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* Today…
Before I met with Kool to talk about clean energy, I had to ask him what his favorite @KoolntheGngLIVE song is. #KoolandtheGov pic.twitter.com/74lhdohjO5
— Bruce Rauner (@GovRauner) January 13, 2017
My personal fave is “Jungle Boogie.” Man, that song rocked…
Feel the funk y’all
* But what’s up with the clean energy stuff? I Googled it and initially came up with a couple of stories from 2008 like this one…
In one TV commercial, Kool and the Gang warble their celebration of good times because coal, yes, coal, makes the party possible in America. In another, white and black, young and old, male and female, and even someone in a doctor’s green scrubs, stare into the camera and soulfully declare: “I believe” American know-how will make coal clean and stop it from contributing to climate change. Not sold? Maybe you missed the newspaper ads and billboards warning that turning away from coal could mean blackouts, unemployment and higher electric bills.
* But in an interview last August, Kool said he’s now taking a different route…
I am working in solar energy. I’m working with the Chicago Institute of Technology. I’m talking to some people about solar energy. There is sustainable energy in Africa. Look at Africa. There is 80 percent sun all the time. I’m in the process of just bringing people to the table right now. I’m doing the introductions. I’m doing this because solar energy is clean. It’s the way of the future. “Klean” energy is Kool.
More here.
Cool… I mean… Kool.
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:16 pm
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Well, I see that he is “Kool” enough to be worthy of a Rauner tie. That’s something.
Comment by Blago's Hare Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:24 pm
===Chicago Institute of Technology===
Lol, is that a new skool?
Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:30 pm
“Before I met with Kool to talk about clean energy,..”
Stranger than (pulp) fiction.
“What now? Lemme tell you what now, Kool. I’m gonna call a couple latte-sippin’ Frat Boys to go medieval on Madigan with robo-calls and emails…”
Comment by wordslinger Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:37 pm
Did he mean Illinois Institute of Technology? That would make sense.
Also, Rich, I would’ve guessed your favorite was “Misled”
Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:38 pm
Good for Kool. Takes $ from music and shifts gears to another life
Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 1:55 pm
Illinois……Illinois’ Swingin’!
Maybe not so much.
Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 2:05 pm
You know lance has got celebration cranked up the frat house after an up day on afscme results
Comment by Rabid Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 2:29 pm
What’s Sly doing these days? Maybe he should check in too.
Comment by A guy Friday, Jan 13, 17 @ 2:39 pm