Speaking of unhinged Democrats, here are three examples of far-out, ridiculous comments by Pritzker just this week.
1. Pritzker, at the Human Rights Campaign dinner, attempts to say something even more stupid than Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett calling Texas Gov. Abbott “Hot Wheels.” Pritzker says introducing kids to the gay agenda could lead to them becoming Governor. READ Laurie Higgins’s more expansive article on this dinner below. It was also published in AM Greatness.
Here’s an X Post and a link to the video: https://x.com/breaking911/status/1904669570440319103?s=42
2. In response to President Trump’s Election Executive Order requiring voter ID among other things, Pritzker had this to say
3. The federal government announced it was pulling back funding that was left over from the COVID era. IDHP put out a statement that this would affect infectious disease control programs in a press release this week.
Pritzker responded, “This decision to terminate already awarded federal funding will cause immeasurable harm and disruption to the health and safety of the people of Illinois and generate larger expenses in the longer run.”
First, these sound like programs the state should already be funding. Second, if these programs are that important, and they might be, then Pritzker can prioritize spending money on them instead of on the other ways he wastes funds.
This brings me to a Quick Hit IL DOGE report.
I mentioned in last week’s newsletter that on his “Trump and Musk are Mean” Tour, Governor Pritzker visited Sola Gratia farm in Urbana. The farm is best described as a hobby farm. It is a non-profit started to provide produce to poor families nearby. As we see for lots of other non-profits, they take their donor-supported mission and turn it into one that requests money from the government and then relies on that money to keep going. Read more of that story at this link.
Here’s an excerpt:
Urbana’s Sola Gratia Farm worried about losing $99,500 U.S. taxpayer grant.
Sola Gratia Farm has benefited from myriad taxpayer grants from the federal government, State of Illinois, and the City of Urbana.
In 2022, Sola Gratia Farm received a $249,825 “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production” grant from the USDA.
Sola Gratia Farm also received two grants totaling $150,000 and $74,998 from State of Illinois taxpayers through the Illinois Department of Agriculture in 2024, and another for $30,678 in 2023.
In 2023, City of Urbana taxpayers gave Sola Gratia Farm $150,000.
In 2022, it received a $20,000 grant from State of Illinois taxpayers through the Illinois State Treasurer’s “Charitable Trust Stabilization Program.”
Be sure to stay tuned for more DOGE IL updates.