There’s better audio of this on the Meidastouch Instagram feed, but I don’t know how to embed that here. Couldn’t find it on their website.
My Governor, JB Pritzker, is living proof that a billionaire can spend a bundle of his own money to get into office, and then be a competent and progressive public servant. Thanks to him and our Democratic legislature, a woman’s right to abortion is guaranteed in Illinois, no matter what SCOTUS might do. Many other progressive bills have been passed. Sadly, his ballot initiative to replace the state’s flat income tax with a progressive one was torpedoed by a campaign of lies funded by one of the country’s wealthiest hedge fund managers.
He’s been an excellent and effective leader during the pandemic, working with the federal government and the City of Chicago to convert the massive McCormick Place convention and trade-show center into a field hospital. Fortunately it was never needed. But he made sure it was in place.
In the early days of the pandemic he also chartered his own plane to bring PPE back to Illinois’ medical personnel.
And his thanks for all this was to receive death threats against him and his family forcing him to move them to a secret location.
Yesterday towards the end of Pritzker’s news conference, Amy Jacobson, whom Pritzker elevated by calling a journalist, hit him with a question about how upset parents are that their kids have to wear masks in school. She claims parents are crying about this and says that as governor “Shouldn’t you be calming people instead?”
Pritzker leaves the podium as an aide first responds, eloquently and forcefully to Jacobson. The audio cuts out briefly, then Pritzker turns around and goes back to Shut. Her. Down.
For those of you not from the Chicago area, Amy Jacobson is a disgraced former reporter who worked for WMAQ-TV, the local NBC Owned & Operated. In the Spring of 2007 a woman named Lisa Stebic disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Earlier that day she had asked her lawyer to help to evict her husband from their home. The husband, Craig Stebic, refused to speak with police or cooperate in their investigation ( a stance he has held to ever since.). Although he has never been formally charged, he is considered a “Person of interest.” Lisa Stebic is still missing.
In July of that year, Amy Jacobson was videotaped at Craig Stebic’s house, wearing a bikini top and a towel. She had taken her children there to enjoy their pool and socialize with Stebic and his family. According to neighbors she had been frequently seen at the house. Jacobson had covered the Stebic case but had never revealed her personal relationship with the husband. She initially attempted to claim that she was cultivating sources.
You can read about her and the case on Wikipedia, I’m not going to waste the space here. TL/DR she was fired, she sued, her suit was dismissed with summary judgement, she appealed, she lost on appeal, she appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, which declined to hear her case.
Instead of slinking away to some other area of the country she remained in the Chicago area and for a number of years has been a co-host of a show on WIND-AM, a low listenership Hate Radio station that competes with WLS-AM, whose own ratings have plunged since El Rushbo shuffled off to smoke cigars with Satan.