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Tuesday, Apr 21, 2026 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’m referring to Bailey’s succinct messaging, not Del Mar’s comments, which are not all accurate…
A Republican running against data centers. Dude knows how to read a poll, at least.
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- Candy Dogood - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 8:47 am:
A some point last month Darren Bailey woke up and realized he maybe needs to do something to avoid looking like a complete embarrassment and here is that something.
Lucky for him tweeting someone else’s interview is free and easy. Since he isn’t a serious candidate I don’t think we should expect much out of him that resembles a policy proposal, but tweeting probably helps him feel like he’s doing something.
- Leatherneck - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 8:47 am:
That will go well in southwest Sangamon County, as well as adjacent parts of Macoupin and Morgan. Which is all threatened by Cyrus One’s proposed DC near Lowder.
And the Lowder proposed DC is on farmland currently owned by the Dowson Farms out of Divernon. Dowson also farmed the land affected by the 2023 dust storm near Farmersville and may even rent the remaining farmland next to the YNot building in Chatham. So it seems like Dowson is at least somewhat culpable for two of the biggest Springfield-area tragedies of the last three years, and they are willing to create another tragedy in our area as well.
- CA-HOON! - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 9:10 am:
C-/D+
It’s boilerplate that will resonate with some of the base, but they’ve heard it all before for years and at least some of them are wise to the fact that property taxes are set at the local not state level, so not sure how well it’s gonna land.
Obviously for anyone outside the base this is just more of the same kind of prevarications and outright lies that has become the S.O.P. of the G.O.P.
It won’t move the needle in any measurable way, and Pritzker will take the governorship by double-digits. Again.
- Jocko - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 9:12 am:
Fair hit on gas taxes…provided you ignore the $45 billion infrastructure bill. I’m skeptical of the property tax claim if IPI is the one making it.
- Roadrager - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 9:51 am:
I do not think Darren Bailey can run a successful campaign appealing to a voter base that moved to Illinois in 2023 or later. Especially since his party is always crowing about how nobody ever moves here.
- Jerry - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:11 am:
What? Baylee doesnt want the roads and bridges fixed downstate! He’s going to undo that. Ok, whatever you say.
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:17 am:
Dowson is also involved in some of the largest industrial solar projects in Illinois. They are involved in currently planning an approximately 1800 acre project southwest of Weldon, IL as well - Triple Black Diamond Solar Project.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news/is-this-the-best-use-of-prime-farmland-16109685/
- ArchPundit - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:17 am:
Bailey sounds like a normal person. He’s apparently learning which I would not have expected in the past so good on him.
Those NDAs for data centers were why there is so much push back. If the companies hadn’t treated the siting of a data center as trade secret when usually we could find out who was behind it, but not the details of the local resources needed, made those things toxic. And generally, we are going to need more but with transparency.
- Rudy’s teeth - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:28 am:
Rate:D
Darren Bailey is not an orator or a statesman. He’s never been a serious candidate or qualified for the office of governor. Bailey’s brash remarks during campaign #1 supports the adage “when someone shows you who they are, pay attention.”
Of course, Bailey wants to be governor but the result will be the same…another loss for Bailey.
- JB13 - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:35 am:
The message? In a state that cares about their tax bills, it would help, especially the outrageous automatic annual increases in the gas tax. Here, where many of us pride ourselves on our willingness to overpay for subpar services and pensions? Probably won’t mean much.
That said: The “heads I win, tails you lose” aspect of discussing property taxes will always be endearing.
Think your property taxes are too high? Well,
you can’t blame the governor. Taxes are set locally, you see.
But you also can’t blame the local school district, city, county, etc. They need the money to provide the amazing government services you receive, and the state isn’t taxing you enough to pay for them.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and watch your tax bill grow, magically, all on its own.
- Leatherneck - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:38 am:
Whatever happened to the “Families Against Rural Messes” group that was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s to oppose mega-livestock farms? This group was created by Elmwood resident Karen Hudson when megafarms were proposed (and eventually built) near Elmwood and Williamsfield in 1996-1997. If that group is active they need to be speaking out against all these data centers on rural farmland, those are more of a threat now than what mega livestock farms were 25-30 years ago.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 10:44 am:
“What? Baylee doesnt want the roads and bridges fixed statewide! …”
Small but significant fix.
