Bailey says Pritzker is either 'a fool or a liar,' while Pritzker calls Bailey a 'Trump extremist.'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, left, and state Sen. Darren Bailey will face off in the Illinois governor's race this November.
Despite some of the name-calling, the debate was largely civil. Still, Pritzker, a billionaire entrepreneur and an heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, appeared to be the aggressor in repeatedly pointing to Bailey’s conservatism — from opposing abortion except in cases where a woman’s life was in danger to his actions in fighting the governor’s COVID-19 mitigations.
“That’s unfair and it is unsafe for our families and our friends and I want to keep dangerous people in jail,” he said, contending Bailey’s warnings of criminal uprising is a “desperate” election ploy. Bailey was referring to a package of bills, introduced in February and co-sponsored by nearly all 18 of the Senate’s GOP members, that included a measure that would reinstate cash bail. None of the bills has received even a committee hearing, which Bailey said is typical of a legislative process dominated by Democrats in Springfield.
Bailey also restated his vow to repeal the state’s Firearm Owners Identification card, required for gun owners, calling it “simply a money grab” and unnecessary with federal background checks to purchase a firearm.
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