Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey spoke at an Awake Illinois event in Springfield, blaming the small crowd size on economic conditions and the price of gas.
Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey speaks at a rally outside the Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Ill., on Aug. 16, 2022.
“Children are our most valuable asset but our children and our rights as parents, they’re being stripped from us,” he said during an eight-minute speech.He acknowledged the small size of the crowd, which he blamed on economic conditions that prevented some from traveling to Springfield. The event took place on the eve of the first of two political days in an election year at the Illinois State Fair. Pritzker and the state’s top Democrats will speak Wednesday, while Bailey and the state’s top Republicans are scheduled to hold their party’s rally on Thursday.
His comments were condemned by several Jewish groups, community leaders and Pritzker, who is Jewish and has made abortion rights a key campaign issue against Bailey. While Bailey later said in a statement that “in no way” was he trying to downplay the millions of deaths in the Holocaust, he contended in a radio interview that Jewish leaders told him his comparison was a sound one. He did not respond to a request from the Tribune wanting to know the identities of those leaders.
The group also recently has directed its ire at the new school sex education standards, signed into law by Pritzker last year. Last month, after the group targeted a child-friendly drag event at a bakery in northwest suburban McHenry County, warning, “They’re coming for your kids.”
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