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Can Gov. J.B. Pritzker handle the pushback against his coronavirus edicts?
The Chicago Tribune ^ | May 1, 2020 | John Kass

Posted on 05/01/2020 6:07:08 AM PDT by PBRCat

Pritzker’s edicts allow people to stand in line to buy whiskey at a liquor store (and pay the taxes) but forbids them to kneel together in a church.

One day he reacts angrily, defensively when he’s challenged by legitimate questions — like where his wife has been during the stay-at-home order. And at other times he speaks in soft tones, a billionaire who never worried about paying his bills, wanting to be liked.

Even watching him on screen at his carefully stage-managed daily news briefings, you get a troubling sense of softness there, like watching John Travolta play gangster John Gotti in a bad movie.

This isn’t personal. His government has shut down the Illinois economy. There are people terrified about losing their jobs.

Now they’re pushing back, particularly against his notion that he can just keep issuing executive order after executive order every 30 days, clamping down on an already ruined economy, without having the legislature approve it all by law.

“History will remember,” Pritzker said, “those who so blindly devoted to ideology and pursuit of personal celebrity that they made an enemy of science and reason.”

It’s called the Bill of Rights, governor. If we give that up so easily, we’re done.

Coronavirus is dangerous, yes, but perhaps not as deadly as we were once told to believe, with terrifying projections of a million or more deaths. The 3,000-bed emergency hospital at McCormick Place that Pritzker demanded the White House build is virtually empty.

Pritzker has been propped up by sympathetic media, and without them, he’d cave. He’s lashed out at President Donald Trump, and most pundits loathe Trump, who wants to open up the economy even as Pritzker tries to keep a lid on it.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: closures; covid19; pritzker; quarantine
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Leadership cannot be provided by a loser.
1 posted on 05/01/2020 6:07:08 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

where his wife has been during the stay-at-home order

If there is Reasonable Suspicion she Violated the Lockdown Order, wouldn’t a Few Hundred Thousand CITIZEN ARREST Complaints, Officially Filed get the ball rolling on this scofflaw??


2 posted on 05/01/2020 6:10:13 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

The one “benefit” of Covid-19... is it has laid bare the (mostly Democrat) tyrant wannabes who demand to RULE us like serfs, not govern by our consent as citizens. They will strangle us for our own “good” and “safety!”

It’s very unwise for government officials to push Americans towards rebellion. For that rebellious spirit still lives in many of us!


3 posted on 05/01/2020 6:14:08 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: eyeamok

Pritzker at his core is a wimp. His wife just ignores him.


4 posted on 05/01/2020 6:14:27 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: FiddlePig

Unfortunately, way too many Americans are OK with it or at least apathetic about it.


5 posted on 05/01/2020 6:19:08 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: PBRCat

The gun club we belong to wrote to AG Barr last week requesting some help forcing Governor Creosote to allow us to reopen the 300 acre private facility to reopen.

They copied the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. We will see if they’re all talk or not.

L


6 posted on 05/01/2020 6:19:28 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: PBRCat

Used to bug me all the northerners moving to my state....I get it now.


7 posted on 05/01/2020 6:19:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: allendale

The slogan should be

“Your Own Wife Ignores You, Governor, Why Shouldn’t We?”


8 posted on 05/01/2020 6:20:10 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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...Used to bug me all the northerners moving to my state....I get it now.

Just keep them out of mine (E. Tenn) unless they convert to the local religion


9 posted on 05/01/2020 6:21:11 AM PDT by HangnJudge (The Democratic Party is a Pandering Plutocracy)
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To: allendale

Can you imagine Prickzker on the D-day landing?


10 posted on 05/01/2020 6:24:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: PBRCat

Before you know it its going to be Friday night, 90 degrees on the south side. Who’s going to go there to enforce this nonsense. Try to arrest some of these people, give them a reason to riot. These rat governors can sit in their mansions and decree but the blue inner cities in LA, NYC, Detroit and Chicago will not heed them.


11 posted on 05/01/2020 6:26:04 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: MtnClimber

This is what happens when vapid, billionaire leftists achieve political power. Be grateful that Bloomberg flamed out.


12 posted on 05/01/2020 6:26:46 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: HangnJudge

I think your safe my friend. The old ones come here to find their warm “place in the sun”.


13 posted on 05/01/2020 6:31:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: allendale

Don’t forget his billionaire cousin.


14 posted on 05/01/2020 6:32:46 AM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . . OUR NATION'S ONLY ANSWER)
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To: allendale

Bloombergs run was .....short.


15 posted on 05/01/2020 6:33:21 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sure in the heat of battle he would be right behind you.


16 posted on 05/01/2020 6:33:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: MtnClimber

Prickster


17 posted on 05/01/2020 6:36:26 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: PBRCat; All

https://www.forbes.com/profile/pritzker/#29049bc270f2

Lots of Hyatt hotels in China

https://kfab.iheart.com/content/2020-03-23-illinois-governor-hyatt-billionaire-jb-pritzker-has-business-ties-to-china/


18 posted on 05/01/2020 6:41:15 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: ecomcon
Prickster

Proper spelling has been noted.

19 posted on 05/01/2020 6:42:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: PBRCat

I think there will be parties on the South Side, and in Chicago, the suburbs are more left than Chicago is.


20 posted on 05/01/2020 6:44:02 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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