August 15th, 2019
By Victor Skinner
Nancy Pelosi thinks Illinois is a “model to the nation,” despite the state’s chronic budget problems, sky-high taxes and crime, and massive unfunded pension liabilities.
Pelosi attended Democrats’ Governor’s Day celebration at the Illinois State Fair Wednesday to heap praise on Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democrats running for Congress in 2020.
"You think big. You get big things done,” Pelosi gushed to Pritzker. “Congratulations for being a model to the nation.”
Pelosi applauded Democrat successes in winning all statewide offices in Illinois last year, as well as flipping two Republican congressional seats to give the party a 13-5 advantage in the state’s delegation, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Pelosi called Illinois Democrats the “source of hope in 2020,” though she did indirectly acknowledge the corruption that’s plagued the party in the Land of Lincoln, from former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence to the recent embezzlement charges against state Sen. Tom Cullerton, a Democrat from Villa Park..........To Read More....
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