Just days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered up the sympathetic view that there’s more to criminals than their original crimes, national Democrats — on the governor’s behalf — on Thursday began airing a commercial vilifying Republican challenger Richard Irvin for his work as a criminal defense attorney.
The Democratic Governors Association has been hammering Irvin, whom they view as Pritzker’s most formidable would-be competitor, since Jan. 17, the day the Aurora mayor kicked off his primary run.
