By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Jason Barickman and the rest of Illinois lawmakers recently emerged from the veto session in Springfield and many noticed that members of the GOP didn’t always agree with the State’s Republican governor’s wishes.

Barickman said just because they may share the same party doesn’t mean they always have to agree.

“As we went through the veto session, I think you saw there some issues were there were differences of opinion between Governor Rauner and some, and sometimes many other Republicans, and I think there’s some in the media who try to cast too wide of a net here on the significance of that. To expect that all Reublicans are going to agree with Bruce Rauner on all issues is, I think, a false narrative. No one expects that of all Democrats when the Democrats were in the governor’s office, so to say that now, I think is kind of a false narrative,” Barickman said.

Barickman was a guest on a recent community forum, which can be found at WJEZ.com.

Cynthia Grau can be reached at [email protected].