I watched the Gubernatorial Debate

[Black Flag]

I did, I watched it.

 

https://wgntv.com/news/politics/watch-the-pritzker-bailey-illinois-governor-debate-at-7pm/

 

 

[mauserme]

What were their positions on gun rights?

[Ranger]

On 10/6/2022 at 8:41 PM, mauserme said:

What were their positions on gun rights?

Just a little bit of a difference there...  ;-)

 

I watched it too.  Bailey did much, much better than I anticipated.  He made some flubs like saying "our" part of the state once; but did pretty well overall.  For some reason, Pritzker's closing statement kept replaying on my phone and i had to shut it down to stop it.  Don't know what happened with that.  If it happened on others, that was a very clever move.  Kind of spooky though.

[Black Flag]

I told a little lie, I watched some of it.

I listened to all of it.

But what I did watch bothered me.  
Tell me I didn't see prejudiced camera placement and selection.
Whenever I saw both of them, JB was up close, Darren was off in the distance.
 

[mab22]

On 10/6/2022 at 9:19 PM, Black Flag said:

I told a little lie, I watched some of it.

I listened to all of it.

But what I did watch bothered me.  
Tell me I didn't see prejudiced camera placement and selection.
Whenever I saw both of them, JB was up close, Darren was off in the distance.
 

Could the up close be due to physics, or he’s just so large it appears he was closer?
Maybe it was his gravitational pull on the camera? 🤔

[noreaster]

I only saw the last minute or so. Bailey looked very good for that part and Pritzker sounded like a politician. 

[lilguy]

We’re screwed, this is a one party state. Its what the majority of voters want. 

[mauserme]

https://abc7chicago.com/jb-pritzker-darren-bailey-illinois-governor-debate-polls/12302243/

 

"... The two candidates also debated gun control in the wake of the Highland Park mass shooting.

 

"I believe we ought to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in the state of Illinois," said Pritzker.

 

"The Highland Park shooting, it shouldn't have happened because of the laws that are on the books but when Governor Pritzker doesn't follow or obey these laws, these things happen," Bailey accused. ,,,"

 

 

 

[Molly B.]

 

 

 

[Lou]

Some of the pundits stated that Bailey “won” the debate or at least came out looking better than JB.

 

Unfortunately what maters most in IL is the D or R after their name. 

[ragsbo]

Does it really matter since this is Illinois and the cheat is always  on

[OrlandInstructor]

Bailey sounded great!

[djmarkla]

On 10/7/2022 at 10:16 AM, ragsbo said:

Does it really matter since this is Illinois and the cheat is always  on

Vote like it matters! 

[ragsbo]

On 10/7/2022 at 1:17 PM, djmarkla said:

Vote like it matters! 

Oh, I will vote like it matters everytime the polls are open. I just a realist and know how the left liberal socialist commies do!

[Plinkermostly]

Voting always matters.

 

Just in certain blue counties in certain blue states (or all of them) some votes just don't affect the outcome, mostly.

[Quiet Observer]

On 10/7/2022 at 10:16 AM, ragsbo said:

Does it really matter since this is Illinois and the cheat is always  on

There is more than one office in the election. Depending on where you live, the others could be significant. 

[mauserme]

We need to let Illinois Republicans know what is expected of them.  A vote for Darren Bailey will do that.

 

Unless we speak up they'll keep electing people like Jim Durkin as House Minority Leader.

 

 

[springfield shooter]

Anybody that thinks (for whatever reason) that voting isn't worth the trouble needs to take a walk through a national cemetery.

[bosshogg]

I was there in person to see it. The irony of JB talking about wanting to ban "high capacity" magazines while there are 2 armed guards at the end of every aisle there to protect him, with those same "high capacity" magazines. That's in addition to the police officers with guns everywhere too.

[MagSlap]

If you want the D....vote fatboy.

 

[Vern in IL]

Like TRUMP said at Bailey endorsement, all Pritzker has is money.  "and something else, not good" 

[djmarkla]

On 10/7/2022 at 2:30 PM, ragsbo said:

Oh, I will vote like it matters everytime the polls are open. I just a realist and know how the left liberal socialist commies do!

👍

[2A4Cook]

On 10/7/2022 at 5:29 PM, mauserme said:

We need to let Illinois Republicans know what is expected of them.  A vote for Darren Bailey will do that.

 

Unless we speak up they'll keep electing people like Jim Durkin as House Minority Leader.

 

 

Wishfully, RINOs are as endangered here as in Africa, but this particular RINO just won't go away.  He's nothing but a more fiscally-conservative Democrat.

[RandyP]

More and more with each passing year it is reinforced to me that the reason it is called a Gubernatorial election is that we keep electing goobers.

[springfield shooter]

I'm not seeing the JB commercials down here just so I can turn them off. And he certainly doesn't have electoral "coattails" downstate. Perhaps they aren't quite as confident as they'd like to be.

[ragsbo]

On 10/10/2022 at 12:58 PM, springfield shooter said:

I'm not seeing the JB commercials down here just so I can turn them off. And he certainly doesn't have electoral "coattails" downstate. Perhaps they aren't quite as confident as they'd like to be.

Now that you have mentioned it, I haven't seen any commercials for either side!

[illinois_buckeye]

Saw a Bailey commercial today actually downstate.  Was on the radio as well.

[Tip]

We’ll dOwnstate — haven’t seen ads for either.

Apparently Bailey EXPECTS us to vote for him

and JB KNOWS we ain’t gonna vote for him…..

[mikew]

On 10/11/2022 at 10:06 PM, Tip said:

We’ll dOwnstate — haven’t seen ads for either.

Apparently Bailey EXPECTS us to vote for him

and JB KNOWS we ain’t gonna vote for him…..

I would really really hope that Darren Bailey spends that money and
buys that ad time in places where it will do the most good.

[Molly B.]

Saw a Bailey ad on FOX program The Five this week.