Peoria Standard

Sen. Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) promised that the GOP will exert more effort in pushing for legislation that targets corruption.

In a news conference, she gave a brief overview of how Republicans were engaged in giving solutions to stop corruption through ethics reforms.

“One of the main issues our caucus focused on was fixing government corruption,” Tracy said. “We gave our ideas and fortunately they were heeded and listened to.”

She pledged that Republicans will remain focused and propose more solutions.

“Mark my words, we have much more work to do,” Tracy declared. “We are going to push for the ideas that didn't make it into this final (ethics reform) package.”

Tracy stressed that the caucus will “not give up on the need to enact stronger legislator-to-lobbyist revolving door (legislation) so that sitting legislators can't resign and become a lobbyist the very next day.”

“We will continue to advocate for the Attorney General ... to use a statewide grand jury to investigate, indict, and prosecute public corruption crimes so that we aren't always waiting for the federal government to come in, prosecute, and clean up our mess.”

Tracy serves as the Chairperson of the Legislative Ethics Commission.