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On June 28, Illinois held its gubernatorial primary election, which featured several Republican candidates, including Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, State Senator Darren Bailey, and political outsider Jesse Sullivan.
Irvin, a popular local official who happens to be black, had been the favorite among the GOP candidates. But a funny thing happened in the months leading up to the vote. When the ballots were tallied, Irvin ended up in third place, well behind Bailey and the upstart Sullivan.
What happened? The current governor of Illinois, J. B. Pritzker, a Democrat with hundreds of millions in his campaign’s bank account and aspirations for higher political office, decided he would rather face Bailey in the general election.
So, in the weeks leading up to the primary, the Illinois airwaves were absolutely saturated with what seemed like a neverending series of campaign commercials criticizing Irvin’s performance as mayor of Aurora, attacking his background as a combat veteran and attorney, and even calling into question his personal integrity. Yet, the vast majority of those vicious ads did not come from Irvin’s Republican opponents, as one would ordinarily expect. They were funded by Pritzker and came courtesy of his campaign acolytes.
As Irvin noted in the days before the election, “J.B. Pritzker is telling you that every time he takes out an ad. He’s telling you that ‘This is the guy I’m the most afraid of.’”
For instance, one particularly egregious attack ad, paid for by Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association, viciously attacked Irvin’s record as a defense attorney.
“Richard Irvin’s real record on crime? For 15 years, Irvin has been a defense lawyer profiting by defending some of the most violent and heinous criminals,” the narrator says ominously.
This is funny line of attack coming from a party that generally supports “decarceration.” Pritzker has been a prominent advocate of “criminal […]
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