Bailey said he would consider seeking repeal of a state law barring state employee public pension funds from investing in companies that boycott Israel.
Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey holds a press conference outside The Emily Hotel in Chicago on Sept. 13, 2022, to talk about crime in the city and to criticize the policies of sitting Illinois Governor J.B. Prtizker.
But it was under Pritzker’s predecessor, one-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, that a law was enacted in 2015 barring the state’s employee public pension funds from investing in companies that boycott Israel. The law was passed without a dissenting vote in the legislature three years before Bailey was elected to the General Assembly.
It is not the first time Bailey, a state senator and wealthy farmer from downstate Xenia, has created controversy within the Jewish community as he challenges Pritzker, who is Jewish.for a 2017 Facebook video in which he said lives lost in the World War II Nazi Holocaust paled in comparison to lives lost from abortion. He said unnamed Jewish leaders told him, “I’m right.”
According to Chicago police statistics through Sunday, the department reported 479 homicides, while the Cook County medical examiner’s office has tallied 500 homicides, which includes several self-defense killings that CPD statistics do not include. New York Police Department statistics show 299 people were slain in New York City through Sunday, while the Los Angeles Police Department through Sept. 3 recorded 270 slayings, for a combined total of at least 569 homicides in those two cities.
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