Democrats
Aren't Even Hiding It: They're Pro-Crime (Connecting
the Dots: Gov. JB Pritzker, CNN, Northwestern University, The Commercial Club
of Chicago, Duke University, Pritzker Family Foundation, The National Council
of La Raza (La Raza) & Soros Funding, All Networking)
Newsmax.com
By
Michael DorstewitzWednesday, 27 August 2025 11:49 AM EDT
Flanked
by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (R), Gov. JB Pritzker,D-Ill. speak at a news
conference with others to address President Donald Trump's plan to send
National Guard troops into Chicago on Aug. 25, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.
Besides Chicago, the president recently said he planned to target Baltimore and
New York as well for his next federal crackdown on crime. (Scott Olson/Getty
Images)
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/chicago-pritzker-vera/2025/08/27/id/1224112/
The
Democratic Party's strategy of simply taking the opposite side of every issue
President Trump supports isn’t working out very well for them — especially when
it comes to public safety.
Since
Trump called for National Guard units to assist Washington, D.C. police, the
Democratic National Committee claimed that crime isn’t that big of a deal.
A
speaker at Monday's DNC Summer Meeting in Minneapolis made that clear.
"Don't
take the bait talking about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that
actually don't matter to many Americans," said Insha Rahman,
a vice president at the Vera Institute of Justice, a far-left Soros-funded think tank.
Rahman
suggested that Democrats should instead discuss "the policy proposals that
we think work," issues such as "cashless bail."
Violent
crime may not matter to this Vera Institute vice president, but it's a pretty
big deal to city residents.
Washington,
D.C. has one of the highest murder rates among the major U.S. cities,
with more than 100 homicides so
far this year, an average of nearly three per week. There have been zero
murders in the two weeks since the president federalized policing.
While
Democrats are blasting the crackdown, local residents, like school teacher
Elliot Reed, appreciate it.
"I
think it’s a good thing because it actually reinforces the fact that America is
secure, safe [and] stable," Reed said. "As
a moderate, as a centrist, I think something needs to be done. I have three
kids, I’m about to start teaching next week. I want it to be safe."
And
yesterday Iris Tao, a White House Correspondent for NTD News, revealed that
she'd been mugged and pistol whipped outside her apartment in the past, and
thanked Trump in person.
"Mr.
President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now," she said.
"Thank you for now making D.C. safer for us, our families, and my baby on
the way."
Trump's
efforts have been so successful that he’s been talking about expanding the
effort to other cities, beginning with Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson
criticized the idea, claiming that traditional methods of crime fighting are
unworkable.
"We
cannot incarcerate our way out of violence; we've already tried that, and we've
ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the
problems of crime and violence," far-left Democrat Johnson said during
a Monday press conference.
"The
addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we’ve moved past that. It
is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence
down."
Illinois
Gov. JB Pritzker also
blasted Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops and accused him of being a
"wannabe dictator."
"This
is exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned
against," the Democratic governor said.
"What
Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal. It is
unconstitutional. It is un-American," he remarked, adding that no
Chicagoan wants their "neighborhood turned into a war zone by a wannabe
dictator."
Too
late. Many Chicago neighborhoods are already war zones — he should just ask his
constituents.
"The
National Guard has to come here, even if it's for scare tactics," said Zoe Leigh, a
member of Chicago Flips Red. "There's no control. There's no law and
order."
Robert
Milan, a former assistant Cook County state's attorney, said it's important
that National Guard troops work in concert with city police.
"You
don’t want to have Chicago police doing their thing over here and National
Guardsmen doing something somewhere else," he said.
Milan
said they’d successfully tried something similar when Rahm Emmanuel was mayor,
by combining Chicago police with Cook County Sheriff deputies in crime-ridden
areas.
"You
would see that in those areas; there would be no shootings at all. Really,
really dangerous areas," he recalled. "We were listening to gang. . .
on wiretaps, and they were saying, 'We really got to get out of here. Police
are everywhere. We can’t do anything.'"
The
running joke has been that each time Trump supports the 80% side of an 80/20
issue, Democrats take the 20% side rather than agree with him on anything. This
time it's even worse for them.
According
to polling cited by CNN,
91% of Washington, D.C. residents believe crime is either a moderate or an
extreme problem, and Democrats are taking the side of the 9%.
Being
openly pro-crime is never a winning strategy, so It's no wonder that Democrats
are jumping ship and their funding is drying up.
The
most basic function of government at any level — local, state, or federal — is
to protect its citizens.
If
Democrats can't agree on that, they deserve to go the way of the dodo bird and
the woolly mammoth — as an extinct but interesting curiosity.
JB
Pritzker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JB_Pritzker#Philanthropy
Philanthropy
In
2007, Pritzker and his wife donated $5 million to the University of South Dakota to build
the Theodore R. and Karen K. Muenster University Center in honor of his wife's
parents.[205] In
2011, Milton Academy dedicated the Pritzker Science Center for which Pritzker
provided the lead gift. Pritzker is a trustee and serves on the investment
committee of Northwestern University.
