A day after losing his battle to keep two of his appointees on the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday delivered an impassioned defense of the “incredibly thankless job” they do and a blistering attack on their Republican critics — comparing them to QAnon conspiracy theorists.
A day after losing his battle to keep two of his appointees on the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov.on Tuesday delivered an impassioned defense of the "incredibly thankless job" they do and a blistering attack on their Republican critics — comparing them to QAnon conspiracy theorists.
"Now, to have Republicans attack them and their character and their biographies, to have Republicans essentially trying to tear apart this agency of government — I mean this is what the GQP has been all about, tearing government apart," Pritzker said at a Springfield news conference where he commemorated the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Illinois State Police.
There were 14 Senate Democrats who didn’t support Eleanor Wilson, Pritzker’s appointee to the parole board, Monday evening, and 12 other Democrats who refused to vote at all. Pritzker’s other appointee, Oreal James, had resigned from his post earlier Monday to avoid what many expected to be a similar rejection.
The GOP gubernatorial candidate’s campaign said the Prisoner Review Board had granted parole to three killers — Joseph Hurst, Johnny Veal and James Taylor — despite families of the police officers they killed attending parole hearings or writing letters to oppose their release from prison. Pritzker’s two appointees — Wilson and James — have drawn public criticism from lawmakers for their votes to free Veal and Hurst.The governor’s office said the process to find appointees is "ongoing," but argued it’s not easy to find people willing to take the full-time positions when their decisions are being studied under a microscope. Staffers have been combing through appointees’ applications for weeks, they said.
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