Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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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.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Nothing new. Politicians and taxing bodies have been hijacking (albeit legally) and redistributing our money to others for decades. Most of it from the value of property we own. The rest from sales and other taxes.
How to buy votes with other people’s money is the norm these days.
Maybe if the state patronage workers would have shown up for work things would have been better. But it’s obvious that the state workers didn’t work live or virtually. Where is the oversight? Where is Susan Haling, the inspector general, who allows this theft of services? She’s been on a paid vacation for 16 months. Pritzker is a thief.
I’ve said it before and I say it again, IDES employees are involved and Pritzker knows this along with a few others in Springfield, try and ride it out until after the election it’s not gonna work Pritzker, we’re is are elusive state’s attorney Raoul at.
Bring Pritzker to his knees
And you gotta love who they blame for this: Rauner, naturally.
Jb blames rauner for depleting ides workforce but astoundingly, as far as I know, jb still hasn’t ordered the ldes asfcme heros back to work or open the ides offices? Lately jbs been blaming security threats as reason he can’t reopen? This is all starting to look like a major league scandal as Illinois is become one of the few states not to release fraud data (even California, which has massive fraud problems has released its data).
Who knows at this point how many of the calls are being handled by contract hire delliot workers vrs ides afscme hero’s? A complete embaresment you would think
Never is the name “Madigan” brought up.