Pritzker Takes Shot at Irvin for Not Taking Questions from Media
Governor JB Pritzker Wednesday took a thinly veiled shot at new GOP gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin, the Mayor of Aurora, for not taking questions from media in rolling out his campaign.
In his first public appearance since Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin entered the Governor’s race with the backing of billionaire Republican Ken Griffin, Governor JB Pritzker Wednesday shot some arrows in the direction of his GOP opponents.
Pritzker, on his 57th birthday, was asked about the GOP primary and Irvin’s entrance in the race, charactering the contest as a “messy primary,” but acting as if he didn’t want to engage.
Moments later, Pritzker aimed a shot at Irvin, who is being backed by frequent Pritzker critic Ken Griffin, the richest person in Illinois.
“One thing I will say to you is if you want to have the job of being Governor, you should have to take questions from members of the media, just like I do,” Pritzker said. “I would hope that any candidate that is running and announced that they’re gonna run is gonna take questions and not wait weeks after announcing to do so.”
When Irvin announced his campaign Monday, he did so with a video and press release and refused to take questions from a reporter at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Aurora.
Irvin’s campaign didn’t comment, reminding us Irvin has been in the race since Monday and not “weeks,” as Pritzker said in his statement.
We asked the Irvin campaign if he planned to do interviews or have a news conference in coming days and our message was not returned.
