, but the folks on the east coast said you just don’t know any better.
Comment by burbanite Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 5:37 pm
“Oops. Here comes Dunkin. Never mind what I just said. Do the opposite!”
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Sep 9, 15 @ 6:29 pm