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Hackers are targeting state Democratic Party officials and have successfully breached and impersonated some of them, according to a message the Association of State Democratic Chairs sent Wednesday to its members.

“A number of chairs and state parties have been victims of hacks and impersonation recently,” read the email, which POLITICO obtained.

On Monday, [Raymond Buckley, president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs] posted on Facebook that his Twitter account was hacked last week and that Facebook had warned him about someone pretending to be him and trying to delete his profile. “Three other Dem State Chairs had their emails hacked,” he wrote in his post, which has since been deleted. “Interesting times.”

Speaker Madigan doesn’t use e-mail, doesn’t have a Facebook page and doesn’t use Twitter, so we can safely assume he wasn’t hacked.

* The Question: What would a hacked Democratic Party of Illinois Facebook page look like?

Snark is heavily encouraged, of course.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:18 pm

Comments

It would include a relevant, cohesive campaign message developed in a timely manner.

Comment by AC Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:21 pm
It would have a full, detailed budget posted including specific cuts and revenue increases.

Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:23 pm
Loudly trumpeting the turn around agenda, property tax freeze, eliminating the prevailing wage law, eliminating workers comp, a draft amendment for non-partisan redistricting, slashing social services, reducing the minimum wage law, eliminating the income tax on people making more than $1 million, increasing income taxes on people making less than $100k, bringing back debtor’s prison and proposed legislation for state wide right to work that eliminatea unions.

Comment by Huh? Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:26 pm
A link to give Donald Trump’s campaign exactly 27 dollars.

Comment by steward Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:26 pm
It would be up to date

Big clue that it was hacked

Comment by Publius Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:29 pm
It would likely include helpful instructions on how to preserve one’s freedom by becoming a “fair share payer” instead of an AFSCME member.

Comment by Dysfunction Junction Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:31 pm
“Site down for maintenance, we’re upgrading to GeoCities.”

Comment by The Captain Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:33 pm
Home of The New ILLINOIS GO (an independent project of the Illinois Policy Institute).

Comment by AC Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:34 pm
Anything besides plain text and the Google Calendar would be a sign it was a hack job.

Maybe the first time IL Dems are actually glad Madigan has not embraced technology.

Comment by siriusly Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:36 pm
Bill of sale: 1 soul to Beelzebub, angel of the bottomless pit.

Comment by X-prof Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:36 pm
I assume that it would direct you to Ron Sandack.

Comment by SAP Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:37 pm
… or equivalently, to MJM

Comment by X-prof Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:39 pm
Kelly Green everywhere…

“News From the Pond” - “Duckling” press releases, all the same with the usual 4-5 words swapped out for “locality”

“New Faces, New Places” - bragging posts about friends and family getting new patronage jobs and who to talk to about backfilling the old job.

“Look For The Union Label” - highlighting Rauner talking points and how Rauner labels Labor and Democrats as awful. Instead of a “thumbs up” like, you respond with “thumbs down” emojis.

“Teachers Are Our Future” - Democrats posing with teachers all over the state, with each Dem “magically” donating school supplies for the teacher’s class”

“Hard Hat Area!” - post and pictures of ongoing construction projects Democrats take credit for, or project “held hostage” to that mean ol’ Bruce Rauner!

“Aged Greatness” - pictures of Dems honoring a senior or senior group in House districts only.

“Senate Stuff” - usually has “Page Under Construction”, unless the House “stuff” needs a day to regroup.

“What’s Cookin’?” - allows visitors to ONLY add pork projects and must have a committeeman’s approval.

“Gerry’s Place” - suggesting district configurations, especially those packing as many Republicans in the fewest districts as possible. The Illinois Senate offshoot is offline and unavailable at this time.

“Sports, Sports, Sports” - selfies of Democrats at all kinds of sporting events, especially those either out of state, or Dold out to regular folk. After 26 minutes, the pictures are then deleted and ignored.

“High Scores” - post your high score on Candy Crunch…

This should not be confused with.,,

“High Lites” - Rep. Lang gives a special perspective to his “visions”, some might be about government.

Finally…

“We Love Feedback” - takes you to a page that closes the Window entirely.

