The Chicago Tribune issued a "Call to Arms" in their recent editorial stating in part:

"And 2010 also needs to repudiate entrenched state and local lawmakers who have spent and borrowed Illinois into gooey morasses of debt just waiting to swallow our children and grandchildren." and
" Illinois needs results. We intend to live by that credo in an effort to rehab Illinois during 2010. In the months since those words appeared, Illinoisans have watched their politicians resist aggressive reforms, both to how Illinois is governed and to how state and county governments spend money: Many politicians have jealously protected their power while overcommitting taxpayers to more missions than we can afford. As a result, this state is impoverished in spirit. And it is too impoverished financially to pay its bills for services already delivered to the disabled, the sick, the most vulnerable among us. Yes, recklessly growing state government at double the rate of inflation for two decades has brought devastating consequences to Illinois."

I intend to stand on principle, oppose new taxes or borrowing on the backs of our children (the incumbent sponsored $3.5 billion in new borrowing this past session) and deliver results to build a better government and brighter future for Illinois. Read the Tribune's full editorial at the following link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-1227edit1dec27,0,5665098.story

Primary election-who's naughty and who's nice?

See the story linked below from SouthtownStar columnist and Illinois Review blog editor Fran Eaton about questionable primary opponents in the GOP field, including my race. As she reports: "When the candidates' petitions were circulated by union guys or county employees that live in the purely Democratic 19th Ward, that sounds suspicious." and "No one in Bremen or Orland Township Republican organizations has ever met or even heard of Junkas' GOP opponent..."

http://www.southtownstar.com/news/eaton/1942293,121609eatoncol.article