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* Sneed…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a heat-seeking missile, just got bazooka’d by Gov. Pat Quinn’s populist popgun.
◆ Translation: The pile driver just got poked.
◆ To wit: Rahm may be a tough cookie, but he got bitten in the butt by Quinn’s refusal Monday to back Rahm’s plan to solve the city’s pension crisis on the back of Chicago’s property tax payers.
◆ Upshot: It forced Rahm, the tough, foul-mouthed scrapper and tough, taciturn Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, D-Chicago, to erase language from legislation mandating a huge Chicago property tax hike.
◆ Hmmm: It begs the question: Didn’t Rahm know how Quinn felt about the property tax hike in the first place?
◆ Wow! How is Rahm, who is a close friend of GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, going to heal this ow ow now?
Ironically, Quinn dissed the property tax increase while announcing a massive plan to fix Chicago’s potholes with state funds
* The Question: What do you think the next conversation between the two men will be like? No profanity, please. Yeah, I know that makes it tougher and far less believable, but I don’t wanna spend all day deleting comments. One and only warning. Thanks.
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:04 pm
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Quinn: “Don’t you know how to pick up a phone? You want these guys to fall on their sword for you and you can’t even make a call or two?”
Emanuel: “That’s what I have people for.”
Quinn: “Yeah, well, your people didn’t do their job.”
Comment by Formerly Known As... Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:08 pm
(phone) Rinnng!
Rahm - “Hello, Mayor’s Office”
PQ - “Rahm it’s Pat Quinn, the Governor.”
Rahm - “Who?”
Comment by Irish Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:17 pm
Quinn: “You’re not in Wonderland anymore. You can’t just order things and expect it to happen.”
Rahm: “%#$@ why not? Don’t we pay all the *&^%$ money into the State Treasury? Aren’t we ^#%%# golden?”
Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:20 pm
PQ-”Rahm, this is the Gove…” (click)
Comment by OurMagician Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:25 pm
RE: @#*(%$^^%4# *$)_#_
PQ: Sure….whatevs.
RE: @@#$ %^%& ^*&* #&%(^$
PQ: You too.
Comment by Living in Machiaville Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:26 pm
Quinn: “Don’t understand why I missed your e-mails, Rahm, must of went straight to spam for some reason. ” Hangs up phone.
“Heh… those profanity filters do serve a useful purpose.”
Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:27 pm
PQ - “Rahm don’t hang up i told the secretary I was Bruce Rauner and she put me right through”
Comment by PoolGuy Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:33 pm
(Riiiing)
RM: Hello, crisis is opportunity center. What can I do to, er, for you?
PQ: Do-over?
And if I may suggest a follow-up question: “What cliched, hackneyed, tired and trite expression hasn’t Michael Sneed used yet?”
Comment by Northsider Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:34 pm
Whoops. Should’ve been “RE”.
REWRITE!
Comment by Northsider Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:35 pm
Sorry Pat I don’t know anyone who is hiring, have you asked Paul if his firm is hiring.
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:39 pm
If you say “The people of Illinois good and true” one more time, we are going to have an Arby’s moment.
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:41 pm
Quinn better be careful, the last time a governor said no to Rahm he got 14 years.
Comment by William j Kelly Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:41 pm
Ring Ring!
PQ - “Hello, Wise and Powerful Leader of the Great Land of Lincoln here.”
Rahm, “Hey Flip Flop is that You?”
PQ - “What?”
Rahm - “YOU called ME out on a tax increase?”
PQ “Um”
Rahm - “You are dead to me. Lose my phone number. I’ll get what I want in January….. from Bruce!”
PQ - “Um”
(click)
Comment by Irish Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:52 pm
I’m sure Quinn’s monologue from the other day on the evils of raising taxes on working families will come in handy for Rauner and the Quinnochio campaign.
Comment by Just Me Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 12:56 pm
PQ: Good thing Griffin likes Bruce as much as me and you.
RA: #$%&$@#!!
Comment by Hans Sanity Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 1:26 pm
“Congratulations on your reelection, Governor.”
