The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats’ party

ONE OLD pal of J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire governor of Illinois, tells a narrative about his first try to win workplace. In 1998 Mr Pritzker ran for Illinois’s ninth congressional district, which then lined a swathe of northern Chicago and its suburbs. On the age of simply 33, he spent half one million {dollars} of his personal cash on tv adverts for the Democratic major. However what he couldn’t take care of was Chicago’s conventional type of politics. Associates advised him that he wanted to attend half a dozen native Democratic Get together picnics and guarantee that celebration members may at all times come to him for jobs on the Hyatt lodge chain, which his household owns. This, he stated, he couldn’t do. He went to the picnics, however he couldn’t change his household agency’s hiring guidelines simply to get votes. In Chicago within the Nineteen Nineties to have such clout however to be unable to deploy it was a political demise sentence. Within the major he got here third.