Pritzker, Bailey accuse each other of lies in debate
Associated PressSPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his Republican challenger Darren Bailey used an hourlong debate Thursday finding different ways to call each other “liar” with Election Day fewer than five weeks away. The Democratic incumbent and the southern Illinois state senator disagreed over the other’s handling of or position on the state budget, regulating assault-style weapons, abortion and crime — particularly the justice system overhaul Pritzker signed last year known as the SAFE-T Act. According to Bailey, Pritzker’s handling of crime, property taxes and education is “crushing” the state, “all because J.B. Pritzker is hell-bent on becoming the most radical leftist governor in America.. He’s not telling the truth.” “The criminal justice system that Darren Bailey and Republicans are standing up for is one that allows murderers and rapists and domestic abusers to buy their way out of jail,” Pritzker said.
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