The Governor comes visiting

[kallend 2,108]

Black SUV and Black Lincoln drove up to Skydive Chicago today - and out got the Governor of the Great State of Illinois.

He wouldn't make a jump, though, just did some campaigning and watched a couple of loads land.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[kenneth21441 0]

I bet he should have. It would releive alot of stress and add to more then just shaking hands and kissing babies.

Id like to take the Gov for Michigan out but hopefully this Nov we will have a new one, the one here only blames everything on others and all. Sure if you did a skydive shed blame the planeride on someone and blame her rigs pack job on someone else even if nothing was wrong.....

Well I guess you see who I am voting for. Not her,.

Kenneth Potter
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[Eule 0]

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He wouldn't make a jump, though, just did some campaigning and watched a couple of loads land.

What's the backstory? Did he just want the canopies as a pretty backdrop for photos, or does he feel like he needs more votes from the young hip hoopy frood demographic? You should have asked him if he was going to let the mayor of Denver show him up. But if you couldn't get him to jump you should have at least challenged him to a Red Bull chugging contest. Have a camera flier surrepetitiously turn on a camera, of course... people hopped up on Red Bull tend to say amusing things. :)

Eule

PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

[kallend 2,108]

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He wouldn't make a jump, though, just did some campaigning and watched a couple of loads land.

What's the backstory? Did he just want the canopies as a pretty backdrop for photos, or does he feel like he needs more votes from the young hip hoopy frood demographic? You should have asked him if he was going to let the mayor of Denver show him up. But if you couldn't get him to jump you should have at least challenged him to a Red Bull chugging contest. Have a camera flier surrepetitiously turn on a camera, of course... people hopped up on Red Bull tend to say amusing things. :)

Eule

I have no idea what his motive was. I suspect a lot of people would pay to push him out of a plane.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Jeth 0]

I believe he was there because his helicopter landed on the SDC field and then he was taken to some function in the nearby town. He visited with the jumpers afterwards before he left. (I was thinking, too, that a dz wasn't the best choice for a campaign stop. )

I asked him if he wanted to jump, but he wasn't interested. He just watched some tandem vids and posed for pics with us instead.

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[2fat2fly 0]

You might want to make sure that he wasn't doing recon for a midnight demolition run like the one Daly pulled on Meigs Field

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[Deuce 1]

My Governor can crush your Governor's head like a grape.

Neener Neener Neener.

[billvon 3,078]

>My Governor can crush your Governor's head like a grape.

Yeah, but our governor is always being crushed by hydraulic presses, and dropped in vats of molten metal, and having his arms ripped off and whatnot.

[kallend 2,108]

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My Governor can crush your Governor's head like a grape.

Neener Neener Neener.

Cool! When?

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[murps2000 86]

>My Governor can crush your Governor's head like a grape.

Yeah, but our governor is always being crushed by hydraulic presses, and dropped in vats of molten metal, and having his arms ripped off and whatnot.
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