JB Pritzker called for boycotts and protests Thursday against Disney-owned ABC and Nexstar’s WGN, over the networks’ decision to sideline late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel after comments about the assassination of conservative commentator and Trump ally Charlie Kirk. Nexstar Media Group Inc., and Sinclair Broadcasting, announced Wednesday they’d be preempting Kimmel after the comedian joked about Trump’s and the Republican Party’s reaction to Kirk’s assassination. It is right-wing authoritarianism.”Local candidates reactMultiple local Congressional candidates also reacted to Kimmel’s suspension on Thursday, calling the move a dangerous attack on free speech. Illinois 9th Congressional District candidate Bushra Amiwala called Disney’s decision “censorship, plain and simple.”Congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala. “When they can use the economic power of the state to control who says what on television, we are in a dangerous, dangerous place.”