Bailey Scores

Score it Darren Bailey one, J.B. Pritzker 0.

Our current state representative went to court yesterday and won in his effort to legally thwart the Governor’s continuation of the Stay-At-Home order. I wasn’t surprised….but others in Chicago, Springfield and even our own little town had to be shocked.

Pritzker has the legal girth of the entire government. Bailey was paying for his own lawyer. The representative wants the legislature to weigh in. You know, co-equal branches of government with the executive branch? He contended the Governor had 30 days of authority in the COVID-19 emergency. That time expired on April 8^th.

A Clay County judge agreed with Bailey.  

Pritzker had called the suit “a political maneuver.” If forcing the legislature to weigh in on decisions that have a profound impact on 12.6 million Illinoisans is a maneuver, then call me political.

Specifically, I found last night’s column in the Wayne County Press by Dr. D. M. Mills to be particularly interesting. Mills is obviously no fan of Representative Bailey. He referred to Bailey’s “antics,” comparing the suit to the life and times of  Louisville’s infamous Johnny Bob Harrell. Bailey is a conservative farmer. Harrell was a criminal white supremacist.

Mills wrote Bailey’s lawsuit would most likely “go down in the ash heap of history to join Harrell’s legacy.”

Oh my.

I think I’d walk that one back, Doc.