TV ads are going up around the state for two of the announced Republican candidates for governor.
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin is focusing on crime in his first TV ad, in which he says he responded to riots in Aurora in 2020 by calling in the National Guard. But Democrats respond that mayors cannot call in the Guard, and note that any decision to send in Guardsmen would have had to come from Governor JB Pritzker.
Meanwhile, Jesse Sullivan is also focusing on crime in his new ad, in which he says he will defend, not defund, the police, and pledges to “take the cuffs off our cops and put them back on criminals.”
