* From the racial discrimination lawsuit against the JB Pritzker campaign…

For example, the Region 6 Office is placed in an unsafe location. The Footlocker next door was robbed twice in a week; two other stores nearby have been robbed; their office has been cased; a young woman was raped outside their back door; and a gunfight took place right outside their office. All of these crimes happened during the day.

Although an alderman offered to let them use space, for free, in a safer location, the request was denied.

* WCIA TV’s Mark Maxwell interviewed Shay Allen, one of the lawyers representing those eight current and two former campaign staffers, and asked him a simple question: What’s the name of the alderman who offered free space to the campaign? He wouldn’t answer…

Who was that Chicago alderman cited in Shay Allen's discrimination lawsuit against @JBPritzker? He wouldn't say. Will he tell us before the election? He wouldn't say that either. pic.twitter.com/CVn5jg3mqJ

— Mark Maxwell (@WCIA3Mark) October 18, 2018

Some of us would take this suit more seriously if the lawyers would offer up at least a little corroborating evidence from people who aren’t directly involved.

* Mr. Allen wouldn’t answer this question, either…

Attorney Shay Allen would not say who lived in the house that allegedly turned Kasmine Calhoun away because she was black. He argues the @JBPritzker campaign could be held liable for their alleged actions, even if they were only a volunteer. pic.twitter.com/c2MUazo12u

— Mark Maxwell (@WCIA3Mark) October 18, 2018

He claims in the above clip that the campaign can be held liable for the alleged actions of a campaign volunteer. I’m not a lawyer, but perhaps some of you who are can fill us in below.

* Allen also explained why his clients demanded so much money…

Preview of this Sunday's @CapConnectIL interview with civil rights attorney Shay Allen. 10 of his clients are suing @JBPritzker's campaign for $7.5 million. He says part of that price tag is for emotional trauma they suffered as a result of alleged discrimination. pic.twitter.com/1wp44F74zJ

— Mark Maxwell (@WCIA3Mark) October 18, 2018

* Full interview…

* Meanwhile…

Allen also tells me 5-10 plaintiffs could be added to the lawsuit against the Pritzker campaign. He says several people left the campaign because of alleged racial discrimination.

— Raquel Martin (@WCIA3Raquel) October 17, 2018

* Mary Ann Ahern…

NBC 5 also spoke to several former staffers who also say they experienced racism and harassment as well. The former staffers spoke to NBC 5 anonymously out of concerns of retaliation. […]

However, four former staffers not named in the lawsuit tell NBC 5 after FBI tapes were revealed of Pritzker telling former (and now imprisoned) Gov. Rod Blagojevich that Secretary of State Jesse White was the least offensive choice to replace then Sen. Barack Obama— Pritzker and Stratton reached out directly to black campaign workers. That’s when the staffers say they first voiced discrimination complaints to them.

One ex staffer not named in the lawsuit said the working conditions were unsafe. Moldy carpet, dead bugs on the desks every morning and “we were treated very demeaning and micro-managed,” they said. That same ex-staffer said there were rats inside one Chicago office. […]

“The allegations made in the published complaint mirror the same treatment that I faced,” another former staffer tells NBC 5.

A third former campaign staffers reached out to NBC 5 to note what they referred to as the “unfair treatment, hostile and oppressive behavior” from a supervisor and that left that staffer “rebuffed, ignored and ultimately dismissed, fired for voicing my concerns over J.B.’s discriminatory practices” that are similar to what’s named in the lawsuit.

Keep in mind that the Pritzker campaign shed itself of several low-level staffers after the primary. I don’t know if any of these folks were among those folks, however. And, so far, they haven’t yet been added to the suit to my knowledge.

* Related…

* Pritzker Campaign Releases Records Refuting Discrimination Suit - Contrary to a lawsuit’s claims, the campaign paid for two hotel rooms a night for one staffer and visited an “unsafe” office repeatedly.

* J.B. Pritzker labels staff discrimination lawsuit as ‘untrue,’ ‘craziness’ at end of political campaign: “I think everybody who’s been involved in a campaign before has seen a lot of craziness in the last few weeks of a campaign. So, you know, this is just more, I guess, of what people expect to experience,” he said. “Being a first-time Democratic nominee for governor, you know, I didn’t know exactly what to expect, but here we are.”

* Pritzker vows to fight racial discrimination suit, calls it campaign ‘craziness’: But Pritzker is also managing a giant statewide campaign, full of campaign employees. Including health insurance, Pritzker has spent $12.2 million to pay his campaign staff, campaign finance reports show.