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• Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend July 1, 2022
  * Mr. Ray Charles… Who more than self, their country loved And mercy more than life
• Pritzker campaign spending $200K on cable/satellite TV in the next week July 1, 2022
  * Click here for the buy report and then try to avoid BRVO, CNN, ESPN, FOOD, HALL, HGTV and MNBC. /s
• Pritzker wants four things from Biden on abortion issue July 1, 2022
  * The governor participated in a virtual White House event with the POTUS today. From the governor’s office… This was the gist of what Gov. Pritzker said on the call today: I propose that you immediately form a reproductive healthcare strike force – pulling together the best experts, federal leaders, and the states on the [...]
• Construction group warns that strike “is now threatening the viability of our summer construction season” July 1, 2022
  * Press release… The Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA) is a construction advocacy and membership organization working on public and private sector projects. We are very concerned that the ongoing labor dispute at our region’s largest aggregate suppliers is now threatening the viability of our summer construction season. We can’t bui […]
• Campaign notebook: Lipinski’s indy bid; Budzinski’s million; DeVore’s gun raffle; Pritzker on Republicans; Bailey says he’s in the middle; Pritzker on Miller-Davis; SDem loss July 1, 2022
  * Former US Rep. Dan Lipinski’s new Tribune op-ed… For 16 years, I had the privilege of representing the people of Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District until I was narrowly defeated in the 2020 Democratic primary. I lost that race because I dared to not always follow in lockstep with my party in an era in which [...]
• Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Session update July 1, 2022
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• Illinois’ version of “The Big Lie” is hilariously pathetic, but points to a bigger problem July 1, 2022
  * So, according to this odd little graph, Republican US Senate candidate Kathy Salvi was leading then continued her same basic proportional lead when lots more votes were counted. So, yeah, it is normal. Salvi is currently winning by about 37,000 votes… Nothing to see…. this looks normal… pic.twitter.com/w8G8qsNNpl — Bobby Piton, 2022 US Senate [...] […]
• Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Campaign report July 1, 2022
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• Question of the day July 1, 2022
  * As we discussed a few months ago, the Illinois Policy Institute has calculated the new tax cut savings at $556 per household on average, not including the six-month suspension of the increase in the Motor Fuel Tax. But despite often referring to the institute’s numbers and analysis on the budget, or taxes, or pensions, [...]
• *** UPDATED x1 *** Pritzker pounces on Bailey “biblical marriage” comments July 1, 2022
  * Marni Pyke… Bailey opposes abortion including in cases of rape or incest. However, “I have no problem when it comes to the point of saving the life of the mother … I don’t consider that an abortion.” Bailey would seek to end taxpayer funding of abortion and try to repeal a new law that ended required [...]