Black health advocacy group calls for more Illinois tax dollars for HIV care – Center Square

Black Leadership Advocacy Coalition for Healthcare Equity (BLACHE) Board Chair Creola Hampton claims the state is withholding funds that were promised four years ago. “You cannot justify 96 percent of your budget going to White-led organizations,” said Hampton. “You're not going to cut funding for them, but funding that was promised to Black-led organizations that were promised the funding, it’s called a default of contract. We should be suing the state.”

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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