[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Symbols of hate cannot and will not represent the values of the Land of Lincoln.””

This is huge. They swear to shun the Democrat party.

[eyeamok]

“This administration’s guiding principle is that the state of Illinois will not use state resources to promote symbols of racism,”

Does this mean they are going to BAN the Democrat Party and any Reference to it Statewide???

[vetvetdoug]

Then the Governor needs to erase all memory of General Bushrod Johnson at Southern Illinois. The former Confederate General was the President of the University for years after the Civil War.

[DiogenesLamp]

“Symbols of hate cannot and will not represent the values of the Land of Lincoln.”

Corruption is a better representation for the land of Lincoln, both while Lincoln was in office, and after, as well as having a permanent place in Chicago and Illinois politics in general.

Washington DC was already corrupt in 1860, but Lincoln made it even more corrupt.

[Berosus]

In the early 1980s, when Joel Garreau wrote “The Nine Nations of North America,” which organized the cultures of the USA and Canada into separate “nations,” he included the part of Illinois south of Springfield in the Southern nation, “Dixie.” Therefore a Confederate flag at this concert should be all right, even though Illinois was on the other side in the Civil War.

[Trump20162020]

It's Chicago's state, everyone residing in the 56,280 square miles that make up non-Cook County Illinois just has to deal with their tyranny and micromanaging of their lives.

[DownInFlames]

A lot of those southern white good ol boy red necks are Democrats and will jump ship on this one.

[fightin kentuckian]

Land of Lincoln, my foot, Abe was born in Kentucky, not far from where Jefferson Davis was born and raised.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Be sure to thank Nikki Haley....

[miss marmelstein]

No one wanted to heal the divisions more than Lincoln.
Lincoln loved the song Dixie and insisted it be played after the surrender. It’s too bad most of our politicians are ax-grinding, crepe-hanging, ignorant anti-intellectuals.

[The Louiswu]

The kicker to the story is pot head Snoop Dog gets to play the state fair

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I was just talking about this idiot. Good God. I need to leave this state.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Mr. Creosote! LOL! I don’t normally care to make fun of people because of their weight, but I’ll make an exception for this sanctimonious putz. He recently signed off on one of the most wide-open abortion laws in the country, and he gets all rightlteous and lectures on values?

I wonder if he has a problem with the band’s name, too. If so, then Dixie Chicks (are they still around?) and Lady Antebellum should also be banned from fairs in Illinois.

[bigbob]

Good. Keep it up Fat Boi...the only hope for Illinois is you Dems push this crap so far even the moderate democrats in this state say “enough” and kick all your asses to the curb.

[CtBigPat]

No stranger to a fork:

[Midwesterner53]

This is a city and state that ran one of the most heinous Civil War prison camps that existed. Southern prisoners died by the thousands in a land of plenty, freezing, bad food, disease. Camp Douglas was a hell hole and no effort was made to improve it. Now they even want to remove a simple monument to those who died there. The people in charge of the city and state are scum.

[Wonder Warthog]

Hopefully the band will sue. I doubt Illinois law gives the governor the right to arbitrarily terminate a contract.