CHICAGO, IL — Yesterday, JB For Governor launched a new ad, “Prehistoric,” exposing Darren Bailey’s school’s extreme curriculum, which teaches that dinosaurs and humans walked on Earth at the same time. The ad also highlights Bailey’s personal defense of that view in an interview with WGN.
According to the Field Museum, Britannica, and the U.S. Geological Survey, more than 65 million years passed between the extinction of dinosaurs and the earliest humans.
While Darren Bailey promotes extreme, baseless beliefs, Governor JB Pritzker is focused on delivering for Illinois working families.
This ad will air on Chicago broadcast and digital platforms.
30-SECOND AD TRANSCRIPT:
VOICEOVER: Dinosaurs and humans living side by side.
Looks silly, right? Not to Darren Bailey.
Because Darren Bailey’s school curriculum teaches dinosaurs and humans were definitely on Earth at the same time. Listen to Bailey explain it.
DARREN BAILEY: Every day we’re learning wonderful things about history in the past.
REPORTER: But dinosaurs and men did not walk the Earth at the same time, right?
BAILEY: Were you there?
REPORTER: I wasn’t there.
BAILEY: I wasn’t either.
REPORTER: But, that’s what the science says, though. That’s settled, right?
BAILEY: I wasn’t there.
VOICEOVER: Darren Bailey’s too extreme for Illinois.
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