Sean Morrison (Cook County Commissioner, Republican)
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
And JB Pritzker, he embodies a lot. You can tell, just look at him. But he embodies that line of thinking inside the Democrat party.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Well, he coined a Democrat's phrase. I think that's, I think it's a dog whistle. It's what everybody knows. It's kind of like the congressman from California saying, get in their face and address them at a gas station and address them at a restaurant.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
What human being calls for another human being to not enjoy peace in their own life or peace in their home or peace when they're out with their family? What human being calls for that? I mean, that's a level of cruelty that we've never seen. And you know what? J.B.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Pritzker is the biggest hypocrite in the world because one week he's out there calling out Democrats and calling out Donald Trump for his
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
for harsh rhetoric and then the next day he's calling republicans are all nazis and republicans are a threat to the democratic fabric and the rule of law those are dog whistles those enable as i put in my statement yesterday those are little signals that enable those that are unhinged perhaps and those that are that are that are of a of a of a questionable mental gate to go out and commit the atrocities and the crimes and shoot at presidents and shoot ceos in the streets and all these things it's really that's exactly what we've seen
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, this is the second or third time that I've addressed this issue, going all the way back to when to when the first attempt was made on on President Trump in Pennsylvania. I sent a letter to the governor. I sent a letter to the mayor of Chicago and the county board president.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
And it was addressed to all politicians saying, look, we really need to lower the temperature of the vitriol language that we're using when we're debating each other, when we're debating both sides. And that has obviously fallen on deaf ears, hence his statement on Sunday.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
All the time. That's the normal part of his rhetoric. Listen, he has been in campaign mode for president for probably the last three years. You know, he's a six-year governor here in our state, but he's been vacant. He's been absent. He addresses none of the issues that are here.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
The only thing that he's ever addressed and put into place are very, very weak on crime policies, a thing in Illinois called the Safety Act, where things such as fentanyl have been decriminalized to misdemeanors. He's raised our taxes. We're amongst the highest per capita tax rate of all 50 states.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
We are still suffering from his draconian COVID policies that he put in place that crushed hundreds and perhaps thousands of business and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work for several years. These are the things that we're facing with him, and he's constantly out there chirping. When he's in front of the media who love him and praise him, he's the nice guy.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
He's the, oh, we need to be nice to each other. And then he flips a coin and he's calling people Nazis. And he's ginning up crowds that somehow, if you're a conservative or if you have a differing opinion than his, that you're the enemy of the state. I mean, good gosh, can you imagine what statement that was? And what does that tell somebody subconsciously?
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
It dehumanizes an entire group of people, nearly 50% of our state. He's dehumanizing them.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Zero time, Vince. In fact, he is publicly defiant of the president and the notion of sending back criminal aliens of all things. I mean, who is against sending back criminal aliens? Who is J.D. Pritzker's? Our mayor, Brandon Johnson is. Our county board president, Tony Breckwinkler is. Illinois is a sanctuary state. Chicago is a sanctuary city and Cook County is a sanctuary County.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Um, you know, it just came out in the last few days, we spent over 10 and a half billion with a B 10 and a half billion dollars of taxpayer money on just the migrant issue. We're a state that has a failing mental health treatment centers. We have veterans that are homeless. We have homeless, of course, that are out there in the streets.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
And every time these groups come to us as a government body and ask us for help, you know what they've been told consistently for the last 10 years plus, up until the last two years? We don't have the money for it. We can't afford it. We're already on an extreme budget, which we are. Illinois is facing a $3 billion budget fall, budget shortfall this coming cycle.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
The city of Chicago is going to face a $1.2 to $1.5 billion shortfall. The Cook County government board is going to face a $500 million budget. Our transportation systems are facing a $1 billion budget shortfall. And yet we spent nearly $11 billion on the migrant issue addressing this.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
He's clearly up to running for president. He's ignoring his duties and his functions that he was elected to do here. By the way, I might add, he also funded and bought two Illinois Supreme Court seats just two years ago, put in millions and millions of dollars of his own money for those seats. But what is he doing? He's running for governor. He's going all over the country.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
He's funding campaigns for certain officials. He's doing a bunch of fundraisers for them. It's basically the same. It's very near similar to 2006 and 2007 when Barack Obama went throughout the U.S. when he didn't have a challenge for his U.S. Senate seat.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
It allowed him 18 months to go to all the other states and work their state Democrat parties and do speeches and campaigns and fundraisers, which ingratiated himself into what the Electoral College for all those states.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
