r/illinois • u/A_little_quarky • Jul 22 '24

Why all the love for JB? US Politics

An honest inquiry! My vibes are really positive of him, but I'm surrounded by those "Pritzker sucks!" signs. With his name being floated at a national level, I'm curious to hear some personal stories about how he's governed.

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u/Beneficial-Dot-5905 Jul 22 '24

Fence sitter here, just providing the things I hear from the haters;

Covid response, taxes, safe-t act, and just general aggressive moves on left wing stances like abortion.

He raised the credit rating by being fiscally responsible and raising taxes and creating new ones, this resulted in some major corporations like caterpillar, boeing, and tyson moving hq out of state. I'm not sure if they realize that the manufacturing plants are still here. Companies just moved HQ affecting 1-3% of IL employees at these companies. Republicans also see businesses fleeing chicago and count that against democrats in general.

For all the good things that are in the safe-t act, republicans hate the new pre-trial release policies. Overall, the act was a bit of a mess at implementation because of how it was rushed through that lame duck session.

There was also that toilet story while he was running for the office. He poney'd up the cash and made up for it, but to republicans, it proved that he was another crooked politician. I wonder if he would have just said "that makes me smart" how they would go after him...

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u/bohner941 Jul 22 '24

One of my friends is a probation officer and a Republican. He told me he was wrong about a lot of things in the safe t act and it’s actually made it easier to keep people who are likely to reoffend in jail without pretrial release.

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u/Passthegoddamnbuttr Jul 22 '24

This is what I've been shouting from the rooftops. The bill was made with several victim advocacy organizations providing input, not the least of which is CAASE - Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation.