Orland Park, Illinois, Mayor Keith Pekau, who’s operating for Congress in opposition to Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL), mentioned President Joe Biden’s unprecedented pupil mortgage switch is “basically unfair” to working-class People throughout an look on Breitbart Information Saturday.
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Breitbart Information Saturday host Matthew Boyle started the interview by discussing the huge distinction in crime charges between Pekau’s Orland Park and neighboring Chicago. Boyle requested Pekau to speak about how he introduced crime down as Orland Park’s mayor and what the Democrat metropolis officers are doing improper in Chicago.
Pekau defined his “proactive” strategy to crime and policing in Orland Park.
Pekau mentioned, “We realized we needed to have a unique strategy, and so we grew to become far more proactive, utilizing expertise to establish license plates that don’t match their vehicles, license plates for stolen vehicles, these kinds of issues. And likewise, for each visitors violation, it’s wonderful how many individuals carry medicine mendacity of their automobile, proper? After which when that occurs, we will search the automobile. So we’ve been far more proactive about getting individuals off the road.”
Pekau additionally highlighted the distinction in how his metropolis handles proof in comparison with George Soros-funded Cook dinner County prosecutor Kim Foxx.
“And one of many key issues that we do is we course of all of our proof in home, or we use a non-public lab, so we get it again in 24 hours, versus the state, which is six months or a yr,” Pekau mentioned.
The dialog switched gears to Pekau’s congressional race, and Boyle famous that Pekau’s opponent, Rep. Casten, has co-sponsored anti-law enforcement payments and voted for “each single one of many main Democrat agenda objects over the course of the final two years.”
“So sure, as you identified with Sean Casten, and he voted in opposition to extending the ban on fentanyl federally, he voted in opposition to extending the Violence In opposition to Girls Act. And as you identified the George Floyd act, that voted for taking away certified immunity from law enforcement officials,” Pekau mentioned.
Pekau continued, He’s gone after law enforcement officials, he helps criminals, not the common citizen, and right here in Orland Park, and let’s face it, we’re not 90 % Republican, we’re most likely 55 % Republican right here, and we’ve 90 % help for our law enforcement officials and for the actions that we take as a result of you realize what Democrats, democrat residents, not democratic elected officers, however Democrat residents, they help the police. And that’s most likely a very powerful factor we do in Orland Park is we help our police.”
Pekau mentioned that Casten “is additional left” than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and “the Squad,” as a result of he votes in opposition to payments that they help.
Pekau additionally criticized Casten for claiming inflation is “zero” and that the nation is just not in a recession.
“In the event you assume we’re not in a recession and inflation is zero, when you can not acknowledge that an issue exists. How are you going to presumably clear up the issue?” Pekau mentioned.
Boyle and Pekau talked about how President Joe Biden’s unprecedented pupil debt switch negatively impacts working-class People.
“That is appalling, as somebody, and I’ll simply converse personally, as somebody who was the primary in my household to graduate from faculty that labored full time after which paid my pupil loans,” Pekau mentioned.
He additionally famous that he paid for his spouse’s and their youngsters’s pupil loans.
“And now the federal government’s gonna are available and say, ‘Oh, don’t hassle paying that again.’ Once they took out that, they knew what they had been doing,” Pekau mentioned. “And the entire people who took this debt out, they’re adults, they usually made these choices and also you’re asking different individuals to pay for the selections that that they’ve made,” he mentioned
Pekau added, “It’s unfair to people like us, it’s unfair to union employees, and other people put themselves via commerce colleges or an automotive tech faculty, they usually’re having to pay for it, or for people who find themselves like my mother and father and didn’t go to school however labored actually laborious in order that their youngsters, not so they might pay for his or her youngsters’ faculty, however so their youngsters had the values to go to school and use their intelligence as a result of it was one thing that was God given to them that they actually had a talent for and use that. And so they taught them to try this. And so they went out and did that, or they saved up the cash to assist these youngsters. Why ought to they should pay for different youngsters to go to school?”
Pekau additionally faulted Biden for unilaterally taking motion on pupil debt as a substitute of performing via Congress.
Pekau talked about how working-class residents of his district are historically Democrats however agree with him “on nearly each difficulty.”
“There’s plenty of commerce employees, plenty of union employees which have been historically Democrats,” Pekau mentioned. “However I can inform you that if I sit down with any of them, they agree with me on nearly each difficulty and don’t agree with Sean Casten on something, and it’s a operate that unites.”
Pekau referred to as on Republican candidates throughout the nation to talk nose to nose with all these voters and clarify the advantages of Republican insurance policies.
“The Republican Occasion must get in entrance of those individuals and clarify to them and get them to begin voting on the problems and never simply taking a look at somebody who’s Republican and say, ‘oh, we will’t vote for them as a result of we voted Democrat our complete life.’ Now we have to begin wanting on the points,” Pekau mentioned. “And I believe that’s taking place an increasing number of and extra. And I believe that’s essential, as a result of these insurance policies don’t assist the working class, they screw the working class.”
“They’re giving the individuals making $50,000 to $60,000 a yr, a working couple every making $50,000 a yr struggling. You’re struggling to save lots of for his or her youngsters faculty, they’re paying for another person’s faculty, however not solely that, they’re paying for wealthy individuals to purchase electrical Mercedes and electrical Tesla’s why? Why ought to they be funding their toys?” Pekau mentioned.
“I don’t care when you’re 18-years-old, you’re younger, you continue to must make higher choices and it’s good to honor your debt,” Pekau concluded. “Nobody’s saying that you just shouldn’t pay your mortgage. Nobody’s saying that you just shouldn’t pay your auto loans. I’m positive that the Democrats begin saying that too. However I believe you are taking off the debt. You’ve made the choice. You must pay it again.”
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Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart Information. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or observe him on Twitter.
