David Charter in the Times sees JB Pritzker, the billionaire Illinois governor, as the Democrats' best hope against Trump. He's certainly smart, and seems to relish the verbal sparring with the president:
President Trump has spent weeks bombarding Pritzker and Chicago, the biggest city in Illinois, with threats to send in the National Guard to combat crime. Trump has attacked the “panic stricken” and “weak and pathetic” governor but the insults may actually be helping to elevate the sharp-tongued Democrat by giving him a national stage to deliver withering counterattacks against the “unhinged” president, to the delight of his party….
“Trump is talking about Pritzker all the time, I don’t think there’s any other elected official that he’s talked about more recently,” said Laura Washington, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. “Every Democrat of whatever stripe wants to see someone who’s going to be a fighter and is going to go after Trump tooth-and-nail and I think Pritzker is trying to do that,” she said.
“When he ran the first time for governor his motto was ‘think big’, so he was really throwing right in your face the fact that he was a big guy and getting that off the table. But he also used that as a strategy to put himself out there as somebody who was thinking outside the box and he’s been very good at building that image.”
The Pritzker name was already huge in Chicago, where his grandfather was one of three brothers — the sons of Ukrainian immigrants — who built a property empire that would include Hyatt hotels. There is a Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and a Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University (thanks to a $100 million donation from JB Pritzker and his wife, MK Pritzker), as well as the annual prestigious Pritzker Architecture prize worth $100,000.
So very wealthy, and very powerful. What doesn't get mentioned is that JB's cousin is Jennifer Pritzker, Jennifer (born James) Pritzker "the first and only openly transgender billionaire", and a leading advocate of transgenderism.
Jennifer Bilek at Tablet in June 2022:
One of the most powerful yet unremarked-upon drivers of our current wars over definitions of gender is a concerted push by members of one of the richest families in the United States to transition Americans from a dimorphic definition of sex to the broad acceptance and propagation of synthetic sex identities (SSI). Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions….
And Illinois became, last month, the first state in the US to require mental health screenings in its public schools.
I want to be on-the-record and crystal clear. This is a disastrous policy that will do vastly more harm than good. Watch as tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most of which will be false positives.
This terrible law will be used to ask every child attending a public school pseudoscientific questions about their "gender identity" that's going to confuse a lot of otherwise normal children and flag them to visit with a "gender specialist."
Worth bearing in mind amid the Pritzker cheerleading…
Leave a Reply