Month: March 2022

It’s been reported that Governor JB Pritzker will be at the Lincoln Statue at the State Capitol this morning to commemorate the Illinois State Police’s centennial anniversary with a press conference to follow.

As a reminder, a man who was previously denied parole and had served roughly 15% of his sentence for the murder of a state trooper was recently released by Pritzker’s Prisoner Review Board (PRB), utilizing new measures signed into law by the Governor to gain his freedom. The slain trooper’s family was not given the opportunity to object to the killer’s early release.

As reported by the Effingham Daily News…

The man who killed Illinois State Police Trooper Layton Davis in 1976 was released from prison Thursday under a new law that allows parole for medical reasons.

Aaron Hyche, 71, who fired the shot that killed Davis, had been denied parole after a hearing in August. A relative of the trooper said the family was initially told the medical hearing would not be until March, and was surprised when Hyche was released before they could object.

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The trooper’s family is upset they didn’t get to voice opinions about Hyche to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.

It’s hard to square Pritzker’s honoring of state law enforcement today when he continues to stand by his handpicked PRB that voted to release Hyche. 

PRB member Eleanor Wilson, who voted to release the cop killer’s accomplice, James Taylor, resigned this week rather than face further scrutiny for her decisions to release violent criminals from prison early. Pritzker praised Wilson, saying, “The Governor is disappointed that a highly qualified nominee will no longer be able to serve on the Prisoner Review Board and he thanks Eleanor Wilson for her service and dedication to justice.”

We have just one question for the Governor. On a day meant to remember the history and sacrifices of our state troopers, will Pritzker apologize to the family of Trooper Layton Davis?

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For Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, the answer for rising crime in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs always seems to be a refusal to charge, more leniency, and early releases for violent criminals. Oh, and demonizing law enforcement. Policies and attitudes that have been detrimental to the safety of the public.

Take her recent initiative (allowed under a new law signed by JB Pritzker) that will have her office arguing in courts “that certain longtime inmates deserve more lenient sentences.” That’s right, Foxx’s answer to skyrocketing crime is to use her office’s time and energy releasing convicted criminals early onto our streets.

And let’s not forget, Kim Foxx was a corrupt actor shielding a celebrity and personal friend from accountability in the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax case. After Foxx decided against pressing charges against Smollett for staging a fake hate crime, an independent investigation found that Foxx’s office had committed “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures.”

Even after Smollett was eventually convicted of his crimes and sentenced to jail, Foxx called the court’s decision a “kangaroo prosecution” and “mob justice.” Yikes.

In light of Foxx’s unwillingness to protect the public from violent criminals and a wave of like-minded progressive prosecutors currently facing recalls across the country for their radical ideology, State Representative Tim Butler (R-Springfield) has introduced a bill that gives the residents of Cook County the ability to mount a recall effort against Foxx as well. Butler gave his motivation, saying, “The numerous issues surrounding Kim Foxx, and the complete lack of confidence the people have in her abilities as State’s Attorney, underscore the need for citizens to have the ability to recall someone in this vitally important position.”

So, here’s the question: does Governor JB Pritzker support or oppose the Kim Foxx recall bill? Is he happy with the way Foxx has handled her duties?

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After helping kill the Keystone Pipeline, Budzinski now campaigning on ‘energy independence’

Given the latest global events surrounding a murderous tyrant in Russia – who America buys oil from – invading another sovereign country in Ukraine, it’s not surprising that the anointed Democrat candidate in Illinois’ 13th congressional district has made the political calculus to campaign on American energy independence.

Candidate Nikki Budzinki makes a pledge on her website to reduce “our dependence on foreign energy from unstable regimes around the world.”

There’s just one problem for the carpetbagging Budzinski – in her former role within President Joe Biden’s administration, Budzinzki led the implementation of Biden’s executive order canceling the Keystone Pipeline which would have directly aided in America becoming less dependent on oil from “unstable regimes around the world.” The pipeline would have carried hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil every day from Canada into the United States. 

Oops.

“Nikki Budzinzki is a longtime political hack who personally helped implement a plan to make America more dependent on foreign oil from unstable regimes. Now she’s running for office claiming to do the exact opposite,” said ILGOP Executive Director Shaun McCabe. “Budzinski is wildly out of touch with the families of Central Illinois and the Metro East. That’s not surprising since she’s never lived there and calls Chicago and DC home.”

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Tragically, 36 veterans died of COVID at state-run LaSalle Veterans Home in late 2020 due to what an investigative report found to be massive failures within the Pritzker Administration which failed to protect the lives of our nation’s heroes.

Yesterday, State Senator Sue Rezin (R-Morris) introduced a few pieces of legislation to force improved and more timely responses from IDPH to disease outbreaks in veterans’ homes.

From Capitol News…

Rezin is sponsoring Senate Bill 3170, which would require that a veterans’ home administrator provide written notification to IDPH and IDVA within 24 hours of learning of a second case of an infectious disease.

Another bill, SB1471, would require facilities licensed and operated by the state to conduct outbreak-related preparedness drills.

The Human Services’ department’s report found that the LaSalle home had not created a COVID-19 task force or committee for leadership and supervisors to establish responsibilities for managing and monitoring the virus. That, the report said, resulted in confusion among staff and led to tasks being left undone.

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A third bill, SB1445, would provide the inspector general subpoena powers that ensure cooperation with state investigations after [the state VA Director] refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Rezin’s bills currently sit in the Senate Assignments Committee ignored by Democrats hoping to avoid a continued spotlight on the Pritzker administration’s outrageous abandonment of our veterans.

But Rezin is focused on whether the Governor himself will support her protective measures, saying, “If the governor truly wants to say that he has changed what has happened in the past and that he has corrected the problems, then he should publicly support my bills.”

So, Governor, will you?

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The biggest political news since the arrest and indictment of former Governor Rod Blagojevich landed last week when federal investigators announced charges of racketeering and bribery against Ex-Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan. After four decades of amassing more and more power at the expense of Illinois taxpayers, the man at the top of the Democrat political machine is inching closer and closer to seeing the inside of a prison cell.

Democrats through the decades – up and down the ballot and across Illinois – can be blamed for supporting and enabling Madigan’s corrupt reign. But one man in particular stands above the rest for being Madigan’s #1 supporter and chief enabler. 

That man is Governor JB Pritzker.

Here are some key questions for the Governor in light of Madigan’s indictment:

• Does the governor regret personally funding Madigan’s corrupt political operation to the tune of more than $10 million dollars?
• Does the governor regret hiring into his administration 35 people personally recommended by Speaker Madigan for patronage jobs?
• As the federal investigators swirled in and around the Madigan orbit for two years, indicting several close confidants, it was obvious who the main target was. And yet, Pritzker never asked for Madigan to step down as Speaker or Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois when others did. Why not? Does he regret standing by Madigan now?
• When Madigan resigned his seat in the Illinois House, Pritzker issued a statement saying, “The people of Illinois have much to be grateful for thanks to his dedicated public service, and the many sacrifices he and his family made to make a difference in our lives.” Why did Pritzker issue that statement and doesn’t that tell us everything we need to know about his support for Madigan?

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