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Democrats pumped up Mr. Bailey in advertising as a pro-life, pro-gun Trump supporter, knowing it would appeal to GOP primary voters. While many Republicans are ready to move on from Mr. Trump, Democrats find it politically useful to keep him around. It’s hard to take seriously their anguish about the condition of democracy when they gamble on helping Trumpian candidates. They’d better hope the GOP tsunami isn’t so large that it sweeps into office the candidates they claim are threats to democracy but whom they helped nominate.
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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Two weeks ago we drove to FL, we intentionally did not take the Interstate going through IL, we took two laners, dozens of them, told the GPS we wanted scenic and slow. We were enlightened by how much space this state has. Groceries far and few between, same for gas, same for a cop, people in rural IL are survivalists. And they are pissed. We saw Bailey signs literally everywhere, on farms, in yards, on silo’s on barn rooftops. Coming back we knew we had to support Bailey. The IL we saw is the real IL, just want to live,… Read more »
Thank you. I agree. I took a trip into rural IL last week and likewise saw massive support for Mr Bailey. Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” I believe now more than ever the American people will do the right thing and get this country back on track. The end of woke. I laugh at Target, Walmart, Netflix, Disney and other woke corporations who are now beginning to suffer as their results and performance falls off a cliff. Look at Justice Thomas and the… Read more »
needs to win some of cook county to pull it off
Suburbs
Sadly driving down those roads there are a few houses along the route, small towns etc. Trouble is in one square city block in Chicago there are 1000’s of voters. All of those rural homes and small towns don’t equal one city ward population wise. The entire population of registered voters in Winnebago County, Rockford area, has under 100K registered voters, a drop in the bucket of voters who can change things.
Bailey can appeal to those fed up by Pritzker’s buddy – Lori Lightfoot. He can appeal to parents who had their kids held out of school and sports when other states didn’t, he can appeal to voters who will now lose their jobs because companies are leaving, he can appeal to city and suburbanite voters that don’t want to go downtown for fear of being mugged or shot, he can appeal to voters who are tired of paying some of the highest sales, gas and real estate taxes in the country. Can it be that hard??
I don’t think you’re going to see enthusiasm for Pritzker, except with the extremists. If the Dem vote is depressed and the suburban moms go for Bailey because of kids and Covid, he may have a chance. Because of the last few years, this is a race like no others before it. Bailey has all the obvious main issues lined up, he just needs to execute. And be relentless.
I don’t agree with the assertions that Darren Bailey is too conservative for Illinois or that he doesn’t have statewide appeal. The Chicago centric Democrats and RINOs who run politics at the state level in Illinois always claim that grassroots, populist, MAGA conservatives don’t have statewide appeal. What they really mean is that these candidates don’t appeal to Chicago. They most definitely appeal to a large percentage of people nearly everywhere else in Illinois. I counter that Chicago centric Democrats and RINOs don’t have statewide appeal because they don’t appeal to the significantly large number of grassroots, populist, MAGA conservatives… Read more »
We are being told to move away from President Trump. The media says we are moving away from President Trump. But as they say ain’t no one going nowhere.
Agree. It’s not about President Trump, as a person. It’s about the America-first agenda he espouses and advances with relentless determination. The leftists/media/etc. fear Trump because he’s effective and delivers. I will stand with Trump and anybody like him that fights for me as the forgotten man, and fights for America.
If we are in a recession in October (I think we are in one now), and inflation/gas prices are still high — then Pritzker can make all the appeals he wants to the 10th month abortion crowd. It won’t save him from a very close election — one that he stands a real risk of losing.
Beware of what you wish for, for you may get it. I remember that Hillary was happy to be running against Trump. It looked like a slam dunk for her in winning the presidency. Didn’t quite work out that way, but she did get 3 million more votes than he got but not all the votes she needed in 3 bluish states, and that was the difference.
Without Trump the Dems don’t have much to talk about. The Biden administration has been an epic failure, so there’s not much to brag on. They’ve latched onto abortion and guns now to spread fear to their hard-core base, but the fence sitters and independents aren’t happy about hyper inflation and violent crime. I don’t usually look forward to November but this year I can’t wait.
I know that abortion and crime are all the Dems have, but to the great number of voters in the middle, these two issues are not high on their list of concerns. Even the abortion protests have been way less than expected, and will fade away soon. The crime issue caused by the Dems in big cities negates the gun issue. The people living in a city with a cop shortage know full well what the implications are and do not want to hear about gun control anymore. It’s a hollow argument to focus on restricting legal gun owners, and… Read more »
The capfax crowd seems to believe that Abortion is suburbans voters only concern. It’s kind of creepy how obsessed they are with abortion. They believe it’s the most important issue on the ballot and anyone who disagrees with them is WRONG. Even though national polling shows abortion is pretty far down the ballot, right there with climate change and J6, abortion is somewhere around there, while inflation, gas prices, housing and economy is considered far more important. But the cap fax crowd knows everything, right? And they’re all convinced JB is going to cake walk over Bailey….but given how wrong… Read more »
I was reading some of their crap today, one of them stated that Bailey was far right and they couldn’t think of any far left democrats. They seem to be so sure that people will be turned off by Bailey’s position on abortion that blasting it out will help Pritzker. Unfortunately with the help of our liberal media I don’t know that Pritzker will face any questions about his position. Do you think anyone in our useless media will ever ask him if he supports abortion in the 7th, 8th or 9th month? And when he sidesteps the question will… Read more »
lol, they “couldn’t think of any far left democrats”? That’s because they all are! The left has thrown the Overton window off a cliff.
The left is missing or willfully ignoring that the frogs have noticed that the pot is boiling.
I think the red wave is going to be much, much bigger than anyone thinks. Pollsters in the post-Trump era are never going to get accurate numbers on people voting Republican.
The national polls on the country being on the wrong track are probably the most accurate indicator of the size of the red wave.
Let’s hope you’re right
What about the lockdowns and fake pandemic hysteria? I can’t for the rest of my life forget what the Democrats have done to my kids, my businesses and family’s businesses. They destroyed millions of people’s lives for a politically motivated hit in conjunction with communist China and unelected European socialists. If I read what I just wrote 20 years ago I would think I was a nut job but in 2022 that is how far into clown world we’ve slept walked. Wake up people the freaks are in control and they take no prisoners.
This guy gets it.