JB Pritzker - Governor of Illinois

“Take it from an actual billionaire - Donald Trump is rich in only one thing, stupidity.” ~J.B. Pritzker

Ello, Gov'na

On February 8, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the nation’s governors at the National Governors Association Meeting. At that meeting he informed them that the Chinese government had a list that assessed each of our 50 governors.

The point of his speech was to warn the governors of Chinese influence over their states. As the head of their state, Governors serve as the liaison between their state and the federal government. As we’ve seen, some governors manage their states more poorly than others. Until our election system is exposed and corrected, it’s unclear whether the residents of the states actually choose their governors, or if they are chosen for them. We’ve been paying attention to our three letter agencies, senators and representatives for years. It’s time we start drilling down to the state level and focus on the people running the states.

Illinois was my home state for over 50 years. There was only one four-year period during my childhood when a Democrat served as Governor. Since Illinois was run by Republicans during my childhood, it makes sense that I loved it back then. By the time Rod Blagojevich was elected in 2003, I was well into adulthood. It was downhill for Illinois from then on.

Somehow the fake election machine allowed a Republican as Governor in 2015, and I had high hopes for him. Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner was too arrogant and too ignorant to understand what President Trump was doing for the country so he announced that he would not endorse him. During the 2024 election cycle, Rauner announced his support for Ron DeSantis. He still hasn’t figured it out. Rauner didn’t do a damn thing for the people of Illinois, and he should fade into the background. He is the epitome of irrelevance and it’s because of him that Illinois ended up with J.B. Pritzker. Bad Republicans are worse than Democrats.

Since I follow media personalities from the Chicago area, I started to see posts that immigration officers would be going into Chicago on January 21st to start deporting illegal immigrants. This was welcome news to me. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you know that Chicago is in trouble and desperately needs help. Apparently, J.B. Pritzker has found a rock big enough to hide under since he responded with the following:

An illegal immigrant isn’t a resident of Illinois. They have no rights. The “Know Your Rights” document attached to the Tweet provides details on how anyone harboring an illegal immigrant in Illinois can and should disregard federal officers. He is clearly not serving as the liaison between Illinois and the federal government by posting this. What is his intention?

J.B. exposed himself when it was later reported that the January 21st story wasn’t accurate. Immigrations and Customs officials now know what to expect when the operation begins in Illinois. A governor who works against the legal citizens of his state, and who blatantly disregards federal law and order is concerning. It shouldn’t be allowed to continue. Why is he more loyal to illegal immigrants than American citizens? There were several reasons for moving out of Illinois, and J.B. Pritzker was behind most of them.

National Security Action Organization

My disgust with the management of my state came during Covid when I placed myself on house arrest due to Pritzker’s overbearing mandates. I decided to spend my imprisonment researching different topics. For some reason, I was drawn to Q Drop 1352 which only contained a link to the “Who We Are” section of the National Security Action Organization:

(This is exactly why the media and corrupt politicians have tried to delegitimatize Q. Without this Drop, I would not have known of the National Security Action Organization, and would not have researched it. Everything in this paper rooted from this Q Drop.)

The website has gone through major changes since I first looked at it in 2020. The new website is now a skeleton of what it used to be, and the “Who We Are” section no longer exists. Luckily, I was able to find an archived version of the website on the Wayback Machine. The “Our Focus” section from 2020 reads like the New World Order Chapter from a Marxist handbook:

Since the link in the Q Drop led to the ‘Who We Are’ page, I focused my attention there. The list contained a who’s-who of Obama-era officials. Antony Blinken, Jen Psaki, Ben Rhoades, Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan. The usual Marxists. Then I came across a name that caught my attention - Penny Pritzker. Penny was a name I didn’t know, but I definitely knew the Pritzker name. I focused my attention there.

Penny Pritzker

Penny Pritzker is the sister of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and served as Commerce Secretary under Obama from 2013 to 2017. It was no surprise to me that the brother of an Obama cabinet member is now Governor of Illinois. The Illinois license plate motto should be changed from “Land of Lincoln” to “Pay to Play.”

