WHAT: JB Pritzker to join the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois in Peoria for a press conference announcement.
WHEN: Friday, May 26 at 11:00 AM
WHERE: Peoria Labor Temple
The ad claims that Pritzker “has been a champion for getting innocent men and women the justice they deserve.” It doesn’t say what he’s actually done on that front, or if he helped the man in the ad, however. I’ve asked for an explanation.
Pritzker on Thursday also unveiled a new TV ad and the campaign’s first radio ad. The TV ad focuses on Dana Holland of Sauk Village, who was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery, attempted murder and sexual assault and sentenced to 118 years in prison. After serving 10 years, Holland was released with the assistance of Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions.
Pritzker and his wife gave $100 million to Northwestern’s law school, which included endowing the wrongful conviction center.
“I will never forget the people who stood by me, refusing to let my life be thrown away. People like J.B. Pritzker,” Holland says in the one-minute ad.
* And then there’s this…
Today, the JB Pritzker for Governor campaigned released its first radio ad, “Trust,” featuring Barbara Bowman. The new ad highlights JB’s commitment to working with educators like Bowman to ensure quality early childhood education for all Illinois children. In conjunction with the radio ad, the campaign is also releasing the next in its JB & Me video series featuring Bowman.
On the campaign trail, Pritzker has been trying to appeal to progressive voters who favor tax-the-rich policies to keep governments well-fed. Theme: Make the rich guys pay more! And in a May 13 appearance in Oak Park, Pritzker reportedly told the crowd that he opposes Rauner’s long fight to freeze property taxes.
Except, oops. Pritzker has managed to save nearly $230,000 on his own property taxes through a peculiar special designation from the highly political Cook County assessor’s office. The primary election campaign ads from other Democrats running for governor, or the general election campaign ads from Rauner, practically write themselves: J.B. Pritzker won big savings on his property taxes — but he wants yours to keep rising!
It’s not just that Pritzker won a reduced assessment of his own Gold Coast mansion (12,500 square feet). Several years ago he bought the mansion next door (6,387 square feet). He then allowed Mansion Two to fall into disrepair — and got a property tax break there too. […]
Among the reasons claimed by Team Pritzker: The house the Sun-Times dubbed “J.B.’s Trash Pad” evidently has no working bathrooms; somebody disconnected all the toilets. Wonder why.
* Related…
* ILGOP press release: Pritzker, Kennedy OPPOSE Property Tax Freeze, But BACK Tax-Hike Agenda
Good on Pritzker, keeping the gear going and continuing to build, and also diversify message and thought, while still under one umbrella.
I’ve said it now a few times, it’s still very true; when the Pritzker Crew has the time and the methodical way to do things, they really are exceptional. All that’s above isn’t “busy work”, it’s s campaign and Crew reach out out and making Pritzker a 3-dimensional candidate with issues, ideas, and support to build up and make real the 3-dimensional candidacy.
They still need to get significantly better, by leaps and bounds at rapid response and their own oppo, but this Post highlights where that Comms Crew shines, and that campaign is showing its growth.
Gee, the Trib is starting to take shots at the candidate Rauner fears most. I’m stunned.
And Rocky, maybe it’s time to consider some of these unions are endorsing JB because they think he’s the best candidate. If you’ve seen Kennedy and seen Pritzker out working the stump and working with people, it’s just not a close call. It’s not just the money.
Any firefighter or police officer who appears in any ad for a candidate for office in Illinois or Chicago should get a psych evaluation or be placed in a mental hospital. Politicians in Illinois have failed the first responders by taking away benefits and failing to make pension payments. The sacrafices first responders make are completely taken for granted in Illinois by politicians. Any first responders asked to appear with any candidate needs to refuse being used by these people until the city makes good on the commitments they make. The only time politicians want cops or fireman around is election time and other then that they look down on first responders.
==If you’ve seen Kennedy and seen Pritzker out working the stump and working with people, it’s just not a close call. It’s not just the money.==
I’ve heard that when Kennedy is on, he’s really ON, though. Still, I suspect most of these unions really do think Pritzker gives them the best chance at policies they want, and of the major candidates, he may be the easiest sell to their members.
The whole purpose of all the union support is to dry up the Kennedy money. The justice reform ad is on the air because Kennedy is winning the AA vote. All roads to the Democratic nomination go through the black community. #rightmazesaid?
Truly no point in Democratic candidates at any level participating in the Tribune’s endorsement process. The 1st Amendment gives the Trib the right to be Rauner’s house organ, but nothing requires Dems to lend any kind of legitimacy to the enterprise or waste their time participating in a “sentence first–verdict afterward” farce.
