Written by David E. Smith
The hope in a “Red Wave” election didn’t come to fruition in November. The work to flip the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to Republican control produced mixed results.
The GOP barely gained control of the U.S. House, which means Nancy Pelosi will no longer be the Speaker of the U.S. House, and third in line to the presidency.
Of our state’s 17 Congressional seats, three downstate districts have Republican representation, as we lost one to redistricting and one to a Democrat candidate in the newly redrawn 13th district in central Illinois.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amendment 1, Bill Brady, Bob Dold, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Sun-Times, Cindy Bailey, Darren Bailey, Democratic Party, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Republican Party, JB Pritzker, Jim Durkin, Jim Edgar, Kirk Dillard, Leslie Munger, Liberal media, Mark Kirk, Nancy Pelosi, Parental Notice of Abortion Act, Peter Roskam, RINO, Ronald Reagan, Worker's Right
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | November 15, 2022 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Election 2022 Recap
Written by Francis Perce
In this week’s episode of Illinois Family Spotlight, we introduce listeners to Mr. Scott Greene, a Republican candidate for Illinois House District 86. He is stepping up to challenge State Representative Larry Walsh Jr. (D-Joliet), the incumbent since 2012. Value voters are hoping to help Greene win the election and bring some trucker sense to the Capitol in Springfield. Knowing that faith, family, and freedom are on the line, he promises to try his best to represent his district.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
In south Cook County and into the southern suburbs, we have Frederick Walls from Crete who is running for state representative in the 34th District. This seat is currently held by incumbent State Representative Nicholas Smith, another left-wing Democrat from Chicago.
Walls is a Christian husband and devoted father of four children. He is a graduate of The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters’ Apprentices and Training Program (CRCC), and has been a carpenter for 13 years.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
During the weeks of October 19-21 and 26-28, Illinois state lawmakers will be headed back to Springfield for the annual “Veto Session.”
Using his social media account to circumvent the liberal media, Illinois State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) recently posted a video update on Facebook to warn his constituents about the corrupt priorities that the Democratic majority has on the docket for these six days of Veto Session. Of these, we are specifically concerned about the following:
1.)… Continue Reading
Tags: ALCU of Illinois, Ameri Klafeta, Curtis Tarver, Dan Caulkin, Health Care Right of Conscience Act, Illinois General Assembly, JB Pritzke, Kambium Buckner, Planned Parenthood, Police Qualified Immunity, Veto Session
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | October 22, 2021 2:00 PM | Comments Off on Action Alert: Veto Session 2021 Continues THIS Week
Written by David E. Smith
The Democratic Party is firmly in control of both federal and Illinois government – now what do we do? Former Illinois state representative, Jeanne Ives, addresses that question in part two of our Spotlight conversation (listen to part one here). We discuss an alarming proposal by liberal, secular Democrats to “restore constitutional secularism and patriotic pluralism” and Jeanne details how we can and must fight against this assault on religious freedom.… Continue Reading
Written by Paul Hurst
People of faith are sensing something is very wrong with our government right now. In Illinois, the newspapers might as well publish Jeremiah Chapter 36 as their front page cover story. After all, his Biblical account sounds like it’s taken directly from today’s headlines.
Pending disaster, dire warnings, arrogant leaders, cowardly representatives, people of faith banned from their place of worship, untrustworthy people turning each other in and an increasingly godless society, tempting God’s wrath every step of the way.… Continue Reading
Written by Abigail Ruth
The news in Illinois these days is grim to say the least. A few days ago Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a plan to ‘Restore’ Illinois that, if actually followed, will surely destroy whatever is left of both our God-given and constitutionally protected civil rights and our livelihoods. According to the governor, ‘normal’ will not return to Illinois until we have a vaccine or a drug that he deems “highly effective.”
If we take the him at his word, it’s quite possible that normal will never return to Illinois. … Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Fauci, Coronavirus, COVID–19, Darren Bailey, Ebola, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Supreme Court, J. B. Pritzker, John Cabello, John Z. Lee
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | May 9, 2020 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Why Do We Need the Illinois General Assembly if We Have a King?
Chicago Has Stricter Revolving Door Lobbying Rules
than the Illinois General Assembly
Written by Cal Skinner
McHenry County Blog – Former Illinois State Representative
With the current budding scandals in Chicago, it’s hard to believe that the city council’s ethics rules are stricter than Springfield’s, but, that is the case.
Former Chicago Alderman Will Burns broke the revolving door rule which prohibits Aldermen from lobbying the city within a year after leaving office. He resigned, went to work for Airbnb and, before twelve months had elapsed, Burns called a city official on behalf of his new employer and appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” to talk about the regulatory ordinance being considered by his former colleagues. … Continue Reading
Tags: Advantage Government Strategies, Airbnb, AT&T, Brian Calley, Chicago Sun-Times, Chris Nygo, Enterprise Car Rental, Exelon, Illinois General Assembly, Justin Chenette, Lou Lang, Lyft, Margo McDermed, Mark Batnick, Mike Madigan, Pam Althoff, Tom Bennett, Uber, Will Burn
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | February 2, 2019 7:41 AM | Comments Off on Illinois’ Political Revolving Door
Written by David E. Smith
Another election has come and gone. A number of states saw a noticeable political shake-up. For pro-life/pro-family conservatives in Illinois, things went from bad to worse.
As promised last week, Monte Larrick and I are once again joined by Richard Hartian, Chairman of Illinois Family Action, for this episode of Spotlight.
Moving on from the post-mortem of What went wrong? to a discussion of Where do we go from here? – Hartian, Smith, and Larrick consider what Illinois might look like under a Democrat-controlled statehouse led by J.B.… Continue Reading
Written by John Biver
The Illinois News Network reported some big news about a new national “political power” record that was set this week:
Illinois’ longest serving House speaker is now the United State’s longest serving statehouse speaker.
The title was held for years by a South Carolina politician from the 1970s, but the title now goes to Chicago Democrat Michael Madigan.
Madigan has been speaker of the Illinois House every year since 1983, except for two years in the 1990s when Republicans were in the majority.
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Tags: Bruce Rauner, George Ryan, Illinois Democratic Party, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois House, Illinois News Network, Illinois Republican Party, Jack Roeser, Jim Edgar, Jim Thompson, Michael Madigan
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | August 12, 2017 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Illinois Republicans Set National Record for Losing Elections