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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 18/02/2026

Controversial opinion: false spring is actually the best season

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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Barack and Michelle Obama, two of the most impactful leaders our country has seen, deserve our respect and gratitude, not overtly racist videos from a manchild dictator. It’s no coincidence he’s making these attacks during Black History Month, and we cannot normalize this. Shame on Donald Trump.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 27/01/2026

Dr. J brought it last night. This is why I'm so excited about @julianastratton.bsky.social. We desperately need more Senators with a backbone and a fighting spirit. Joyful warriors. Not people who are trying to work together and find common ground with fascist thugs.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 20/01/2026

We had a Dem in the House who voted to sustain the Republican governor's vetoes once upon a time. Barack Obama literally shamed him in front of the whole legislature, and then our entire party apparatus mobilized and spent millions to beat him in a primary. Taking away the voter file is pretty mild.

abc7chicago.com

State lawmaker called out by President Obama during Springfield speech

A day after President Barack Obama called out state Rep. Ken Dunkin, D-Chicago, during his address to the Illinois Legislature, the lawmaker talked about his moment in the spotlight.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 20/01/2026

Love @theassemblync.bsky.social and this is a great piece, but it's a bogus headline. This isn't a purity test. If you repeatedly vote with Republicans to override your Governor's veto, then you know what, you don't get the party's organizing toolkit for free. It's a privilege, not an entitlement.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 20/01/2026

Another reason I'm proud to support @julianastratton.bsky.social for Senate. "Abolish ICE" — along with "Ban X" and "Remove Trump from office immediately" — should be a basic, litmus-test position for any Democrat running for federal office

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 11/01/2026

Never thought I could be this happy while also surviving multiple heart attacks #beardown

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 07/12/2025

Men will do literally everything except paid family leave

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 10/11/2025

"How come you never report on the work elephants do in outer space?"

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 10/11/2025

Fresh off a massive electoral victory everywhere from New Jersey to Mississippi to California, Dems ride the wave of momentum to [checks notes] complete capitulation on everything.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 04/11/2025

Hey Democratic leader of the US Senate, in today's election, did you vote for the Democratic nominee? Or the known repeat sexual harasser from the "Fight and Deliver" party who was endorsed by Trump and Stephen Miller? "Look, I voted"

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

So awesome to ride home on 100mph passenger rail after voting to save transit

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Couple more legislative measures here: • extending some expiring legislative provisions; • raising the income thresholds for low-income senior tax freezes so they don't get kicked off when Social Security goes up; • using some race-neutral language to protect scholarships from anti-DEI purges.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Really can't overstate how much of a BFD this is. It was very touch-and-go this week. But this is a generational investment that's going to transform mass transit in the whole region. Delgado, Buckner, and many others have poured hundreds of hours in. And advocates have been absolutely tireless.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Delgado closing. "Transit isn't just tracks and trains and buses, it's people." And it passes! On to the Senate!

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Leader Buckner, who's co-led this effort with Leader Delgado, is recognized as the final speaker. "This isn't just a transportation bill, this is a transformation bill." We've legislated separately on structure, then on funding, then on governance. This time we're fixing all three.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Rep Halbrook complaining that the bill contains "really really hard math with big numbers."

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Rep Cabello seems to insinuate that if we don't allow ICE enforcement on Metra trains, we'll lose federal funding for transit. This is the hour we've reached.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

The debate stretches on. From the chair, Leader West institutes a 3 minute timer.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

I did not approve this message. It's 1:30am y'all. And yes I'm known to love candy corn.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Rep Syed Takeover: Leader Guzzardi is preoccupied with eating candy corn 🍬🌽

Picture of Leader Guzzardi with bewildered eyes. He has a piece of half eaten candy corn in his teeth. Tie offset.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Rep Ugaste objecting to raising tolls on highways while not raising fares on transit riders. This is a thing I happen to be extremely fine with.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Leader Spain objecting to taking sales tax dollars on gas for transit instead of sending the money to a road construction fund. CONTEXT: That fund has around $4 billion just sitting in a bank account, and IDOT actually can't spend the money as fast as it's coming in.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

A funny moment in the run-up to the bill: Leader Delgado had to do some procedural business before calling the bill. She began her speech twice — "today we stand at a turning point" — and was interrupted for the adoption of amendments. Now she's off and running. "Today we stand at a turning point."

