You may think I'm making this up but, unfortunately, this is all true.

[Atticus]

In Illinois---so far---three Republicans have announced their decisions to run for governor.

The first to enter the race was State Representative Baliey, the Trump-worshipping,home schooling anti-masker from a county which, until recently, was named by the Southern Poverty Law Center as home to a Klan-like white supremacy group.

Next, former State Senator Schimpf threw his hat in. Analysts are undecided whether he is more like Trump or former one term governor Bruce "Ruiner" Rauner, who recently made the national news for contributing $250K to Florida governor DeSantis just before most people in his gated community got their covid vaccine while "regular" 65 year olds went without.

And, now, admitted Trump wannabe political neophyte Rabine hopes to be "70%-80% as good for Illinois" as Trump was for America. Country club owner Rabine crows that Trump did more to reduce unemployment than any president in his lifetime.

This is the GOP in Illinois. No responsible person would entrust their goldfish to any of these guys, let alone their state.

Illinois Democrats: call, canvass, write LTEs, donate cash if you can, Get Out The Vote.

Let's re-elect our Governor Pritzker.

[blm]

1. JB is arguably the best governor in the country.

[bamagal62]

2. JB is great.

I’ll do what I can to help get him re-elected.

[ancianita]

6. +1

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. K&R

[FakeNoose]

4. Governor Pritzker should have no trouble with these yokels

I don't know a lot about Mr. Pritzker but I was impressed with how he handled the Covid pandemic crisis in Illinois.

[niyad]

5. I would not trust my vermiculture pile to anything "r" in that state.

[dixiechiken1]

7. I am as proud of our Governor Pritzker as I am of our President Biden...

And, like Biden, Pritzker inherited a mess left by the POS Republican who held the office before him. (To be fair, Illinois' problems pre-date Rauner. He, in true Republican form, however, made them worse.)

I will do everything in my power to help Pritzker's re-election efforts.

[live love laugh]

11. +1

[Karadeniz]

8. That looks like one sorry crop o' candidates...

[live love laugh]

9. They're really trying to take over in IL. "Bruce "Ruiner" is a fitting name

for the last RepubliQkkkan governor. He was so bad even TFG (the former guy) wouldn’t associate with him.

With Madigan out they’ve made an advancement. I appreciate this heads up—I need to contact my local Indivisible group and get to work.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. I live near Bailey in So. Illinois.

The Bailey worship down here makes me want to




Don't forget, there are many so-called "Sundown Towns" down here. There are still some people who will remind you of that. Qanon fuels a lot of their rhetoric. Bailey also was a part of that rally in Springfield that had a poster with words from a Nazi death camp on it. Mary Miller is also from this area. Her husband is the one that had the truck at the Capitol, and she is the one who spoke at the January 6th rally and invoked Hitler.

I know I am from this area, and my ancestors are from this area. They helped settle the county I live in now. I love the area, but very often I don't love the people living here so much.