Chris Kasperski will face Democrat Melinda Bush in the general election for Illinois Senate District 31. | https://ballotpedia.org/Christopher_Kasperski
Chris Kasperski will face Democrat Melinda Bush in the general election for Illinois Senate District 31. | https://ballotpedia.org/Christopher_Kasperski
Illinois Senatorial candidate Chris Kasperski (R-Lindenhurst) doesn’t want to see politics get in the way of everyone coming together to fend off COVID-19.
“I think this is kind of an unprecedented situation and a time for all of us to come together to at least try to mitigate the risk of the pandemic as best we can,” Kasperski, set to face incumbent Sen. Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) in the 31st District in November, told the Lake County Gazette. “If that means we have to stay home a few weeks to eliminate the risk, we can make the sacrifice.”
But with politics seemingly being a part of everything these days, Kasperski knows there could be more to consider.
“I worry about government overreach and I think we’ve started to see some of it in local government,” Kasperski told the Gazette. “I really don’t think it was right for Gov. Pritzker to allow the election to go on when he knew he was going to call National Guard in soon as the polls closed. I think whatever risk we face now had to be there then too.”
Concerns don’t end there. In Campaign, a city ordinance has been enacted that allows the city council the power to do everything from limit gun sales to ration utilities and seize private property. The newly approved legislation also gives leaders the power to impose emergency curfews, bar residents from public buildings and shutter businesses over the next 28 days.
“All I will say is that if there are some out there who think they can use this crisis to push an agenda they will find themselves facing a lot of people that are pushing back,” Kasperski told the Gazette.
While city attorney Fred Stavins stressed that no added actions are currently being called for and that the policies have actually been part of the city code for more than a decade, Kasperski has vowed to keep close watch.
“This is certainly a time to bring everyone together,” said Kasperski. “At the same time, we have to remember this isn’t the end of the world and once this is behind us we still need to have order and fairness in our society.”
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