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  • JB Pritzker Receives 2% in Presidential Poll, Ranks Lowest in Minority Support Among Democrats

    07/04/2025 5:06:14 PM PDT · by PBRCat · 42 replies
    The Illinois Review ^ | June 30, 2025 | Anonymous
    In one of the first nationwide hypothetical polls for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, Illinois Governor and billionaire JB Pritzker ranks at the bottom, receiving the lowest level of support from minority voters as prominent Democrats begin preparing for potential campaigns. On Friday, the well-regarded Emerson College Polling released new results showing former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg leading the Democratic field with 16 percent support. Former Vice President Kamala Harris follows at 13 percent, with California Governor Gavin Newsom close behind at 12 percent. JB Pritzker, billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune who invested over $350 million of...
  • Trump’s Jobs Boom Skips Illinois—Thanks to Pritzker’s Tax Hikes

    06/30/2025 10:54:27 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 9 replies
    The Illinois Review ^ | June 26, 2025 | Thomas McCullagh
    Across the country, American factories are reopening. Companies are returning home. Jobs are being created. Under Donald Trump’s leadership, U.S. manufacturing is seeing a revival. Tariffs on foreign goods, tax incentives for domestic production, and fewer federal regulations have caused a shift. Major corporations are pulling operations out of China and Mexico and bringing them back to American soil. Kentucky. Alabama. Indiana. Texas. South Carolina. These states are attracting billions of dollars in new manufacturing investments. Thousands of new jobs are being created. But Illinois is being left out—and Governor JB Pritzker’s tax-heavy policies are a major reason why.
  • Pritzker stalker gets probation for throwing rocks at governor’s Gold Coast mansion

    06/26/2025 8:34:53 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 4 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | June 25, 2025 | Time Hecke
    The man accused of stalking Gov. JB Pritzker and throwing rocks at the billionaire’s Gold Coast mansion received a probation sentence on Wednesday, court records show. Adam Dabash pleaded guilty to felony criminal damage to property in a plea deal that led prosecutors to drop three other felony charges, including two counts of stalking. Three windows were damaged, with one rock found inside the governor’s mansion and two others found outside. The damage to the governor’s property was estimated at $7,900. Pritzker and several others were inside the residence at the time of the rock-throwing, but no injuries were reported....
  • Gov. JB Pritzker announces run for 3rd term to protect Illinois from 'chaos and craziness' of Trump

    06/26/2025 8:26:40 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 12 replies
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 26, 2025 | Mitchell Armentrout
    Pritzker was scheduled to crisscross the state for a series of reelection rallies starting Thursday morning at the Grand Crossing Park Field House on the South Side.
  • Gov. JB Pritzker to announce run for third term Thursday, sources say

    06/25/2025 6:47:23 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 26 replies
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 24, 2025 | Mitchell Armentrout
    Pritzker will make his reelection campaign official with kickoff events in Chicago and Springfield, but it’s still unknown whom he’ll tap as running mate.
  • REMINDER: Convicted Former Illinois Speaker of House Michael Madigan Is Connected to Obama, Bill Ayers, Weissmann and Biden

    06/20/2025 11:05:29 AM PDT · by bitt · 9 replies
    https://joehoft.com/ ^ | June 20, 2025 | Joe Hoft
    Michael Madigan, connected to Obama, Bill Ayers and Andrew Weissmann, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison this past week for corruption. Who would have predicted this? Michael Madigan ran the state of Illinois like a mobster for more than three decades. He used his power to crush anyone and any entity that dared oppose him on anything. He is the definition of a pure politician. He is now going to prison. Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way,...
  • Pritzker stammers when confronted with his own words on men using women’s bathrooms

    06/13/2025 9:40:52 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 25 replies
    BPR ^ | 6/12/25 | Tom Tillison
    Illinois Governor JB Pritzker found himself in a very awkward situation when he was confronted over advocating that men should use women’s bathrooms. The stammering Democrat tried to deny that he had ever taken such a stance during a fiery House Oversight Committee hearing with sanctuary state governors, but Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) showcased a 2017 tweet from Pritzker that stated: “As a protest against Trump’s rescinding protections for trans kids, everyone should use the other gender’s bathroom today!”
  • Pritzker: 'As a protest against President Trump, everyone should use the other gender's bathroom today.'

