Breitbart: Democrat strategist Justin Horwitz said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday that the Democrats’ turn on former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who recently declared himself a “Trumpocrat,” will “backfire.”
Horwitz, who is from Illinois, said that many people outside of the state do not realize that Blagojevich was “an incredibly popular governor” and that the Democrats’ opposition to his commutation will “backfire.”
“Sen. Durbin, when Trump initially proposed giving a pardon or commuting Rod’s sentence earlier in the year, he said, yeah, Trump should commute the sentence,” Horwitz said, quoting Durbin, who previously called the sentence “outrageous.”
“What Blagojevich did is what we all know that goes on basically every day on Capitol Hill,” Horwitz said, explaining that the Democrats’ turn on the former governor will backfire due, in part, to the successes he saw during his term.
“What people don’t realize is that in Illinois this is going to backfire on Democrats because Rod Blagojevich is not only an incredibly talented and charismatic speaker, and now he’s going to be campaigning with the Republicans, but what he got done in Illinois,” he explained.
“Seniors and the disabled were riding the bus for free — over 275,000 people. He established the All Kids program, which gave over 400,000 kids health care, making Illinois the first state in the nation to provide affordable and comprehensive health care to all children. We have led the nation in providing preschool access for all three- and four-year-olds with his Preschool for All program. This was a very popular governor who got caught saying things that, frankly, other politicians do all the time, and it was unfortunate to see all the Democrats who were calling for the commutation of his sentence to immediately backtrack after President Trump did it.
While Horwitz, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), emphasized that he is not a supporter of President Trump, he said it is important for people to “be able to at least acknowledge when he does things that are good.” read more
Rod will be a thorn in Dimwits side or perhaps the base of the spinal column.
Yeah well the shithead was able to give away so much free stuff by not making payments into the Teachers’ pension fund, causing it to be maybe the most underfunded pension system in the country.
He set the example for how Bernie wants to run things.
Blago is going to be used by Trump to take down the Kenyan Marxist.
Still conflicted over this commutation. Just because corruption in IL is the norm does not mean it should go unpunished. He is popular bc he free stuff to people? He is a mini-bernie as far as I can tell. Not sure I would want him campaigning for Trump.
Tsunami: you get 1/2 credit for that answer.
The correct answer is “Kenyan Marxist gay Mohammedan married to a tranny Wookie”