Chambana Sun

Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) labelled Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s statements on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the state’s holiday vaccine campaign “a two-for-one in the lunacy department.”

Pritzker’s office on Nov. 19 issued a press release promoting the COVID-19 vaccine during the holiday season and another on a Wisconsin court finding Rittenhouse not guilty for the deaths of two men at a protest in 2020.

Regarding the vaccine, the governor said it’s “the greatest gift you can give is to protect yourself and your loved ones from COVID-19.”

On the subject of Rittenhouse, Pritzker, a Democrat, decried the court which tried the teen for failing to consider that his actions were “fundamentally wrong.”

“Gov. JBP must be kidding . . . How has Illinois survived this long w/o his great leadership. It must be a full moon, wait it is, with a lunar eclipse,” Halbrook wrote on Facebook.

Halbrook also used Pritzker’s visit to Washington, D.C. to witness the signing of the new bipartisan infrastructure plan to chastise the Biden White House’s “Build Back Better” plan.

The governor was among the guests who gathered at the South Lawn of the White House to watch President Joe Biden sign the $1.2 trillion measure into law.

“[Chicago] Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker were among 200 guests invited to President Biden’s Monday White House large singing (sic) ceremony for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill (not to be confused with the ‘Build Back Better’ (BBB), an additional $1.75 trillion legislative proposal currently stalled in Congress.),” read a post that Halbrook shared on Facebook. “No Republicans will vote for the BBB measure because it contains major Biden agenda items – climate change, expansion of health care, child care, and immigration with provisions Republicans find objectionable. . . too expensive. There is also disagreement among moderate and progressive Democrats over the BBB legislation.”