*** UPDATE ***  * From Jared Leopold, the communications director for the Democratic Governors Association…

“The DGA has never polled the Illinois Democratic primary or tested any of the candidates. The Chicago Sun-Times story is 100% false and the DGA has requested a correction.”

[ *** End Of Update *** ]
* I don’t know yet if we’re going to make this a regular Monday thing or not, but since I already did a Kennedy weekend roundup, here’s an e-mail from the Ameya Pawar campaign with hyperlinks and some excerpts (I’ve added to what they sent me) for your convenience…

Rich -

Busy weekend for Ald. Pawar on the trail. Wanted to send a quick recap your way.

-Sam

* Laura Washington’s Sun-Times column on Ald. Pawar came out. Gubernatorial candidate targets ‘wealth worship’: “Wealth is fine,” he told me over a recent lunch downtown. “I just don’t believe we should worship it,” he added. “Being wealthy and being successful and being able to run government are not synonymous.” … “We have conflated racist rhetoric and bigotry and bombast and wealth, with authenticity,” he said. “That’s why we ended up with Bruce Rauner and Donald Trump.” … “What we should think about is, the last time we had authentic politicians, was with FDR.”

* New poll from DGA (via Sneed) has Ald. Pawar tied with Mr. Pritzker. Say what you will but as of March 6-9 he’s tied with one of the two “juggernauts” for second: Sneed is told a poll conducted in early March by the Democratic Governors Association — which has no horse in the Illinois gubernatorial race except its desire to beat Gov. Bruce Rauner — showed Kennedy with 40 percent of the vote. Pritzker won just 10 percent. But he only officially entered the race on Thursday — a month after the poll was conducted. Pollsters surveyed 600 likely voters through live telephone calls from March 6-9. Kennedy had already been in the race for nearly a month at that point. Pritzker was tied with Ald. Ameya Pawar (47th), who also got 10 percent. Madison County schools superintendent Bob Daiber had 5 percent. Not included in the survey was state Sen. Daniel Biss, who launched his campaign later in March. … After this item was published, the Democratic Governors Association contacted Sneed to say it had not conducted a poll, but Sneed stands by what she was told.

* 300 people attended the campaigns first volunteer training on Chicago’s Northwest side (in the 39th Ward. Photo of crowd here). We also had a few dozen volunteers stream in via computer from around the state. 85% of the attendees have never volunteered for a campaign before.

* Meet and greets in Lombard, Evanston, Edwardsville and East. St. Louis. Over 50 people at each stop. First announced candidate in East St. Louis. Invited to come back by the community for a big town-hall in May.