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About 1.2% of legal Illinois gun owners registered banned items before deadline

Posted in Big Brother, Crime, Elections, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Topics Of Interest on January 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

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A frame from a video shared to Darren Bailey’s X account | X / DarrenBaileyIL

By Greg Bishop | The Center Square

The final numbers for Illinois’ gun ban registry leading up to the Jan. 1 deadline are in. One high profile politician says he’s not among them.

The final numbers from Illinois State Police show a total of 29,357 individuals disclosed they possess a now banned item. That’s nearly double the numbers that were reported the prior week and now 1.22% of the state’s 2.4 million Firearm Owners ID cards holders.

Of the individuals who disclosed banned items before the Jan. 1 deadline, there were 68,992 banned firearms reported, or about 2.3 firearms per individual that filed an affidavit. There were 42,830 banned accessories disclosed and 528 .50 caliber ammunition disclosures. The three-month registration window opened on Oct. 1, 2023.

Former state Sen. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, posted a video to social media on New Year’s Day showing him shooting several banned guns and saying he will “die” on his porch before he gives them up.

Tuesday, Bailey said his message is clear.

“This is an issue that we have an opportunity to stand and save this republic over and I believe that is what’s at stake and what this is all about,” Bailey told The Center Square.

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Lawyers, guns, money, plus 9 other Illinois laws to know starting January 1  

Posted in Big Brother, Commodius Maximus, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Taxes, Unions on December 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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There are over 150 new laws going into effect in 2024, but here are a dozen likely to affect your life. They might impact the cost of a burger, your gun ownership, where you can vape and who your local police officer is and what that officer can do.

By Patrick Andriesen | Illinois Policy

More than 150 new laws  will go into effect in 2024, including a statewide minimum wage hike, changes to Illinois’ criminal sentencing requirements, restrictions on vaping and gun ownership, and a new rule allowing non-citizens to become police officers.

Of the new laws signed by Gov. J.B. Pritkzer, at least 89 will take effect Jan. 1, 2024. Here’s what you need to know about some of the laws going into effect in the new year:

  1. Illinois minimum wage increase: The hourly minimum wage for non-tipped employees will increase from $13 to $14, while the minimum wage for tipped workers will grow from $7.80 to $8.40 an hour.
  2. Non-citizen police applicants: Any individual who is not a citizen but legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to become a police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations.
  3. Assault weapons ban registry: Gun owners must register banned weapons with the Illinois State Police by Jan. 1, 2024. After New Year’s Eve, assault weapons owners failing to register face criminal charges ranging from a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense up to a Class 3 felony, punishable by five to 10 years in prison.
  4. Indoor public vaping ban: Illinoisans found to be vaping indoors in a public space could face penalties up to $250.
  5. Abolish life sentences for youth offenders: Youth offenders under the age of 21 can no longer receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole. This will retroactively affect anyone currently incarcerated who was sentenced before they were 21.

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District 220 posts proposed 2024-25 BHS course offerings

Posted in 220, Agendas, Barrington Education Association, Barrington High School, Board of Education, Deception, Ethics, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, WTF on October 6, 2023| 1 Comment »

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“At the Oct. 3 Board meeting, the Board discussed BHS course offerings for the 2024-25 school year. Each year, the high school engages in a process to propose changes to the BHS course guide. These changes include new course additions, deletion of courses, and changes to titles, weights, audience, prerequisites, or course descriptions.

Click here to view a presentation that outlines this year’s proposed changes. The Board is anticipated to approve the 24-25 course offerings at its next regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 17. Click here to view the current BHS course guide. Click here to listen to the presentation.”

Editorial note: We suggest spending some time during a sleepless night reviewing these offerings. It’s enlightening and sometimes disconcerting. For example, why are there two (2) class on Gender Studies offered, but only one (1) in Civics?

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Multi-occupancy genderless bathrooms are now legal in Illinois

Posted in 220, 300, Barrington Education Association, Commodius Maximus, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, School Districts, Springfield, WTF on August 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Rep. Katie Stuart on the House floor at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield in 2020.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a measure that allows multi-occupancy bathrooms in the Land of Lincoln to be genderless if a business or public institution chooses.

State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, filed House Bill 1286. The new law allows for any multiple-occupancy restroom to be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom and designated for use by any person of any gender.

The measure follows a 2019 bill signed by Pritzker that made all single-occupancy bathrooms in Illinois gender-neutral.

The measure has led to pushback from Republican lawmakers over it being implemented in schools.

State Rep. Kevin Schmidt, R-Millstadt, told The Center Square that parents should be the ones to make these decisions for their children.

“It’s not the role of the school to be having those discussions,” Schmidt said. “It’s the role of the parents to be having those discussions. They [schools] need to stay out of it. They need to teach math, English, reading, the core subjects that we are failing in Illinois, and stay away from discussions such as that with children.”

Previous reporting by Wirepoints showed that in 2022, 53 Illinois public schools had no students who could do math at their grade level and that an additional 30 schools had no students who could read at grade level.

The report uses data from the Illinois State Board of Education and found that 18% of the state’s 3,547 schools have only 1 out of 10 students who are capable of reading at grade level.

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Pritzker enacts 45 bills, including creating all gender, multi-occupancy bathrooms

Posted in Commodius Maximus, Ethics, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions, WTF on August 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Unisex Rest Rooms

Another 45 bills are now law in Illinois after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced more legislation being signed Friday. One allows the creation of all gender, multiple-occupancy restrooms.

The governor separately announced the signing of two bills. One, House Bill 1378, creates the Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce, or iGROW Tech Act, his office said establishes a new program to allow students majoring in technology fields to receive tuition grants. Another, Senate Bill 1462, expands hospitality opportunities in the gaming industry for formerly incarcerated individuals.

In a separate email announcement, Pritzker’s office said he signed another 30 House bills and 13 Senate bills.

Among those is House Bill 1286, which allows for the creation of all gender, multiple-occupancy restrooms if they meet certain requirements like having stall dividers and proper signage. The measure takes effect immediately and is optional, not a mandate.

Another, Senate Bill 1782, creates a private right of action for child influencers against their parents that feature them in videos and did not properly compensate them, the governor’s office said. That takes effect Jan. 1, 2024.

See the entire list as provided by the governor here

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Pritzker vetoes bill that lifted moratorium on new nuclear power stations

Posted in ComEd Four, Commodius Maximus, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes on August 12, 2023| 1 Comment »

Nuclear Power Veto

Illinois’ moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction will stay in place for now after Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed a bill that would have lifted the ban.

The legislation would have invalidated a 1987 law that prohibited new nuclear power facilities from being built until a permanent waste storage option was made available.

“The bill is vetoed because the vague definitions in the bill, including the overly broad definition of advanced reactors, will open the door to the proliferation of large-scale nuclear reactors that are so costly to build that they will cause exorbitant ratepayer-funded bailouts,” Pritzker’s office said in a statement.

The bill specifically called for allowing the development of so-called advanced nuclear reactors such as the Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, or SMRs, that industry advocates have proposed to help meet the state’s emissions-free energy goal.

David Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service, said the state doesn’t need any more nuclear reactors.

“There would be competition now only for market share for the energy, but there would be severe competition to get that energy on an already overcrowded transmission grid,” Kraft said.

State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, said the governor is putting his own partisan political ambitions over what is in the best interest of the people of Illinois.

“The governor’s decision to veto Senate Bill 76 is a short-sighted mistake that will hurt our state’s future energy portfolio,” Rezin told The Center Square.

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Gov. JB Pritzker’s new assault on free speech – Wirepoints

Posted in Commodius Maximus, Deception, Ethics, Girlie man, News Media, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions on August 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Pritzker Friday On CNN.

“There ought to be a private right of action for anybody that’s dissuaded or told something that’s false, that’s the important thing. What they say to people, that’s fine, as long as what they’re doing isn’t deceptive. And we have laws against that. It’s fraud in our state and we’re going to prosecute people for that.” – Gov. JB Pritzker on CNN

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday put contempt for free speech on full display. The astonishing quote above is from a CNN interview where he was unequivocal that certain speech should be criminalized and the speaker sued when those in power deem the speech false.

CNN pressed him on the issue, giving him a chance to clarify, but he stuck to his position.

“You have a right to free speech, but you don’t have a right to lie,” he said. “You don’t have a right to use those lies to push people into situations in which they, frankly, are breaking the law or where they are unaware of what their full rights are. So, we need to make sure that people know what their rights are.” The CNN video is here and transcript here. Pritzker said much the same in an answer at the end of a separate press conference on Friday.

That’s preposterous as a general principle and completely at odds with established First Amendment law. Even falsehoods are protected speech – knowing falsehoods, too, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, subject only to narrow exceptions such as defamation. Those who opposed or supported masks to stop Covid had every right to voice their views, regardless of which was right. Hillary Clinton was legally free to claim Donald Trump was an “illegitimate” president, regardless of whether that was true. Joe Biden can say he knew nothing about his son’s business dealings, even if that’s demonstrably false. The list is endless.

That’s as the law must be. The alternative is authoritarianism. “The mere potential for the exercise of power [to censor what may be factually incorrect] casts a chill, a chill the First Amendment cannot permit if free speech, thought, and discourse are to remain a foundation of our freedom, Justice Kennedy wrote on behalf of the Supreme Court.

Today, it would be the U.S. Justice Department deciding what speech to prosecute and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul in Illinois. They’ve become notorious for politicized justice, and who knows who will be in charge next.

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E-cigarette use banned in public spaces under measure signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Posted in Girlie man, Pritzker’s Rules of Order on July 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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The 15-year-old Smoke-Free Illinois Act, which makes most indoor public spaces off-limits for smoking, now governs electronic cigarettes as well after Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law a measure that was approved with bipartisan support in the spring legislative session.

“Illinoisans deserve to enjoy public spaces without being exposed unwillingly to secondhand vapor and other electronic cigarettes byproducts,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Now, e-cigarettes and vapes will qualify under existing anti-smoking laws, reducing air pollution and making a more accessible, healthy Illinois.”

The act bans smoking in public spaces including a “portion of any building or vehicle used by and open to the public.” There are limited exceptions, including an exemption for the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont during meetings of tobacco manufacturers and suppliers.

Until Friday, these restrictions did not apply to electronic nicotine products such as e-cigarettes, e-hookahs, or vape pens.

E-cigarettes have become especially popular with young people for many reasons, including the variety of flavors and the lack of stigma associated with the product. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, “most e-cigarette users do not consider themselves to be smokers.”

While “cigarette smoking has declined dramatically among Illinois high school students,” between 2016 and 2018 “e-cigarette use in Illinois increased from 18.4% to 26.7% among high school seniors,” the IDPH reports.

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