*J.B. and Me?: Democratic candidate J.B. Pritzker held a Facebook Live social media event to tout his support for the Democratic-passed school funding formula legislation and attack Rauner's amendatory veto vow.



"Well, he's tried to turn it into a divide between Chicago and the rest of the state," Pritzker said of the Republican governor and his travels to Downstate school districts in which he has labeled the legislation a "bailout" for the Chicago Public Schools.



"He thinks it will get him re-elected because he knows he's not going to get a lot of votes out of Chicago and so he wants the rest of the state to think Chicago's taking something away from them. No school district loses under Senate Bill 1," he said.



Pritzker contended the state's lengthy budget impasse has left schools "reeling across the state," even though elementary and secondary education has been funded during the impasse. The state has been late on some payments, however, amid a cash crunch caused by the stalemate.



"For him this is all politics. For the kids, this is so critically important for their future. If you mess up the beginning of their school year, if you mess up the school-funding formula that they deserve, they can't get those years back," Pritzker said.



"I really think he doesn't understand the difference in government between an investment and an expense. Investing in education is an investment, it's not an expense," he said. (Rick Pearson)