The rebuke came the day after Bailey won a temporary halt on the stay-at-home order from Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney, who accused the governor of laughing off downstate Illinois’ concerns and imposing an executive order “that ain’t tailored to nothing.”
By Tina Sfondeles and Jon Seidel Apr 28, 2020, 8:31pm CDT
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State Rep. Darren Bailey, left, at the state Capitol in Springfield earlier this year; Gov. J.B. Pritzker, right, at the Thompson Center on March 30. From Facebook; Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times file.Stinging from the burn of a judge’s ruling that freed a downstate Republican legislator from abiding by an executive stay-at-home order, Gov. J.B. Pritzker had angry words Tuesday for the lawmaker and the court, accusing them of setting “a dangerous precedent” that could send a rash of lawsuits his way.
The governor opened his daily briefing with a verbal attack on state Rep. Darren Bailey, accusing the
southern Illinois lawmaker of being “reckless.”
“This was a cheap political stunt designed so that the representative can see his name in headlines, and unfortunately he has briefly been successful in that most callous of feats,” Pritzker said.
The rebuke came the day after Bailey won a temporary halt on the stay-at-home order from Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney, who accused the governor of laughing off downstate Illinois’ concerns during one of his daily briefings and imposing an executive order “that ain’t tailored to nothing.”
McHaney’s ruling on a temporary restraining order on Monday freed Bailey, a resident of Xenia, from being required to abide by the governor’s executive order. In his motion and a pending lawsuit, Bailey argued the governor overstayed his executive powers in extending the order past 30 days.
And Bailey won that debate — at least for now. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office filed a notice of appeal Monday, and a spokeswoman for his office said it expects to file a brief with the appellate court Wednesday.
“This ruling only applies to one person, because it was only ever about one person,” Pritzker said on Tuesday.
While Pritzker acknowledged the ruling is limited, he said “the risk it poses is significant.”
I'm not thinking that Fred Flinstone is an Officer of The Court. May be pie eating champion, but that's about it.
ReplyDeletethe fat, petulant governor seems more upset about the ruling because it appears to topple his daily attempts to enhance his mediocre performance on everything Illinois. His appearances on CNN, his throwing rocks at the President on CNN, his pontificating on the federal government, his constant repetition of "I did this" and "I've been in contact with" and his chartering 2 FedEx flights to China to acquire substandard PPE, the call for ventilators, the overblown estimates of hospital bed need at McCormick place -3000 beds for corona treatment, only 5 used. Yeah, Bailey showed him up to be the hysterical whining fat boy that he is. You have to wonder about someone who'd spend millions on commercials a year and a half before an election, crowing about being an innovator, an incubator for industry, a self congratulatory philanthropist when all hi is is a billionaire trust baby, who told the world his mother was an alcoholic and he made sure thousands of preschoolers got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before school. Just another whiny blowhard do nothing who wants to paint himself a hero in his own fictional narrative.
ReplyDeleteIf we received an itemized invoice for the tax dollars this governor has spent to pay for his crying wolf, or the "sky is falling", we'd all be looking for defibrillators for the heart attacks the state would collectively experience. Lets be kind, this governor is a BOOB.
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