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2025-05-27 Home Front: Politix

JB Pritzker is acting presidential — too bad his state is in shambles

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Posted by Fred 2025-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [145 views ] Top

#1 Jelly Belly is on a roll.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-05-27 06:40|| 2025-05-27 06:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh please ...our finances are the least of Pritzker's sins. The man's an autocrat who rules with an iron fist and the State Legislature is a one-party factory of left-wing craziness. Taxes, education, gun laws, immigration, and jurisprudence are all a mess here. He's styles himself as the head of an independent country ...

Posted by Chicago Lurker 2025-05-27 08:25|| 2025-05-27 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 He's styles himself as the head of an independent country ...

Cook county is "an independent country," has been for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-27 09:46|| 2025-05-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I still remember hearing on the radio in the middle 1960s - 'Is it true you gave the City's insurance contract to your son's firm, Mayor Daley?'

"Yes, what's wrong with that?"

Posted by Bobby 2025-05-27 11:31|| 2025-05-27 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Making this guy the symbol of the D party would be worth about a dozen seats in 2026

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-27 12:13|| 2025-05-27 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 So we trade a senile president for one who is morbidly obese?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-27 12:59|| 2025-05-27 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The man's an autocrat who rules with an iron fist and the State Legislature is a one-party factory of left-wing craziness. Taxes, education, gun laws, immigration, and jurisprudence are all a mess here.

Gosh, that sounds a lot like California.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-27 13:01|| 2025-05-27 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 If by presidential you mean the President Taft look a like contest winner - then yes.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-05-27 23:22|| 2025-05-27 23:22|| Front Page Top

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