MFT is the primary funding for IDOT to match FHWA funding requirements. It is the primary funding for local agencies to maintain the local highway network. It is also used to match FHWA funding requirements
- Steve - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 11:09 am:
Gas taxes are high and they are going up in Illinois. That’s what the voters in Illinois wanted. Bailey can’t move the needle too much .
- Leap Day William - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 11:31 am:
== especially the outrageous automatic annual increases in the gas tax ==
The outrageous automatic annual increase of… around $0.02 to $0.03/gallon? So around a quarter or so per fill up. That feels like a pretty small price to pay for keeping up with inflation and actually updating our infrastructure from the 1960s.
I am continually baffled by this belief that even though everything else in the world goes up in cost, somehow the cost of government doing government things like building and repairing roads is magically immune so we should’ve continued to fund road construction with 1990s level of money.
- Pundent - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 11:48 am:
It’s not necessarily a bad message, but it’s a bit detached from reality. If the current gas prices hold through year-end the blame will fall squarely on the President and GOP. The more Bailey/DelMar talk about affordability the more they’ll have to deal with questions on GOP policies on the topic.
The property tax issue is largely a function of our less than adequate state income tax. How do Bailey/DelMar feel about a millionaires tax as a remedy to that problem?
Finally, regardless of how you feel about data centers, they have support from some key groups like trade unions and tech investors. Are Bailey/DelMar willing to tell those groups to invest their dollars in Wisconsin and Indiana?
I can understand why Bailey wants to change his messaging. He did after all lose by double digits. But he’s the same candidate with the same flaws as last time.
- Frida's Boss - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 12:05 pm:
The data center folks are really not doing a very good job of promoting or spinning the narrative. They are letting themselves get pummeled everywhere.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 12:08 pm:
===really not doing a very good job of promoting or spinning the narrative===
I think the problem goes deeper. It’s just about pitchfork time.
- Friendly Bob Adams - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 12:11 pm:
I don’t see this approach moving the needle much for Bailey. He’s still a mega-maga candidate in a blue state.
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 12:21 pm:
I don’t think cost of living is a winning message right now for Republicans. And data centers is a hyper local message to those areas affected by them. Overall I don’t think this messaging is very good.
- here we go again - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 12:48 pm:
Now that Darren Bailey is doing his summer of love shtick in Chicago, perhaps he would like to visit the majority Black wards in the city and explain to folks there why he teamed up with a guy who unlawfully purged duly elected Black Republican ward committeepersons from the party, at end of a prior failed stint as Cook County GOP chair. All but 1 or 2 of the purged ward committeepersons were Black. One of the purged committeepersons hired a lawyer and brought suit, and the 1st District Appellate Court eventually confirmed the scheme was unlawful. So after purging persons of color from party leadership, Aaron Del Mar goes around to GOP events now crowing he’s the first person of color in Illinois GOP leadership. Darren Bailey’s fine judgment on display again.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20160413/news/in-curtain-call-cook-gop-chief-fires-13-committeemen/
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 1:06 pm:
===Now that Darren Bailey is doing===
Stick to the topic at hand, please.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 1:39 pm:
Bailey’s SOP GOP message of lower taxes appeals to the base but not to other voters he needs to win. He might as well be selling wood stoves in the Sahara Desert.
I’m at a loss to understand why he’s doing exactly the same thing he did last time. Is simply running an ego thing with him? Does he enjoy criticizing Pritzker on a statewide stage? Is it more important to him to stay true to the losing GOP formula (at least in Illinois) than it is to win?
We’ll never get answers to those questions, but if his 2 + 2 = 5 in the last election, can’t he see the same writing on the wall in this one?
- Duck Duck Goose - Tuesday, Apr 21, 26 @ 1:47 pm:
Anybody who tells you that taxes increased (or decreased) by a specific percentage without giving the actual rates is trying to trick you.