Ives extremist, ignorant, insensitive and dangerous for Illinois.

State Rep Jeanne Ives (R-42) keeps lowering the bar for outlandish solutions to improve Illinois. Last week at an anti abortion event she railed on against a legal, common, critically needed medical procedure asserting her goal is to eliminate every abortion on religious grounds. She's oblivious apparently, to other extremist religious views that would deny her needed medical treatment for any ailment based on its being against 'God's will'.

Yesterday, at a gubernatorial candidate forum, she laid Chicago's gun violence squarely on lack of impact fathers on at risk youth. Yet, Ives solution is simply to cut taxes, denying more relief in social services, education, neighborhood rebuilding and job opportunities that would employ missing dads, incentizing them to anchor the family unit. The righteousness of Ives' zealotry offers nothing to the millions of Illinoisans suffering mightily after three years of Governor Rauner's budget cutting heaping more despair in our poorest neighborhoods. Ives' callous remarks offended Democratic candidate Chris Kennedy who reminded Ives he grew up in a fatherless home due to gun violence, calling her remarks "stupid and ignorant" before walking off the dais to protest "someone who knows so little about so much, when other people have given these issues thought and have an emotional capacity to be empathetic at the same time." When reminded Kennedy's running mate Ra Joy's son was slain by a gun, Ives' speculated it was probably a fatherless kid. How helpful.

That's Jeanne Ives: extremest, ignorant, insensitive...and dangerous for Illinois.