    06/12/2025 9:37:01 AM PDT · by DFG · 48 replies
    X ^ | 06/12/2025 | Collin Rugg
    JUST IN: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker goes mute after Rep. Brandon Gill stumps him on his previous tweet about men in women's bathrooms. Gill: Do you think men should be allowed in women's restrooms? Pritzker: I'm not sure why this has come to this issue. Gill: You tweeted: 'As a protest against President Trump, everyone should use the other gender's bathroom today.' Have you ever used the women's restroom? Pritzker: Not that I can recall. Gill: So you just wanted everybody else to do it, but you didn't? Pritzker: ...
  • Illinois senate passes bill that would force universities to promote, dispense abortion pills

    06/03/2025 1:22:13 PM PDT · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Catholic Vote ^ | June 3, 2025 | Rachel Quackenbush
    A bill that would compel Illinois public universities to provide, prescribe, and even promote abortion drugs is now one signature away from becoming law. House Bill 3709 passed the state senate May 31 and is now awaiting action from Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. If signed, the bill would require schools to refer students to abortion providers and, where pharmacies are available on campus, directly distribute abortion drugs like mifepristone, according to a May 20 press release from Illinois Right to Life. The bill would also mandate that universities include information about chemical abortion on their websites, elevating the practice to...
  • Bill Ackman statement on Harvard

    05/27/2025 9:09:04 AM PDT · by DFG · 23 replies
    X ^ | 05/26/2025 | Bill Ackman
    It has saddened to me watch Harvard, a university that I love from which I have greatly benefited, self-immolate through gross mismanagement, poor governance, and ideological capture that have occurred over the last 15 or so years, and that have been brought into clear focus beginning on October 8, 2023. When a day after the launch of the Hamas attack on Israel, 33 Harvard student organizations held the victims “solely responsible” for the acts of the terrorists while their extraordinarily barbaric acts were still underway, I realized that something had gone profoundly wrong at my alma mater. Further investigations on...
  • Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders

    05/24/2025 4:41:30 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 11:08 AM CDT, May 5, 2025 | BILL BARROW
    ATLANTA (AP) — The billionaire heir and the former bartender.Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have seen their national profiles rise by delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured party. The governor, a 60-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, and the congresswoman, the 35-year-old with working-class roots, both won their first elections in 2018. Both have urged mass resistance and accused their party...
  • DHS Sec. Noem speaks outside Dem governor's mansion

    05/07/2025 11:53:44 AM PDT · by jimjohn · 14 replies
    DHS Sec. Noem - right at the Gov's mansion.
  • 2028 Dem Presidential Contender Tests Waters [semi-satire]

    05/04/2025 10:27:39 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 8 replies
    Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told an audience of Democrats in New Hampshire "it's time to fight everywhere and all at once. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace." The group of Democratic activists, officials and donors jumped to their feet with hoots and applause. They shouted out questions and ideas on how they might turn voters against Trump and other Republicans. "Should we block rush hour traffic? Should we help MS-13 gangsters elude ICE arrest? Should we firebomb Tesla dealerships?...
  • Murder, they wrote? Democrats try to incite violence in another 'summer of love'

    05/04/2025 9:55:27 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 4 May, 2025 | Eric Utter
    Democrats would root for tooth decay over oral hygiene and Snidely Whiplash over Dudley Do-Right. Something about them is clearly not right. To wit: California Democrats have yet again blocked efforts to strengthen protections against underage sex trafficking, this time in the form of a bill to make it a felony to purchase 16- or 17-year-olds for sex. But, hey, who are we to judge if a California Democrat — or someone from a “marginalized” group -- wants to purchase a 16 or 17-year-old for sex? Meanwhile, Minnesota Democrats killed an amendment to a crime and public safety bill that...
  • Kimmel Makes Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Watch Trump Troll His Weight, Then Grills Him: ‘Why Are You Ordering Five Burgers’

