By Steve Rhodes
Phony Bruce, Quinn’s Rose Garden, Late & Never, Journesia, and The Combine Transitions. Plus: They came to watch Nik Wallenda live, not die.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
1:31: Lights at the House of Blues on Wednesday night.
3:27: The Top 10 Reasons Rauner Won.
* Now with extra commentary!
7:17: Lifestyles at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday night.
8:00: Raunocchio-Elect.
* Phony Bruce.
* Magic Phone Calls.
* Unforced rookie error?
* Just a fib?
* Deja phonegate: Bruce Rauner Caught Fibbing About Springfield Meetings.
* Get it in writing: abortion; minimum wage; Payton Prep; education funding.
* But he has “top-notch staffers!”
* Blago’s MOUs.
* Chump.
Had a fun impromptu bipartisan lunch with colleagues yesterday and a positive phone conversation with Rauner today. Time to plug forward!
— Sen. Kwame Raoul (@KwameRaoul) November 8, 2014
.@KwameRaoul Just like the one he made to Arne Duncan!
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) November 8, 2014
22:51: HEMI at Reggies on Monday night.
23:44: There Is No Right To Be Forgotten.
* Rauner should still face the questions he evaded during the campaign.
26:23: The Political Odds.
* Rauner outworked Quinn.
* “I find that the personal bonding that comes from fun leads to proprietary deal flow.”
* Quinn’s Rose Garden.
* Walking around money.
* Quinn didn’t get out the vote.
* Let’s blame progressives instead of, you know, the regular Democrat wing of the party that controls everything.
“If Tuesday Was A Test For Mayoral Contest, Progressives Failed.”
Bonus tweet:
@John_Kass thanks John. Hell hath no whining like a Chicago “reformer” whose effectiveness is questioned
— Dan Mihalopoulos (@dmihalopoulos) November 7, 2014
“[F]ailed miserably. Absolutely miserably.”
* Rahm: “Progressives are fucking retarded.”
35:32: Agent Orange at the Double Door on Tuesday night.
35:58: Downballot.
* Sanguinetti: Can she survive the transition?
* Durbin: Now the Assistant Minority Leader!
* Oberweis: Corey who?
* Topinka: Your favorite aunt who is also the old lady at the end of the bar smoking a cigarette, cracking jokes and demanding another whiskey sour.
* Simon: End of a brand.
* Lisa Madigan: Beats opponent’s poll!
* Illinois Held Hostage: Day 4 Without A Treasurer-Elect.
* The Physics Party.
* Illinois vs. Ukraine.
43:56: Today’s Hits at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday night.
44:30: Early And Often Is Now Late Or Never.
* You might be dead before getting to vote.
* Same-day registration, next-day voting.
* Just one way every vote can matter; because they don’t now.
* It’s like every election is the first one.
* No one was surging ahead or coming back but the vote counters.
50:58: They Came To Watch Nik Wallenda Live, Not Die.
* The Papers archive.
* Nik Wallenda can do these walks blindfolded – as he showed.
* Zorn and Kass agree!
* Tightroping deaths vs. marathon deaths.
* You wanted Evel Knievel to make those jumps.
56:38: Polyphia at the Beat Kitchen last Saturday night.
57:18: Dave McKinney’s Free Berth.
* NBC Chicago, WBEZ, WTTW.
* Are we just gonna forget about this, too?
59:05: The Combine Transitions.
* Bruce Rauner (R/D-Combine).
* The modern Bill Cellini.
* Top-bottom, not side-side.
* Daley, Edgar, Meeks – the trifecta!
* 100 years of Quinn-Madigan-Cullerton was too much, so Rauner just eliminated the inconsequential link. (If you really wanted change, Bruce, you would have moved into Madigan’s district and taken him on directly.)
1:01:27: Soulsharer at the Cairo Ale House in West Chicago last Saturday night.
STOPPAGE TIME: 3:16.
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Posted on November 8, 2014