The Beachwood Radio Hour #30: ILGov2014

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.

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