This is in pontificating. Pritzker is simply telling it like it is in the simplest most honest way. It’s definitely not about the billionaire class versus the rest of us. Not at this point anyway. Hell, Pritzker is one of those billionaires that still has a heart and a voice to speak out against things that are simply cruel and sadistic. Not everything has to have an economic or political divide in order to be taken seriously in a social discussion. Maybe it’s because he has nothing to lose, but then again, maybe it’s because he’s using the soap box as a platform and not as a container for a white wash.
I admire the recent Governors of CA and IL to take the firm offensive position against Trump’s obvious political play having little to do with crime prevention.
As a DC native, it pains me to see the National Guard on the streets of our nation’s capital NOW but not during Trump’s first term on JANUARY 6.
Given how the Dems failed to close off the border and ended up on the wrong side of the immigration issue, should the blue Mayors also consider a response to Trump along the lines of:
“We would welcome federal involvement in attacking crime in all of cities (and not just in the Blue States).
We don’t believe untrained Natural Guard troops in policing or FBI agents pulled off national security matters to do “ride-alongs” in DC police patrols is the best resource use.
What we need is funding to hire more police and to continue community police training. And we would be willing to work with you on such federal help.”
Thus, unlike the Dems weak hand on immigration, we take a more proactive response to this false force show by Trump and we continue to highlight the administration’s contradictions when Trump would likely ignore the rational appeal suggested above.
This is in pontificating. Pritzker is simply telling it like it is in the simplest most honest way. It’s definitely not about the billionaire class versus the rest of us. Not at this point anyway. Hell, Pritzker is one of those billionaires that still has a heart and a voice to speak out against things that are simply cruel and sadistic. Not everything has to have an economic or political divide in order to be taken seriously in a social discussion. Maybe it’s because he has nothing to lose, but then again, maybe it’s because he’s using the soap box as a platform and not as a container for a white wash.
Like-minded, brother Jon.
Nice piece Jon.
I admire the recent Governors of CA and IL to take the firm offensive position against Trump’s obvious political play having little to do with crime prevention.
As a DC native, it pains me to see the National Guard on the streets of our nation’s capital NOW but not during Trump’s first term on JANUARY 6.
Given how the Dems failed to close off the border and ended up on the wrong side of the immigration issue, should the blue Mayors also consider a response to Trump along the lines of:
“We would welcome federal involvement in attacking crime in all of cities (and not just in the Blue States).
We don’t believe untrained Natural Guard troops in policing or FBI agents pulled off national security matters to do “ride-alongs” in DC police patrols is the best resource use.
What we need is funding to hire more police and to continue community police training. And we would be willing to work with you on such federal help.”
Thus, unlike the Dems weak hand on immigration, we take a more proactive response to this false force show by Trump and we continue to highlight the administration’s contradictions when Trump would likely ignore the rational appeal suggested above.