Gov. JB Pritzker highlighted his administration’s wide-ranging infrastructure bill, defended his signature on a massive decarbonization bill and highlighted the progress toward fiscal stability the state has seen in his time in office. State Sen. Darren Bailey, meanwhile, sought to discredit the state’s fiscal progress, dismissed the energy bill as a collection of “virtue signals” and said Illinois was starting to look like Baghdad.
Bailey’s already got the downstate Ag vote, and Pritzker knows that he doesn’t need it to win. Bailey’s got two months to trot himself up to Cook county and persuade those voters, who couldn’t care less about downstate farms, to believe that Bailey’s a better choice for them than Governor Tax Cheat. Cook County is where this election is going to be decided. Bailey can shout himself hoarse out in the corn-n-bean fields, but that’s wasting valuable time. The election’s day after tomorrow, so to speak. Bailey better start following through on some smart campaign advice. So far, I’m not… Read more »
Bailey’s already got the downstate Ag vote, and Pritzker knows that he doesn’t need it to win. Bailey’s got two months to trot himself up to Cook county and persuade those voters, who couldn’t care less about downstate farms, to believe that Bailey’s a better choice for them than Governor Tax Cheat. Cook County is where this election is going to be decided. Bailey can shout himself hoarse out in the corn-n-bean fields, but that’s wasting valuable time. The election’s day after tomorrow, so to speak. Bailey better start following through on some smart campaign advice. So far, I’m not… Read more »