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Pritzker says no Illinoisans were on Minnesota assassin’s ‘hit list’

Monday, Jun 16, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller

* During the press conference announcing the arrest of alleged assassin Vance Boelter, Minnesota’s Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Drew Evans told reporters that Illinoisans were on the list compiled by the alleged Minnesota assassin. When asked if others in states beyond Minnesota were on the list

I don’t want to say it, because it won’t be exhaustive, but Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, some others that were on there. There was a variety in Nebraska, Iowa.

* Gov. JB Pritzker said this today in response to a question about Evans’ comment. Rush transcript

Let me begin by saying that, no, there is not a hit list that has Illinois politicians on it. There was a list, as you may recall, that was in the car that was recovered before they arrested the perpetrator. And that list was referred to as a hit list. It has Minnesota politicians, as I understand it, on it, about 70 of them.

Later, as the FBI and the Minnesota police were going to the various locations that this man lived, they recovered devices and other papers that had on them 600 names, more than 600 names, more of a hodgepodge. It wasn’t a list of 600. It was literally like a few people here, a few people there, websites that he had visited, etc.

And they put all that together, and I think out of a desire to be responsive to the media and to other inquiries, the FBI decided to put out the list, or at least the the information about the list, again, a hodgepodge of names that were put together, but not, as I have been told, a ‘hit list’ of any sort. And… the people who were among that very large list were not targeted in any way.

There are Illinois folks, like Iowa and others, but very few, and the again, no one, the FBI specifically said to me that these people are not targets, and they certainly, now that he has been apprehended, are they’re not concerned about those people being targeted in any way whatsoever.

Pritzker also said, “As I understand, I was not on that list.”

…Adding… CNN

The suspect in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in addition to the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife also visited two more politicians’ homes, according to authorities.

“In the early-morning hours of June 14, Boelter went to the homes of four Minnesota state politicians with the intent to kill them,” Joseph H. Thompson, the acting US attorney for the District of Minnesota, said at a news conference Monday.

       

10 Comments »
  1. - Sue - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 2:03 pm:

    Busy news cycle but has the governor yet issued a statement on the Madigan sentence and the Harmon hijacking of an ethics reform bill?


  2. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 2:24 pm:

    ===has the governor yet issued a statement on the Madigan sentence and the Harmon===

    Nobody asked him about MJM during the press conference. And nobody asked him about Harmon when Harmon was at an earlier press conference.

    I was told they expected to be asked about MJM today when I asked for a statement last week. Somebody tried to get it in, but the event had already ended.


  3. - Secret Ethics Committee - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 3:36 pm:

    Ummm, Sue, what ethics reform bill? Me thinks you’re being sold some undercoating on a very, very used car.


  4. - Garfield Ridge Guy - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 3:40 pm:

    Illinois needs an ethics reform bill. Every day that Illinois does not reform ethics represents the Senate President’s hijacking of needed reform. Supermajorities come with super-responsibility.


  5. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 3:41 pm:

    ===Senate President’s hijacking of needed reform===

    What reforms did he hijack?


  6. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 3:42 pm:

    I read the bill. Not really anything in there about ethics reform.


  7. - Sue - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 4:00 pm:

    Folks- not making this up- please see the June 8 Muller blog to the effect that Harmon’s actions killed the effort at ethics reform(campaign finance reform)- perhaps I misunderstood the Muller article?


  8. - Sue - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 4:04 pm:

    Its the June 8 Muller Election law blog- titled- Ethics reform stalls out


  9. - Grandson of Man - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 4:27 pm:

    Ethics reform is being demanded by the party whose president is a 34-count felon who gets to stay out of prison? There is no bottom to the hypocrisy.


  10. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 16, 25 @ 5:15 pm:

    ===Its the June 8 Muller Election law blog- titled- Ethics reform stalls out ===

    Who?

    Seriously, I never heard of that.

    Also, read the bill.


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