Election Coverage: March 20, 2018

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Cenk , Jimmy Dore, and Ben Mankiewicz coverage of the Illinois Primary election.

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  1. Just left an angry post on 3/20 hr two, happy to see this is posted ❤️ Still, show the podcasters some love when you get the chance, helps me keep the time code straight instead of always scrubbing to find w here I left off…keep up the fight! Stay strong <3 love, the FPG 19

  4. Just donated another $10 to Alison Hartson. I really want to see her there. That might “make my year”.

  5. Ben, you nailed the pronunciation of the incumbent Illinois Governor’s name exactly. A short gubernatorial, which is a great word and its root should be “gubernor,” history is in order. Democrat governor’s were corrupt and went to prison. This lead to Big Jim Thompson holding the gubernatorial seat for 16 years. When Thompson was first elected, Republicans had control of the state government. Afterwards, his Lieutenant Governor was elected for several terms. Then the Republican Secretary of State was elected to several terms, but the millennium change gave Illinois its first accidental governor, Rod Blagojevitch, a.k.a. “Blago” by his deriders. He placed his name in the race to garner name recognition in hopes of winning the office four years later, but union support helped the do-nothing Illinois Congressman win big. He won re-election, but was soon the target of a corruption investigation that quickly removed him from office and sent him to jail, interrupting a nascent reality TV career. While awaiting trial, the judge would not let him flee, er, I mean, fly to another country for filming. Instead, his wife substituted for him on the reality TV show, “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.” Blago’s Lieutenant Governor, Pat Quinn, was elevated to the Governorship. He was re-elected. Unfortunately, The Illinois Speaker of the House, Mike Madigan, had effectively politically neutered Blago and Quinn, resulting in a Republican ascending to the Governor’s Office. Madigan has been Speaker of the Illinois House since 1983, and at age 75, he has shown no signs of retiring. A combination of Quinn’s ineffectiveness and Rauner’s money has resulted in a blue state with a red governor. The irony here is that Quinn’s youthful activism resulted in a state constitution rewrite in the 70s that resulted in, among other benefits, constitutional protection of state employee pensions. Without it, pensions would have been severely diminished by now because the state had not honored its contribution obligation for 30 years.

  6. YAY!!! Immediate uploading of election coverage!! Thank you TYT crew for fixing whatever went wrong last time. We appreciate you!

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