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* From yesterday…
Fun fact- The room in the Exec. Mansion today called the Lincoln Room was not always a bedroom. Click for more: https://t.co/QhQYxidwuY pic.twitter.com/OtiVhce8RY
— Bruce Rauner (@GovRauner) December 20, 2016
* That tweet inspired some high quality trolling…
@GovRauner @RayLong Fun fact - The homeless shelter in Uptown that you used as a political prop will close bc no budget.
— Lane Foxtree (@LaneFoxtree) December 21, 2016
@GovRauner Fun fact- "Turnaround Agenda" will only add $510 million to state coffers. But don't take my word for it: https://t.co/p3ZBTXYjaN
— Lane Foxtree (@LaneFoxtree) December 21, 2016
@GovRauner Fun fact- "Rogue One" is on its way to generating more $$$ than your so-called "Turnaround Agenda."
— Lane Foxtree (@LaneFoxtree) December 21, 2016
.@GovRauner is that bedroom open for the 72 people put out on the streets when the shelter in uptown closes? Baby, it's cold outside. #twill
— Emily Miller (@EJMill) December 20, 2016
.@GovRauner:#funfact I hope you'll help share: social services & universities have no funding as of 1/1/17. Maybe it's time for a budget?
— Emily Miller (@EJMill) December 21, 2016
I monitor the governor’s Twitter account all day and I’ve noticed a definite uptick in anti-Rauner tweets since the election ended as liberals take out their frustrations on the nearest Republican. But the Democratic Party itself has given Rauner free rein on social media for two years.
* There were also some counter-trolls yesterday, mainly like this one…
@EJMill @GovRauner Blame Madigan and his cronies
— Ron Duda (@RonDuda) December 21, 2016
Can you imagine if Speaker Madigan had his own Twitter account? Whew.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:19 am
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The DPI messaging and social media presence is shameful, but you’d think ISDVF could pick up some of the anti-Rauner slack.
Comment by Precinct Captain Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:24 am
The Facts of what Rauner has done to the state are anything but Fun.
Comment by DuPage Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:32 am
Question of the day:
Nominate the best location for the “Rauner Room.”
Comment by AlfondoGonz Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:36 am
“But the Democratic Party itself has given Rauner free rein on social media for two years.”
Maybe for Christmas we could chip in and buy the IL Dem Party a Commodore 64 or an IBM PCjr.
Comment by Nick Name Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:38 am
==Maybe for Christmas we could chip in and buy the IL Dem Party a Commodore 64 or an IBM PCjr.==
Or an Apple Lisa?
Comment by AC Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:42 am
Alfondo - as a counter perhaps we can rename a lavatory inside the Mansion as the “Madigan Bathroom”. The jokes write themselves.
Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:42 am
Anyone simply stating blame Madigan at this point takes me back to my adolescent days when the kids would say “I know you are but what am I?” It’s that tiresome already.
Yes, we all know Madigan has a hand, and a big one at that, in this whole mess but if I’m going to see the light at the end of the Rauner tunnel I want some hard numbers as to how much our state is going to benefit from his agenda items. I mean if the savings were truly monumental enough to justify burning everything down outside of K-12 surely he’d be shoving the data down our throats. The fact that he isn’t, or won’t, is very telling.
Comment by CrazyHorse Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:43 am
“some high quality trolling”
Good stuff! 1st Amendment at one of its finest moment!
Comment by cdog Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:44 am
Exactly correct, Rich - “But the Democratic Party itself has given Rauner free rein on social media for two years.”
I used to think the Rauner Press Shop was incapable of crafting a believable message, yet they have been quite capable of using social media to their benefit and without any effective counter messaging.
Maybe I should get on social media myself to better follow what is going on!!!!
Maybe the Donald is taking some notes from BVR - should be interesting to see what he continues to come up with after Jan. 20.
Comment by illini Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:47 am
—-The Facts of what Rauner has done to the state are anything but Fun.—-
The Facts of what Madigan has done to the state are devastating.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:49 am
Emily Miller at her absolute finest. She’s an asset to IL. Wouldn’t it be great if the Governor would meet with her…she surely can “shakeup Springfield.” Difference between her shaking things up compared to the Governor is she could actually get us a budget.
Comment by Facts aren't fun Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:55 am
This is becoming a bit of an echo chamber.
Comment by Downstate Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:55 am
Madigan with a twitter account would be a real snooze fest. Although I can imagine the trolling of him.
Comment by Levois Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 10:56 am
==This is becoming a bit of an echo chamber.==
All our Governor has said for his entire term is BLAME MADIGAN! If you are hearing echoes, listen for Rauner’s, his is certainly the loudest. M-A-D-I-G-A-N!!!!
Comment by CrazyHorse Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:03 am
I can’t respect Emily Miller.
She’s so great.
===But the Democratic Party itself has given Rauner free rein on social media for two years.===
Can’t beat something with nothing.
It’s mind-boggling the complete lacking in messaging by the ILDems
It’s more speechless than I am that they don’t have a voice.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:17 am
Putting politics aside for perhaps just a moment—- I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing these and other old photos of our past governors celebrating the holidays and the styles of the interiors of the governors’ mansion over the years, which have been dug out of the archives and published recently. They are all part of our state’s illustrious history. It doesn’t hurt to look at the past fondly without dragging in modern day cynicism about absolutely everything, you know?
