Texas Democrats protesting GOP redistricting in their home state were forced to evacuate a Chicago hotel early Wednesday morning following a bomb threat.
Name me a person with the perfect leftist-certified record and background, whose house the Texas House Reps. should stay at.
(Edited to add) Pritzker is providing protection to these Texans within his capacity as Governor of Illinois, not as a private billionaire. Governor Hochul of NY, Governor Newsom of CA, Governor Ferguson of WA, Governor Healey of MA could have taken the same steps hosting these people in their respective states for each their own reasons. Sure Newsom wants to become President someday, Hochul wants to curry favour with the rising tide of Mamdani, etc etc but at the end of the day, whoever it is should be judged for their action within that role, not past stuff or future personal ambitions.
To give an analogy: Say someone who did something horrible later funded a public school. Is it not enough to admonish and prosecute the horrible act? Or, are we secretly in support of the horrible act unless we demolish the school as well?
Name me a person with the perfect leftist-certified record and background, whose house the Texas House Reps. should stay at.
(Edited to add) Pritzker is providing protection to these Texans within his capacity as Governor of Illinois, not as a private billionaire. Governor Hochul of NY, Governor Newsom of CA, Governor Ferguson of WA, Governor Healey of MA could have taken the same steps hosting these people in their respective states for each their own reasons. Sure Newsom wants to become President someday, Hochul wants to curry favour with the rising tide of Mamdani, etc etc but at the end of the day, whoever it is should be judged for their action within that role, not past stuff or future personal ambitions.
To give an analogy: Say someone who did something horrible later funded a public school. Is it not enough to admonish and prosecute the horrible act? Or, are we secretly in support of the horrible act unless we demolish the school as well?
He’s not hiding them in the attic…
He, a billionaire hotel heir, put them up in a hotel…
What your analogy is missing, is that it would have been more secure to not say where they were…
Instead of giving a press conference saying where they were which…
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Is exactly what Pritzker did. Because this was about optics and setting himself up for a 2028 presidential run.
If he wants to help, he can redistribute 3 billion in wealth back to the people and still have over 200 million in personal wealth.
He ponies up and I’ll shut up. But no billionaire can authentically be on the side of the people.