Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Gov. Pritzker’s misleading end-of-year message on the success of Illinois, how taxpayers are paying billions to provide healthcare services to migrants, how the migrant crisis has exposed a rift between Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, the final results on Chicago 2023 crime, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago led nation in homicides for 12th year in a row in 2023, murder rate still 5 times higher than NYC’s
- Illinois is a moderate state. Its progressive leaders are out of touch.
- Mutiny spreads among Illinois municipalities against noncitizen migrants and new paid leave law
- As population woes continue, Illinois’ loss of congressional seats could accelerate
- Gov. Pritzker’s dishonest spin on Chicago crime, Illinois jobs
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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.
This will be like San Francisco when the Chinese President came to town a month ago and they steam cleaned the entire city and rounded up all the homeless and got them out of sight. (And replaced all American flags with Chinese ones-no sign of stars and stripes to be seen.)
CAN’T WE RECALL THE PORKER??????/
I can envision Pritzker’s assorted untruths and cheers from the crowd.
Uggh
Gonna be hard to spin burning buildings.
More blustering babble from the trust fund baby that would be king, yet can’t explain away his ruinous polices for the state of IL.
Well I’ve got some spin on the Pritzkers.
JB’s sister Penny is the head of the Harvard board that hired Claudine Gay!
I just hope JB doesn’t mention a word about education at the convention.
You should read what Bill Ackman had to say about Harvard, DEI, and Gay today. It’s an impressive work.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760
Dave, thanks for sharing that link.