Penny Pritzker was friends with Barack Obama even before his political career began. Not only did she help to finance his 2004 Senate campaign, she was a major fundraiser for his 2008 Presidential campaign, and served as National Finance Chair of the campaign. According to journalist Jodi Kantor, Obama appointed Penny as Commerce Chair to repay his debt because there was no way “he would’ve been a US Senator, let alone a US President, without her.”

Penny’s repayment didn’t end with Obama. In 2023, Joe Biden appointed Penny Pritzker as the Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery. Penny’s responsibilities included refining donor priorities to match Ukraine’s needs as well as motivating others worldwide to boost their support for Ukraine. Since February 24, 2022, the United States has provided $65.9 billion in military assistance to Ukraine. Out of 180 nations, Ukraine ranks as the 104th most corrupt.

The questionable stories surrounding Penny Pritzker go back decades, but that didn’t matter to Obama or Biden. In 2017, a scandal erupted with the release of the Paradise Papers, a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies. Although offshore accounts aren't illegal, they allow big corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes. The investigation exposed offshore holdings of political leaders and others who cut their tax responsibilities by conducting transactions in secret. Penny Pritzker was one of 40 politicians named in the release.

As of January 21, 2025, Penny Pritzker’s net worth is $4.1 Billion.

According to Panama Papers: Pritzkers, American Oligarchs, “We like to think we don’t have oligarchical families in the U.S., but the Pritzker family shows a grim reality. Starting decades ago, the grandfather of the family (Abram Nicholas Pritzker) virtually pioneered offshore trusts as a way of avoiding paying taxes.” It continues with, “Penny Pritzker played fast and loose with the American Dream of others. Her then-novel sub-prime operations, of Superior Bank in Chicago, specifically targeted poor and working-class people of color across the country. She ended up crashing Superior in 2001 for a billion-dollar cost to taxpayers and creating a personal tragedy for the 1,400 people who lost their savings when the bank failed. Pritzker, whose family controls Hyatt Regency Hotels, is in the top one percent of the one percent. Her extreme wealth and privilege have not only made her virtually untouchable by law enforcement but paved the way for her to become Commerce Secretary.”

Although a Google search returns many articles concerning the Pritzker family’s role in the Superior Bank failure, an Obama White House spokesman said that Penny wasn’t an officer or director of the bank when it failed. The FDIC seized Superior Bank in 2001. Penny Pritzker was Chairwoman of the bank from 1991 to 1994, and was then a board member at the bank's holding company. According to an article in The Washington Times, Superior Bank helped ignite the nation’s 2008 subprime crisis and Penny Pritzker and her family walked away from it.

“The family has long had a reputation for not only accumulating its wealth through elaborate schemes of tax evasion, including offshore accounts, but also for using its political clout to win favored treatment,” according to a 2013 article. “The Pritzker’s…gain protection from the fallout of their questionable business practices through their public image as philanthropists…The Pritzker’s have a long history of business malfeasance at the expense of people of modest means.”

Was the family’s “long reputation for using its political clout to win favored treatment” the reason Penny Pritzker was appointed as Obama’s Commerce Secretary? Was that same political clout what enabled her brother to become Governor of Illinois?

J.B. Pritzker

Penny Pritzker served as Obama’s Commerce Secretary until 2017. The following year, in 2018, J.B. Pritzker became the Democrat nominee for Governor of Illinois. Pritzker won that election in a landslide, winning by a margin of 15.7%. Pritzker only won 16 out of 102 counties. Apparently, those counties account for more than half of the state's total population.

Penny wasn’t the only Pritzker who made an appearance in the Paradise Papers. J.B. had his own offshore accounts although he maintained that offshore trusts linked to his name were set up by his grandfather, who died in 1986. “Any trusts for my benefit that are offshore, I have received no distributions from, and those trusts are only providing charitable contributions.” This is J.B. showing us how the Pritzker’s use their public image as philanthropists to shield themselves from the fallout of their questionable business practices. He’s telling us with a straight face that his offshore accounts are only for charity.