    05/02/2025 8:29:56 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/02/2025 | Jerome Hudson
    Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, the latest crush of the left-wing resistance to President Donald Trump and a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night and found himself on the receiving end of a barrage of jokes about his weight. Kimmel played video of President Trump mocking Pritzker’s weight, saying: “He’s too busy eating, he wants to eat all the time. ‘Would like a hamburger? How many do you want? Five,’” Trump said, imitating the billionaire Hyatt hotel heir ordering food. “He loves to make fun of people any way he can,” Pritzker nervously replied, adding...
  • Business Belonging to Critic of “America’s Worst Mayor” Burns Down in “Suspicious” Fire...Fire Marshals are investigating.

    05/01/2025 12:34:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    Discern TV ^ | May 01, 2025 | Staff
    A business in Illinois, owned by a vocal critic of controversial Democratic mayor Tiffany Henyard, was destroyed in a fire deemed “suspicious” by authorities earlier this week. “The fire is suspicious in nature,” Dolton Deputy Fire Chief John Calhoun told WGN. “We do have the fire marshal out here currently with our [mutual aid] arson team.” The blaze erupted around 6 a.m. Tuesday, escalating to a three-alarm fire. No injuries were reported, but the building was a total loss, according to FOX 32 Chicago. A smaller fire occurred at the same site the previous week, WGN noted. The property, owned...
  • Don Jr. Suggests Pritzker Inspiring 3rd Assassination Try

    04/29/2025 10:33:29 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 22 replies
    Newsmax ^ | April 29, 2025 | Mark Swanson
    Donald Trump Jr. called out Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for a speech he gave over the weekend, suggesting that the potential 2028 Democratic presidential hopeful was encouraging another assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. In a keynote speech he gave in New Hampshire on Sunday, Pritzker said he was calling for "disruption," adding that Republicans — whom he labeled "tyrants and traitors" — "cannot know a moment of peace." "Are you trying to inspire a 3rd assassination attempt on my dad? Two wasn't enough for you?" Trump Jr. said in a post to X on Monday. President Trump was injured...
  • JB Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to ‘mobilize’ against Trump: ‘Five-alarm fire

    04/29/2025 5:30:25 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 96 replies
    NY Post ^ | Victor Nava | 04/29/2025
    Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker urged Americans to “mobilize” against President Trump on Monday, a day after he delivered a fiery speech in New Hampshire calling for “disruption” and “mass protests.” “Let me be clear, we’re in a perilous moment in this country,” Pritzker said during an interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, when asked about what he was trying to convey in his speech at a New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner Sunday night. In his speech, which conservatives quickly blasted as “reckless,” the governor declared that Republicans “cannot know a moment of peace.” “They have to understand that we...
  • “Republicans Cannot Know a Moment of Peace”: Illinois Gov

    04/28/2025 5:54:24 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 39 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 28 Apr, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    "Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption." The 2028 Dem hopefuls can roughly be divided into moderates trying to reckon with what happened in 2024 and urging the party to pull back from the craziness… and the crazies who insist that they did nothing wrong and want to double down on it. Many of the born-again moderates like Gov. Gavin Newsom are really crazies when it comes to actual policy. Pretending to be reckoning with the fallout is a political tactic. And so is going all in on militancy like Sen. Cory...
  • Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Calls for Democrats to Deny ‘Peace’ to Trump, Republicans

    04/28/2025 6:51:46 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/28/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told an audience of Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday that they should take up mass protests against President Donald Trump and Republicans, denying them any “moment of peace.” The New York Times reported — admiringly: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois strode into a ballroom filled with top New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday and by the end of his nearly 30-minute speech had them ready to storm the political barricades against President Trump. “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” he told the group of Democratic activists, officials and donors, who jumped to their...