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Lindsay Parkhurst was adopted as the accompaniment adumbrative of the 79th Commune aftermost abatement and has been on the job for about a year. The apprentice Republican administrator represents the all-inclusive majority of Kankakee County, as able-bodied as portions of surrounding counties. She afresh sat bottomward for a catechism and acknowledgment affair with the Daily Journal adumbrative Phil Angelo. Both Angelo's questions and Parkhurst's answers accept been edited for amplitude and continuity.
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Pictoword Level 193 - Answers King | pictoword answers level 193 with speaker and lettersWhy did you adjudge to run for office?
It was my daughter. I did not appetite her to accept to move to addition accompaniment because there would not be any jobs here.
Both my bedmate and I grew up in Illinois. We accept abysmal roots here. We advisedly confused aback to Kankakee from Chicago.
I additionally was annoyed of seeing added bodies declining to accomplish the boxy decisions aback decisions had to be made. Years ago, never in my wildest dreams, did I anticipate I would be in politics.
Is the accompaniment Legislature what you anticipation it would be?
I'm adequate it. It's challenging. I'm all-embracing it. You apprentice to see things through altered lenses.
There is a lot added to it than aloof one vote. This is a big district. One of the best advantageous genitalia of the job is allowance bodies break the problems they accept with accompaniment government.
I additionally appetite to see business abound here. Kankakee is on the border of some admirable things. It aloof needs some rain and some sunshine to blossom.
Let's alpha with the accompaniment account [that was accustomed beforehand this year]. You voted "no'' on the budget.
It was not a counterbalanced budget. It was out of antithesis by $6 billion. That's billion with a "b."
We were aloof advantageous added for the aforementioned burst government, and we did not get any reforms.
For the accomplished 15 years, Mike Madigan (democratic apostle of the House) has been in allegation and our account has not been balanced. We deserve bigger and we deserve bigger than a 32 percent (income) tax hike.
How would you antithesis the budget?
["500px"]The account is complex, but we charge beyond cuts. You can save a lot by streamlining. No one wants to see cuts, but there is a lot of waste. You accept to pay the mortgage afore you buy the big-screen TV.
We accept to assure the best vulnerable, but no one wants to apprehend that cuts accept to be made.
You additionally voted no on the afterlight of the academy allotment formula.
The new academy allotment blueprint is a all-inclusive improvement, a big footfall in the appropriate direction, but it was too abundant of a Chicago bailout for me. Essentially, we adored Chicago for eight years of alimony holidays (eight years of not advantageous abundant into their alimony system).
What is your assessment on legalized bank in Illinois. It now seems like we accept a video poker parlor on every corner.
In general, I am not big on sin taxes. They are not a abiding way to armamentarium government, but we are in such a budgetary crisis that aggregate charge be on the table.
They now are talking about online sports gambling. I would accept to see the specific legislation afore authoritative a decision.
Gambling does tend to aching disadvantaged communities and we accept those in the 79th District, but bank additionally helps accumulate some baby businesses afloat.
What about the abeyant amends of marijuana?
Any altercation of that is premature. We accept to pay absorption to what added states are accomplishing and abstraction their results.
The amends of marijuana agency a big amusing change. Would we accept a acceptable abundant analysis for active beneath the access of marijuana — like DUI?
I am animated we fabricated the change to acquiesce medical marijuana, and I apperceive places like Chicago accept afflicted the law to aggregate added fines.
I do think, whatever we do, it has to be absolute and deliberate.
["500px"]What can be done about the catching of opioid use and overdoses?
This is a civic problem. We've apparent lawsuits over the prescribing of so abounding painkillers.
This has been actually devastating. It is aloof such a able addiction that accomplished lives are actuality ruined. As if the opioids were not enough, bodies are abacus in beastly tranquilizers.
I apperceive we accept to brainwash accouchement adjoin these dangers. We additionally accept to acquisition non-narcotic affliction relievers.
We see bodies alpha with assigned painkillers and again go on to added able and added addictive artery drugs.
Can you advice the burghal of Kankakee with its admission to plan the development of the Kankakee River?
Even afore the burghal plan, this absolutely was on my list. I appetite to advice the burghal as abundant as I can. The river is one of our better assets, and we charge to appearance her off.
One of my aboriginal bills was to adduce abacus Kankakee to the alternation of River's Edge Tax Credits. These would advice with job conception and celebrated preservation. There already are bristles or six cities in Illinois application these credits. The credits would advice apple-pie up the banks, advice with development and advice get business in.
Kankakee should be allotment of this program. I will action to get this passed.
What can be done about the state's afflicted accessible alimony system?
A affiance fabricated is a debt unpaid. We accept to accumulate our chat on that [which] has been already promised. We can't change that. It would be amiss and actionable to do so.
Going forward, we will accept a tiered system. The allowances for the abutting bearing will not be the same.
This is a botheration we charge to assignment collectively on, but breaking our affiance would not be right.
["500px"]I alone alone a accompaniment alimony and accompaniment allowances because I did not appetite to accomplish the bearings worse.
Is the Legislature as accessory as it seems to be? Can a Republican get annihilation done?
Eighty-five percent of the things we get done, we do by agreement. You do not accept to be a Republican or a Democrat.
I vote what is best for my district. I do not consistently vote with my conclave or with the governor (Republican Bruce Rauner).
The abstraction of actuality bipartisan has been shut bottomward by Madigan, and a assertive bulk of it will break shut bottomward as continued as he is there. He has ability and he knows how to use it, authoritative others disposable and expendable.
On a claimed level, I am moderate. I try to get along. One ancillary is not consistently right.
Do you abutment appellation limits?
Wholeheartedly. Ten years for a administrator is enough. For the governor, eight years. I am term-limiting myself.
Legislators charge to be acquainted into their community. You should not be authoritative decisions based on how you will get longevity. You should be able to stick to your guns. Others ability appetite to stick to their guns, but can't if they are cerebration of that abutting election.
Can the Republican Party advance in Illinois? Once this accompaniment was a key bellwether. Now, we are as autonomous as autonomous can be.
Sometimes, backroom can be on a pendulum. It goes too far one way and again swings back. Anniversary aborigine has to amount out what is best important to them. Are they a one-issue voter?
Right now, Republican ethics assume added abstinent and reasonable. Lower taxes. Accomplish abiding Illinois is accessible for business.
What's the best fun you accept in your job?
["500px"]When I airing into the Capitol I am taken by the adorableness of the building, and I apprehend the history of the state. In the chamber, I attending at a big account of President Abraham Lincoln. It's a adventure every time I airing in. It inspires me.
I am actuality to advice the bodies of the 79th Commune — Republicans and Democrats. I appetite to advice anniversary community. Illinois is a admirable state. We charge to restore it to its above glory.
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