Illinois has terrible politics but genuinely surprised by Pritzker.
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