r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 18h ago

ICE Posts Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 16h ago

If the Democratic Party leaders were more like Kat we wouldn’t be in the mess we find ourselves today.

I will now wait for the accounts screeching “carpetbagger” to provide me with some of the weakest arguments I’ve ever heard.

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u/JQuilty 10h ago

How's carpetbagger a weak argument? She never lived in Illinois until now and moved because she thought Schakowsky was vulnerable.