Lauzen’s experience right for Kane County

Why any citizen of Kane County would not vote for Chris Lauzen in the upcoming primary election for Kane County Board Chairman is beyond me.

As our state senator since his election in 1992, he has served the citizens of Illinois with energy, integrity and a special devotion to the issues that matter most to both families and businesses. Unlike his opponents, Chris knows what the citizens of Kane County care about.

While serving as senator, Chris sponsored and passed into state law the largest employment tax decrease in the past 19 years, keeping more than $250 million of excess unemployment insurance premiums in the Illinois economy.

Chris founded the “Illinois Porkbusters,” which seeks to cut $5 million in waste each year from the state budget, and he helped to secure more than $48 million in school construction grants.

Chris was the lead sponsor of the law that requires all public schools to use devices that filter out pornographic material coming through the Internet into our taxpayer-funded public school computers, and he was also a lead sponsor of banning the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion.

Chris also has worked with the attorney general to pass into law a requirement that prisoners pay for time spent in jail, thereby relieving some of the burden on taxpayers.

Chris Lauzen’s accomplishments as our state senator reveal a man whose passion for the concerns of hardworking taxpayers will continue to drive his energies and be the focus of his formidable skills as an ethical and fiscally-responsible leader. As our new Kane County Board Chairman, he will continue to cut waste, focus on the needs of families and small businesses, and otherwise put principles ahead of politics.

Donna S. Richardson

Big Rock