Illinois Political Winds Blow Well, Early for Gov. EdgarRob Thomas Of the Post-Dispatch
"Sloppy JB Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegrati...
Some Democratic leaders and political experts are now questioning whether or not Mr. Biden should still be on the ballot—and a short list of some Democratic leaders who have been suggested to replace him includes Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Since the debate, however, Pritzker has only made sta...
(based on projected gubernatorial and state legislative outcomes) we’ll have more control over the process in more important states: oddly he leaves out California, but also including Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Virginia (all states where there was a GOP trifecta last time), and Minnesota...
• IL-Gov: The most famous Illinoisian, Barack Obama, cuts a radio spot on behalf of Pat Quinn • RI-Gov: The DGA pounds Lincoln Chafee one more time from the right, accusing him of being a tax-hiking hippy • FL-22: Ron Klein moves past the boring fixation on Allen West’s...
Biden paused, taking in what is perhaps his last major political speech, before diving into his warnings about threats to democracy. Making sure that the convention appropriately honored Biden was important to DNC organizers. And putting the president on the first night allowed the pa...
(Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the second Asian American woman to serve in the Senate, spoke on Tuesday, as scheduled.) It has been especially noticeable considering Kamala Harris is of South Asian descent. New York-based Democratic strategist Trip Yang highlighted that Nevada, Pennsy...
California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks described the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom as "the California coup." Even in the bounds of political rhetoric, his remarks are far off base and wildly inaccurate. A coup is a violent overthrow of a government. A recall is ...
Twenty eight year old Syed Rizwan Farook was born in Chicago, Illinois the son of Pakistani immigrants. He had lived his entire life in the United States, but he still hadn’t assimilated just like Dzokhar and Tamerlane Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombers… ...
"Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He has served 7 years. Many people have asked that I study the possibility of commuting his sentence in that it was a very severe one. White House staff is continuing the review of this matter," the...