East Central Reporter

In an Aug. 19 tweet, gubernatorial candidate Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville) announced new endorsements.

“ICYMI: My full remarks from my endorsement press conference with the @ILFOP and @ChicagoFOP7. We will restore law and order and safety to the streets. We will restore the city of Chicago and make Illinois safe and affordable for working Illinoisans. #twill," Bailey posted.

Bailey shared a link to remarks he gave when he received the endorsement from the Illinois FOP and Chicago FOP7. He first talked about the SAFE-T Act.

"Friends, 100 out of the 102 states attorneys in Illinois have expressed concerns about Pritzker's no-cash-bail law," Bailey said. "The state’s attorneys in Will and DuPage counties – a Republican and a Democrat - publicly stated that they will be forced to release violent criminals into the streets starting Jan. 1, 2023. If you think crime in illinois is bad now, what in the world is it going to look like 2023 when Pritzker's no-cash-bail law opens up the prison doors and he throws away the key?"

Bailey continued his focus on crime.

"There have been too many articles about people being shot and attacked on our public transportation systems about businesses changing their hours because violence keeps workers and customers away after dark," Bailey said. "A state cannot function, let alone attract new people, when it cannot keep people safe."

Recently, Bailey said that he and his wife Cindy attended the Illinois State Fair in Springfield in a live video on Facebook. "That's what's so great about Illinois – within a few hours, we have access to everything," Bailey said in the video. "We're here to celebrate agriculture."

Bailey has recently spoken about the Inflation Reduction Act. He took to social media to explore his concerns. "I share the concerns of the Illinois Farm Bureau on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act," Bailey said. "There are always aspects of bills like this that we won’t know about until long after the bill is signed into law. Farmers have every reason to be concerned about this new law." 

The $740 billion package was signed into law by President Joe Biden. The act raises taxes on incomes over $400,000 and establishes a 15% minimum income tax on company profits. Farmers have voiced reservations about the proposal's almost $370 billion budget for subsidies for renewable energy sources. The law includes provisions relating to health care, such as limits on insulin costs for Medicare enrollees.