Comment by Responsa Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:20 am
Still tryin’ to make connection between the BigBrain free reign on social media and how his persuaded folks to buy into his B* as path to prosperity. We will ponder as the true rocket scientist wing of the Capt Fax blogosphere holds forth.
Comment by Anonnin' Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:25 am
I can’t respect Emily Miller “any more than I already do”, she’s so great.
Dumb phone.
My humblest apologies.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:27 am
People here tout Emily Miller as some paragon of virtue. These tweets are the work of a partisan hack, not someone who is employed by an organization whose mission is to advance Christian principles of housing, clothing and feeding the poor.
You want to be a partisan? Put on a D or R jersey and get in the game.
You want to live the Gospel? Influence civil authorities by being humble and non-judgmental.
On a more practical level, you are likely costing your organization money by tweeting like this and if I were on your board I’d call you to account for it.
Comment by L.Swaryin Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:27 am
===Still tryin’ to make connection between the BigBrain free reign on social media and how his persuaded folks to buy into his B* as path to prosperity.===
- Anonnin’ -
With great respect,
This is why it’s failing. Giving up a whole messaging apparatus hasn’t helped.
You can’t make the argument it hasn’t hurt.
The Anti-Raunerites would like to see some blowback, and nothing has been seen by the Democratic Majority.
“Still tryin’ to make connection between the BigBrain free reign on social media and how his persuaded folks to buy into his B* as path to prosperity.”
This might not be the best question to ask when HDems lose the messaging battle. Daily.
With sincere, no decoder ring needed, respect.
OW
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:31 am
== Or an Apple Lisa? ==
Or a Trash 80?
Comment by RNUG Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:32 am
@ nick name
Maybe even a TRS 80?
Comment by Former hillrod Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:34 am
A statement from today’s Capitol Fax bears repeating…Throw a couple of victories at the guy and let’s move the heck on already.
AMEN!
Comment by KAA-boom Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:36 am
- L.Swaryin -
I dunno if purposely knocking Emily Miller to rehabilitate the Governor, given “change is hard” floating out there, is a smart tact.
Ms. Miller’s body of work speaks volumes against your snarky swipe at her.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:37 am
The Democratic Party in Illinois has given everyone a free pass on social media for years. Individual candidates and electeds have had a presence, but the party orgs have been noticeably absent.
Comment by Anonish Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:37 am
“employed by an organization whose mission is to advance Christian principles”
Your attack of Emily is off-the-mark bullying.
Maybe she should consider going to the “temple” and flipping some tables?
A Christian should not fear a righteous confrontation and should speak up truthfully and bigly. 🤓
Comment by cdog Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:40 am
So the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless said it wasn’t necessarily it was the City and not necessarily the State’s faule that shelter was closing, but I guess Lane Foxtree (whoever that is) knows better.
He also said the turnaround agenda will ONLY add $510, and somehow that is a bad thing? I know it is much less than the Governor is saying, but that’s not really much of a burn. An extra $5oo million in revenue would translates into $5 billion bonded of 10 years for infrastructure. Sounds OK to me. I think Lane Foxtree, (again I don’t know who that is, nor do I care) isn’t very good at this whole twitter thing.
Comment by Jaded Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:43 am
Sorry for the typos, hard to review my typing on my dumbphone.
Comment by Jaded Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:45 am
@KAAboom - “Throw a couple of victories at the guy and let’s move the heck on already.”
And exactly what would those victories be and what would be the unrealized costs to Illinois?
Comment by illini Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:50 am
#FunFacts #WhatsChanged?
-Illinois colleges used to receive state funding.
-Governors used to submit budgets to the GA.
-The governor hasn’t provided quantifiable data to support his plans in almost two years.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:50 am
Oops! Anon@11:50 was me.
Comment by Jocko Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 11:51 am
“@ nick name
Maybe even a TRS 80?”
Or the Banana Jr. 6000 from Bloom County.
Comment by Nick Name Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 12:17 pm
…and ck will say, we need more of what Rauner is sellin’.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 12:40 pm
The Democratic Party doesn’t need old computers, they need the HAL 9000. After all, it was built at the University of Illinois!
Comment by Steve Rogers Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 12:48 pm
If - and I know this is completely hypothetical - MJM started a Twitter account then I would join Twitter just to troll him. And mess with my brother. But mostly to troll Speaker Madigan.
Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 1:00 pm
Jaded - that was my thought as well. It was made pretty clear yesterday that the closing of the shelter is due to a multitude of issues and funding problems.
Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 1:03 pm
Fun Fact: Raising the state income tax rate from 3% to 5% would cost a child in Illinois $1.5M in lost savings at the time of his retirement.
Comment by City Zen Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 2:20 pm
Oh - City Zen -
When Rauner shuts down state universities, they’ll be moving out of Illinois anyway.
This is a fun game.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 2:24 pm
OW - No need to condemn my kids to Illinois universities. Everyone else in America seems to have a choice. I assume my kids will exercise that right as well.
Comment by City Zen Wednesday, Dec 21, 16 @ 2:55 pm