Senator Farachi Honors Veterans and Students

State Senator Paul Farachi is off to a busy start after being appointed to fill the unexpired term of late Senator Scott Bennett.  Farachi was in Danville Monday delivering Valentine’s Day cards from area youngsters to the VA Illiana Health Care System.  The Senator has already introduced several bills in Springfield…

{Audio:  ‘’We’ve got a handful, and we’ll see if they get through committee.  You know one of them is we’re trying to make sure that we don’t lose our County Auditor here in Vermilion (County) because there’s a law that says as the population decreases they can do away with the County Auditor position.  And we want to make sure that even if the population decreases that we lower the number so we don’t lose our County Auditor.’’}

Senator Farachi passed out awards to children at the Vermilion County Museum’s Abraham Lincoln Open House on Sunday.  He says he enjoys meeting the public…

{Audio:  ‘’The opportunity under horrible circumstances losing Senator Bennett, but I feel like he’s kind of watching me. I feel like he’s kind of keeping an eye on me.  And he’s motivating me.  He’s giving me wings to have an energy to go out and actually do things that I wouldn’t have otherwise done.  And coming to these kind of events – meeting people in Vermilion (County) – meeting people in Champaign County – there’s a lot of amazing things going on that I would have missed if it wasn’t for this opportunity.’’}

{The Danville Sweet Adelines perform during Sunday’s event at the Vermilion County Museum.}

The Senator will be one of the lawmakers closely listening to Governor J B Pritzker’s Budget and State of the State Address on Wednesday.