Republican Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey’s campaign on Thursday announced that his son Zachary, daughter-in-law Kelsey, granddaughter Vada, 12, and grandson Samuel, 7, had been killed in a helicopter crash in Montana on Wednesday evening, KDSK reports. Middle child Finn, 10, was not on board the helicopter for whatever reason, and is safe, per Bailey’s campaign.
All of which is fucking horrible for a kid that age to have to go through, and for Bailey himself, despite being kind of a piece of shit whose previous campaign in 2022 featured some less-than-sensitive comments in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy that left at least one child orphaned and another a paraplegic for life. Nobody deserves this, especially not his grandson.