Journalists for the Chicago Tribune obtained access to the Paradise Papers and reported that a series of offshore companies had been created long after the death of Pritzker’s grandfather. The accounts were either wholly owned by J.B. Pritzker, his brother, or other close associates as controlling executives. “What he’s done is he’s avoided paying taxes,” said Democrat rival Chris Kennedy. “Every taxpayer in the United States now pays more in income tax because he paid less.”

Despite these reports, J.B. Pritzker was elected Governor of Illinois on March 20, 2018.

Storing money in offshore accounts isn’t the only way to avoid paying taxes for J.B. In 2007, Pritzker and his wife bought a second mansion in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. The mansion remained vacant and in September 2018, the Cook County Inspector General filed a report claiming that the Pritzker’s had toilets removed from the home shortly before submitting an appeal for property taxes. The removal of the toilets allowed the property to be classified as "uninhabitable," and the assessor's office lowered the mansion's assessed value from $6.3 million to about $1.1 million.

The OIG reported that the County fell victim to a scheme to defraud...which resulted in the Pritzker’s receiving property tax refunds totaling more than $132,000. In addition, they received future tax savings of more than $198,000.

J.B. Pritzker’s worth at the time was $3.2 Billion.

Toilets were removed from his home so the Billionaire wouldn’t have to pay what probably amounted to him as an insignificant amount of money in taxes.

After the story became public/he got caught, Pritzker said he would reimburse the county $330,000.

J.B. Pritzker and COVID

J.B. Pritzker did more to restrict life in Illinois than any other governor with Illinois ranking 51st in the nation (Washington, D.C. was included). Neighboring Wisconsin was ranked the 19th least restrictive state. This proved to be convenient for the Pritzker family.

Bulley & Andrews was reportedly the contractor who removed the toilets from Pritzker’s second mansion. During the Covid lockdown’s Bulley & Andrews was hired for a $2.5 million construction project to build a new home and outbuildings at Pritzker’s Kenosha County, Wisconsin, horse farm. More than 20 construction workers, mostly from Illinois, were working on the project despite the governor’s stay-at-home order. Pritzker discouraged the residents of Illinois from travelling to other states, specifically Wisconsin, fearing it could increase the spread of the virus in Illinois. He defended the Illinois workers travelling to Wisconsin to perform work for his family by saying the project was essential work because the animals at his farm needed care. Pritzker’s farm is on the Wisconsin side of a road that makes up the state line. Meanwhile, many small businesses and restaurants on the Illinois side of the road, and throughout the state, were forced to close their doors because of the Governor’s restrictions. They weren’t considered essential, like J.B.’s horses were.

(Please note: Several articles concerning Pritzker’s relationship with Bulley & Andrews report that in April 2020, a $9 million DOD contract was awarded to the firm to renovate an abandoned hospital in Chicago. While this is true, the DOD later released a correction stating that the contract was not awarded to Bulley & Andrews.)

Wisconsin wasn’t the only less-restrictive state that the Illinois Governor’s family visited. Florida ranked the 2nd least restrictive, and J.B.’s wife and daughter were there while the rest of Illinois was locked down. When asked about it, Pritzker said that they had been in Florida prior to the stay-at-home order which began in March 2020. In May, it was reported that they had returned to Illinois and were at the family’s farm in Wisconsin. What’s confusing is that in November of 2020, J.B. announced that he and his wife had made the difficult decision to spend the Thanksgiving holiday apart since she and their daughter were in Florida. Do I understand that correctly? While the residents of Illinois were discouraged from traveling, members of J.B.’s family traveled from Florida, to Illinois, to Wisconsin, and back to Florida? Covid restrictions weren’t lifted in Illinois until June 2021.

