WHEEEEE, IT’S J.B.!
New Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker putting former GOP Gov. Jim Edgar on his transition team should come as no surprise.
♦ The “reel” reason: “Pritzker wants his team to show nonpartisanship,” said a top Dem source.
♦ The “real” reason: Edgar — a popular governor who served two terms during the 1990s — publicly called out Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2016 for failing to find ways to work with the Dem leadership; blasted what had become a lack of civility in government during the Rauner budget impasse; and — without naming Rauner — slammed pols for describing their adversaries as “corrupt.”