State Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Ill.)
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Recent News About State Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Ill.)
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey points to Speaker Madigan as common thread throughout widespread corruption probe
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) has little doubt about to whom he thinks the spate of recent corruption raids involving state politicians will lead.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey predicts 'rock bottom' for Chicago before Illinois can begin fiscal reparations
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) is so desperate for change in the handling of the state’s finances that he’s conceded the fact it may require a drastic occurrence before the ship can be righted.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey considers Anne Burke appointment an 'embarrassment for Illinois'
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) sees the election of Anne Burke as new state Supreme Court Chief Justice as a black eye for all of Illinois.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey speaks out on Sen. Cullerton: 'We’ve got to restore integrity to Illinois government'
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) views the recent federal corruption indictment of Sen. Thomas Cullerton (D-Villa Park) as just the latest example of the sad state of affairs in Springfield.
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Rep. Bailey's first bill signed into law
Local activist Warren Le Fever cannot think of a better result from Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey's (R-Xenia) first bill signed into law.
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From SE Illinois News
In response to immigrations laws, Bailey says Pritzker 'on a one-way ticket to destroy Illinois'
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) is convinced that two immigration bills signed into law this week by Gov. J.B. Pritzker are indicative of the Democratic Party's irrational opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration's policies.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey calls on voters to help put an end to gerrymandering in Illinois
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) recently spoke in support of his Republican colleague Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) after Hammond publicly condemned the practice of gerrymandering earlier this month.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey calls for fast action on property taxes
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) fears for the state’s future if lawmakers in Springfield insist on maintaining their current path.
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From SE Illinois News
IPI exposes Pritzker's $45 billion capital spending plan as being laden with 'pork-barrel projects'
Illinois state rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) thinks lawmakers who knowingly or unknowingly helped Gov. J.B. Pritzker ram his new $85 billion state budget down the throats of taxpayers should pay a price, especially now that Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) is reporting that the $45 billion set aside to cover Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois capital spending plan is riddled with up to as much as $1.25 billion in 'pork-barrel projects.'
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From SE Illinois News
No positive spin about July tax hikes from Rep. Bailey: 'It's just bad politics for Illinois'
For the benefit of the whole state, Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) thinks Chicago may have to follow in the footsteps of another Midwestern city that was once fighting for its fiscal life.
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From SE Illinois News
As affluent millennials flee Illinois at alarming rate, Rep. Bailey calls on voters to force change
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) says the findings in a new Smart Asset survey showing an alarming rate of outmigration by the state’s most successful millennials should come as no surprise to the policymakers responsible.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey 'disappointed' in 'more irresponsible Illinois government' after new budget report
Freshman state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) bemoans the fact that nothing seems to have changed about the way Illinois legislators run the state government thus far in his first term.
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From SE Illinois News
Lawmakers' pay raises sum it up for Rep. Bailey: 'We are in a crisis and voters have to wake up'
Illinois state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) still struggles sometimes to make sense of the way Springfield does business.
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Bailey's budget analysis: 'A disaster for Illinois'
Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey (Xenia) has no doubt about where Illinois is headed now that the state has a new $40 billion spending plan in place.
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From SE Illinois News
Bailey opposes tax amendment with message from constituents: 'We don't trust you with our money'
House Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) strongly opposed an amendment to the state constitution that will change the state's income tax structure from a flat tax to a graduated tax.
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From SE Illinois News
Democrats may wind up alienating voters by 'not listening to people at all,' Rep. Bailey says
Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey (Xenia) is hoping history repeats itself when it comes time for voters to weigh in on how Democrats are handling all their newfound power in Springfield.
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From SE Illinois News
Rep. Bailey says state government, not taxpayers, should be held accountable for Illinois' spending
The way Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey (Louisville) sees it, Democratic lawmakers in Springfield have become so drunk on their own power they cannot even hear the cries of their constituents.
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Southern Illinoisans 'will be hit harder' by gas tax, Rep. Bailey says in opposition of House Bill 391
A Clay County Republican in Illinois' state House said recently that he opposes a measure currently making its way through the General Assembly that could more than double Illinois' gas tax by this summer.
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Pritzker's graduated tax proposal 'not good public policy nor good economics,' Rep. Bailey says
A Clay County Republican in Illinois' state House said recently that he's already hearing from constituents about just how hard the graduated-rate state income tax proposal now being considered in that chamber will hit them.
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From SE Illinois News
Illinois' future in hands of voters, Bailey says
Illinois State Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) laments the fact that taxpayers across the state are being forced to pay a heavy toll for Springfield lawmakers' narrow focus.