Call and response (Updated)
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Fox News reports that the Illinois Republican Party is upset at the Obama Presidential Center’s “anti-racism” goals…
The Illinois Republican Party has blasted as “divisive” the hiring language the Obama Foundation is using for the Obama Presidential Center, arguing it shows the privately run project is using public land to advance a political agenda.
The Obama Foundation, which is developing the hotly debated center on Chicago’s South Side, recently advertised roughly 150 jobs at the facility, stating that successful applicants are expected to align with the foundation’s “anti-racism” goals.
“It’s an Illinois Democrat tradition to insert divisive, far-left policies into the lives of everyday Americans and to balk at the rule of law,” Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi told Fox News Digital.
“The Obama Center is no different. It is a recipient of taxpayer funds built on public lands and flouts ‘anti-racism’ hiring goals,” Salvi said. “But such employment practices sound discriminatory and unmoored from any assessment of merit.”
I asked the Democratic Party of Illinois for a response…
“It’s an Illinois Republican tradition to insert divisive, far-right policies into the lives of everyday Illinoisans and to balk at calling out racism.”
* Darren Bailey…
The Pritzker campaign sent a link to an MPEA report that estimated Fiscal Year 2025’s revenues from the hotel it owns (managed by Hyatt) to be about $102 million.
From Alex Gough at the Pritzker campaign…
Once again, Darren Bailey gets his wires crossed. The MPEA is a critical economic development arm for both the city and state, not some Trump-esque scam for personal profit. Governor Pritzker is proud to invest state dollars to provide good paying jobs that grow our economy.
On the other hand, it’s pretty interesting that Darren Bailey remained silent while his pal Donald Trump engaged in actual grift, selling out the American people to foreign governments that send the best gifts and abusing taxpayer dollars to spend the weekends in Palm Beach.
Discuss.
…Adding… Back in 2022, the Pritzker campaign flatly denied any existing ties to Hyatt…
The governor has no leadership or management role in Hyatt, nor does he own stock. […]
JB unequivocally is not the beneficiary of any trust that holds Hyatt stock-foreign or domestic, with CIBC as the Trustee or with any other Trustee. He has zero interest directly or as a beneficiary in any Hyatt stock.
