Mike Downey

Golf and Conservative

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist Everyone gets a playoff sweatshirt!

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@michaelsobrien It’s sad the officials were forced to do this. Unfortunately officials are an afterthought at most schools not just at CPS. Try and play the game without them!

[Mike Downey @midowney]

Please join us if you can to help us kick off Campaign 2026. No tickets needed so come and enjoy hors d’oeuvres. Hope to see you there.

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@Maga_Trigger NFW

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@joetipton @on3 @transferportal @OleMissMBB @OleMissNoProb @BillyEmbody @BarstoolOleMiss @SSN_OleMiss @RedCupRebellion @TheRebelWalk @SpiritBen @BarstoolKU Please refrain from using the term “committed” when it comes to a guy who has “committed” three other times!

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@GovPritzker Says the dictator who runs the state with the highest taxes! 🤡

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@joetipton @Sturdy32 @on3 @transferportal @KUTheShiver @JayhawkFocus @JayhawkSlant @kutweetsandnews @BarstoolKU @RockChalkBlog @BarstoolILL Please refrain from using the word committed. There is no longer any such thing in CBB.

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@JonRothstein Please don’t use the word committed for a college athlete. No such thing.

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist It’s no longer amateur basketball. Agents and transfer portal has turned CBB into bidding wars. Hard to watch and hard to care any more. The NBA is losing fans for a reason. CBB not far behind.

[Mike Downey @midowney]

This is a travel…with all the stoppage of play for “timing and clock” issues what a shame that Colorado State got royally screwed. Do better @NCAA

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist Illinois played like crap, they don’t match up well with Maryland. That said, conference tournaments need to go away. It’s all a big money grab. At no time during the season does a team play 5, 4, or even 3, days in a row. Money has ruined college basketball.

[Slats Grobnik @MissinRoyko]

As DeSantis pushes to eliminate Florida’s property taxes Pritzker does nothing to reduce Illinois’ property taxes, focusing on national issues as he runs for President

This is why DeSantis is an effective Governor and Pritzker, the Trust Fund Opportunist, a political hack

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@DPiper247 He made 1 less three than the entire Illinois team!

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist And Illinois still has Tre White in a starter. How pathetic

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist Welcome to the NIT

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@DPiper247 Illinois last point was at the 8:32 mark. After the goaltending was reversed, Illinois was -2 points in the last 8:32. They had 65 points at the 8:32 mark and that’s what they ended the game with.

[Mike Downey @midowney]

@wischlist Really tired of watching this abysmal 3 point shooting.

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

Gov. Pritzker thinks he is being funny.

He sees daily Trump bashing and ridicule as a pathway to the White House, believing voters will ignore Illinois’ dire condition. Unfortunately, the “State of State” under Pritzker’s “leadership” is no laughing matter.

Here’s what’s not funny:

•While Illinois’ neighboring states cut taxes, Pritzker frittered away $54B in COVID related aid and raised taxes $1 billion. The state is now estimating a five-year $23 billion in combined deficits.

•According to WalletHub, Illinois ranks eighth in state and local taxes in combined income and sales taxes. Worse, Illinois was third in business closures last year costing 14,723 jobless.

•Chief Executive magazine ranked Illinois as the third-worst state in the nation, behind only California and New York, in its “Best & Worst States For Business Survey.”

•Illinois’ job growth exists entirely in the public sector through government hiring and Illinois is one of the only areas couple states in the country to experience job loss in the private sector.

•Illinois is one of only three states to lose population since 2000, as 1.6M residents fled and is the 2nd-biggest loser of young households aged 26-35 with incomes greater than $200,000.

•Illinois has the largest state and local government debt in nation, averaging $110,000 per household and according to Wirepoints exceeding the combined debt of every neighbor state.

•Less than one-third of Illinois students are proficient in reading, despite state spending averaging $21,700 per student, $2,000-$8,000 more than other Midwest states. Chicago spends $30K.

Corruption, high taxes, rising crime, and failing schools, has residents leaving in record numbers. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson’s answer? Spend BILLIONS in sanctuary state/city subsidies to attract migrants. The state has over 530,000 illegal migrants.

None of this is amusing.

[Mark Weyermuller @publicpolicyman]

DOWN THE TOILET: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s aspirations to run for president continue to disappear as people realize he has done nothing to improve lives in Illinois.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

This is the perfect example of why men and women’s anatomy matters in sports.