Column: Can governor force businesses to brag on his behalf? – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "Retired University of Illinois law Professor Steve Beckett said the sign mandate reflects 'an awkward time where government is telling people what they can say and can’t say.'...Beckett said Pritzker can argue 'there is a legitimate public interest in seeing the public is informed of' the gas-tax delay. Conversely, gasoline retailers dispute whether 'interest' is sufficient to allow Pritzker to force them to tout his tax delay and penalize them for not doing so."

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