By Steve Rhodes
Anti-Rauner, not pro-Quinn. Plus: Karen And Toni’s Guy; Never Let A Bribery Scandal Go To Waste; This Is A Chickenshit Town; Bruce Rauner vs. Bill Brady; Kass Is For The Combine.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
1:46: Speedy Ortiz at the Empty Bottle last Saturday night.
3:18: Chuy For Mayor.
* The [Tuesday] Papers.
* Backed by Preckwinkle, Lewis.
* A middleshot, not a longshot.
* A rebuke to Fioretti.
* It’s a runoff, dummies!
11:01: Ex Hex at the Empty Bottle last Saturday night.
* The Week In Chicago Rock.
14:30: Never Let A Bribery Scandal Go To Waste.
* Red-light Rebekah.
* The [Wednesday] Papers.
* We elect a city clerk to run our parking sticker program.
* We elect a city treasurer to run . . . our treasury.
* Nuisance tickets.
* Consistently lacking in integrity!
* Who ordered 2.9 second-tickets?
24:02: St. Paul and the Broken Bones at the Metro on Thursday night.
* Deb Mell: “I love the red-light cameras.”
26:12: Riding Uninspected Elevators Is Always Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt.
* Rahm should be forced to make his kids ride every elevator in the city that hasn’t been inspected. That would be more than three-fourths of them.
28:10: Illegal Election Raffle.
* The problem with a good idea is it’s against the law.
* Doesn’t grind my gears.
32:00: Ruby Fray at the Burlington on Tuesday night.
32:31: ILGov2014.
* The Political Odds.
* Steve Bogira demolishes Sun-Times polling.
* Rich Miller demolishes Sun-Times polling.
* Jim Kirk, Michael Ferro in hiding.
* Feder: “In recent weeks, sources said, Ferro has been exerting pressure on editors regarding coverage of Rauner.”
And? That’s it? Do tell.
Please tell me their lawyer hasn’t pinned their hopes to a phone bill.
* Hinz: “My colleague Rich Miller has his own thoughts, which will publish later today. Check out his piece about how he was dismissed by the Sun-Times after penning a column critical of Mr. Rauner.”
Rich? Still waiting.
* This is a chickenshit town.
43:42: Bruce Rauner vs. Bill Brady.
* Kirk Dillard vs. Montgomery Burns.
* The horribleness has not sunk in.
* Rauner has not run a business.
* Black TSA agents love Whitey.
53:39: Twin Peaks at Lincoln Hall on Thursday night.
54:30: Kass Is For The Combine.
* A safe harbor for Bruce and Diana?
59:14: The Maddoning Is Happening.
STOPPAGE: 1:10.
–
For archives and more, see The Beachwood Radio Network.
–
Comments welcome.
Posted on November 1, 2014