“Contact Us” - Lists District Offices numbers with the disclaimer “Cell Phones not included”

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:39 pm
Gerry’s Place. LOL
That should be a featured location on the next episode of “Dad’s Home State”

Comment by Jake From Elwood Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:44 pm
It would have some quotes, highlighted, that would go something like this:

“Do you see, Mr. Mapes, once again I am always 13 steps ahead of everyone else. When Durbin and everyone said that doing social media was the cool thing to do back in 2010, I didn’t. Why? Because I know the Russians would start hacking sites in 2016. Again, I was several steps and years ahead of the curve on this and everything else.”

Comment by Downstate Dem Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:46 pm
I see a games section with Atari-like gameplay with titles like the “Dunkin Dunk Tank” or “Burris’ Gravestone”.
Don’t forget “Zelda and the Quest for Ballot Access.”

Comment by Jake From Elwood Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:48 pm
- Jake From Elwood -

Maybe it’s a bar Bruce goes to after a long, tough, day of hunting doves…

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:48 pm
“Mike Madigan accepted your friend request.”

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:58 pm
Profile pic would be Ken Dunkin

Comment by Michelle Flaherty Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 3:59 pm
This gives a completely new meaning to Friends of Mike Madigan.

Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:00 pm
Picture of Blagojevich with him claiming to have received a full Presidential Pardon. “I’m coming Baaack!”

Comment by Wensicia Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:00 pm
Jake, a couple more games for the arcade:

-”Three Dimensional Chess”

-”Brownie’s Virtual Reality”

Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:04 pm
“Proudly Sponsored by The Other Mike Madigan?”

Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:06 pm
“Speaker Madigan values your input! Contact him at [e-mail address] or on his cell phone at (555) 555-1212.”

Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:06 pm
One more game:

“Hot Pursuit with Chuck Goudie”

Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:07 pm
Given the likely source of the hack and the view some conservatives have of Democrats anyway, the whole thing would be in Cyrillic.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:13 pm
“Are your Property Taxes too high? Of course they are! Click here for a no-obligation consultation!” (Redirects to M & G site)

Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:25 pm
Some of your best work OW.

Comment by Indochine Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:25 pm
Giant Apple logo, of course.

No friend requests, or requests accepted. rather, The Chairman asks that you send the following message (of the day, posted each day) to your friends and send us the email address of the friends to whom you sent the message. Please fill out this form….fitting 25 contacts….. andsend to mushroomsinc@gmail.com

Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:41 pm
- Indochine -

Thanks, appreciate it.

“You’ll Be Fine” - advice post, answers emails, usually long winded ones, and you’d be surprised what the response is… every time.

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:42 pm
Giant Apple logo, of course.

no friends accepted or requested in the Facebook manner. Rather a message of the day posted and The Chairman requests that you send this message to your friends, and please report via this form (with spaces for 25 contacts) to mushroomsinc@gmail.com

Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:44 pm
sorry, many computer issues here. must be the grand investigation.

Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:44 pm
There would be a very large photo of Speaker Madigan announcing his retirement and asking everyone to back his replacement, Squeezy the Pension Python.

Comment by Small town taxpayer Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 4:49 pm
Anything from the movie tommy boy. Example provided
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ndS6yu3Kk

Comment by Gus Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 5:05 pm
Enter a policy proposal to see if it’s “Extreme!!!” or “Not Extreme!!!”

(every answer back is Extreme!!!)

Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 5:10 pm
an old-timey newspaper

Comment by 100 miles west Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 5:26 pm
No news to anyone, MJM is a sly boots.

Comment by Fr. Murphy Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 6:21 pm
@Gus

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2-UXlVDNI

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 7:21 pm
Steve Brown:

Very intrigued by this Guttenberg fellow in Germany and his communication advances.

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 7:29 pm
@Ducky
This is how they should act once they found out who hacked them. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DSg5LadKuS0

Comment by Gus Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 8:49 pm
If only the GOP got hacked. This would be a good one for them… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5v87OifFQNM

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Sep 14, 16 @ 10:59 pm
The “Original” Mike Madigan’s “Apple Barn.”

Comment by Leatherneck Thursday, Sep 15, 16 @ 8:01 am
I thought the Speaker had a twitter account a couple years ago with the handle “Da Speaker”. I miss those tweets.

Comment by Ahoy! Thursday, Sep 15, 16 @ 9:11 am
There would be NO discernible difference.

Comment by Groucho Thursday, Sep 15, 16 @ 9:32 am
Groucho wins.

lol

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Sep 15, 16 @ 9:36 am
I wonder if the IL GOP groups weren’t hacked and Sandack’s email had more than one would d expect.

Comment by Touré's Latte Thursday, Sep 15, 16 @ 11:07 am