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After giving millions of dollars to Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey’s unsuccessful 2022 campaign, megadonor Richard Uihlein of Lake Forest is backing a different candidate in the 2026 contest. When asked about the prevalence of big donations to Dabrowski’s campaign, DuPage County Republican Party Chair Kevin Coyne said the candidate’s former employer, Wirepoints, is “very, very popular” among Republicans in the business world.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Naturally, Uihlein supported Bailey 4 years ago, as most every Republican voter did.
Here’s the problem, though. Apparently, Bailey got Less Votes in the Chicago Metro area than Rauner did when he lost to JB. That’s not exactly a winning formula.
Everyone should read wirepoints to see what’s really going on in Illinois and Chicago before they vote. Screw the slanted Trib and Times
Bailey was rejected last election. He should drop out. The IL RNC has to register more Republican voters and get out the vote. RNC needs to invest more time and money to get these left progressive Dems out of IL.
What they also need are voters who can see what’s really going on and not be puppets to the unions and the Dems
My recollection is that Pritzker funded Bailey’s 2022 primary campaign, to get himself a weak opponent.
He only fooled the really dumb voters. Unfortunately that’s the majority of the ILGOP voters.
This is good news. Who in what passes for IL GOP leadership is going to tell Darren Quixote he doesn’t have a snowballs chance and to pull out of the race?
Now that’s a step in the right direction for the republican party.