Illinois has terrible politics but genuinely surprised by Pritzker.
i’m completely surprised by him too. hes actually like, really good governor. maybe the best of all 50 states currently?
The guy in Minnesota just made them a trans refuge state last week. Admittedly I don’t know anything else about him.
He’s done some good work on the executive level—pardoned a bunch of people w/ marijuana convictions and expunged arrest records. Of course “good” is relative in :amerikkka:
Maybe he’s one of those libertarians who believe that “gay couple should be able to grow weed and own AR15s”
I think its a mix. You can’t really accumulate the political capital to get much positive stuff done if you can’t get anything through the legislature.
I mean, is local thingy passing good laws due to electing not-evil local reps, or is he going around bullying them? So, where are the origins basically