In Illinois, the GOP nominated Darren Bailey, a Stop-the-Steal candidate who will very likely lose to Pritzker as he's unpalatable to the urban and suburban voters who outnumber his rural GOP #MAGA constituency. Bailey's only angle is to hammer Pritzker on the urban crime issue, but won't likely be sufficient to take him to victory.
As for the Senate race, we had a large GOP primary, and Kathy Salvi - a reasonable classical Republican - beat out the second place finisher with 29% of the vote. Peggy Hubbard - who was part of the Jan. 6th insurrection and is proud of it - only trailed Salvi by 5 points with a 25% vote share. At this point, Salvi will have to run to Illinois' centrist voters if she wants to beat Tammy Duckworth, who enjoys a net +10% approval rating in the state.
Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris J. Karr, David Thornton
Yesterday we found out DeSantis made a huge power grab by getting the legislature to ignore our constitutional “ home rule”. This allows local county and city governments control over their own citizens. Starting in July 2023 my husband with have to jump thru state hoops to get a painting contractor license in Miami-Dade county. Licenses became a requirement to protect citizens from all the fraud and outright theft after hurricane Andrew. Contractor licensing is the tip of the iceberg as my tiny bit of research shows he wants to make county and city governments obsolete. He has been busy appointing judges he is sure will rule in his favor in this unprecedented power grab. He scares me for my children and grandchildren’s sake. I don’t want him re-elected as governor and I sure as heck don’t want him as president. I won’t even go into the unnecessary deaths he caused from covid denial and the fact that he refused to pre-order vaccines for kids under 5. I can only try to educate people on what he is doing and pray he is not elected to any post ever.
In Illinois, the GOP nominated Darren Bailey, a Stop-the-Steal candidate who will very likely lose to Pritzker as he's unpalatable to the urban and suburban voters who outnumber his rural GOP #MAGA constituency. Bailey's only angle is to hammer Pritzker on the urban crime issue, but won't likely be sufficient to take him to victory.
As for the Senate race, we had a large GOP primary, and Kathy Salvi - a reasonable classical Republican - beat out the second place finisher with 29% of the vote. Peggy Hubbard - who was part of the Jan. 6th insurrection and is proud of it - only trailed Salvi by 5 points with a 25% vote share. At this point, Salvi will have to run to Illinois' centrist voters if she wants to beat Tammy Duckworth, who enjoys a net +10% approval rating in the state.
Yesterday we found out DeSantis made a huge power grab by getting the legislature to ignore our constitutional “ home rule”. This allows local county and city governments control over their own citizens. Starting in July 2023 my husband with have to jump thru state hoops to get a painting contractor license in Miami-Dade county. Licenses became a requirement to protect citizens from all the fraud and outright theft after hurricane Andrew. Contractor licensing is the tip of the iceberg as my tiny bit of research shows he wants to make county and city governments obsolete. He has been busy appointing judges he is sure will rule in his favor in this unprecedented power grab. He scares me for my children and grandchildren’s sake. I don’t want him re-elected as governor and I sure as heck don’t want him as president. I won’t even go into the unnecessary deaths he caused from covid denial and the fact that he refused to pre-order vaccines for kids under 5. I can only try to educate people on what he is doing and pray he is not elected to any post ever.