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Ok and now we’re on to transit!!

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Ok and now we’re on to transit!!

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

The bill passes, 75-32. Loud cheering in the gallery.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Many very passionate and personal stories. Rep Huynh talks about growing up in authoritarian Vietnam. Rep Johnson talks about his wife's great-grandmother crossing the Rio Grande. Rep Jimenez describes her son's school sending alerts this morning that immigration activity was happening nearby.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Leader Avelar, one of the top voices on this issue, tells the story of a young man jumped by feds, who fainted, fell, hit his head, and landed in a coma. She says the healthcare provisions of the bill will make sure he can recover without fear of being kidnapped.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Sorry transit fans, you'll have to wait a little longer. Speaker Welch is presenting our response to Operation Midway Blitz. The bill will protect people from immigration actions at sensitive places like hospitals, daycares, & courthouses. And it will allow agents to be sued if they break the law

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

The transit bill is on the board! Republicans immediately request a caucus - Springfield speak for a time-out for a private strategy session. “30 minutes to an hour,” says the minority leader.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

The bill doesn’t pass. (After this photo was taken Rep Manley voted yes, bringing the total to 56. 60 votes are needed for passage.) Illinois is the headquarters of two of the largest insurers in the nation, Allstate and State Farm. The lobby has always been successful at resisting regulation.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Maj Ldr Gabel presenting a bill to regulate homeowners insurance premium increases. Illinois is one of the least regulated states for insurance in the nation. This is a response to massive increases this year.

cbsnews.com

State Farm hiking Illinois homeowners insurance rates by 27% in August

State Farm is planning a major rate hike for Illinois homeowners insurance starting in August.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Tarver bill passes. Rep LaPointe up now on a bill to increase insurance reimbursements for mental health. Major improvement in access to therapy for folks who can’t pay out of pocket. Passes with bipartisan support, to some applause.

A photo of the vote count on the bill. 86-19-1. 60 votes required for passage.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

One I care about a lot is a weird tax thing called GILTI. I fought really hard to get this in this year's budget. It taxes big multinational corps that stash assets overseas. But the Trump bill changed the name from GILTI to NCTI. If we don't change the name in our law, we'll lose $100s of millions

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Evans bill passed. Now this one is important. Leader Tarver doing something we call "decoupling." Basically the terrible federal budget bill screwed things up for states in lots of ways, and unless we make some affirmative changes, it'll screw up Illinois's budget too.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

This isn't a perfect bill. I would have loved a more progressive revenue package to fund all this. But the cost of doing nothing is staggering. And the benefit of these investments will be generational. Put on a pot of coffee and follow along — I'll let you know when we get it done!

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

There's new money going to infrastructure as well: 45¢ toll increases for tollway improvements, and up to $200m a year in transit capital. This is how we'll build out new service and get into transit deserts across Chicagoland.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

On the sales tax piece: I don't love the sales tax. It's regressive. But for context, if a person spends $1000 per month on non-grocery consumer purchases — which is a lot! — this new tax would cost them $2.50/mo. And the value of better transit to lower-income folks is substantial.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

On the road construction piece: this fund has literally billions of dollars just sitting there. There's so much money coming in that IDOT can't get it out the door fast enough. Road repairs will still keep happening at very significant levels.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

Then, funding. We're going to take about $800 million in taxes people already pay on gasoline and direct that money to transit operations instead of road construction. And we're going to add a 0.25% sales tax in the six-county region for another $500 million or so.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

It starts with reform. We're dissolving the RTA, which couldn't even figure out how to get one fare card to work for CTA and Metra, and creating a new integrated system called NITA. New governance, new accountability standards, fare integration, coordinated scheduling, safety ambassadors, +much more

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

The state needs to provide a major cash infusion. But we don't want to spend a bunch of money on the same old CTA service. We want more frequent, more reliable, safer, cleaner, better service! So we need to not just close the ~$750 million budget deficit, but provide more money for transformation.

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Will Guzzardi (IL-39) @willguzzardi.com · 31/10/2025

This isn't like, a few less buses. This is like, eliminate half the bus lines.

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