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* A bus stop bench near the Statehouse…

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:02 am

Comments

Someone needs to do the exact same style with Gov. Rauner, but instead of strings, money flowing out of his fingertips.

Comment by Delimma Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:04 am
I mean an exact copy except replace the faces and strings with $100 bills.

Comment by Delimma Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:05 am
Maybe put disabled people and children into the corners like a trash heap.

Comment by Delimma Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:06 am
Having a Gov that wont or cant exercise his authority and perform his job adequately only empowers Madigan more. Name calling and bullying wont get the job done here.

Comment by Union Dues Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:07 am
Where is this?

Comment by m Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:09 am
Wow, an ad on a bus stop bench in Springfield. Devastating.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:12 am
Should be a couple of companions, one on each side:

The Destruction Belongs to Raunner.

and

The Incompetence Belongs to Raunner.

Comment by sal-says Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:14 am
I’m thinking most people who use that bench are not Raunerites.

Comment by MSIX Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:17 am
The victimhood is embarrasingly pathetic.

I guess here’s my question.

Let’s throw out prevailing wage, collective bargaining, right to work. It’s been shown there’s not a 60/30 avenue, Madigan or no Madigan to those being passed…

Let’s take away the constitutional amendments, including Madigan’s. Those are not about the “here” or the “now”…

If you take those away, and if Rauner cobbles an agenda that promotes a workmen’s comp prong, a property tax - school funding hybrid, the criminal justice reforms and the continued evolution of that, and an honest funding assessment, that’s not zero, of higher education and an hybrid economic plan for the college towns and the regions…

… then this bench would be a really powerful symbol of Madigan stopping progress…

… if Rauner’s cracker-jack legislative crew decided these plans and programs were just fodder and… never actually looked… for 60/30 that could be found, I feel, for these initiative.

“Show me something, Chick… ” - Bucky Weaver at third, waiting for Chick Gandil to actually… Try…

Cmon, Rauner Crew… it’s not Madigan… Look at doing the doable…

Show me something.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:17 am
All the negative ads and finger pointing in this election has done nothing but turn me off to those candidates. Anyone who votes based on TV ads and bench signs probably shouldn’t be voting

Comment by Momof2 Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:18 am
Sometimes those bus stop ads just don’t work as planned: http://bit.ly/2bHtXTG

Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:25 am
I was telling my wife last night it is sad that Gov Rauner has not learned a single thing in 2 years. You could play a recording of him on his campaign and first month in office and loop it. It would sound exactly the same today.

Madigan… he is the one to blame.
Madigan… he destroyed Illinois.
We need term limits.
We need Independent Maps.
We need to grow the economy.

People don’t disagree.. but you must first begin to “govern” the state. Something he has not learned and refuses to learn. He will destroy the GOP and they will all follow him to the gutter. A truly sad sight.

Comment by DHSBob Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:30 am
“All the negative ads and finger pointing in this election has done nothing but turn me off to those candidates…

Tell me about it. These pro/anti Bradley and Forby ads have aired so many times that they’ve become meaningless.

Comment by Southern Dawg Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:31 am
The Speaker looks better and better every day. His press conference at the State Fair was well executed and he had the reporters eating candy from his paws.

Comment by cgo75 Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:33 am
In the 45 years that I have been voting, not once have I been influenced by preaching-to-the-choir ads. I don’t pay attention to my party or the other party’s ads. I think the biggest winners in any election are the ad companies.

Comment by illinoised Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:33 am
@DHSBob - Sounds a little like another billionaire who believes he is above everyone else. Perhaps the comparisons being made are far more valid than is comfortable.

Comment by Delimma Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:33 am
I am not sure how this ad happened …. I thought Madigan also had control of the bus stop benches

Comment by theq Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:36 am
Seeing as money is basically power in this country nowadays…

I wonder what it’s like to have that much money and yet be that afraid.

Comment by GraduatedCollegeStudent Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:36 am
What DHSBob said. Dawg too. I’m starting to pick up the Bradley/Forby stuff as pop-up ads. Sheesh!

