* Thursday…

Pritzker, flanked by security, passes out candy while in other parts of Chicago, a father is pistol-whipped in front of his daughter.#wecandobetter #tedforillinois #twill pic.twitter.com/B45LoeYBDr

— Ted For Illinois (@TedForIllinois) November 6, 2025

* Also yesterday…

Carrie Mendoza, Lt. Gov. Candidate and MD, discusses the Assisted Suicide bill with EPPC Fellow Mary Hallan Fio Rito https://t.co/6F7H8CJ29V

— Ted For Illinois (@TedForIllinois) November 7, 2025

In the video, Mendoza refers to Pritzker as “Governor Suicide.” Pritzker has said he hasn’t made up his mind about whether to sign the bill. Partial transcript…

To really just reiterate the context, we have a robust system that’s covered by insurance of palliative care and hospice care, it exists. So what is different here is that it’s coercing the medical, you know, institutions and the medical culture, to basically say, Well, you know, I, a person wants the freedom for a doctor or a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to write a prescription so they can just decide when they want to do it at home. Well, that is a line that is not crossed by ethical medicine. And if Pritzker signs it, it’s just being Governor Suicide.

And just a few last things I want to say within this context is that a lot of this euphemistic language in here… echoes the transgender for under 18, child transgender issues, where, if you don’t do this, they are going to commit suicide. You need to do this to reduce suffering. And it’s this euphemistic gender affirming care, which we, we know is not true. So it’s falling into the same buckets of just, you know, really terrible, you know, health care, trying to co-opt health care for these reasons.

And then lastly, given that Governor Pritzker signed the bill related to mandatory mental health screenings for kids, right? It’s just absolutely frightening. Because, first of all, we know that [does] not belong in school. But if you cannot see the pipeline and the way that this all works out, you know you’re not paying attention. I mean, in Canada, they are letting young people commit suicide, physician assisted suicide because they’re depressed. And I know, in the bill, it says, in this bill, it says depression is not, you know, a category that’s allowed, but, but we all know how this works, right? There’s a terminal illness, and you’re depressed, you’re it’s depression plus. And then you’ve crossed a line that just should not be allowed.

And you know when, when Ted and I are, are governing this, this just would would not be allowed. It would be vetoed. We would be a strong moral voice against this.

Please pardon any transcription errors.

* Wednesday…

Ted Dabrowski and Carrie Mendoza blast Pritzker’s position on NYC’s Mamdani

Wilmette — New York City yesterday elected a militant socialist and anti-Semite, Zohran Mamdani, as mayor.

In an interview last week, when asked directly whether he endorsed Mamdani, Gov. J.B. Pritzker ducked the question but went on to defend Mamdani and deny that his party is on the far left.

“Tuesday was a frightening day for America,” said Illinois Republican candidate Ted Dabrowski.

“A dangerous and radical anti-Semite was elected mayor of our most important city with the explicit or tacit endorsement of leading Democrats, including Gov. Pritzker.”

“Mamdani routinely glorifies militants and demonizes the police of the very city he will now govern,” Dabrowski said. “He has defended using the phrase ‘globalize the intifada.’ Rather than be endorsed by any politician, he should be explicitly condemned.”

Dabrowski called out Pritzker, who claimed Democrats are not on the far left when asked about Mamdani last week.

“Mamdani’s preference for socialism is now the norm among Democrats, of whom a majority now say they prefer socialism over our free enterprise system. I know socialism does not work. I helped Poland recover from the destruction socialism wrought on its country and people,” Dabrowski said. “The Democrats’ embrace of socialism is a historic turning point and a tragedy for both America and the Democratic Party.”

Pritzker’s strategy to win the presidency is to label himself as the most vitriolic voice of the far left, as evidenced by his own words, Dabrowski argued. “Illinois is the most progressive state in the nation and damn proud of it,” Pritzker has said.

“That may be what Pritzker has delivered but it isn’t what Illinoisans want. Pritzker is among the most guilty of his party’s conversion to radicalism,” says Dabrowski.

Dabrowski’s running mate, Dr. Carrie Mendoza, ripped Pritzker’s refusal to give a straight yes or no answer as to whether he endorsed Mamdani, as well as his failure to denounce Jay Jones of Virginia as unfit to serve because of his violent missives against opponents.

“This is not just political cowardice, it’s moral cowardice at its worst,” said Mendoza. “If Pritzker, as a Jewish governor, can’t condemn Mamdani outright as a dangerous, anti-Semitic politician, then he must be voted out.”

* Tuesday…

Ted Dabrowski slams Pritzker’s gutter language

Gov. J.B. Pritzker continues to coarsen political discourse in this country. As recently reported, he said in a speech last month to the Illinois Federation of Teachers that “Trump and his cronies can F*$% all the way off.” Such language debases the office of the governor of Illinois.

I am also disappointed that the audience of teachers gave Pritzker’s comments a standing ovation.

The governor’s language comes on the heels of his inflammatory rhetoric comparing his political opponents to Nazis, and his words that have fomented violence against federal law enforcement officers.

You will hear no such language from me when I am governor. I will restore common decency to the office, and that will include language I use to address even my most staunch opponents. I will defeat Pritzker and succeed as governor using the same tools I have always used – plain facts, common sense and persuasive language. That is the enduring power of integrity which Gov. Pritzker has spurned, all in the vain belief that abandoning such principles can propel him into the presidency.