Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
I think I heard the Cor Strategies guys on radio talking about their study. The linked spreadsheet is really interesting showing big drop in Black, Hispanic and surprisingly women voter turnout from 2018
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSFvaP10xI7ioO2bmWtFwsoVi-p4xJ0h9CaHOALECdBFMOJROyCX4HoOCbYNtFKLA/pubhtml
I read this, and it’s nothing more than the usual grift. Develop an Illinois Republican brand, stand for something! Pay me $50,000 and I’ll conduct some crappy exit polling to tell you the same thing. The reality is that 1) there are more D’s than R in IL; and 2) Ds ballot harvest quite effectively. CA and NY gave us the US house, they’ve been warning everyone for years about Democrat ballot harvesting. IL republicans choose to ignore this. JB managed to get more votes than almost any other gubernatorial candidate in modern history. Not because he’s such a great… Read more »