Governor Spice: Quinn eats spoonful of cinnamon in on-air challenge
BY ANDREW MALONEY Sun-Times Springfield Bureau February 3, 2012 4:29PM
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Updated: March 6, 2012 8:16AM
Gov. Pat Quinn may have gotten a chilly reaction to his State of the State speech this week, but the Democrat warmed things up Friday by taking down his spiciest obstacle of the year.
The governor swallowed a spoonful of cinnamon at the request of WGN’s Jonathon Brandmeier while doing a guest appearance on his radio show in a stunt that has been appropriately titled the “cinnamon challenge.”
“I want the record to state that I did not kill him, if anything happened,” Brandmeier said before Quinn swallowed the cinnamon. Eating the dry spice without the aid of liquid makes it difficult to swallow.
The governor did take a swig of bottled water immediately after taking down the cinnamon.
“The will of the people, the law of the land,” he said triumphantly.
This wasn’t the first time Quinn yukked it up with Brandmeier over the airwaves. In light of the push for a gambling expansion package, the two played five-card draw together for casino rights last fall on Brandmeier’s NBC 5 talk show.
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