My name is Frederick L. Walls and I'm running for Illinois House District #34. When the CEO takes a company in the wrong direction, it is the responsibility of the Board of Directors to come together and fire the CEO. We, the voters, are the Board of Directors; the Democrat party is the CEO. They have had control of the Illinois House for 27 years and the Senate for 21 years. The results are high taxes, failing schools, increasing crime, reduction in citizenship and the transferring of resources from the communities that need them the most to illegal immigrants. The most recent egregious failure is on the issue of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and Chicago, Cook County & Illinois' Sanctuary Status. As a voting member of the Board of Directors I am asking for your help this Nov 5th to send the Democrats home because they have failed the citizens of Illinois for almost 30 years. Thank you! Please see my comments below on this pressing issue!
Poor public policy has generated this IMMIGRATION crisis and we cannot continue to support both the influx of new arrivals and also care for our most vulnerable citizens.
It is estimated that Illinois taxpayer spending on non-citizens from Fiscal Year 2023 to Fiscal Year 2025 include $820 million in support services, which is broken down to $478 million for asylum seeker assistance, $160 million for new additional state investments, and $182 million for emergency funding requests; while estimated healthcare costs for illegal immigrants over the same two-year period are pinned at just over $2 billion, an astounding figure. This includes $619 million in the Fiscal Year 2023 state budget, $773 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 state budget, and $629 million in the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 state budget.
Republican lawmakers have been adamant in questioning Illinois Democrats' priorities because of their funding of the meteoric rise in healthcare costs for illegal immigrants. While Illinois residents and hard-working parents have to pay insurance premiums and co-pays, illegal immigrants have largely not been subjected to paying for any part of their healthcare costs, all at the expense of taxpayers.
The billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on illegal immigrants directly takes away funds that could be used to support essential programs for all Illinois citizens, including seniors and those most economically and socially vulnerable. Illinois is one of only five states in the nation that provide Medicare-like benefits, at taxpayer cost, to illegal immigrants.
If elected I will support House Resolution HR0220 as well as legislation to repeal the Illinois Trust Act House Bill 4187, which defined Illinois as a Sanctuary State for illegal immigrants. For more on this click the link below.
repcmiller.com/2024/02/09/the-reality-of-illegal-immigration
Crime:
Chicago Public Schools saw violent crime increase 26% in 2023 and arrests hit a record low of 8%. Now thanks to pressure from the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Brandon Johnson, police are being removed from schools.
In 2023, violent crime was 11.5% higher than 2022. When I am elected, I will support legislation that will hold people who practice criminal behavior accountable. For more information about CPS crime, click the link below
www.illinoispolicy.org/violent-crime-surges-26-at-chicago-public-schools-arrests-hit-record-low/
Putting Our Money Where It Counts:
Re-Focusing & Improving Public Education
My top priorities and policy goals are to first write, and or support bills that restructure our current public school education curriculum.
Because of the deterioration of public school education, many parents like myself, have opted to either homeschool or send our children to private school.
Not only are we paying for a private school education which is very costly, but we are also paying tax money to a place where our child is not receiving any services.
I will also push for sex education to be removed altogether from the curriculum for grades preschool through 8th grade. These are young and impressionable minds who can’t begin to understand the ramifications of oral and anal sex at such an early age.
They don’t understand the dangers of becoming promiscuous and possibly contracting STD’s. With this curriculum, we are setting the American child up to be overly sexed, and knowledge deprived.
I believe that school is a place where they go to learn skills that will take them to a productive adulthood. This current curriculum is helping to do anything but that.
The current curriculum is also costing taxpayers unnecessary money.
HB 156, which is currently a law, places tampons in boys’ bathrooms. It is a cost that comes directly from our pockets and had most of us been given a choice of whether we wanted to contribute to it or not, we most definitely would have voted no.
I believe that I can help change these policies first by keeping my constituents aware of the policies that are being pushed, and aware of the current policies that are in place.
Education:
Equipping The Next Generation With Mentorship And Training to Be Successful
One of my main goals is to have the trades brought back to high schools and to push for stronger economic and civic curriculums.
Because many of the issues within our neighborhoods stem from fathers missing from the homes, my vision would also include mentorship programs for fathers that would show them how important their role is in their children’s lives and that would encourage them to be an active participant financially and emotionally.
Also, I would like to see initiatives that will help our homeless citizens work their way out of poverty. These are just a few things, as I know that there are more issues that will need to be addressed as we go. District 34 contains 2 metro areas, 15 cities, 12 townships, 1 unincorporated area, 8 villages, and 25 school districts. Though the task will not be easy, we are stronger together and I believe that we can get it done.
Taxes:
Protecting the Taxpayer
If I am elected, my vision is simple: it’s a vision of a well-informed district of communities that will be able to see their tax dollars well at work for them and their families.
Get to know Frederick L. Walls - Candidate for Illinois House #34