As we get going with the Veto Session in Springfield as of Tuesday (October 24th), State Senator Chapin Rose says one issue on his mind is definitely what’s going to happen with the Illinois Gun Ban that was passed. Rose says, when you put that together with the Safe-T Act provision that took away cash bail in Illinois; you should be asking, “Hey, wait a minute….”
AUDIO: Why are we going after law abiding citizens? There’s almost 50 different gun laws already on the books. Yet, we see criminals every day, walking the streets, because the state of Illinois has removed the authority from people like Jaqueline Lacy of Vermilion County, who’s doing a great job trying to put bad guys behind bars; we’re taking her authority away to keep the people of Vermilion County safe. How about we just put the bad guys behind bars? I mean I’m a simply guy; simple solutions.
Rose says another very important issue to him is that legislators use this Veto Session to extend the “Invest in Kids” school choice program that currently expires at the end of the year. Rose says, without doing that, you are taking kids right out of their current classrooms in the middle of the school year.
AUDIO: I’m absolutely not going to pull the rug out from under a kid in the middle of the school year. And I guess I just keep coming back to; these are kids. Put the politics aside; put the nonsense aside, and just respect for a fact; that whether you liked this program or didn’t like this program when it started, it’s here. And let’s not take out our political differences on kids.
Rose also expressed frustration with the immigrant health care program, saying it was wrong to suspend required co-payments when so many others in the state have to pay them. Senator Rose says he’s very much afraid that that funding issue will be kicked down the road to next spring.