So when the time comes to try and rack up the electoral votes when he runs, it's going to be those very folks that he's out right now seeding the fields, dropping millions of dollars into their coffers. And when the time comes two years ago or two years from now, he's going to say, hey, remember I was there. I did those speeches. I gave you that money. I'm running for office.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
President, I'm going to need your electoral votes to nominate me for the for the for the primary. That's what it is.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Yes, it is. I mean, already the lieutenant governor, Ms. Stratton, has already declared that she's going to run for that Senate spot. And J.B. Pritzker has already given her his his basic endorsement for her to run for that seat. That kind of tells everybody else, hey, don't mess around here. This is who we want to be a senator.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
You know, the Democrats in our state, in our county, in our city are notorious for giving what's called a absence choice. You know, they put people into primaries. They put Democrats in the primaries that are preordained and preseasoned.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
The Democrats themselves don't realize that Democrat voters, but they never really have a true choice of who they get to pick to be their Democrat candidate for all these various, various selected spots from governor all the way down to alderman. It's really unique. And I can add a little bit of nugget.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
The thing about politics is that we have very short memories, but people don't remember who the big culprit was, along with the then Governor Blagojevich. It was J.D. Pritzker that was trying to buy the U.S., the Barack Obama vacated U.S. Senate seat. There is copious hours of undercover tape because it was all taped by the government. Plagojevich went to jail for it. But it was J.B.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Pritzker who was on the other side of that phone negotiating to buy it, to buy the U.S. Senate seat back then. People need to take a look and remember that. That was some interesting dialogue. He disparaged the minorities. He disparaged African-Americans. I'm talking about Governor Pritzker did. His own words. Go back and review some of that tape. It would be very surprising.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
So what do you know, Vince, as far as Durbin himself, 44 years, 44 years between U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate. And what does the state of Illinois have to show for it? Much further in debt, much bigger bloated, terrible infrastructure in our roads and bridges. Mental health again was gutted. Veteran home was gutted. He's a U.S. Senator and Tammy Duckworth is still there.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
What have they done for the state of Illinois? What have they done for the residents of Illinois? When he announced, you should have seen the local media. It was as though the Pope himself said that he was going to step back.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
all platitudes all platitudes and i said hey that's great 44 years but what have you done in those 44 years yeah so if we're going to just put the same ideology the same the same preset into a new senator what's the point nothing's going to change so okay last one on this what are the chances that a republican can actually prevail because last time illinois had a republican senator was mark kirk uh what what are the chances that a republican here could take that seat do you think it's possible
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
As it pertains to Illinois, it's a great question because there's two ways. We've had mass gerrymandering. In fact, there's a current lawsuit going on. But gerrymandering really affects our state house, our state senate, and our U.S. Congress. A lawsuit was filed with the federal court six weeks ago. I have very high hopes that they're going to change that.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
But as it pertains to statewide offices, here's another interesting thing. And I'll tie Governor Pritzker to that as well. Governor Pritzker in Illinois politics has spent roughly about $600 million of his own wealth. on his own races, on trying to defeat those that were running in the Republican primary two years ago against him.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
He spent nearly $75 million alone to knock out strong candidates that could challenge him. And he spread the same amount of money around throughout all many different local races, senators, state reps, all that kind of stuff in Illinois. So nearly just under $600 million of his own money, okay? Donald Trump has never spent a penny in Illinois because it's a flyover state.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
We're a predominant Democrat state, okay? So nearly $600 million spread in a state by a person, zero spread by a person. Donald Trump in this last election got 48,000 more votes in the state of Illinois than J.B. Pritzker has ever gotten in his two elections. Why am I saying that? There are absolute voter proven absolute paths to good statewide candidates to retake statewide governments.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
The governor, the treasurer, the secretary of state, all those races that are going to come up in two years. Republicans can actually win those races numerically speaking based off of just a recent election less than six months ago.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, sir. All right. And let's see.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
This is the time for us to put principles over the party. Principles over parties, right? It reminds me, I think that was a powerful moment for us. Reminds me of the letter that Ulysses Grant was supposed to have sent at the start of the Civil War.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
country literally tearing itself apart. Because of Democrats. Whatever our prior political positions have been, our prior opinions have been up until this point, I have but only one objective now.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
We have a government and laws and a flag And they must all be sustained. Uh-huh. Government?
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
One million dollars. It is really special, isn't it?
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
In a way, let me... Let's see here. I think I've got... Yeah, I've got James Brown right here. Let's take a look. Here it is. It kind of looks like him a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it. There's James Brown.
The Dan Bongino Show
JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32
Did you say he was 70? 7-0. What? How did that happen? Whoa, I want to know more about his skincare routine.