The J.B. Pritzker family did not suffer the way the rest of Illinois did during Covid.

Illinois Corruption

Corruption in Illinois has always been a problem. According to a 2022 study by the University of Illinois, Illinois is the second most corrupt state in the nation, with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison. How embarrassing. I’ve often thought election fraud originated in Illinois. The jokes and memes about dead people voting and “vote early, vote often” may be funny, except when they’re at the detriment of the people who live there.

Mike Madigan is the former Speaker of the House in Illinois. He was the longest-serving leader of any state or federal legislative body in the history of the United States. How does that happen with free and fair elections? Madigan had been a member of the House of Representatives since 1971. His daughter, Lisa Madigan, served as the Illinois Attorney General from 2003 to 2019. She was the first woman to hold the position and served the longest term in the state's history.

Mike Madigan was considered the state's political boss and he controlled all redistricting in the state for several decades. He was also the Chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois for over 20 years. With Madigan redistricting the most populated counties, it makes sense that Illinois is considered a blue state.

On March 2, 2022, Madigan was indicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges for allegedly leading a criminal enterprise to enhance his political power while enriching himself and his associates. Closing arguments in Madigan’s trial are currently underway.

“Corruption by an elected official and his associates undermines the public’s confidence in our government,” said US Attorney Lausch who announced the indictment. “The indictment alleges a long-term, multifaceted scheme to use public positions for unlawful private gain. Rooting out and prosecuting the kind of corruption alleged in the indictment will always be a top priority for this office.” My only question is what the hell took so long?

In 2011, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of wire fraud, attempted extortion, and conspiracy to solicit bribes and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Most people will remember Blagojevich’s attempt to sell the Senate seat left empty when Barack Obama became President. He appeared as a contestant on The Apprentice in 2010. In February 2020, Donald Trump pardoned Rod Blagojevich.

Despite Pritzker being caught on an FBI wiretap lobbying Blagojevich for a political appointment, and his interrogation by prosecutors about his dealings with Madigan's alleged criminal enterprise, Lausch claimed that there is no allegation in the indictment against J.B. Pritzker. Journalist Mark Konkol interviewed Blagojevich to discuss Pritzker and Madigan.

"If Pritzker isn't part of the Democratic Party's criminal enterprise, then what is he?” Konkol asked. Blagojevich replied, "The elephant in the room."

Blagojevich knew what it was like to work both with and against Madigan. “Pritzker does not have clean hands in this," he said. Blagojevich described Madigan as a cynical politician whose purpose was to make himself, his family, and his friends wealthy. Blagojevich claims he wouldn’t ‘play ball’ with Madigan and not only did Pritzker ‘play ball,’ he gave him $7 million. That $7 million check from Pritzker was issued to the Madigan controlled "Democratic Majority" campaign fund just days after he was elected in 2018.

The indictment against Madigan contains a wiretap of him talking to former Chicago Alderman Danny Solis who became a government informant. Madigan discussed his plan to advise Pritzker to appoint Solis to a high-paying position on a state board. The recording contains Madigan telling Solis that he planned to meet with Pritzker to tell him “what’s coming next.” This conversation happened two weeks after Pritzker wrote the $7 million check to Madigan’s campaign fund. In all, Pritzker donated $10 million to Madigan controlled campaign funds.

At Madigan’s trial this month, the jury was informed, “If called as a witness, Governor J.B. Pritzker would testify that he does not recall meeting with Michael Madigan on December 4, 2018, and he does not recall Madigan ever discussing or recommending Daniel Solis or Maya Solis, either orally or in writing, for any position on a state board or commission,” according to a defense stipulation read into the record. The inclusion of the specific date, December 4, 2018, is intriguing.

In addition to the wiretap discussion, Madigan sent Pritzker a list of insiders to be appointed to state jobs and boards. Pritzker appointed nearly three dozen people on that list to state posts. The lists were shown to the jury in the Madigan trial.

