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The fundraiser brought together over 1,000 passionate Illinoisans. We’re uniting to lower taxes, cut wasteful spending, strengthen our communities, and fight for school choice. #ItsTime #IllinoisStrong

My opponent strongly opposes working to keep the Chicago Bears by working with them on a new stadium project. Demi Packers Palecek is determined to jack up taxes and chase businesses out of Illinois and Chicago like never before!

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921. They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year. Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move. They lost them for two reasons. The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs. In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack. Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet. That fight dragged on for years. The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois. Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting. So now it's all gone. The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything. Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize. Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up. But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works. Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team. And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago. Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes. Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team." There it is. "Billionaire-owned." That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line. Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it. Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return." When you run things this badly, you sell what's left. They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect. Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check. But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires." Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in. Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster. Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

Thanks to JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson and Democrat majority 👍

After Saigon fell, my family fled communism & persecution from Vietnam. Mao's regime killed up to 70 million & Communist China today remains America’s #1 foreign adversary. I’ll fight to pass legislation banning them from buying Illinois land. #StopChinaNow

We honor the brave men & women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Their courage, duty, & love has secured the freedoms we cherish every single day. We remember them, we thank their families, & we recommit ourselves to a stronger, safer US worthy of their legacy.

20 prior arrests for violent crimes and he gets put back on the street after committing an armed robbery. A Chicago police officer is now dead and another in critical condition because of this insanity. Illinois democrats have simply lost it. Vote every single one of them out.

Alphanso Talley… 2017: Armed robbery 2018: Armed robbery & kidnapping 2021: Weapon 2023: Stolen vehicle & assault officer 2024: Battery 2025: Armed robbery & hijacking Released by Judge John Lyke 2026: MURDER of Chicago PD John Bartholomew Judges must be held accountable.

The man suspected of killing a Chicago Police Officer and gravely wounding the officer’s partner escaped electronic monitoring last month while awaiting trial for armed carjacking and robbery. He's also listed as a parole absconder by IDOC. cwbchicago.com/2026/04/cop-k…

We need to protect our community by keeping these people locked up!

It is truly meet to bless thee, O Theotokos, ever-blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, without corruption thou gavest birth to God the Word. True Theotokos, we magnify thee

Through the prayers of the Theotokos, Savior, save us. Commemorating our most holy, pure, most blessed and glorious Lady, Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary, with all the Saints, let us commend ourselves and one another and ask our life to Christ our God.

We need more resources for our police, tougher sentencing for violent offenders, & accountability — not excuses. Praying for the officers and their families.

Heartbroken & furious. Two Chicago police officers were shot today right at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Ravenswood — a place near my own neighborhood. These heroes put their lives on the line every day to protect us, now two are fighting for theirs because of senseless violence.

North Side families are drowning in record property taxes & housing costs—now #1 voter concern, ahead of crime. We need relief, not more of the same.I'll fight for lower taxes, spending cuts, tougher crime laws & school choice to deliver real relief & opportunity.Time for change!

District 13 is crushed by sky-high property taxes, unaffordable housing & safety worries. Demi Palecek wants more taxes, rent control & expanded sanctuary policies—the same progressive ideas that worsened IL's fiscal mess & drove families out. I will fight for lower taxes!