East Central Reporter

State Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) has encouraged constituents to call their Democratic senators and Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) after a member of the state's prison review board – who was convicted of two murders himself – voted to set another killer free.

Plummer called out his Democratic colleagues who "do what they're told" when it comes to making decisions in the General Assembly.

"We need elected officials who stand up for their communities, not kneel down to leftist party leaders and campaign donors," Plummer said in a Nov. 17 Facebook post. "This reckless administration is allowing violent criminals out of prison left and right."

Plummer was outraged at a decision made by one of the members of the prison review board.

"One of the people making tens of thousands of dollars a year serving on the Prison Review Board is a convicted double murderer who literally just voted 'yes' to let one of his former prison mates, a convicted cop killer, out of prison," Plummer wrote in the post. 

He said members of the board are supposed to appear before his Senate committee, but Democratic senators have failed to force them to do so because he believes Pritzker doesn't want it to happen. 

"Not a single Democrat senator has stood with us Republicans on this common-sense issue," Plummer said. "We have been battling this insanity for many months. Illinoisans need to blow up the phones and make their voice heard. These are your families and your communities they are endangering."

Earlier this month, Plummer endorsed Steve McClure in the Senator's run for a new district, calling him "a leader in the Republican caucus," according to the South Central Reporter.

He also co-sponsored a bill that is meant to punish people who supply guns to convicted felons. 

The South Central Reporter also reported he celebrated an October federal court's decision against the Democrat-created redistrict maps and called it a "big win" for Illinois residents.