Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
To hit on a point I made in another thread look at this situation. The individual above could have easily ran, unopposed, in the Republican primary and there would be no issue. In my mind I would think his running in the primary would have gotten his name in the papers, be on sample ballots and some interviews or in other words free publicity that might very well have gotten some voters out for himself. I dislike the way Pritzker et al has handled the slate thing but the solution is for the Republicans to run in the primaries.
I agree that candidates should run in the primary. Hard for Republicans to argue this rule if they really want their voters to choose. With that said, it’s not right that the rules were changed after the primary took place. I’m guessing a judge will see it the same way but it will cost the party to fight it.
Republicans played political games by not wanting to run candidates in the primary and the democrats shot back with a move of their own. That’s politics for you.