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Like a lead baloon.That should go over well in Illinois...
Leading elected Illinois Republicans recoiled Thursday at the prospect that President Donald Trump would commute disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence and warned it could put the GOP in a deeper hole in trying to fight one-party Democratic control of the state in next year’s elections.
Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin of Western Springs said that in considering relief for the former Democratic governor, the Republican president was acting out of his own political self-interest and was attempting to make Blagojevich a “folk hero” while continuing to grind a personal ax against a federal Justice Department that investigated Trump and his former 2016 campaign.
“It’s a Republican president who’s going to provide executive relief to a disgraced, corrupt former Democratic governor,” said Durkin, who was the lead GOP member in the decade-old House impeachment proceedings.
“When you have these actions at the top of the ticket, that come right home here in Illinois … people are going to question Republicans up and down. It just doesn’t help our jobs,” Durkin, a former prosecutor, said.