Spend some time with Kennedy on the campaign trail and you’ll see an effective candidate on the stump and someone who connects very well one-on-one. He’s drawing big crowds on the trail.
===Spend some time with Kennedy on the campaign trail and you’ll see an effective candidate on the stump and someone who connects very well one-on-one. He’s drawing big crowds on the trail.===
1) Kennedy is running the most puzzling and quite confusing campaign right now. Not good adjectives to have.
2) Kennedy’s own answers and message on the property tax “thingy” only exacerbates the puzzling and confusing campaign image.
3) Kennedy needs to tighten up his message and be more visible with that tighter, better, messaging, that also includes not dismissing support obtusely that Kennedy should be trying to court.
Odd campaign going on in the Kennedy Camp… the size of crowds or the amount of times Kennedy is or isn’t out “there”
=== The justice reform ad is on the air because Kennedy is winning the AA vote ===
LOL. Show Me. The Poll.
As far s I know, the only one to release a poll so far is Kurt Summers, and it didn’t have crosstabs.
Summers subsequently endorsed Pritzker, something I doubt he would have done if the black community was locked into Kennedy.
Moreover, if the African American community were locked in to Kennedy, wouldn’t Pritzker be running negative ads about kennedy’s lack of minority hiring or some other issue?
The strategy suggests that the African American community is largely undecided in the race, which makes sense. No Democratic incumbent. No African American leader has announced yet.
NOBODY is locked in to anybody at this point. It’s 10 months out. This stage of the race is not about voters - it’s about activists. Betcha those activists are going to be pretty darned excited by the robocalls taking the fight to Rauner.
wrongful conviction words in this commercial? weird. unless you consider that every opportunity is a reach to the African American community and he thinks that is the way in. wait until the victim commercials start from Rauner. and that Northwestern bank rolling is going to hit with Anthony Porter’s nonsense. good luck.
So Amelia, under your theory you’re. It a victim if you were wrongfully convicted and spent 20 years behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit? That’s a pretty weird definition You’ve got.
I really doubt Rauner’s going to go full on Willie Horton since he cites his own criminal justice reform efforts as one of his few “successes”. And Porter went through the Innocence Project, not the Wrongful Conviction Center.
- Norseman - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:33 am:
Whew, for a while there I was worried that the Tribune had abandoned their role as a GOP propaganda organ.
- Blue dog dem - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:41 am:
JB is too liberal to do any better than 2 out 5 firefighter households.
- Blue Bayou - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:42 am:
The Trib is the mouthpiece for the ILGOP.
What else would you expect?
Protect the rich and de-fund education is the Trib playbook.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:44 am:
Good on Pritzker, keeping the gear going and continuing to build, and also diversify message and thought, while still under one umbrella.
I’ve said it now a few times, it’s still very true; when the Pritzker Crew has the time and the methodical way to do things, they really are exceptional. All that’s above isn’t “busy work”, it’s s campaign and Crew reach out out and making Pritzker a 3-dimensional candidate with issues, ideas, and support to build up and make real the 3-dimensional candidacy.
They still need to get significantly better, by leaps and bounds at rapid response and their own oppo, but this Post highlights where that Comms Crew shines, and that campaign is showing its growth.
- Rocky Rosi - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:44 am:
At what points does all these paid for endorsements turn off the voters?
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:46 am:
===paid for endorsements===
I doubt the firefighters union can be bought.
- Juice - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:49 am:
I’ll just leave this right here.
http://www.cookcountyassessor.com/Property.aspx?mode=appeals&pin=17101300020000
- Real - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:49 am:
Great ads Jb
- Anon0091 - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:53 am:
Gee, the Trib is starting to take shots at the candidate Rauner fears most. I’m stunned.
And Rocky, maybe it’s time to consider some of these unions are endorsing JB because they think he’s the best candidate. If you’ve seen Kennedy and seen Pritzker out working the stump and working with people, it’s just not a close call. It’s not just the money.
- Arsenal - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:57 am:
Pritzker endowed Northwestern’s Wrongful Conviction Center. Not sure how that connects up to the subject of the ad.
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:58 am:
Any firefighter or police officer who appears in any ad for a candidate for office in Illinois or Chicago should get a psych evaluation or be placed in a mental hospital. Politicians in Illinois have failed the first responders by taking away benefits and failing to make pension payments. The sacrafices first responders make are completely taken for granted in Illinois by politicians. Any first responders asked to appear with any candidate needs to refuse being used by these people until the city makes good on the commitments they make. The only time politicians want cops or fireman around is election time and other then that they look down on first responders.
