From the campaign of Ted Dombroski for Govenror campaign:
Pritzker should be disqualified
Lt. Gov. Candidate Mendoza Calls Pritzker’s False Nazi Comparisons Disqualifying
| The TedforIllinois campaign continues to hold Gov. J.B. Pritzker accountable for his incendiary rhetoric and failed polices. Below is a copy of the press release we sent to media outlets earlier today: “In the very early days of the Nazi regime, they started slowly but surely taking away people’s rights. And what we’re seeing right now is the very same thing.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker Wilmette, IL – Dr. Carrie Mendoza, a Jewish mother of three and GOP candidate for Lt. Governor running with Ted Dabrowski, released the following statement in response to Gov. Pritzker’s persistence in comparing Republicans to Nazis: “Gov. Pritzker should really be ashamed of himself for continuing to use this ahistorical, incendiary rhetoric and compounding the shamefulness of it with unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2026 elections. In a polarized political climate where police officers have been the targets of politically-inspired violence that sometimes, as in the case of the shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas, has taken the lives of migrants, a responsible political leader would tone down their rhetoric and appeal to people’s better angels. Gov. Pritzker has chosen to be irresponsible.” “The Nazi comparison is particularly offensive against the backdrop of our observation this week of the 2nd anniversary of the 10/7 terrorist attack where actual fascists murdered 1,195 Israelis including 38 children, and continue to hold 48 hostages. In the newly released memoir by hostage Eli Sharabi, he recounts his torture and starvation at the hands of Hamas, just as the Jews experienced under the Nazis 80 years ago.” “When Gov. Pritzker made these comparisons back in February in his State of the State Address, he was properly admonished by Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski who said at the time, ‘What Pritzker says is mentally sick. The fact that he said this, especially as a Jew, is an affront to Holocaust survivors. It hurts.’” “In response to his more recent comments, a friend of a friend I’ll identify only as ‘Nancy from Northbrook’ sent Gov. Pritzker this email: ‘Governor Pritzker, I am a child of two Holocaust survivors. I am deeply insulted by your rhetoric. There is a vast difference between rounding up criminal illegal immigrants and Jewish people during the 1930s and 1940s. You deployed the National Guard during Covid. You deployed the National Guard to protect DNC participants. I didn’t hear anyone crying out about it. I know you seek higher political office, but stop accusing political opponents of being Nazis. The only Nazis that exist currently are Hamas. NOT Trump, ICE or the National Guard. Your rhetoric is truly dangerous. – Nancy from Northbrook.’” “Undeterred, Gov. Pritzker has continued to cheapen the horrors of the Holocaust with these baseless comparisons because he believes it will help him politically. If it does, that is a sick commentary on our politics. Instead, Pritzker’s rhetorical recklessness should be viewed as dangerous, like Nancy from Northbrook said. It should disqualify him from public office.” |
