Among the issues Sen. Jil Tracy has been most focused on recently is what she sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s growing tendency of unilateral governing. | Facebook
Among the issues Sen. Jil Tracy has been most focused on recently is what she sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s growing tendency of unilateral governing. | Facebook
Veteran Illinois state Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) welcomed a chance to connect with her 47th District constituents at a recent Quincy Town Hall meeting.
“We had a great crowd turn out to our in-person town hall event Sept. 30 at John Wood Community College,” Tracy said in a post to her website. "I was joined by my colleagues Senator Win Stoller of Germantown Hills, Senator Neil Anderson of Andalusia and Senator Steve McClure of Springfield. They are touring the region to gain a better understanding of the issues residents face in west central Illinois.”
Among the issues Tracy has been most focused on recently is what she sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s growing tendency of unilateral governing, especially when it comes to the battle to control COVID-19.
“Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued more executive orders last week, continuing his year-and-a-half long streak of unilaterally controlling the state’s response to COVID-19,” Tracy said in her Week in Review posted to Facebook. “As of Sept. 23, the governor has issued more than 90 executive orders. Because Gov. Pritzker ordered a vaccination mandate for congregate workers before negotiating with the employees, he was forced to include a delay for the requirement in one of his executive orders.”
Tracy said the governor has been just as iron-fisted when it comes to the state’s school system
“In what has become a seemingly common practice during the COVID-19 era, one of Gov. Pritzker’s recent executive orders created new mandates for Illinois schools with little of the necessary information on how the schools should move forward,” she added. “In this case, Pritzker ordered schools to follow a rigid vaccinate-or-test mandate with a deadline of Sept.19. The Illinois State Board of Education finally released guidance on the new mandate on Sept. 22, two days after the deadline for compliance."
Tracy has also taken exception with the clean energy act that the governor signed into law in September.
“The one thing Illinois has had going for it for years is reliable and affordable, most of all affordable, energy,” she said in a video posted to YouTube. “When we recruit businesses to come to Illinois, that was one of the first things we could mention is that we have affordable, reliable energy for them. Illinois has been an exporter of energy rather than an importer.”
Tracy worries that could all be blown away with Pritzker’s approval of a measure he has touted as “transformative” in seeking to shift state energy policy in the direction of renewable energy sources and away from a reliance on fossil fuels.
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