The North Carolina Democratic Party is holding a "Unity Dinner" on Saturday. No word on whether it'll be as fun as last year's event, or if the party's Jewish members will be invited, but they do have a large attraction: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

So, the question must be asked: what do NC Democrats want to learn from the radical Leftist running Illinois into the ground? Let's look at a few:

RAISING TAXES ON HARD-WORKING FAMILIES

• Pritzker is focusing on a 2028 presidential bid instead of the mess that he’s created in Illinois. Since he became governor, the state budget has ballooned to $55 Billion, including $1 Billion in new taxes.
• Those items include new taxes on single-use plastics, a tipped minimum wage increase, and gasoline.
• The tipped minimum wage policy has been tried elsewhere and failed, harming small businesses and reducing jobs.
• CBS Chicago: Some restaurant owners say the increases have caused a great strain on their businesses, leaving them to choose between passing the cost to customers through prices or hiring less staff. A similar initiative was passed in Washington, D.C. in 2022. But Mayor Muriel Bowser has now called for its repeal, saying the method is failing employees and small businesses.
• Pritzker's failure to manage the state resulted in Billion-dollar deficits, reaching over $3 Billion earlier this year.
• Illinois’ state and local tax burden is the highest in the nation. The state also levies the third-highest state corporate income tax in the nation and the state’s tax code is among the least friendly for businesses in the Midwest, according to Illinois Policy.

THOUSANDS HAVE FLED ILLINOIS FOR OTHER STATES

• Population change because of domestic migration in Illinois is among the worst in the nation, ranking 48th among all states, according to data. 
• In 2019, 61% of the state's residents said they thought about leaving, according to a poll from NPR Illinois.
• Most of Illinois' neighboring states are gaining residents from people moving across state lines. Even among states losing people, Illinois is losing them at a significantly faster rate.
• Illinois lost 56,235 residents to other states on net from July 2023-June 2024 – one resident every nine minutes and 21 seconds – according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• The IRS in 2024 found the state lost $10 Billion in revenue from 87,000 people moving out. For the last six years, the total lost adjusted gross income is more than $47.5 Billion. 
• Between calendar years 2021 and 2022, the number of people flowing into Illinois was nearly 177,000 and the number flowing out was over 264,000, a net loss of 87,286.  

SPENDING BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

• Pritzker prioritized criminals over the safety of Illinois families while President Trump deported illegal, criminal aliens from Chicago.
• Pritzker even supported keeping 9 Tren de Aragua terrorists in the state: seven sexual predators who committed crimes against children and two murderers in Chicago.
• The state has spent over $3 Billion on illegals, according to one estimate. 
• An Illinois state audit revealed Pritzker's administration massively underestimated the cost of programs providing health care to undocumented immigrants. The report said the programs for illegals have cost the state more than $1.6 Billion since 2020.
• Just days ago, ICE arrested an illegal immigrant accused of decapitating a missing Illinois woman after being set free by a judge in the state.
• The illegal was accused of keeping her body in his yard for nearly two months and abusing her corpse before being decapitated, and she was found in a bleach-filled storage container.
• "It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News. "Megan Bos and her family will have justice."

"Hosting JB Pritzker is confirmation North Carolina Democrats have moved to the extreme, radical Left and do not care about the health, safety, and well-being of North Carolina families," said NCGOP Communications Director Matt Mercer.