He is a member of the Board of Governors of Northwestern University School of
Law. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club of Chicago. He joined the Duke
University Board
of Trustees in 2017; his term expires in 2023.
Israel
and the Gaza war
Pritzker
served on the national board
of AIPAC,
a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Connecting
the Dots:
JB Pritzker is the governor of Illinois, a trustee and
serves on the investment committee of Northwestern University, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago and board of trustees at Duke
University.
John A. Canning Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Edward M.
Liddy is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M.
Daley was a trustee at Northwestern University, the
chief of staff or the Barack Obama administration and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lee M.
Mitchell was a trustee at Northwestern University and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Patrick
G. Ryan Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Gordon I.
Segal was a trustee at Northwestern University and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
David B.
Speer was a trustee at Northwestern University and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Louis A.
Simpson was a trustee at Northwestern University and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Deborah
L. DeHaas is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michael
W. Ferro Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Dennis
J. FitzSimons is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
J. Douglas
Gray is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Dean M.
Harrison is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester B.
Knight is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lawrence
F. Levy is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William
A. Osborn is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
J.B. Pritzker is
a trustee at Northwestern University and a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Patrick
G. Ryan Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Morton
O. Schapiro is the president of Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Charles
A. Tribbett III is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Frederick
H. Waddell is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Arnold R.
Weber is the president emeritus for Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
David B.
Weinberg is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Miles D.
White is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
W.
Rockwell Wirtz is a trustee at Northwestern University and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William
Wrigley Jr. II was a trustee at Northwestern University and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Dennis
H. Chookaszian was a trustee at Northwestern University
and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Charles K.
Bobrinskoy is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was
a library board member for Duke University.
Betsy D. Holden is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a trustee at Duke
University.
Karsh
Family Foundation was a funder for Duke University.
Bruce A. Karsh
is a co-founder for the Karsh Family Foundation, a trustee at Duke
University and was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Walter E.
Dellinger III is a professor at Duke University and a
partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Thomas E. Donilon is
a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and the White House deputy
national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Danielle C. Gray is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
and was the assistant to the president for the Barack Obama
administration.
Derek Douglas was
an associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and a special assistant
for urban affairs for the Barack Obama administration.
Alejandro N.
Mayorkas was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and
the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for
the Joe Biden Administration.
U.S. Secret
Service is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
Kimberly Cheatle is the 27th director
for the U.S. Secret Service and served as Senior Director in
Global Security at PepsiCo.
Larry D. Thompson is the EVP of governmental affairs, general counsel
& secretary for PepsiCo, Inc. and is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society and is the founder of the Soros
Fund Management.
Keith T. Anderson was
a chief investment officer for the Soros Fund Management and a
co-founder for BlackRock, Inc.
Thomas
E. Donilon is the chairman for Blackrock, married to Catherine
Russell (Jill Bidens Chief of Staff) was the White House deputy
national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a
partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for
the Barack Obama administration and her great uncle is Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was the
president of the Economic Club of Washington.
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a trustee at Duke University, the president of
the Economic Club of Washington was and a benefactor at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Margot L. Pritzker is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and
married to Thomas J. Pritzker.
Thomas J. Pritzker is
married to Margot L. Pritzker and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Clare M. Munana is
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown was
a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the chairman for the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
William M. Daley was
a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a member of
the Obama-Biden economic advisory team, the chief of staff for
the Barack Obama administration and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Timothy
K. Krauskopf is trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank)
and a trustee at Northwestern University.
A. Steven
Crown is Lester Crown’s son, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago and a trustee at Northwestern University.
Edward M.
Liddy is a trustee at Northwestern University, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at
the Boeing Company.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is a trustee at Northwestern University,
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the chairman &
president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara G. Fast was a VP for the Boeing Company, and a VP
for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group
Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare is Barack
Obama’s signature policy initiative.
CGI Group Inc. was
the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov
web site.
Donna S. Morea was
an EVP for the CGI Group Inc. and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
James L. Vincent was
a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and a trustee
at Duke University.
JB Pritzker
is a board of trustees
at Duke University, the governor of Illinois, a trustee and
serves on the investment committee of Northwestern University and a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Arnold R.
Weber is the president emeritus for Northwestern University
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Betsy D. Holden is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a trustee at Duke
University.
Tallman Trask
III was an EVP for Duke University and is a trustee at
the Committee for Economic Development.
Jack O. Bovender
Jr. is a trustee at Duke University and was a trustee at
the Committee for Economic Development.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee
for Economic Development,
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Letitia James is the chair for the Committee
on Economic Development, the Attorney General of New York and
obtaining her Juris Doctor degree at Howard University.
Earl G. Graves is
a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and a
trustee at Howard University.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a trustee at Howard University, an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle and was the president of the Economic Club of
Washington.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for
the Barack Obama administration and her great uncle is Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.
JB Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, a board of trustees at Duke University, the governor
of Illinois, a trustee and serves on the investment committee of Northwestern
University and the president of the Pritzker Family Foundation.
