J.B. Pritzker’s Scandalous Toilet Troubles May Come Back to Bite in Potential 2024 Presidential Run
When the word “toilet” comes up in conjunction with a potential political run, that’s never a good thing.
Give Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker some credit, then, for originality: The reason why the commode might end up sinking his 2024 presidential ambitions aren’t just metaphorical or scatological. Instead, they have more to do with a dubious way the Democrat billionaire and heir to the Hyatt hotel chain fortune managed to dodge the tax man.
According to Fox News, the venture capitalist and his wife reportedly removed the toilets from a second mansion they owned in Chicago in 2015 so they could write the property off as “uninhabitable” and lower its value considerably.
Until recent weeks, Pritzker hadn’t been considered a likely 2024 contender if President Joe Biden decides to step aside and not run for another term; the assumption was that Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were co-front-runners and there were worries Pritzker might face a difficult re-election battle against Richard Irvin, a moderate Republican with major corporate dollars behind him.- READ MORE
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