Benjamin Salzberg for State Senate
Recent News About Benjamin Salzberg for State Senate
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Salzberg suggests voter apathy toward local races contributed to defeat
Benjamin Salzberg, former Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, said he's not deterred from his mission after losing to state Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield), who won with 59 percent of the vote.
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Salzberg: Voters must demand change, or else face systemic 'collapse'
Benjamin Salzberg, Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, cannot stress enough how important this election cycle is to voters.
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Salzberg says surge in voter registrations indicates state's voters want change
The State of Illinois is observing the highest number of registered active voters since 1970, and Benjamin Salzberg, Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, is both amazed and excited at the surge.
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Salzberg: Illinois should be about uniting, not dividing people
Benjamin Salzberg, Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, said he believes Illinois is better than the negative ads and attacks that have been circulating throughout mass media this election season.
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Salzberg: 'I don't think people believe they have a voice in Illinois'
Taxes are the No. 1 reason why voters want to leave Illinois, according to a survey conducted by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, with 47 percent of registered voters who were polled expressing their desire to leave and 27 percent of them citing taxes as the main reason why.
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Salzberg: Chicago Public Schools needs checkup, not blank check
Moody’s Investors Service recently lowered the credit rating of the Chicago Board of Education deeper into junk level status, to B3 from B2, with a negative outlook.
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Salzberg insists that bringing back jobs will curb gun violence
Gun violence has plagued Illinois, with a reported 3,261 shooting victims in Chicago alone to date in 2016.
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Salzberg: Illinois needs to bring back manufacturing jobs
August employment numbers for Illinois conveyed a mixed analysis of the job market in the state; while unemployment shrank from 5.8 to 5.5 percent in July, the sole cause of the decline was a workforce that shrank by 22,000 people.
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Salzberg calls for changing Springfield machine one person at a time
With a brightly printed banner waving on his behalf, Benjamin Salzberg, Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, greeted parade-goers at a recent celebration, inviting constituents to join him in fixing the “status quo.”
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Salzberg: High property taxes, low inventory, rising prices sap housing market
Chicago’s housing market saw a sharp decline in July, compared with July 2015.
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Salzberg: Teachers must look out for students' best interests
The Common Core educational standards have been controversial since their inception.
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Salzberg praises 'No Budget No Pay' bill, warns of health care crisis on horizon
Benjamin Salzberg, the Republican running for the District 29 State Senate seat, said every business sector in Illinois needs to be examined and commends Comptroller Leslie Munger for shedding light on the situation when she proposed her “No Budget No Pay” bill which ties legislators' paychecks to the passage of a balanced budget.
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Salzberg says it's time to make Illinois a place where businesses want to be
Benjamin Salzberg, the Republican candidate for the District 29 state Senate seat, recently applauded Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger for bringing to light the lack of compromise and communication in Springfield when she proposed “No Budget No Pay.”
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Salzberg says state's financial dysfunction bludgeoning middle-class families
Illinois has not yet recovered from the recession that hit the nation in 2008, and the state’s slow convalescence has affected its citizens, who are experiencing one of the worst personal-income recoveries in the U.S.
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Salzberg wants to make small businesses sweet on Illinois again
Benjamin Salzberg has a mission for Illinois: Make it sweet.
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Salzberg calls state lawmakers' high salaries 'a shame'
A recent report has revealed that Illinois lawmakers are the fifth-highest-paid lawmakers in the nation, with an annual base salary of $68,000, far more than neighboring states like Iowa.
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Baffled by state's dire debt outlook, Salzberg calls for competent leadership in Illinois
Benjamin Salzberg finds that Illinois’ backlog of bills reaching a potential $10 billion by the end of 2016 to be a bit perplexing. The numbers, coming from Comptroller Leslie Munger, paints a dire picture of the states finances and its fiscal future.
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Engineer Salzberg aims to 're-engineer' Assembly, make it work for voters
Illinois voters have expressed their concerns about the state to Benjamin Salzberg, Republican candidate for the State Senate District 29 seat, and he said he's all ears.
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Salzberg spotlights peril for universities after state bond-rating downgrade
With seven public universities enduring scrutiny after Moody’s drastic downgrade of Illinois’ bond rating, Republican District 29 State Senate candidate Benjamin Salzberg weighed in on ruined promises and threats of fiscal failure.
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Candidates call on state to analyze how CPS funds are being spent
Illinois’ General State Aid (GSA) funds K-12 education and was originally intended to financially support school districts with the most need. Through the years, however, the formulas used to calculate the amount of state funding school districts receive has sparked outrage over the funding system providing large subsidies to a few select districts, namely, Chicago Public Schools.