Pritzker
Family Foundation was a funder for the National Council of La
Raza.
Raul Yzaguirre was
the president & CEO for the National Council of La Raza and
a director at the Economic Policy Institute.
Open Society Foundations was
a funder for the Economic Policy Institute.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic
Policy Institute and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Margot L. Pritzker is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and
married to Thomas J. Pritzker.
Thomas J. Pritzker is
married to Margot L. Pritzker and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Clare M. Munana is
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown was
a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the chairman for the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Newton N. Minow is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a senior counsel
at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago and counsel
at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was
an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
AIPAC is a
U.S.-based lobby group for Israel.
Wendy Senor
Singer was the head of Jerusalem office for AIPAC and is
married to Saul Singer and her brother is Daniel S. Senor.
Saul Singer is
married to Wendy Senor Singer and the editorial page editor for
the Jerusalem Post.
Wolf Blitzer was a
correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and is an anchor for CNN.
Campbell
Brown: No Bias. No Bull was a CNN show.
Campbell Brown was
an anchor for Campbell Brown: No Bias. No Bull, an anchor
for CNN and married to Daniel S. Senor.
Daniel S. Senor is married
to Campbell Brown and Wendy Senor Singer’s brother.
Wendy Senor
Singer is Daniel S. Senor’s sister, married to Saul Singer
and was the head of Jerusalem office for AIPAC.
Lee Rosenberg was
the chairman for AIPAC, a fundraiser for the2008 Barack Obama
presidential campaign and is a friend of J.B. Pritzker.
J.B. Pritzker is a
friend of Lee Rosenberg, Donald Pritzker’s son, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and Penny S. Pritzker’s
brother.
Donald Pritzker was J.B.
Pritzker & Penny S. Pritzker’s father.
Penny S. Pritzker is Donald Pritzker’s daughter, J.B.
Pritzker’s sister, a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Barack
Obama administration, was the national finance, fundraiser for
the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for
the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national
co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a
contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee and the
host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008.
Pritzker
Family Foundation was a funder for the National Council of La
Raza.
Mary Alice
Cisneros is a director at the National Council of La Raza (La
Raza) and married to Henry G. Cisneros.
Henry G. Cisneros is
married to Mary Alice Cisneros and a trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Urban
Institute (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Resources:
Past Research
Commercial
Club Chicago 2013-2014 Club Year Speaker (U.S. permanent representative for
NATO, Ivo H. Daalder) (Past Research on Margot L.
Pritzker)
Tuesday,
December 17, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-chicago-2013-2014-club.html
Muslim
Call to Prayer to be Chanted Every Friday at Duke University (Past Research on Duke University)
Sunday,
January 18, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/muslim-call-to-prayer-to-be-chanted.html
Smaller
Bites – Connecting the Dots: North Carolina University, Duke University,
Columbia University & Soros Funding, All Networking (Past Research on Duke University)
Monday,
May 13, 2024
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/05/smaller-bites-connecting-dots-north.html
ESPN
Analyst: 'Star Spangled Banner' a 'War Anthem,' Shouldn't Be Played Before
Games (Past Research on Northwestern University)
Friday,
November 8, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/espn-analyst-star-spangled-banner-war.html
Target
Names New CEO, Tops Forecasts Despite Sales Decline (Connecting the Dots: The
Target Corporation, Bud Light & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Northwestern University)
Saturday,
August 23, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/08/target-names-new-ceo-tops-forecasts.html
BlackRock
Pulls Ad Showing Gunman From Trump Rally (Connecting the Dots: BlackRock, Soros
Fund Management, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Catherine
Russell (Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff), Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service,
PepsiCo & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past
Research on O'Melveny & Myers LLP & Alejandro N. Mayorkas)
Tuesday,
July 16, 2024
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/blackrock-pulls-ad-showing-gunman-from.html
New
York AG James Says Mortgage Fraud Allegations Are Baseless (Connecting the
Dots: Letitia James, Howard University, The Committee on Economic Development
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Letitia James, Howard University)
Friday,
April 18, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-york-ag-james-says-mortgage-fraud.html
La
Raza: Five Million the 'Floor' of What We Want to See Obama Do (Past Research on the Pritzker Family Foundation & the
National Council of La Raza)
Wednesday,
August 27, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/la-raza-five-million-floor-of-what-we.html
UnidosUS
formerly National Council of La Raza (NCLR) (La Raza) (Connecting the Dots:
National Council of La Raza, Immigration, Domestic Policy Council, Barack
Obama, The Commercial Club of Chicago, The Pritzker Family Foundation &
Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on
the Pritzker Family Foundation & the National Council of La Raza)
Friday,
January 31, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/01/unidosus-formerly-national-council-of.html
Watch
CNN's Wolf Blitzer Treat Hamas Terrorist with More Respect Than GO (Past Research on AIPAC & Penny S. Pritzker)
Thursday,
August 7, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/watch-cnns-wolf-blitzer-treat-hamas.html
