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* “Soft circles” essentially means conditional commitments…
Gov. Bruce Rauner talks about getting a U of Ill campus in Chicago, Rockford, Peoria and the Quad-Cities. "It's totally doable, I don't want to jinx it but I got soft circles with their alumni." He said during a meeting with the @qctimes Editorial Board. @GovRauner @BruceRauner pic.twitter.com/0M9×9JBffo
— Kevin E. Schmidt (@maquoketaphoto) September 17, 2018
* Anyway, from the accompanying pic…
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:24 pm
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I’ll match what JB is giving to local Democratic Party organizations. Wink, wink.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:25 pm
“It’s not that I don’t care, I care too much.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:26 pm
“I ran for Governor to make Illinois better”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm
“I didn’t sabotage the Grand Bargain”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm
“I’m not anti-union.”
Comment by Reality Check Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:27 pm
“I’m so angry at Rahm”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm
“Diana is mild-mannered First Lady, no role in my Administration”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm
“I buy wine off the rack”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:28 pm
“I had no social agenda”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm
No it’s not a turnaround agenda, it’s “incremental progress.”
Comment by Pundent Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm
“I learned so much. I won’t act the same next term.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:29 pm
“I’m not rich, I just have a few dollars here and there.“
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:30 pm
“I love all universities the same”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:30 pm
How you doin…
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm
“Hey Willy, we good?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm
I need four more years so I can cure my insomnia with another budget impasse.
Comment by A Jack Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm
You think your rich guy is going to do that much better than me or the last two guys… good luck with that
Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:31 pm
“I’m just sick over all that’s happened”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:32 pm
I promise you, former Ives’ supporters, I only see things on the political right, now. You can trust me. No more looking towards the left.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:32 pm
“I called Madigan, Cullerton, even Ives… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:33 pm
“Cardinal, don’t worry, I’m vetoing HB40”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm
Oops. 12:32 was YC.
Comment by Yiddishcowboy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm
“Just to be clear, I’m lyin’ about all those U of I campuses…”
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm
“Go Steelers, you know what I mean… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:34 pm
“I follow the Red Sox… as a hobby”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:35 pm
“I have *some* land in Montana… it has its own zip code…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:36 pm
“See, I do own a tie”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:36 pm
I called Speaker Madigan election night.
Comment by Keyrock Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:37 pm
“The U of I was my fall back school”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:37 pm
“Payton Prep got $250,000 from me… it happens”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:38 pm
“I would never use clout to deny a child at Payton Prep”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:39 pm
I’m doomed.
See you in hell.
Comment by LBJ Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:41 pm
“Ambassador Rauner sounds pretty sweet too… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:43 pm
Hi, I’m from the gubmint, I’m here to hep ya.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm
“You take that check, HRO, and go get yourself something nice…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm
I’m successful at everything I’ve ever done.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:44 pm
“Madigan glued my eye shut.”
Comment by SinkingShip Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm
I like unions.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm
I love unions.
Comment by Generic Drone Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm
“It is impossible for a cyclops to wink.”
- Demitri Martin
Comment by Scamp640 Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:45 pm
“I yam what I yam.”
*toot* *toot*
– MrJM
Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:46 pm
I presented a balanced the budget every year of my term in office.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm
“What’s your endorsement cost… half a mil… lemme what I have with me… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm
“Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
Comment by Scamp640 Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm
“I’m using my wrong eye again, aren’t I? I’m sorry. That was meant to be behind your back.”
Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:47 pm
“Buy Illinois state bonds if I get re-elected. The interest rate is going to go through the roof.”
Comment by A Jack Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:48 pm
“Danny, you and Besler run the political shop, IPI runs the governmental shop… we can’t lose”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:48 pm
“I’m just here for the free Stag beer”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:49 pm
“Nice paper you have here. Would be a shame if Evelyn came here and fell down your stairs and sued ya… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:51 pm
Looking for the pension loophole
Comment by wondering Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:51 pm
“Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.”