- Arsenal - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:59 am:
==If you’ve seen Kennedy and seen Pritzker out working the stump and working with people, it’s just not a close call. It’s not just the money.==
I’ve heard that when Kennedy is on, he’s really ON, though. Still, I suspect most of these unions really do think Pritzker gives them the best chance at policies they want, and of the major candidates, he may be the easiest sell to their members.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 12:03 pm:
===when Kennedy is on, he’s really ON, though===
He needs to be “on” a whole lot more.
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 12:10 pm:
Yea, those “ON” times don’t seem to happen too often. The weirdness is far more common.
- me - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 12:19 pm:
The whole purpose of all the union support is to dry up the Kennedy money. The justice reform ad is on the air because Kennedy is winning the AA vote. All roads to the Democratic nomination go through the black community. #rightmazesaid?
- Moe Berg - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 12:21 pm:
Truly no point in Democratic candidates at any level participating in the Tribune’s endorsement process. The 1st Amendment gives the Trib the right to be Rauner’s house organ, but nothing requires Dems to lend any kind of legitimacy to the enterprise or waste their time participating in a “sentence first–verdict afterward” farce.
- Fax Machine - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 12:46 pm:
If the nomination were determined solely by stumping, Biss would be the nominee
- DuPager - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 1:02 pm:
“I was falsely imprisoned and worked my a** off to have the conviction dropped. JB bought a law school.” Ipso facto, he IS the champion of justice.
Out of touch.
- Downstate Dem - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 1:22 pm:
Spend some time with Kennedy on the campaign trail and you’ll see an effective candidate on the stump and someone who connects very well one-on-one. He’s drawing big crowds on the trail.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 1:28 pm:
===Spend some time with Kennedy on the campaign trail and you’ll see an effective candidate on the stump and someone who connects very well one-on-one. He’s drawing big crowds on the trail.===
1) Kennedy is running the most puzzling and quite confusing campaign right now. Not good adjectives to have.
2) Kennedy’s own answers and message on the property tax “thingy” only exacerbates the puzzling and confusing campaign image.
3) Kennedy needs to tighten up his message and be more visible with that tighter, better, messaging, that also includes not dismissing support obtusely that Kennedy should be trying to court.
Odd campaign going on in the Kennedy Camp… the size of crowds or the amount of times Kennedy is or isn’t out “there”
- Arsenal - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 2:04 pm:
==He needs to be “on” a whole lot more.==
Such is my criticism, too, but in an effort to be charitable…
Plus, I dunno, if you can really nail those set-piece speeches, that might make up for weaknesses one-on-one.
- Juvenal - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 2:11 pm:
=== The justice reform ad is on the air because Kennedy is winning the AA vote ===
LOL. Show Me. The Poll.
As far s I know, the only one to release a poll so far is Kurt Summers, and it didn’t have crosstabs.
Summers subsequently endorsed Pritzker, something I doubt he would have done if the black community was locked into Kennedy.
Moreover, if the African American community were locked in to Kennedy, wouldn’t Pritzker be running negative ads about kennedy’s lack of minority hiring or some other issue?
The strategy suggests that the African American community is largely undecided in the race, which makes sense. No Democratic incumbent. No African American leader has announced yet.
- wordslinger - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
The tronc edit board will get around to that $14.4B and growing backlog of bills and the gutting of social services and higher ed eventually.
I kid. Their priorities and editorials are indistinguishable from the propaganda that comes from IPI, the ILGOP, or the governor’s office.
- Anon0091 - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 2:48 pm:
NOBODY is locked in to anybody at this point. It’s 10 months out. This stage of the race is not about voters - it’s about activists. Betcha those activists are going to be pretty darned excited by the robocalls taking the fight to Rauner.
- Amalia - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 6:34 pm:
wrongful conviction words in this commercial? weird. unless you consider that every opportunity is a reach to the African American community and he thinks that is the way in. wait until the victim commercials start from Rauner. and that Northwestern bank rolling is going to hit with Anthony Porter’s nonsense. good luck.
- Anon0091 - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 9:02 pm:
So Amelia, under your theory you’re. It a victim if you were wrongfully convicted and spent 20 years behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit? That’s a pretty weird definition You’ve got.
- Amalia - Thursday, May 25, 17 @ 11:18 pm:
@Anon0091, it’s Amalia, and Anthony Porter is looking less and less like a victim all the time.
- Arsenal - Friday, May 26, 17 @ 7:00 am:
I really doubt Rauner’s going to go full on Willie Horton since he cites his own criminal justice reform efforts as one of his few “successes”. And Porter went through the Innocence Project, not the Wrongful Conviction Center.