Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Takes Swipe At Chicago Mayoral Candidate Paul Vallas

[RandySF]

Paul Vallas, one of two finalists in the race for Chicago mayor, has often been critical of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D).

The Pritzker policies with which Vallas took issue included an election-year tax cut that Vallas saw as an effort to “fool” voters, a reduction in a tax credit for low-income private school parents and, most of all, the progressive governor’s cautious approach to reopening public schools and lifting mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking on a conservative talk-radio show in December 2021, Vallas, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, argued that Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot were relying on executive orders to implement public health policy because it “gives them the ability to act like dictators” by circumventing their respective legislatures.

Pritzker has remained neutral in the Chicago mayoral runoff, which is due to conclude on April 4. In that contest, Vallas, a centrist, faces off against Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, a progressive.

HuffPost nonetheless asked Pritzker’s political staff whether he had any response to Vallas’ most striking criticism of the governor.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-criticism-paul-vallas-chicago_n_641a3192e4b01ea5cd90d0df

[Celerity]

1. The more I see and hear about Vallas, the more he looks like a Repub in Dem clothing

https://vallasorbailey.com/


“If China and Russia had devised a plan that would wreck our economy, destroy our education system, and undermine our long-term competitiveness, they could have never developed a better plan than our self-imposed COVID mitigations.”

-Paul Vallas [The Real Story with Jeanne Ives, 02/11/22]


“And for white parents, I mean, how are you going to discipline your child when your child comes home and your child has basically been told that their generation, their race, their parents, their grandparents have discriminated against others and have somehow victimized another person’s race?”

-Paul Vallas [Wirepoints, 11/12/21]


“This city has been dominated by Democrats for like what is it 50 or 60 years? I mean, what do we have to show for it?

-Paul Vallas [Barstool Sports, 2/17/22]