IL-Gov. 2018 Megathread

[Chief Justice Keef]

I'll be supporting Daniel Biss or Ameya Pawar. I don't like the idea of this race being between two rich guys.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Daniel Biss is officially running.

Endorsed.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Apparently the charming politician gene skipped Chris:

Typical Kennedy.

[Chief Justice Keef]

I'm still holding out hope that Biss becomes a dark horse and bucks the establishment in the end, but it's looking more and more grim.

Honestly, the fact that the choice is between a millionaire and a billionaire is pretty disheartening, at least for a Bernie Bro like me.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Does anyone think Illinois Democrats will finally get some sense and elect someone else to be house speaker in 2019? Madigan is old, despised, and scandal-ridden. Someone else in the legislature is bound to challenge him.

When Madigan dies they'll elected someone new. He's too powerful within his own party to be overthrown.

[Chief Justice Keef]

I'm really hoping Biss begins to pick up steam and become a dark horse candidate.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) has withdrawn his endorsement of Biss, on the basis that his LG candidate has a history of supporting BDS.

Which is really silly for a variety of reasons, but most notably that the Lieutenant Governor has no role in Middle East policymaking.......

Disgusting purity politics.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) has withdrawn his endorsement of Biss, on the basis that his LG candidate has a history of supporting BDS.

Which is really silly for a variety of reasons, but most notably that the Lieutenant Governor has no role in Middle East policymaking.......

Disgusting purity politics.

Standing up against anti-semitism is not purity politics.  It's being a decent human being.

Standing up to that apartheid state of Israel is not anti-semitism.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Bliss drops Ramirez-Rosa from his ticket

God dammit.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Bliss drops Ramirez-Rosa from his ticket

Good man.  It's vital that Democrats give no quarter to the anti-Semitic Left.

Your forum name is literally Malcolm X

[Chief Justice Keef]

Funny how liberals always chide leftists and progressives for their "purity politics" and supposed racism/sexism, yet are overjoyed when a gay Latino alderman gets kicked off the ticket for governor because of his stance on Israel/Palestine, something that the LG doesn't address.

[Chief Justice Keef]

BDS supports punishing individual Israelis for the "crime" of being Israeli. The radical left has never been a reliable ally in the fight for human rights but it's important for the mainstream left to be clear about those issues. 

[Chief Justice Keef]

Err...William Z. Foster was a diehard supporter of Stalin.

The addition that the person was Stalinist further underlines my original point.

Looks like the Stalinists were ahead of the kind moderate liberals on civil rights.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Ives jumps the shark with her new ad against Rauner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57WlyvHA-I