Is Breen following Trump into political gutter?

My Illinois State Rep Peter Breen (IL-48) knows better. Yet, he begins his constituent email with a gratuitous insult and falsehood:

"Mike Madigan's 'Madigoons' are on the loose in the 48th District! Madigan has hand-selected an opponent for me in the upcoming General Election, and we have now seen proof that his campaign workers, including some of his top staff, have been walking precincts in our district, trying to unseat me."

Breen may think it's clever to connect the name of Illinois House Speaker to 'goons', the well known moniker denoting hired political operatives who use violence to further a political cause, but it's not. If merely demeans reasoned political discourse, desperately needed in our culture, with unhelpful name calling. Citizens who spend time gathering signatures so that voters will have choice, a clear choice in November, are not 'goons'. They are the folks who make democracy work.

Worse, Breen spreads the falsehood, likely a conscious lie, that his unnamed opponent was 'hand selected' by Speaker Madigan. The only hands that picked his opponent were his own, and those of the Nominating Committee of the DuPage County Democratic Party.

Breen's opponent has a name. It's Steve Swanson, a soon to be retired minister from Lombard.

Two things you can count on in this campaign. Steve Swanson will never engage in gratuitous insults or spread falsehoods. And Peter Breen, likely taking cues from the master of gratuitous insult and lies at the top of the Republican ticket, will nod and follow suit