By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Dunlap) says Chicago is unlike Quincy.
“The governor’s plan, which is really one-size-fits-all, for Quincy, which has had hardly any (coronavirus) cases, they have a great reopening plan in working with the businesses and the healthcare professionals, and they’re treated just like downtown Chicago, which is, I think, ridiculous,” LaHood said. “That’s what’s causing people begin not abiding by the governor’s order. ‘Mutiny’ may be too strong of a word, but that’s what’s growing in Downstate Illinois.”
And U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) $3 trillion stimulus bill is a non-starter, LaHood said.
“It’s unfair that we are traveling back to D.C., but we are voting on a bill that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have never talked to the Republicans about. It funds things like Planned Parenthood, it funds the post office with a big bailout, it supports mail-in voting, which has a lot of concerns about fraud and lack of transparency.”
LaHood says he’s in favor of helping local and state governments – an example, saving first responders’ jobs. He’s not in favor of a federal pension bailout, as floated by the state Senate President, Don Harmon (D-Oak Park).
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