- Taylor Swift
Comment by Scamp640 Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:52 pm
The truth is what ever I say it is.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:53 pm
“You buy 2 Caucuses for $20 mil and tell *me* how cool that feels…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:54 pm
Looking through my circle of influence.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:54 pm
And tomorrow we will announce new U of I campuses in Champaign, Bloomington Milwaukee at Kansas City
Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:55 pm
“I give you my solemn oath. Or did I just come from Solemn Oath? Anyway, have you tried their Combat Marshmallow? It’s 8%.”
Comment by Flynn's Mom Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:55 pm
“The SGOP will be getting my money real soon”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:57 pm
“I just bought another farm, in Oswego”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 12:58 pm
Trying to get that camel through the eye of the needle.
Comment by Henry Francis Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:00 pm
“My grandfather was from Sweden, or as you like to call it, Wisconsin”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:00 pm
“I’m likable. You just have to not know me to like me”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:01 pm
“There’s always a costume for everything”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:02 pm
“If I wink rather than laugh, will they still know I’m lyin’?”
Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:05 pm
“You want to write my endorsement or should I?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:06 pm
I’m an even bigger failure than you thought.”
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:07 pm
I’m big in Streator.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:08 pm
“You’re saying Chicago *has* a U of I campus… do they… *do* they?”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:10 pm
“I yam what I yam and tha’s all what I yam.” …
Apologies to E. C. Segar from Chester…
Comment by LINK Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:11 pm
Oswego Willy-
I am you father.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:12 pm
I can’t even spell Ilinoies.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:13 pm
===Oswego Willy-
I am you father.===
Does that mean I have immigrant Swedish great grandfather born in Wisconsin?
That’s was pretty good, - VanillaMan -, I laughed.
“Caption?”
“I’m in charge… except when I’m not”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:15 pm
I voted for Ives too.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:16 pm
Gonna go hang with da pope and es plain my signin of da hb40 in my talian tirement.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:16 pm
In Swedish, “Rauner” means “failure”.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:17 pm
Yeah, (laughs) I musta got a little dust in my eye from harvestin’ beans on my farm outside of Springfield.
Comment by Kayak Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:18 pm
…and you thought Illinois couldn’t get worse,,,
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:19 pm
I mean once Rauner starved Western Illinois into closing someone would need to do something with WIU’s Quad-Cities campus.
That’s Rauner’s plan for a U of I Quad-Cities campus.
That is Rauner’s business specialty.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:20 pm
I have a hairless cat named Mr. Bigglesworth.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:23 pm
I eat hot dogs with ketchup, using a knife and fork carved out of illegally harvested ivory
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:26 pm
“You AFSCME folks’ll get put at the right step October 1. Trust me.”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:27 pm
Cancer can be cured, but guess who owns the drug?
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:29 pm
I broke up the Beatles
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:30 pm
I can fool everyone all the time.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:32 pm
Another can of spinach please.
Comment by Groucho Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:34 pm
“Diana picked out this shirt”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:36 pm
And don’t forget to say hello to my dear friend Willie Wilson on your way out.
Comment by Kansas City Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:40 pm
I bring Madigan an apple every day.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:42 pm
“And if I’m lyin’, may I get pinkeye.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:44 pm
I’m not a governor but I play one on tv.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:45 pm
VanillaMan,
I dunno. We’ve got lottsa dumb people here. He MAY be big in Streator.
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:46 pm
“That’s the last time I ask Moe Howard for an autograph.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:47 pm
“I heard JB likes Nickelback”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:47 pm
Madigan owes me for finishing off ILGOP.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:48 pm
That’ll do pig, that’ll do Babe.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:49 pm
They love me in Olney so much, they gave me a white squirrel.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:51 pm
“Cardinal, what was that you were sayin’ about takin’ the speck out of JB’s eye?”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:51 pm
I’m declaring victory in November if I get any votes at all.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:53 pm
“So all I did was spill my milkshake on the floor and tell Evelyn she could mop up.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:53 pm
“Hey, Rahm. I was just kiddin’ with the tuna fillet.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:55 pm
“Rich, bring Oscar over for a play date any time. There are no pit bulls here.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:56 pm
I can look back and accurately say that I shook up ILGOP
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:57 pm
“I don’t wear costumes because I think my base is a bunch of gullible hicks.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 1:58 pm
I raised my left hand during the swearing in ceremony, so I get a mulligan for my first term.
