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* Jeanne Ives campaign…

To celebrate the holiday, I’ve come up with a special Valentine’s Day message:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sean Casten wants to raise taxes on you!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

* ILGOP…

In honor of Valentine’s Day this year, we wanted to share a poem that we wrote to Speaker Madigan.

Dear Madigan:

🌹Roses are red,🌹

💙Violets are blue,💙

Your network of political cronies

Are just as corrupt as you!

Higher taxes and more spending,

For you it’s nothing new,

🐘But the ILGOP says ENOUGH,🐘

🇺🇸And this November we’ll prove we’re through! 🇺🇸

* The Question: How about sending your own Valentine’s Day message? It can be political or personal. Up to you.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:39 pm

Comments

Roses are Red Violets are Blue
Sean Casten wants to end the SALT cap for you.

Comment by 17% Solution Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:44 pm
Oswego Willy, Thanks for driving away anyone with a different viewpoint. Dedicating your life to telling kids to get off your digital lawn is a noble vocation my friend.

Comment by Norville Rogers Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:45 pm
Roses are reds
Violets are blues
With nonsense like this
Dems are who voters will choose

Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:47 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
GOPies lost GovJunk
And got nuthin’ new

Comment by Annonin Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:47 pm
- Norville Rogers -

I’d ask you to be my valentine, but I’m living in your head rent free, and I can’t match such a gift.

To the question,

Roses are red,

Violets I’ve bumbled,

Here’s to a rebirth of the ILGOP

Hope you’ve been humbled

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:50 pm
Dear ILGOP,

I don’t need to rhyme,
to tell you how far you’ve strayed,
from Dirksen’s party

Comment by NIref Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:50 pm
I just got flowers delivered to me about 20 minutes ago.

Nobody has ever sent flowers to me unless I was in the hospital. lol

Life is good.

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:52 pm
To IL pols of a greedy nature:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The guy in the diaper
Has a subpoena for you

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:54 pm
Marigolds are orange,
Irises are purple.
Nothing rhymes with Capitolfax,
[Insert unrelated political jab here.]

Comment by Thomas Paine Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:55 pm
Dear Jeanne Ives,
Roses are red, violets are blue,
No one will ever elect you.

Comment by Cheryl44 Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 12:56 pm
Roses are red
Illinois voted blue
If the corruption don’t stop
I’ll be saying ‘adieu’

Comment by Tom Collins Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:00 pm
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I’m a fan of Rich Miller
and his commenters, too.
(Even when I disagree with them.)

Comment by JoanP Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:01 pm
To the ILGOP:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Constantly attacking Madigan
Has been terrible for you

Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:02 pm
Speaking of holidays, Happy Birthday Mr. Frederick Douglass. I hope we’re closer to re-naming a park after you.

Comment by Cheryl44 Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:04 pm
2 cool 2 b 4gotten

Think of this as one of those little heart shaped candies with a message written on it like we all used to trade at grade school. This one is dedicated to Mike Madigan

Comment by Responsa Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:05 pm
Does the GOP poem really read: “And this November we’ll prove we’re through”?

Is that a Freudian slip?

[Sent again because of previous inadvertent banned punctuation.]

Comment by South of Sherman Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:06 pm
In 2012, Joe Berrios’ opponent for Committeeman, Alonso Zaragoza, put an ad in the Sun Times that said

Happy V-day Uncle Joe,
Thank you for the jobs and promotions.
We couldn’t have gotten them without you.
With love, the Berrios family

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-berrios-cook-county-a_n_1280138

Alonso didn’t win but he got a lot of free media from the story

Comment by Oak Parker Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:07 pm
Rich, those flowers were for Oscar

Comment by Oak Parker Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:08 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue

I don’t miss the RaunerS
But miss Slip and Sue

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:08 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Violet
JB saved some big bucks
By pulling out his toilet

Comment by Oak Parker Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:10 pm
Cheryl 44’s comment made me think of this book: Douglass’ Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Worth a read for anyone who wants a more personal view of Frederick Douglass’ complex and very interesting life.

Comment by Responsa Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:11 pm
Roses are red
Violets are blue
most poems rhyme
but mine don’t

Comment by Groucho Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:12 pm
Rich, you would delete any poem I would address to Ives

Comment by Lt Guv Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:17 pm
Roses are many colors,
Violets, just one,
Illinois, the state I love
has ceased to be fun.