Comment by Way Way Down Here Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:36 am
So Madigan is kind of like the all powerful Wizard of Oz. Please Mr Wizard, give Rauner both a heart and a brain.

Comment by A Jack Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:47 am
Speaker Madigan says Governor Rauner is extreme in his approach to budget making so they have been unable to”meet in the middle” to make a deal. Is Senator Cullerton also dealing in the extreme? The Speaker has been unable to unite the Senate Democrats and House Democrats, no wonder there has been no deal with Rauner.

Comment by Lucky Pierre Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:50 am
Tacky. Let’s get one of Rauner on a motorcycle in his Carhartts hangin’ with all his trucker friends with his nine houses as the backdrop while he clouts his kids into CPS schools and claims that the teachers are illiterate while his wife tries to do some good and has to sign on to a lawsuit against the State. I’d sit on that bench.

Comment by SinkingShip Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:52 am
Is Gov. Rauner at the end of one of those strings?

Comment by cover Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 9:53 am
The embarrassment of riches. Pathetic.

Comment by Norseman Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:00 am
are they doing the bench/button thing outside of their State Fair bubble?

Comment by Amalia Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:05 am
Too much money. Too much time on their hands.

Comment by walker Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:06 am
I am an insider but my first thought is who is breaking election law and not disclosing who paid for it?

Comment by Spliff Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:08 am
“I think the biggest winners in any election are the ad companies.”

Nope.
It’s the TV stations.
I know.
I been there.

Comment by Southern Dawg Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:16 am
This looks like a junior high stunt. What next, writing on bathroom walls?

Comment by Tough Guy Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:27 am
RAUNER has learned nothing. He thinks stubbornness and money will eventually win. He has positioned republicans as helpless victims. There is no reason to vote for them, no matter how many ads try to tie their opponents to madigan.

Comment by Langhorne Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:28 am
First look I thought madigan has your back,will pull stings for voter veto override?

Comment by Rabid Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:37 am
That will be the next hit piece in the contested districts. Madigan as puppet master to all of the targets.
They haven’t gone off script yet to say anything but it’s Madigan’s, and whoever else is on the mailer’s ad, fault.

Comment by DuPage Bard Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 10:50 am
I like it a lot, really. But I wonder if it is legal. I think there is an argument to be made either way - it could be a “free speech” critique of Madigan.

It could also be a campaign sign pro-term limits, anti-Democratic legislative candidates. Yet there is no “Paid for By . . . ” political committee or PAC claiming ownership. Anonymous political advertising is not legal in this state - I sort of think this is an illegal sign. But still, I do like it the art and the style. Can I get a t-shirt ?

Comment by siriusly Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:28 am
More than likely the bench ad will generate more support for the Speaker not less. People like winners and Speaker Madigan is that.

Comment by Rod Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 11:42 am
The sign is 100% correct. Madigan is the Lord and Master of our state.We have not one legislator who will stand up to him.
The Wizard of OZ could not approach his power.

Comment by mokenavince Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:40 pm
===The Wizard of OZ could not approach his power. ===

lol

Step away from your TV.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:41 pm
It’s really hard to be impressed with the Governor’s money advantage when you see them keep blowing money on pointless stuff.

Comment by ILPundit Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:50 pm
mokinavince: hope you’re being sarcastic

Individual legislators stand up to him almost every day of session. Often in caucus a lack of support will cause him to change direction. He tries not to let a lot of members coalesce into a counter movement on any one issue, or he just pulls it and avoids the public conflict.

Madigan does what he can to maintain his all-powerful myth, however. It can be useful to him.

Comment by walker Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 12:57 pm
Looks like Eric Allie’s work. http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/65385b0d-bd2e-43d6-a78f-86e75ee0a2df.html

Comment by John Gregory (ex-IRN) Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 1:13 pm
I can see the right side of the bench defaced with Rauner bumber stickers. Power mad Rauner

Comment by Rabid Friday, Aug 19, 16 @ 2:51 pm