POLITICO: Spotted

Gov. JB Pritzker stopped by a company kick-off party to congratulate Jordan Abudayyeh and Jason Rubin on starting ARC Strategies. The governor also made remarks congratulating his former comms staffers.

The governor offered some insight on what it's like behind the scenes of the governor's office.

"We worked together for seven years. And it was seven years of them rescuing me from making mistakes along the way," he told the guests at The Exchange on Michigan Avenue. "Every day I would come out of a press conference, and I would call Jordan or Jason and say, Was that OK? Did I make any major blunders there?' And of course every time they would say, 'Oh no. That was fine. And then they quickly made a few phone calls to clean up after me."

Also in the room: First lady MK Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, the governor's Chief of Staff Anne Caprara, state Rep. Margaret Croke, Deputy Governor Grace Hou, the governor's Senior Political Adviser Mike Ollen, Magnify Strategy's Kaitlin Fahey, lobbyist Liz Brown-Reeves, IRMA CEO Rob Karr, lobbyist Dave Sullivan, entrepreneurs Neal Zucker and Marko Iglendza, lobbyist Lisa Duarte, the lieutenant governor's Chief of Staff Natashee Scott and Equality Illinois' Jose Wilson.