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Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued his 16th disaster proclamation on May 28, extending his emergency powers until long after he predicted the state would fully reopen June 11. At the end of the latest 30-day declaration, Pritzker will have wielded emergency powers for 474 consecutive days.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
DOA – thrown out of court last July retroactive to April 2020. the fascist emporer prickster has no clothes
The disaster was his election. The disaster was the damage done by corruption and decades of Democrat leadership (sic). Lightfoot, JB – this is what you voted for peeps, enjoy!
He should be an expert on disasters. He is one.
We all remember how the fat kid in the class was made fun of back in the grade school days. Pritzker certainly qualified for that but now he, with the help of his inheritance from his hard working father, bought his way into the Governorship and now wishes to get back at the mean evil kids that he associates the population of Illinois with. He will never give up his new found powers and, like the spoiled rich kid that he is, will make us all pay for what he feel are past injustices.
I believe he still hasn’t canceled the work remotely (from home) indefinitely for are vastly undercompensated afsme hero’s? And nobody in the press ever asks why?
JB is keeping us safe, right?
In a sense he is right.
As long as Jabba is Governor and his RICO co-conspirators at CTU, IEA and AFT are free, Illinois is going to be in a state of emergency.
Don’t they need a disaster declaration in order to continue vaccine administration? If I recall correctly the FDA emergency use of the vaccines requires a health emergency, so this is probably why it’s being extended. It’ll probably continue to be extended until the vaccines are approved beyond emergency use.