State Rep. Tom Demmer (R-Dixon) recently honored the men and women who bravely stepped up to serve the country in each branch of the armed forces.
Demmer took to Facebook to express his gratitude on Veterans Day.
"Thank you to all those who have served our country in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy," Demmer wrote in a Nov. 11 post.
In other actions, over the summer Demmer questioned whether Illinois residents supported giving the government the ability to track the location of their vehicles. His comments stemmed from a discussion about House Bill 4105 which would put GPS tracking devices on license plates.
“When you have a cellphone, you are choosing which services you use, you're choosing whether to even carry it with you,” Demmer told AdvantageNews in July. “License plates are required to drive your car on public roadways. It's very different than an optional cell phone service. If you're driving without a license plate, you're going to get a ticket.”
A month prior, Demmer called the state's FY22 budget a flawed document that was created through a flawed process and took a swipe at Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL).
“We were able to identify several things that were wrong with this year's budget, including legislative pay raises, including a billion dollars in pork projects for Democrat-only districts, including $650 million in tax increases on Illinois businesses, including $0 to pay down a $5 billion debt on our unemployment insurance trust fund and now including a list of articles in that bill that did not have an effective date,” Demmer said at the time. “Now we have to come back and clean all that up. So, when the bill landed on Gov. Pritzker’s desk, he had the opportunity through his amendatory veto to correct those problems.”
The budget bill was enacted back in June.
In May, Demmer took to the House floor to tout the Invest in Kids program, which provides children in low-income areas scholarships needed to attend the private schools of their choice.
Demmer defended the "remarkable" program when Pritzker targeted it to end.
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