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Michael Madigan

Michael Madigan

Former Speaker of the Illinois House of RepresentativesWikipedia

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Sep 29, 2026

Sean ThompsonHOST
7:58
We cannot pretend that Ed Burke is a politician anymore.
Sean ThompsonHOST
8:00
Let's not pretend that Mike Madigan is a lawyer.
Sean ThompsonHOST
8:04
Let's call him for what they are.
Sean ThompsonHOST
8:05
Every once in a while it'll happen.

31 MINS LATER

Sean ThompsonHOST
39:09
About seven, eight, nine.
Sean ThompsonHOST
39:10
All right, I'll say 23 lawyers in Illinois are wonderful people who understand the principle of American law.
Sean ThompsonHOST
39:16
The rest, they're associates of Mike Madigan and Ed Burke.
Sean ThompsonHOST
39:21
However, it's the good lawyers that will save this country.
Jill HopkinsGUEST
8:24
Now you have to figure out which way your vote is going to go for those other offices and whether or not you're willing to let them fall to hands that you might not particularly want.
Michelle NavarroHOST
8:37
Quinlan was an attorney who worked for former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and former Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Michelle NavarroHOST
8:46
Yes.
Jill HopkinsGUEST
8:47
Quinlan is someone, according to Quigley's campaign spokesperson, someone best known for being Rod Blagojevich's general counsel.
Sean ThompsonHOST
35:16
Like little Dick Durbin's, what is that, his nephew or his kid? Does he have a kid with that big, fat lobbyist wife of his? Or maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe it's like Ed Burke, big, fat, pasty-ass Ed Burke.
Sean ThompsonHOST
35:28
Doesn't he have a couple kids that are lobbyists too? How about little, tiny, short-in-the-pants Mike Madigan? He's got kids, right? Are they lobbyists? How many daily suck-on nephews who are too stupid to get out of a room without an exit sign? How many of them are brokers?
Rahm EmanuelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
35:43
Big finance deals with the city.
Sean ThompsonHOST
35:44
Get the frick out of here.
speaker_0NARRATOR
17:51
That's all he ever was.
speaker_0NARRATOR
17:53
Just like Mike Madigan.
speaker_0NARRATOR
17:55
Scum of the earth.
Sean ThompsonHOST
17:56
And that's what you're used to in these Democrat areas, which is why, unless somebody's real, real, real good, they should be threatened with living under where Democrats rule.
Sean ThompsonHOST
21:13
Now in Chicago, this is a punchline, right? Queen of Heaven.
Sean ThompsonHOST
21:18
The cornerstone of the Chicago Democrat.
Sean ThompsonHOST
21:20
How you doing, Mafia? And to back up everything I say, which is what I like to do, there's a version of Mike Madigan.
Sean ThompsonHOST
21:27
Only this guy's got a little cachet.
speaker_4NARRATOR
3:35
He has repeatedly said he was close to appointing then Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
speaker_4NARRATOR
3:41
Madigan was the daughter of Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan.
Sean ThompsonHOST
3:45
And you remember her, squirrel.
Sean ThompsonHOST
3:46
She was in charge of investigating corruption.

25 MINS LATER

Sean ThompsonHOST
28:58
Look what they've done to all the decent people in our once great city.
Sean ThompsonHOST
29:01
They tax them into poverty while they don't pay the taxes.
Sean ThompsonHOST
29:05
Now, you could call up Mike Madigan's associates and say, "My taxes are awful high.
Sean ThompsonHOST
29:09
Could you help me?"
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
4:38
Speaker of the House.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
4:41
Say what you want about Mike Madigan.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
4:43
He created billionaires amongst his people, millionaires amongst his people.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
4:46
He may be in jail
Jeanne IvesHOST
24:21
We had six months to get it done.
Jeanne IvesHOST
24:23
Mike Madigan played games with us the entire time, and we still have one of the most restrictive training requirements for concealed carry.
Jeanne IvesHOST
24:30
And what? And what? Chicago crime, gun crime, individual crimes committed with guns, is out of control.
Jeanne IvesHOST
24:40
But you know what? Crime overall is going down.
speaker_0NARRATOR
12:18
Absolutely.
Patti VasquezHOST
12:19
now you're running against the majority leader of the assembly and uh you know there are folks this happened in chicago when we had the longest standing speaker of the house michael madigan the people in this district kept voting for him regardless of what they heard or whatever was happening because they felt like having someone in their community who felt like was had that much power was good for them what are you telling voters who respond that way
John PerrymanGUEST
12:42
Well, basically, it's just that I asked him, have you seen Tyler? Have you talked to Tyler? Do you see him at events? He'll show up at a parade or do these things, these kind of things.
John PerrymanGUEST
12:50
But just he, you know, he's...
Patti VasquezHOST
68:05
Now, you're running against the majority leader of the assembly.
Patti VasquezHOST
68:07
And, you know, there are folks this happened in Chicago when we had the longest standing speaker of the House, Michael Madigan.
Patti VasquezHOST
68:14
The people of this district kept voting for him, regardless of what they heard or whatever was happening, because they felt like having someone in their community who felt like was had that much power was good for them.
Patti VasquezHOST
68:24
What are you telling voters who respond that way?
speaker_15NARRATOR
11:12
Where is this man, Costa Diamantis, the convicted felon, bailed on his sentencing and has left the country? Diamantis, Connecticut's former budget chief, was convicted on 21 counts of bribery and extortion.
Sean ThompsonHOST
11:27
Oh, Diamantes, what do you think, you're a Chicago short-in-the-pants Democrat with a little wee-wee like Mike Madigan? What do you do? He was in charge of the budget, squirrel.
Sean ThompsonHOST
11:37
You know how much money he stole? As much as he could, you thieving rat pig Democrat.
speaker_16NARRATOR
11:42
Today, he was a no-show.

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