Prairie State Wire

State Sen. Darren Bailey has promised to restore law and order in Illinois and make it more affordable for all.

In an Aug. 19 Twitter post, gubernatorial candidate Bailey announced that he is planning to make Illinois affordable for working-class people.

“ICYMI: My full remarks from my endorsement press conference with the @ILFOP and @ChicagoFOP7," Bailey said in the tweet. “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"

In his tweet, Bailey also shared a link to remarks he gave when he received endorsements from the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police and the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7. His remarks in part follow:

"...Crimes a judge can only insist on pretrial detainment if the accused poses a specific threat to an individual person. Want you to think about that, don't just take my word for it, folks. One hundred out of the 102 states attorneys in Illinois have expressed concerns about prisoners and no cash bail. 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. 1st, 2023. If you think crime in Illinois is bad now, what in the world is it going to look like in 2023 when prisons may all open up the prison doors. Worse, JB Pritzker's anti-police, soft-on-crime policies have a dangerous ripple effect with crime skyrocketing. Families and businesses, they're fleeing the state. Jobs are leaving with them, and there's no one in this room that hasn't had that thought. I know that the Chicagoland area has lost 34,600 jobs since JB has taken office, and Illinois as a whole is down 81,200 jobs on JB’s time. Illinois has fewer jobs today than it had in the year 2000. There have been too many articles about people being shot and attacked, our public transportation, about businesses changing their hours because violence keeps workers and customers away after dark. The state cannot function let alone attract new people when you cannot. Friends, I'm not a slick politician. You know that I'm a farmer, I'm a businessman, father. I may be a little bit rough around the edges but I can tell you this and to vote. So I will speak the truth, I will call out problems, I will work with anyone—Republican or Democrat—willing to roll up their sleeves with when I'm governor. This is how we're going to turn a city in crisis into the world-class safe and prosperous city that it should be."

Bailey and his wife recently attended the Illinois State Fair, a Prairie State Wire report said.

"That's what's so great about Illinois – within a few hours, we have access to everything; that's why this state is so great," Bailey said in a Facebook video, quoted by the Wire. "We're here to celebrate agriculture, getting ready to go to the ag breakfast behind us ... and we've got a full day of events here – actually, for the next three days in Springfield, and then we'll be back up into the Chicago [area] and the surrounding areas this weekend."

In another Wire report, Bailey spoke about his concerns related to the Inflation Reduction Act. 

"I share the concerns of the Illinois Farm Bureau on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act," he 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 on Aug. 16 by President Joe Biden, the Wire report said. The legislation raises taxes on incomes over $400,000 and establishes a 15% minimum income tax on businesses. Farmers have expressed reservations about the law's nearly $370 billion budget for subsidies for renewable energy sources. The law also includes provisions relating to health care, such as limits on insulin costs for Medicare enrollees.