Comment by A Guy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:19 pm
My ode today is to “Lucky Pierre”
The commenter we know, extraordinaire

Fun it has been jousting in word
Even if your arguments are sometime absurd

We agreed that a student was someone to cheer
It was groundbreaking, I shed a tear

New leaders are in the points still the same
Voters have spoken they placed some of the blame

Comic chops you show, they make me snicker
Others bring a laugh, you’re quite the quipper

Happy Valentines Day, wish you the best
Good tidings too, and all of the rest

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:21 pm
Rich in the hospital? What is it? It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important now. Get well soon, Illinois and Oscar need you.
And as seen online (with a photo of a Doberman holding a red rose in mouth) “Roses are red. I love you. The End.”

Comment by revvedup Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:22 pm
Roses are red
violets are blue
Crime is down
A lie believed by very few

Comment by Bernie Epton RIP Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:36 pm
For MJM,

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
If the feds keep on circlin’
Michael’s ranks will be few

Comment by Jocko Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:45 pm
Oscar’s the Valentine
we all like.
He makes our troubles
take a hike.

Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:47 pm
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Come November, Jeannie Ives,
We’ll be through with you.

Comment by Froganon Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:49 pm
To SafeSpeed:

Stoplights are red,
SafeSpeed is blue
Because it looks as if
Its business is through

Comment by Bourbon Street Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:50 pm
Roses are red
Sunflowers are gold
I’ll send warm thoughts
Because we’re too cold

Comment by Wensicia Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:50 pm
To Illinois voters:

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
Illinois GOP,
is bad for you.

Comment by SpfdNewb Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:51 pm
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Jeanne Ives is a nut
Half her party is too.

Comment by train111 Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 1:52 pm
Bulls are Red
Cubbies are Blue
Thank goodness Chicago has
The White Sox, too.

Comment by Responsa Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:01 pm
Roses are red
Illinois is blue
Jeannie Ives
It must hurt
To be you.
You resemble Miss Warren
Ranting, waving, and flailing.
She sinks in the polls
And so do you.

Comment by Rudy’s teeth Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:06 pm
A bright red helicopter has been low buzzing my neighborhood for over 10 minutes. Wish I knew if it is for an emergency or if somebody’s buzzing their spouse or sig other for valentines day.

Comment by Responsa Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:36 pm
Dear Illinois,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
When banks cut you off
Its bankruptcy for you

Comment by Reality Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:38 pm
Grass is green
Pools are blue
Can’t wait for Spring
How about you?

Comment by pool boy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:47 pm
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
More taxes and spending,
For Illinois and you.

Comment by Louis G Atsaves Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:55 pm
To our Governor

Roses are red
Violets are blue
DCFS is in trouble
We’re paying attention
And so should you.

Comment by dbk Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 2:57 pm
A valentines poem to the Raunerites
Destruction and pain the voters disliked

You followed a couple that misled their goals
Now it’s all over you lost at the polls

Fear not you can change though beat to the pulpa
Voters will forgive say a true mea culpa

Too far you did venture, too far said the people
You hoped for followers you wanted sheeple

So this poem for you I hope you find helpful
If your do half of this I’ll come back if you’re not careful

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 3:11 pm
Safespeed light is red
politicians are blue.
The feds got some
and they’re coming for you

Comment by Jibba Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 3:31 pm
I pronounced the last word as “thruff” because my brain was trying to make it rhyme

Comment by dogonsheffield Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 3:35 pm
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
So many candidates and brands,
Don’t know how the meter of this poem works and it’s painful.

Comment by lakeside Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 3:56 pm
Roses are Red
Potatoes are Browner
What would Oswego Willy do
if he couldn’t blame Rauner

Comment by Walleye Soup Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 4:07 pm
To Jim Oberweis I write you this poem
Known as the milk man, I’m sure we all know him

Helicopters and walls you want Illinois great
You think it’s for love still it’s peddled hate

Rebranding ice cream seems rather easy
Trying to hide your beliefs that is rather sleazy

Purity and perfection your mantra to party
You think that this helps you think you’re a smarty

Good luck as you run for the umpteenth time
As you talk as you bellow some uneasy slime

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your family
Some based in Florida going full shammy

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 14, 20 @ 4:23 pm

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