JB Pritzker had a strong victory in Tuesday's election. It's safe to say the general election in November will see two wealthy men face-off against each other so get ready for Gov. Bruce Rauner versus his challenger Pritzker. With those wiretaps that came out during the course of the primary with long ago conversations with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich proved to be controversial however, not enough to keep Black voters from choosing Pritzker.
From Miller's post he shares a tweet that has graphics of who voted for whom in the Democrat primary on Tuesday across Chicago. Most of the areas that voted for Pritzker is safe to say are the mostly Black neighborhoods of Chicago.
6th Ward Alderman Roderick Sawyer - also chairman of the city council Black Caucus - spoke at the City Club of Chicago on Thursday. After his speech he was asked about the cover you see above. Rich Miller cover this on his blog yesterday. Even had full video of Ald. Sawyer talking to a reporter for channel 7. In Sawyer's words the above cover is "the equivalent of putting gasoline on fire". The alderman sees this cover as race baiting. Watch [VIDEO]
Here's Rich Miller's post about this cover and Ald. Sawyer's comments in the tweet below:
Sawyer on Reader cover: “The equivalent of putting gasoline on a fire” https://t.co/pC5PxuIdmz
Here are a couple of tweets to a pair of articles from Chicago Reader. The first link has little to do with the recent Reader cover though certainly about those controversial comments made on a long-ago wiretap by gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker.
And just for the fun of it, here's a story by channel 7 which features some of Ald. Sawyer's comments [VIDEO]
Regardless the comments of one JB Pritzker - who incidentally does have the support of Ald. Sawyer - aren't exactly going away anytime soon. We have almost a month before the primary elections at this poitn.