Comment by Jocko Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:00 pm
Wouldn’t it be ironic if I lose by 13 votes in Chester?
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:01 pm
“One of my greatest joys in the past four years has been bein’ the subject of those delightful Cap Fax caption contests.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:01 pm
Just wait until after the election. I’ll have more flexibility then.
Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:02 pm
“That’s the third time I’ve mistaken that plastic lemon for my Visine.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:04 pm
“I’ve got my Clint Eastwood impression half perfected.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:07 pm
“It sure wasn’t ME who sicced the Illinois Department of Revenue on Oswego Willy.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:09 pm
“I’ve got my Clint Eastwood impression half perfected.”
Slipped in the shower. Need to get those non-slip sticky things to put on the shower floor.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:12 pm
“Mario Kart, eh”
Comment by Rthur Andersen Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:17 pm
“Has anybody seen my monocle?”
Comment by Streator Curmdgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:18 pm
“I can’t imagine WHO would stoop so low as to put a flaming paper bag on JB’s front porch.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:25 pm
So what if JB wants to legalize it, I’ve had my card this whole time! *wink*
Comment by Kayak Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:30 pm
Tens of thousands of offshore jobs are right around the corner
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:37 pm
Yup my dough is all in a 100% taxed onshore totally blind trust, and that is not all…I work for free. Insert rimshot.
Comment by Al Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:40 pm
Diana said I stopped the insanity and delivered
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 2:42 pm
“I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor to the best of my ability.”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:08 pm
Vanilla Man- Don’t bring up Olney in a post with the governor. It might give him the idea to make Olney Central College into University of Illinois- Olney.
Comment by Rural Stuff Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:21 pm
Got my fingers crossed so I can say anythin’.
Comment by zatoichi Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:36 pm
Cathartic is sewn to my Ralph laurens
Comment by Jack Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 3:59 pm
Eardrops-eyedrops…Who knew there was a difference?
Comment by SAP Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 4:01 pm
Talking to his cabinet, “I’ll take the arrows.”
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 4:17 pm
I’m not going to sign SB40 Cardinal Cupich, wink…wink…
Comment by XDNR Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:33 pm
So even though I’m Episcopalian, the Cardinal offers to hear my confession. When it comes to the part about HB40, I just lie and slip him one of these.
Comment by 37B Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:55 pm
Other times I nod. It’s all the same to a blind horse.
Comment by 37B Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 5:56 pm
Thats the truth, I don’t have a heart, so I stuck a needle in my eye
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:42 pm
Last 4years I was half asleep or half awake
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:44 pm
Term limits get job creators excited
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 6:49 pm
“The check’s in the mail, Jerry.”
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 7:26 pm
I’d rather fight than switch
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 7:53 pm
McCann blind-sided me
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:04 pm
“I’m a conservative. I’m a Republican.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:07 pm
AFSCAMY
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:08 pm
Turnaround agenda, my eye
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:08 pm
The future’s so britght i gotta wear shades
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:18 pm
I always keep an eye out for madigan
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:27 pm
You got that good red dress on
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:38 pm
I measure my success by standing ovations
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:43 pm
My investments are in a blind trust I have no control over them. There were no back porch dealings.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:55 pm
It breaks my heart to see the things that are happening to illinois from the back porch of my Winnetka house.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 8:59 pm
I’m from the great State of Illinois.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:00 pm
I’m full of it right up to my eyeballs
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:07 pm
I eat soft circles with a dab of mustard and a sprinkling of kosher salt. Wash em down with a can of stag beer. Most people call em soft pretzels.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 9:07 pm
“is that spit”??
Comment by Mongo Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 10:21 pm
Profile in courage
Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 10:42 pm
I’ve got old J.B. right where I want him.
Comment by Blago's Hare Tuesday, Sep 18, 18 @ 11:40 pm
I think I’m going to add an eye patch to my costumes.
Comment by XDNR Wednesday, Sep 19, 18 @ 8:47 am