* A few weeks ago, Republican guberntorial candidate Ted Dabrowski tried to pin the death of two people allegedly caused by an Indiana man on Gov. Pritzker.

* Today, the Tribune published a Dabrowski op-ed responding to an editorial entitled “What’s the point of Illinois Republicans?” An excerpt…

I love Illinois just as all conservatives do, but I am dismayed by what it has become under the tenure of Pritzker and his supermajority.

The point of the Republican Party is to conserve the amazing assets Illinois has developed — e.g., its infrastructure, industry, universities, arts, et al. — while developing new ones. Both require systemic change in Illinois.

When Jimmy John’s founder Jimmy John Liautaud announced that he was moving his company’s headquarters out of Illinois in 2012, he said the thing that really galled him was not the state’s taxes so much as its policies. “What I mind is how they spend the tax. I would stay, but the way they spend the tax is what’s really driving me away,” he said.

Since then, the bait-and-switches with taxpayer money that drove Liautaud away have exploded.

Except, the company’s headquarters is still in Champaign. From a 2019 News-Gazette article after the company had been sold…

Jimmy John’s also recently expanded its Champaign headquarters, which Liautaud told News-Gazette Media in 2017 employs about 100 people.

In 2011, Liautaud threatened to move the Champaign headquarters out of state after Illinois increased its corporate tax rate from 3 to 5 percent.

He eventually kept the corporate office on Fox Drive in Champaign, but moved Jimmy John’s licensing company to Florida, where he has a home.

As of 2021, Liautaud was registered to vote in Florida, but his spouse was registered to vote in Illinois, according to Forbes.

…Adding… It should also be noted that Liautaud was wooed by several other states and still decided to keep his headquarters in Illinois…

The Jimmy John’s sandwich chain founder has been flown to Austin, Texas, on a private jet for a tour of the city, offered a $3.5 million in tax incentives from the state of Michigan and has had Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels give him his cell phone number since Liautaud said he was leaving Illinois because lawmakers raised income taxes last year.