Prairie State Wire

Illinois' Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter says Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker's move to free more violent criminals from Illinois prisons by appointing "crazy activists" to the state's parole board is "throwing Illinoisans to the wolves."

Porter made the comment Wednesday in an interview with Prairie State Wire.

"Governor Pritzker turned the Prisoner Review Board into the Prisoner Release Board. He craves love from crazy activists and sacrifices our security to suck up to radicals," Porter said.

"His willingness to empower thugs, throwing Illinoisans to the wolves, makes him the most dangerous Governor in America," he said.

State Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) called Crosetti Brand, who murdered 11 year old Jayden Perkins, "a monster who should have never been on the streets" and "just one of the many violent criminals released by JB Pritzker's Prison Review Board."

Brand killed Perkins and stabbed his mother, Brand's ex-girlfriend, the day after Pritzker's Prison Review Board released him from Stateville Prison in Joliet.

Brand "forced his way into his ex-girlfriend's Edgewater apartment on March 13 as she was preparing to take her 11-year-old son, Jayden Perkins, and his 6-year-old brother to school, according to court documents. Brand repeatedly stabbed the ex-girlfriend (and) when Jayden tried to intervene and protect his mother, Brand stabbed him," police said.

Brand, 37, was convicted of home invasion, aggravated domestic battery, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in 2017, after forcing his way into the apartment of a former girlfriend, beating her and threatening her 15 year-old son with a gun, then stealing her Kia Sedona.

Porter, a retired partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, has been Republican National Committeeman for Illinois since 2014. He worked in the White House for President George H.W. Bush from 1990-1993, as well as in the U.S. Dept. of Treasury. He lives in Winnetka.