{"id":160,"date":"2026-07-18T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:47:00","slug":"rt-by-chicagocontrar1-another-major-employer-is-leaving-illinois-at-some-point-we-have-to-stop-pretending-this-is-normal-juliana-stratton-has-been-lieutenant-governor-for-seven-years-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRT by @ChicagoContrar1: ANOTHER major employer is leaving Illinois. At some point, we have to stop pretending this is normal. Juliana Stratton has been Lieutenant Governor for seven years. During that time, Illinois has watched one major company after another move jobs and headquarters elsewhere. That\u2019s her record. Now she\u2019s asking voters to send her to Washington. Why would we promote the leadership that oversaw Illinois\u2019 decline? That just does not make sense.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER major employer is leaving Illinois. At some point, we have to stop pretending this is normal.<\/p>\n<p>Juliana Stratton has been Lieutenant Governor for seven years. During that time, Illinois has watched one major company after another move jobs and headquarters elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s her record.<\/p>\n<p>Now she\u2019s asking voters to send her to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Why would we promote the leadership that oversaw Illinois\u2019 decline? That just does not make sense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/media%2FHNhJtQXWQAAShrA.jpg\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER major employer is leaving Illinois. At some point, we have to stop pretending this is normal. Juliana Stratton has been Lieutenant Governor for seven years. During that time, Illinois has watched one major company after another move jobs and headquarters elsewhere. That\u2019s her record. Now she\u2019s asking voters to send her to Washington. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}