Posted on 08/01/2017 1:24:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker Monday pledged if elected to lead Illinois as a resistance state to President Donald Trump's policies and said Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's silence on federal issues demonstrated he was "complicit" with the president.
"I'm proud to be part of the resistance," Pritzker told a group of supporters, using downtown's Trump Tower as a backdrop. "When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda."
On Monday, Pritzker unveiled plans such as expanded availability of health care and protections for gay rights and immigrants. His comments were symbolic of the effort by Democratic contenders to try to tap into progressive anger toward Trump, as well as to try to tie the president to the state's first-term GOP governor.
Rauner rarely has discussed Trump in public, let alone provide responses to reporter questions involving the White House on such issues as the Republican push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which could affect hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans who receive health care under a federally funded expansion of Medicaid.....
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I believe the family sold the Hyatts, back when Bob Pritzker was alive and decided to break up the family trusts after his two youngest kids (an entire generation younger than the older ones) sued him and the older sibs & cousins for allegedly cheating them out of their inheritance.
I suggest the Pritzker family pay off the debts of Illinois, Chicago and Cook County out of their personal holdings. They are each worth multi-billions and there are a lot of them. It will make a small dent in the obligations and they will be broke, but it would be FAIR.
I’m amazed at all these formally “all mighty federal government democrats” who have suddenly embraced the states right movement that conservatives have been pushing for years....
The Pritzkers have bad history with Trump going back to the 1980s.
They tried to dick him over in a business deal.
He ended up dicking THEM.
This allowing communists to call themselves “Progressives” BS has got to stop.
You hear right wing Republicans parroting that propaganda term all the time.
I left Illinois in 2009 to take a job in GA. I still own property in Illinois that I need to sell. The city of Chicago, where I was born and raised, is a toilet with 400 deaths from guns YTD and counting.
Peoria, a once thriving headquarters of Caterpillar and other global companies is dying.
It will only take someone like a Pritzker as governor to take the once great and prosperous state over the edge.
Illinois will come back and be great again, but not until it throws off the yoke of tax and spend democrats.
...radical, which is nominal islam, pigastinianism, homosexuality, pedophilia, transgenderism and every other form of sexual perversion, communism, RINOism, atheism and other anti-God nonsense, criminal behavior of all types, black inadequacy, la raza, every other form of maladjusted minority status, murder, thievery, etc....
Downstate is everything outside metro Chicago area. Yes we are screwed. Pritzker is Prickster.
One of the Kennedy clan is also running. The democrat sewer runs deep in Illinois.
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