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How Bruce met Rahm

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* Good stuff in here. Too much to excerpt. But they go back a long way…

MODERATOR DAVID KAHNWEILER: Do you mind talking about Rahm a little bit?

RAUNER: OK.

KAHNWEILER: I’ve known you for a very long time. Rahm’s been at all the family events, the bat matzvahs and, I mean, I remember at, I think, at Meg’s bat mitzvah where you were in private equity and he was in Congress and you’re paying for dinner and he’s razzing you about threatening, you know, to raise taxes on your, uh…

RAUNER: On capital gains, yeah. Yeah.

KAHNWEILER: On capital gains. And your relationship has always been one of just needling each other. So is this just more needling going on in the last few weeks or is it getting to be a little sharper than needles?

RAUNER: No. It’s way more sharper than – there’s really a lot on the line.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 2:54 pm

Comments

When I read this, all I kept hearing was Billy Batts describing, to his Crew, about how he met Spit Shine Tommy…

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 2:59 pm
Rauner: “I said, ‘But we take risk. We have to show judgment and we don’t get paid for eight years. We have to do – we have to make a lot of money for our partners first and then we make money. And we have to take risk. And we get paid eight years later. This is an apprentice business. You don’t get – you know, it’s hard. If you want to be an apprentice, I’ll train ya.’”

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The eight years comment stuck out to me. Runnin’ Illinois like a bidness! /s

Comment by Anon221 Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:04 pm
I always forget Rauner’s kids are Jewish. I guess because he didn’t instagram it while droppin’ by Charlie Parker’s after church yesterday.

Comment by crazybleedingheart Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm
Talk about “meh.”

Comment by My New Handle Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:09 pm
OW wins the day

Comment by Grass Bowl Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:10 pm
Long before Ernest and Julio sold their first bottle of wine, they had to to sow some seeds.

Comment by Blue dog dem Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:34 pm
“Way more sharper than”?

Oy!

Comment by Cubs in '16 Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:39 pm
OW - I think you found a title for one of your future HBO episodes. It could be one of those that starts out in the present and then goes back in time as Bruce looks off into the distance.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:44 pm
OW - could call but it’s more like Billy Bats meets Gordon “Greed is good!” Gekko.

You have to wonder what the investments were that MRE brought to BR and whether in his haste to get rich quick any corners were cut? If Clinton White House information was used it could be a campaign issue this Fall.

This post is absolutely great insight on the City of Chicago’s pathologically competitive mayor and his will to succeed quickly and by any means necessary.

Comment by Uber Man Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:48 pm
The biggest irony in this is Rahm saying he wants to be a partner. Bruce asking him if he knows anything about finance. Rahm saying no but he’s gonna start at the top anyway. Bruce asking him if he even knows what a spread sheet is and basically tells him he can’t be a partner because he doesn’t know anything.

Sooooo Bruce? Do you know anything about government? Have you ever negotiated with anyone you couldn’t just fire? I mean, maybe you should run for something first to see how this works.

Bruce: No. I’m gonna be Governor. And I don’t fail at anything.

Wow.

Comment by sideline watcher Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:56 pm
+1 to Sideline

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 3:58 pm
(Tips cap to - Grass Bowl -)

- Anonymous -, you could do a “Remember when” episode. Bruce and Diana reminiscing, each character come in, tell a remember when story, lots of guest stars… I hear ya.

- Uber Man -, yeah, like a hybrid of the two, “but with a dark side”

Maybe for another project in its own, “DHS” is still just excited having a staple cast character back, lol

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:01 pm
Rauner tells a good story.

I’m surprised he didn’t know who Rahm was before agreeing to meet with him. Rahm was a well-known White House adviser on issues like NAFTA and the Crime Bill.

As a smart and busy businessman, I would expect Rauner to have a brief summary on Rahm before the meeting to help focus the discussion. If I was meeting with someone high up in the current presidential administration I would be prepared to ask some questions that could inform my business decisions.

Comment by Chicago Guy Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:12 pm
When I read the headline, I imagined the theme to Somewhere in Time playing in the background while Emanuel and Rahm were brought together to pursue the kind of wealth that hadn’t been seen since the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller.

Comment by AC Monday, Jan 25, 16 @ 4:46 pm
I don’t believe a word of it.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Jan 26, 16 @ 9:09 am