-By Warner Todd Huston
Don Tracy is running for Lt. Governor and the Daily Leader of Pontiac had the opportunity to have a few words with the candidate this week. Tracy’s main message: jobs, jobs, jobs.
On his Campaign website Tracy tells the electorate that “for too long, Illinois has been steering a liberal course” and recommends a change in direction and one of those changes, he told the Daily Leader, is a reform of workman’s comp.
“This state is hemorrhaging jobs,” Tracy told reporters.
“All the employment possibilities are going to other states.
“Employment in this state was bad before 2003 when former Gov. Rod Blagojevich took office, and it only got worse during his years in office. I will work to see workman’s compensation reform in Illinois and I believe that will bring more jobs here.”
Tracy says that the reform of workman’s comp would be a ticket to make our state more attractive for new businesses to come to Illinois.
“We could be on a far more equal status if we reformed workman’s comp such as Missouri did,” said Tracy. “The way things exist in Illinois is that we have a back-door tax on employers and that doesn’t grow Illinois.”
Illinois is fast becoming one of the worst business climates in the country, for sure. Tracy is exactly right on that measure.
As to why he’s running for the thankless job of Lt. Governor? Tracy says he “has a calling for it.”
Tracy is running in a packed crowd for the GOP nomination for Lt. Gov. He is one of seven running for the position.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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