* Juliana Stratton highlights her ties to Gov. Pritkzer in her new TV ad. Press release…
Today, Illinois Future PAC announced the launch of a new broadcast and digital ad highlighting Juliana Stratton’s record of delivering real results for Illinois families and her readiness to take that fight to the U.S. Senate.
The new spot underscores Illinois’ leadership in the face of inaction in Washington. Under Gov. Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Stratton’s leadership, the state raised wages, strengthened gun safety laws, and protected abortion rights as Congress remained gridlocked. The ad draws a clear contrast between progress made in Illinois and a broken system in Washington while making the case that Juliana is the leader prepared to bring Illinois’ momentum to the U.S. Senate.
Juliana Stratton is running for U.S. Senate on a progressive agenda to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour, expand healthcare to all, lower costs, protect fundamental rights, and take on a broken system that too often leaves working families behind.
The ad will air across broadcast, cable, digital, and streaming platforms.
Most poor people are not lazy. They are not Black. They are not Brown. They are mostly White and female and young. But whether White, Black or Brown, a hungry baby’s belly turned inside out is the same color– color it pain, color it hurt, color it agony.
Most poor people are not on welfare. Some of them are illiterate and can’t read the want-ad sections. And when they can, they can’t find a job that matches their address.
They work hard every day. I know, I live amongst them. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people’s children. They work every day.
They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive dangerous cabs. They change the beds you slept in in these hotels last night and can’t get a union contract. They work every day.
No, no, they’re not lazy. Someone must defend them because it’s right and they cannot speak for themselves. They work in hospitals. I know they do. They wipe the bodies of those who are sick with fever and pain. They empty their bedpans. They clean out their commodes. No job is beneath them, and yet when they get sick they cannot lie in the bed they made up every day. America, that is not right. We are a better nation than that!
“They catch the early bus” is a lesson that has always stuck with me.
All respect.
* A lighter side…
Pouring one out for The Reverend Jesse Jackson. A giant and a champion for civil rights and equality.
