Pritzker is going to replace Biden by Summer
Illinois is filled with anti-Pritzker yard signs. The rest of the country isn't gonna like him at all.
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Rod Blagojevich FBI wiretap[edit]
In May 2017, the
Chicago Tribune[27] published an 11-minute FBI wiretap of Pritzker and then-Illinois Governor
Rod Blagojevich in 2008 discussing campaign contributions and options for Pritzker to be appointed to statewide office.
[28] At the time, Pritzker was described as a "businessman with political ambitions". On the tapes, Blagojevich asked Pritzker if he would like to be appointed state treasurer, to which Pritzker, who has a background in finance, responded, "Yeah, that's the one I would want." Pritzker's general election opponent GOP Governor
Bruce Rauner and Pritzker's Democratic primary opponents took issue with his conduct.
[29] Pritzker responded to the allegations: "I've not been accused of any wrongdoing. I have not done anything wrong."
[30] Law enforcement made no allegations of wrongdoing against Pritzker, and he has said: "over decades of my life, I have been doing public service, and the opportunity to continue to do public service as treasurer of the state was something that had been brought up, and so there was a conversation about that."
[31]
Pritzker later apologized for a number of controversial and incendiary comments he made in that conversation. He and Blagojevich discussed filling
Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, with
Pritzker saying that appointing then-Secretary of State Jesse White would "cover you on the African-American thing" and that he was the "least offensive" candidate.[32]
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