Here are some thoughts and observations on the budding mess in the GOP race for governor:

Somebody keep Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-Hindsboro) away from the app formerly known as Twitter.

If you read Beth Hundsorfer’s reporting in Capitol News Illinois last week about the failure of DCFS and its contracting agency, Lutheran Child and Family Services, in the death of 18-year-old Mackenzi Felmlee last year, you were likely incensed. I sure was.

Governor JB Pritzker got an off the wall question yesterday, but one he could have easily just knocked out of the park with partisan talking points.

We like to periodically open it up to your questions.

As Governor JB Pritzker embarks on a campaign for a third term Thursday, he’s widely considered an odds-on favorite to become the first Governor to win a third full term since Jim Thompson nearly 40 years ago.

If you’re an optimist at heart, you may have gone into Thursday’s House Oversight & Reform Committee hoping for a real discussion about our immigration system and looking for ways to repair it.

We like to periodically open it up to your questions.

As Republicans in Illinois, we too often fall victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeat. We get caught in a cycle of pessimism, quoting old losses instead of building new victories.

I was not paying any attention to Governor Pritzker’s COVID press briefings that had become a daily occurrence in mid-March of 2020.