Second Congressional District incumbent Robin Kelly was in Danville earlier this week. Meanwhile, her opponent, Republican Thomas Lynch of Cissna Park, says he’s continuing to hear all over the district, Vermilion County to Cook County, exactly what he heard prior to the primary: concerns about inflation, gasoline prices; and more than anything, the federal government itself.
AUDIO: They have too much control over their own money; to be able to give themselves raises and their pension system. And I don’t think it matters whether I’m at a Democrat event or if I’m at a Republican event; or if I’m in the south side of the district or if I’m in the northern side of the district. Everyone gets wide eyed and excited when they hear about somebody who wants to fight those things.
Lynch works for the state as a meat inspector, and one thing he’d like to take to Washington is some knowledge about how rules and regulations for meat producers being one size fits all simply doesn’t make much sense. As Lynch puts it, little meat lockers do not have Tyson’s personnel.
AUDIO: But they have entire departments dedicated to the regulatory compliance; you know where they pay salaries to people to take care of that stuff. Where in my neck of the woods, or anywhere in the country really, you have a small meat processing facility that has three employees and an owner. And the owner has to deal with all that stuff.
Lynch believes that most federal legislators don’t have a huge desire to fix run of the mill issues that come up all the time, but instead just want to use those issues to get elected every two years.