– MrJM
Comment by MrJM Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 1:37 pm
Rahm: [expletives deleted] you [expletive deleted] and furthermore [expletive deleted] with [expletive deleted] while [expletive delted] I told [expletive deleted] my [expletive deleted] to [expletive deleted]
PQ: I’m already on the hook for one tax increase. We can’t be responsible for yours as well. Raise your own darned taxes.
Comment by Jimbo Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 1:40 pm
Quinn to Rahm “Please send someone over to the Mansion to remove the horse head from my bed”
Comment by Empty Suit Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 1:58 pm
[cell phone ringing]
Quinn, bracing himself for what he thinks will be a earful from Rahm, takes a deep breath and answers the phone.
Pat: “Hello, Mayor?”
Rahm: “Hi Pat. Rahm here. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for covering my back on that hugely unpopular property tax increase. You know I’ve been saying that it would drive out Chicagoans. Whew!! The unions, they’ll be okay because their pensions will be funded. You saved me a lot of grief from homeowners.”
Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 2:11 pm
“The Speaker called me to ask you a question on his behalf instead of asking you directly. He wants to know what happened to the doomsday speech.”
Comment by Dirty Red Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 2:15 pm
Gov. Quinn, feeling a need to connect with Mayor Emanuel to smooth things over, phones him and gets the following message:
“I’m sorry I’m not available right now. I’ve gone fishing with a certain buddy.”
Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 2:20 pm
PQ: I realize that your pal Bruce would like my fingerprints on your property tax hike, but I respectfully decline.
Comment by cicero Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 2:26 pm
PQ: Hello? Is this the Red Roof Inn calling me back about the extra $1 charge I noticed on my bill?
RE: No, it’s Rahm. Rich Miller said I can’t curse.
PQ: Cursing, wow, yeah, that’s an important part of our democracy, but it isn’t the right thing sometimes, you know, I’ve worked night and day on when the right time to curse is…
RE: Do I need to remind you who I am? I’ve worked for two presidents!
PQ: Yeah, that’s great, two presidents, yeah, you’re in great company, working for two presidents…but y’know, Mike Madigan is working with me now, not against me, so you know, you are really….hang on, gotta take this other call.
PQ:
Comment by Robert the Bruce Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 2:28 pm
What a mess.
Comment by Tommy Long Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 3:02 pm
PQ:”Thanks for the fish”
RE:”No problem. What’ya say we all three go for a swim?
Comment by A guy... Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 3:14 pm
Hey Pat, Let me help you with them potholes. I’ve got some fill. Let’s look for a deep one, you know and a little over 6 feet long.
Comment by A guy... Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 3:15 pm
PQ: “Now go home and get your shine box!”
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 4:34 pm
Rahm: But you know that I would lay down in front of a bus for you, Pat. Why can’t you do that for me?
Pat: Talk to your buddy, Mike. I haven’t even seen him willing step out into traffic much less in front of a bus for the anybody. I have got my hands full with Rauner. I am not about to give Bruce an early Christmas present. His stocking runneth over as it is.
Comment by Frosty-The Snowman Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 4:56 pm
Q.: “Sorry Rahm, but like I said–can’t help ya out–at least THIS year. Now if we all work together and ya can do what ya CAN to keep me down here in Springfield, we can talk more about this NEXT year, and, of course, I’LL be there for ya to do what I, TOO, then, can do to help keep YOU in Office as MAYor.”
RE: “Well, coulda really used your help THIS year, Pat, but I get it. We’ll go with what we can get down there for now–and I’ll be on board to lend a hand to ya leadin’ up to the General–but I AM holdin’ ya to that ‘we’ll talk NEXT year and you’ll be there for ME, TOO, before next FEBruary’s CITY Election…!”
Q: “Sounds good Rahm–talk to ya.”
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 7:57 pm
“Mayor, I’ve changed my mind.”
“About pensions?”
“No, about potholes. We’re not gonna fill em with state funds.”
“What the…”
“Let’s fill the potholes with Sneed.”
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Tuesday, Apr 8, 14 @ 11:40 pm