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Chicago violence victims' families call on Darren Bailey to stop commercials. [View all]
CHICAGO -- Vickie Ponciano feels like breaking her television every time she sees a video clip of her nephew's murder being used in a Republican ad campaign that seeks to pin violence in Chicago on Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the city's Democrats.
"Every time I see that freaking commercial I just start cursing in front of my kids. And I don't know how to control it," Ponciano said Thursday while standing alongside the Rev. Michael Pfleger during a rally at 875 N. Michigan Ave., the building formerly known as the Hancock Center.
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"Mr. Bailey, stop pimping. Stop pimping the pain and trauma of families for your own political self - either stop these commercials or get out of the whole damn race, we're tired of you using our families," Pfleger said.
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The PAC has also come under fire for using footage of a Lake View woman being mugged in a separate ad seeking to showcase the city's violence.
"Whatever we need to do to raise awareness and wake people up to understand the situation with what's going on," Bailey previously said when asked of his personal opinion of that commercial. "Because it's real. And some parts of the city, they may not understand it."
https://abc7chicago.com/darren-bailey-jb-pritzker-chicago-violence-shooting/12255983/
"Every time I see that freaking commercial I just start cursing in front of my kids. And I don't know how to control it," Ponciano said Thursday while standing alongside the Rev. Michael Pfleger during a rally at 875 N. Michigan Ave., the building formerly known as the Hancock Center.
*snip*
"Mr. Bailey, stop pimping. Stop pimping the pain and trauma of families for your own political self - either stop these commercials or get out of the whole damn race, we're tired of you using our families," Pfleger said.
*snip*
The PAC has also come under fire for using footage of a Lake View woman being mugged in a separate ad seeking to showcase the city's violence.
"Whatever we need to do to raise awareness and wake people up to understand the situation with what's going on," Bailey previously said when asked of his personal opinion of that commercial. "Because it's real. And some parts of the city, they may not understand it."
https://abc7chicago.com/darren-bailey-jb-pritzker-chicago-violence-shooting/12255983/
So evidently, Darren Bailey, a farmer from deep southern Illinois, thinks he understands what's going on in Chicago better than the city's own residents? What an arrogant jerk.
Hey, Darren, how would you like it if Lori Lightfoot and JB showed up at your farm and started telling you how to plant your corn and soybeans? Not much, right? Good thing they won't, because unlike you, they have enough sense to stick to what they know.
Ugh, I hate those ads, and I can't stand that arrogant clown. I can't wait till the election is over and that hick goes back to the sticks where he belongs.
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