Incumbent
Occupation: State Representative.
Education: Illinois State University, Business Administration, B.S.;
Lewis University, Social Justice, M.S.
Additional experience: State representative, three terms; Cook County State`s Attorney, Investigator, eight years.
1. What is your top legislative priority?
Overall improvement of our educational system, elementary, secondary and college. I`m also interested in some much-needed housing for low- and moderate-income people.
GEORGE JOHNSON – REPUBLICAN
Occupation: Security guard, martial arts instructor.
Education: High school, attending Morton College.
Additional experience: Boy Scout master, entrepreneur, accounting, martial arts, architectural engineer.
1. What is your top legislative priority?
To stop crime in the streets. To stop drugs dealt in the streets. To seek job training for those who need it so they will be able to support themselves and their families. To seek representation for the people, not only the taxation.
2. How would you allocate funds for the following programs?
Turner Johnson
Probation services Increase Increase
Prison programming Increase Increase
Elementary/secondary
education Same Increase
Higher education Same Increase
Emergency food/shelter Increase Increase
Mental health Increase Increase
Public aid Increase Increase
Job training/retraining Increase Increase
Acquisition of natural areas Same Decrease
Mass transit Increase Increase
Highways Same Increase
Toxic waste clean-up Same Increase
3. Do you support the following proposals?
Turner Johnson
Ballot proposal for merit selection of
judges Yes Yes
Statewide handgun registration Yes Yes
Tuition tax credits No Yes
Equal pay for occupations of comparable
work Yes Yes
Mandatory reorganization of school
districts Yes Yes
Financial incentives for reorganization
of school districts Yes Yes
Decrease dependence on local property
tax funding for education Yes No
Increase state income tax Yes No
Increase reliance on user fees for state
services Yes Yes
Cap utility tax rate Yes Yes
Increase personal exemption to reflect
inflation Yes Yes
Gender neutral insurance rates Yes Yes
Caps on legal liability settlements No Yes
Constitutional limits on taxes/spending No Yes
Legislation requiring parent notification of
teenage reproductive health care No Yes
Right-to-know legislation on hazardous
chemicals Yes Yes
Mandatory recycling legislation Yes Yes
4. If further severe federal cuts are made in the following programs, would you favor increased state funding?
Turner Johnson
Income assistance
A. AFDC Yes
B. Food stamps Yes
Job training
A. Job Training Partnership Act Yes Yes
B. Work Incentive Program Yes Yes
Low-income housing
A. Construction Yes Yes
B. Rent subsidies Yes
Education
A. Special education Yes Yes
B. Compensatory education Yes Yes
Mass transportation
A. Amtrak Yes No
B. Intrastate bus/rail Yes No
C. Urban mass transit Yes Yes
