Pritzker starts setting up for 2028

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Pritzker starts setting up for 2028:

...I would guess that at least 60% (or more) of the service workers in Chinatown at the restaurants, shops, etc. are illegal. But, I guess they dont vote. LOL

ORLY? In Chicago? C'mon...

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K

[George K]

This is a pretty middle-class white neighborhood. Just to the east of O'Hare.

[LuFins Dad]

[taiwan_girl]

Politicians take too many things for granted.

"Illinois will always be Democrat"
"Texas will always be Republic"
etc

Being complacent will cause failure.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Pritzker starts setting up for 2028:

"Illinois will always be Democrat"

20 years is not "always," but it's close enough for government work.

"Texas will always be Republic"

California

[Mik]

Um…Frank Calabrese is a political commentator?? Not part of The Outfit?

[George K]

Speaking of Illinois...

Remember when the federal government threatened to withhold funds if the states didn't implement a 55mph speed limit on the interstates?

I can see the incoming administration doing a similar thing with other policies - immigration, transgender stuff, etc.

[George K]

A comment on X:

"Conspiracy to violate immigration laws—particularly 8 USC §1324, harboring illegal aliens--is a Federal felony good for 10 years.

I hope AG Gaetz is taking notes on these public confessions."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324

[Horace]

There's the cosplay LD was referring to. At this time, mere fantasies of cosplay, but let's see where it goes.

[jon-nyc]

[kluurs]

I can't see Pritzker getting very far. He's just not that cuddly, engaging or smart. His policies are too conventionally Democratic.

[LuFins Dad]

[Horace]

[Horace]

This is good training for those of us who can't imagine not taking a politician seriously. Observe yourself in how you react to this politician's words, and try to figure out how you're managing to not take him seriously, in his literal threat to take up arms against the federal government.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/its-possible-illinois-has-gotten-the-message-that-fiscal-insanity-doesnt-work/

Pritzker surprised many by not raising taxes and even reining in some spending, including nixing a health-care program for undocumented adult aliens.

“We have to live within our means. If you come to the table looking to spend more — I’m going to ask you where you want to cut,” Pritzker lectured the liberal legislature. “Economic growth is an essential ingredient that allows us to move beyond a challenging budget year like this one.”

Democrats sat on their hands when they heard that part of Pritzker’s speech. But other observers cheered his new pragmatism. “A budget free at last from tax increases should begin to send a message to job creators that the state’s leaders understand they’re in a competition with other states for business investment,” wrote the Chicago Tribune.

[Doctor Phibes]

That Tweet makes it look as though he's called Colorado Mike Johnston. And who wouldn't vote for somebody called Colorado Mike?

[Horace]

Trump's lasting impact will be to have made the Democrats a better party with better ideas. There really is nothing he can't do.

[jon-nyc]

I’ve considered his legacy might just be to make the Democrats better while making the Republicans worse.

[taiwan_girl]

Maybe not Gov. Pritzker, but another Illinois (dont pronounce the s, right @George-K ) person is looking for the President.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/12/rahm-emmanuel-president-2028-column-00224241

The biggest Rahm-may-run tell, though, is that he’s already road-testing the first outlines of a stump speech, or at least an issue he can make his own.

I caught it last month when he came to Washington to appear before a conference held by Democracy Forward, a liberal group helping to lead litigation efforts against the Trump administration.

“I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms and we better start having a conversation about the classroom,” Emanuel said, drawing applause as he alluded to a new study showing more than two-thirds of eighth graders can’t read at grade level.

He kept coming back to the study and eventually and explicitly tied the policy to the politics, in Rahm’ian fashion.

“We can lead a discussion and force a topic onto the agenda of this country that’s worthy of having a debate about,” Emanuel said about the dismal student data. Unlike, say, the fate of a heretofore obscure federal agency, whose demise dominated elite coverage in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency. “The New York Times put crumbs all the way to the front door of the USAID headquarters and we just walked along back there,” he lamented of his party.

and

David Axelrod, a longtime friend of Rahm, has also warmed to the idea. “Who has more relevant experience?” Axelrod asked, adding that Emanuel has two other alluring assets for his party right now. “He understands how to win and speaks bluntly in an idiom that most folks understand.”