The State of the State of Illinois

Although I believe our elections are rigged, there are people who actually voted for Pritzker. I’m not sure what possesses a person to vote for someone like J.B. Pritzker other than the fact that there is a (D) behind his name. The Democrats have done a great job of pulling the wool over their supporters’ eyes for decades. Just as the Democrat Joe Biden referred to Barack Obama as, “the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker was caught making a similar racist comment. “Of all the African Americans I can think that are sort of like qualified as least-offensive, it’s Jesse White,” Pritzker said. Yet, the Democrat Party Platform claims, “We will push for a societal transformation to make it clear that black lives matter and that there is no place for racism in our country.”

What positive contributions has J.B. Pritzker made to the State of Illinois? In 2022, Illinois homeowners spent the second most on property taxes in the country. The state had the worst credit rating in the nation. Pritzker’s Covid shutdown permanently closed 35% of Illinois’ small businesses just one year into the pandemic. Even after the shutdowns were lifted, Illinois had one of the worst job recovery rates in the nation. Illinois’ record of taxes and fees has made it one of the worst places to do business in the Midwest.

The Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Ranking

Illinois experienced eight consecutive years of residents leaving the state with the most ever leaving in 2021 (this is where I raise my hand).

The state is a mess and has only gotten worse under J.B. Pritzker’s reign. It’s been reported that J.B. doesn’t take his $226,800 salary from the state. He’s a Billionaire who removed toilets from his second mansion in an attempt to avoid paying property taxes. I’m not impressed.

Hey, DOJ…S.O.S. Already

The people of Illinois need help. Drive through the state and you can see the corruption. I didn’t recognize how bad it was until I left. Terrible roads, abandoned strip malls, shopping malls, grocery stores, and restaurants. The constantly increasing property taxes with decreased service. The insane policies of the Governor. The beautiful City of Chicago has become a haven to gangbangers and criminals, while politicians continue to add Marxist, anti-American policies that contribute to its demise.

It breaks my heart when I see comments on social media that the people of Illinois get what they deserve. It’s hard for me to believe that the majority choose this for the state. It’s my hope that Illinois and its corruption can make it to the top of the list for the members of President Trump’s cabinet. Hopefully election fraud is also at the top of the list.

In 2020, the Supreme Court voted to allow states to penalize an elector for voting for someone other than the candidate who won their State’s popular vote. Is Illinois really a blue state? J.B. Pritzker certified Illinois for Kamala Harris. If the rumors are true that the election was monitored, isn’t it safe to assume that someone knows the exact count of every legal vote? What if President Trump won Illinois?

The information in this paper is just the tip of the spear. There are a lot of links included in this document if you’re interested in understanding the depth of what is contained here. You can also try a Google search of the Pritzker family. You’ll find stories of Jennifer, the transgender cousin who has directed millions of dollars into universities and medical schools in support of “gender-affirming” medical care. The Harvard president accused of plagiarism and other scandals while Penny was a member of the board that recruited, hired and protected the woman. Thomas Pritzker, the cousin who was named in unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents. J.B. and brother Anthony’s investment firm, Pritzker Group, who owned stakes in at least two companies that created COVID-19 tests, while Illinois was the most restricted state in the nation.

The people of Illinois are not receiving proper representation.

J.B. Pritzker and President Trump

J.B. has expressed his disapproval of President Trump for years. Based on his recent comments, their relationship may have become even more toxic since President Trump’s first term. When President Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship, J.B. said, “You come for my people, you come through me.”

Don’t let J.B. fool you. His anti-Trump rhetoric serves one purpose. If the federal government finally does what is needed and comes knocking on the Pritzker’s doors, they’ll claim it’s because President Trump is going after his political rivals.

We’re more educated than we’ve ever been and we’re not going to fall for that.

In his 1838 speech in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln said:

"I am glad to see you here today, and I am proud to call Illinois my home. It is a place where liberty and the pursuit of happiness are alive, and where opportunity and freedom reign."

Can we get that back, please?