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#27 Oct 10 2014 at 10:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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I only read about that briefly but it sounded like (correct me if I'm wrong) this was as much news to the governor as it was to anyone. At least the report I read had her tearfully apologizing to him.

Also, he looks old enough to be her father.

Edited, Oct 10th 2014 11:23am by Jophiel
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#28 Oct 10 2014 at 10:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well they are like 20-some years apart. Smiley: lol

But yeah it's being reported as news to him as well. The spin would be something along the lines of spouse making bad decisions, corrupt, etc. and she'll have access to power, yadda, yadda, something about the governor making poor choices. I suppose I'll get to see how it plays out.

Edited, Oct 10th 2014 9:30am by someproteinguy
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I don't have context for the whole picture on how the governor is viewed. On the surface, this seems more like the sort of scandal that generates as much sympathy as it does outrage. Both for the governor for finding out like this and for the fiancee with people viewing her crime as "not so bad".

Woman agrees to marry foreigner so he can stay in the country? That's stock sitcom plotting right there. She should tell stories about an immigration agent stopping by and they have to rush to make her apartment look cohabited and answer hard questions with repeated trips to the "bathroom" where he ducks into the kitchen and tries to find the answer by quickly going through her stack of junk mail. "But honey... you love... Macy's and... Lenny's Tractor Depot..."

Edited, Oct 10th 2014 11:42am by Jophiel
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#30 Oct 10 2014 at 10:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
I don't have context for the whole picture on how the governor is viewed. On the surface, this seems more like the sort of scandal that generates as much sympathy as it does outrage. Both for the governor for finding out like this and for the fiancee with people viewing her crime as "not so bad".
The governor practically walks on water here, hence his rather large lead in the polls despite the whole Cover Oregon (our state Obamacare) debacle. I don't think the race was ever seen as potentially competitive, more like which Republican would be the sacrificial goat carrying the party message in defeat. The "first lady" however, doesn't have nearly as good of a reputation. Gold digger, questionable business practices, this thing, etc. She's baggage that's weighing him down politically, even before this.
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#31 Oct 10 2014 at 10:49 AM Rating: Good
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She should tell stories about an immigration agent stopping by and they have to rush to make her apartment look cohabited and answer hard questions with repeated trips to the "bathroom" where he ducks into the kitchen and tries to find the answer by quickly going through her stack of junk mail. "But honey... you love... Macy's and... Lenny's Tractor Depot..."
I swear that was an episode of House.

Edited, Oct 10th 2014 12:49pm by lolgaxe
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#32 Oct 10 2014 at 11:05 AM Rating: Decent
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Meh, when it comes to gubernatorial scandals y'all are pretty tame.
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Meh, when it comes to gubernatorial scandals y'all are pretty tame.

*Ahem* Smiley: dubious
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#34 Oct 10 2014 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
Debalic wrote:
Meh, when it comes to gubernatorial scandals y'all are pretty tame.

*Ahem* Smiley: dubious
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#35 Oct 10 2014 at 12:07 PM Rating: Good
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Easier to allocate more points to set the bar higher when they've set the bar so low for their pizza.

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ITT: Lolgaxe is oddly so threatened by Illinois having more corrupt governors than New York that he resorts to making pizza comments.
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#37 Oct 10 2014 at 12:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Illinois? I thought the little dust-up we were just discussing was in Oregano.
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#38 Oct 10 2014 at 1:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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We were, now it's all about pizza. Someone here is cooking pizza here. The smell is everywhere and I'm eating carrot sticks. I suspect the dam is about to burst.
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Illinois? I thought the little dust-up we were just discussing was in Oregano.

It is, but you said that "y'all" are tame. Hence Mr. Dubious Face.
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#40 Oct 10 2014 at 2:57 PM Rating: Good
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She's baggage that's weighing him down politically, even before this.
Yeah, but . . .

(If he's got a big enough ego that he want's to be governor, nothing is going to stop him from holding onto a woman 20 years younger than him. Not even being governor.)

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ITT: Lolgaxe is oddly so threatened by Illinois having more corrupt governors than New York that he resorts to making pizza comments.
Oh boy. Poor Lolgaxe makes an innocent comment about pizza, and right away you turn it into a Chicago vs. New York thing. I mean, what does Chicago have to do with pizza anyway?

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someproteinguy wrote:
She's baggage that's weighing him down politically, even before this.
Yeah, but . . .

(If he's got a big enough ego that he want's to be governor, nothing is going to stop him from holding onto a woman 20 years younger than him. Not even being governor.)
If he wins this thing by double-digits I'd interpret that as a "**** you all I can do whatever I want to" statement.
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cynyck wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
ITT: Lolgaxe is oddly so threatened by Illinois having more corrupt governors than New York that he resorts to making pizza comments.
Oh boy. Poor Lolgaxe makes an innocent comment about pizza, and right away you turn it into a Chicago vs. New York thing. I mean, what does Chicago have to do with pizza anyway?

ITT: Lolgaxe and Cynyck both feel threatened by Chicago and start talking about pizza.
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Jophiel wrote:
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Illinois? I thought the little dust-up we were just discussing was in Oregano.

It is, but you said that "y'all" are tame. Hence Mr. Dubious Face.

Dude, "Y'all" is singular. "All's y'all" is plural. Try to keep up...
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Sorry, I'm not fluent in hillbilly. Bet you and Varus could have a grand chat while shootin' tin cans down in the quarry though.
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Actually, I think I'm wrong on that; looking up urban dictionary states that "y'all" is two or three people, whereas "all y'alls" is for larger groups of people. I only picked it up from a co worker friend who grew up an Army brat out west.
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City people...

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Debalic wrote:
Actually, I think I'm wrong on that; looking up urban dictionary states that "y'all" is two or three people, whereas "all y'alls" is for larger groups of people. I only picked it up from a co worker friend who grew up an Army brat out west.

Personally I had to go to South Carolina to have "y'all" enter my jargon. I assume that by "out west" you must mean "Arkansas" because further out west "y'all" isn't indigenous.

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ITT: Lolgaxe and Cynyck both feel threatened by Chicago and start talking about pizza.

I'm not upset. Our govenors are quiet distinguished fellows, and very occasionally: Mitt Romney.

Deep dish pizza sucks and is in no way even tangentially related to pizza. Spaghettios are more like pizza.
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We're still dealing with the fallout from the bridge project implosion here. The Feds want their 200 million funding back from each respective state, the transportation package for the northern of the two states involved has been completely blocked for likely the next two years statewide by the people who are pissed that the bridge got nuked, operating under the "if we can't have it, no one gets anything" platform and the "we're the tea party so no one gets anything infrastructure related because we're all crazy anyways" platforms respectively. The ******* who single handedly caused the issue didn't even bother running for re-election, so basically in 2 years unless something changes, we won't have a road building program because we won't have any engineers left, which means they won't likely need any IT peoples.

Not exactly a bright future for our infrastructure here. But the acetone attacks war two of the local politicians seem to be engaged in against their respective political signs has at least been an amusing diversion.
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#50 Oct 13 2014 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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If you were, you'd have known "$50" meant "empty gift card," nubstick.
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Rahm Emanuel caught a break when his probable opponent for the Chicago mayoral race was diagnosed with brain cancer. Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, was expected to run a competitive race against him and now he only faces a single low-tier opponent.

Also out this week, an independent study of Emanuel's new privately run charter schools in the city found that they lag behind the publicly administered schools in testing scores.
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