Incumbent
Occupation: State senator.
Education:
Additional experience:
1. What is your top legislative priority?
My top priority is to support and promote policies and programs that produce economic growth and job creation. When the economy is growing, many financial and social problems confronting the state and its various regions which are caused or aggravated by a depressed economy either disappear or diminish.
CHESTER R. HORNOWSKI/REPUBLICAN
Occupation: Chicago police officer, 17th District.
Education: B.O.G./B.A., General Studies, Northeastern Illinois University; candidate for Master`s, Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University.
Additional experience: Active member in Illinois National Guard; Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, decorated for bravery in combat, 1966-69; candidate for alderman, 1983; Reagan delegate to 1984 Republican National Convention; 35th Ward Regular Republican committeeman since 1984.
1. What is your top legislative priority?
We must provide more private sector jobs for Illinois residents. My top priorities will be to enact significant tax incentives for new or existing businesses that create new jobs and to change the regulatory climate to keep current jobs in Illinois.
2. How would you allocate funds for the following programs?
Lechowicz Hornowski
Probation services Increase Same
Prison programming Same Same
Elementary/secondary education Increase Same
Higher education Increase Increase
Emergency food/shelter Increase Same
Mental health Increase Same
Public aid Same Same
Job training/retraining Increase Same
Acquisition of natural areas Same Decrease
Mass transit Same Same
Highways Same Same
Toxic waste cleanup Increase Same
3. Do you support the following proposals?
Lechowicz Hornowski
Ballot proposal for merit selection of judges No Yes
Statewide handgun registration No No
Tuition tax credits Yes Yes
Equal pay for occupations of comparable work Yes No
Mandatory reorganization of school districts No No
Financial incentives for reorganization of
school districts Yes No
Decrease dependence on local property tax
funding for education Yes No
Increase state income tax No No
Increase reliance on user fees for state
services Yes
Cap utility tax rate Yes Yes
Increase personal exemption to
reflect inflation Yes Yes
Gender neutral insurance rates Yes No
Caps on legal liability settlements No Yes
Constitutional limits on taxes/spending Yes
Legislation requiring parent notification
of teenage reproductive health care Yes Yes
Right-to-know legislation on
hazardous chemicals Yes Yes
Mandatory recycling legislation No No
4. If further severe federal cuts are made in the following programs, would you favor increased state funding?
Lechowicz Hornowski
Income assistance
A. AFDC Yes No
B. Food stamps Yes No
Job training
A. Job Training Partnership Act Yes No
B. Work Incentive Program Yes No
Low-income housing
A. Construction Yes No
B. Rent subsidies Yes No
Education
A. Special education Yes Yes
B. Compensatory education Yes No
Mass transportation
A. Amtrak Yes No
B. Intrastate bus/rail Yes No
C. Urban mass transit Yes No
