Comment: Preckwinkle’s story is that it wasn’t her crooked husband who held the fundraiser for me, it was her, an IL Supreme Court Justice, who is prohibited from doing so. And Preckwinkle had 34 meetings with Justice Burke over the last four years.

Comment: Wow, something from the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability that we think is pretty good! The questions asked, that is, are good ones. However, there’s a more fundamental problem with asset transfers in plain sight, which is they do not improve the state’s overall position. See our own article on this linked here.

Comment: Governor Pritzker has ruled this out for now, but this is otherwise a good article on the background and what other states do.

“Judging by the fiscal 2020 state budget just unveiled, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we have managed to elect ourselves a governor who is, despite his vast wealth, indebted to a very powerful interest group indeed.”

By Greg Baise chairman of Ideas Illinois, a pro-job-creation political committee.

The residents of most U.S. states are more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal in their political ideology. In 25 states, the conservative advantage is significantly greater than the national average, including 19 “highly conservative” states in which conservatives outnumber liberals by at least 20 percentage points. Meanwhile, in six states, there are more liberals than conservatives.

Comment: Decades overdue. Asset seizures are fundamentally Un-American.

Comment: That didn’t take long. As it becomes evident that Pritzker can’t make the numbers work, count on this being a central message from him — it’s Trump’s fault.