Chicago City Wire

Republican political strategist Chris Robling fumes the state’s future seems to grow dimmer with each passing day.

“We are on a short course to ruin for regular people, their incomes and their security,” Robling told Chicago City Wire.

Robling rages it’s not hard to find glaring examples of all the damage  Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ongoing COVID-19 restrictions are causing to everyday citizens, pointing to a new survey by small business referral network Alignable that details how November 2020 saw 56% of all the state’s bar and restaurant owners unable to pay their full rent as the sting of the governor’s ongoing ban on indoor dining took greater effect.

Nationally, that figure stands at 61%, up 19% from just a month earlier with the harshest part of the winter still to come. In Illinois, the number of restaurants now unable to make full rent payments in December has already more than doubled from September.

Robling has long been a staunch critic of the governor’s handling of the crisis, recently charging his wayward policies are largely the cause for the state’s ongoing outmigration exodus. Over the last decade, 93 of Illinois’ 102 counties have lost population. Overall, researchers found at least 170,000 people have bolted Illinois since that time.

“People are voting with their feet because the state is picking their pocket,” Robling said. “The State of Illinois and its constituent municipalities have untold scores of billions in unfunded liabilities since no Illinois politicians have the courage to negotiate with unions. People rightly see the state coming to them to pick up the tab for their overspending.”