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 scholar mortgage switch is “basically unfair” to working-class Individuals 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 fallacious in Chicago.
Pekau defined his “proactive” method to crime and policing in Orland Park.
Pekau mentioned, “We realized we needed to have a special method, and so we turned way more proactive, utilizing know-how to establish license plates that don’t match their automobiles, license plates for stolen automobiles, these varieties of issues. And likewise, for each site visitors violation, it’s superb how many individuals carry medication mendacity of their automobile, proper? After which when that occurs, we are able to search the automobile. So we’ve been way more proactive about getting folks off the road.”
Pekau additionally highlighted the distinction in how his metropolis handles proof in comparison with George Soros-funded Prepare 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 personal lab, so we get it again in 24 hours, versus the state, which is six months or a 12 months,” 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 gadgets 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 Towards Girls Act. And as you identified the George Floyd act, that voted for taking away certified immunity from cops,” Pekau mentioned.
Pekau continued, He’s gone after cops, he helps criminals, not the typical citizen, and right here in Orland Park, and let’s face it, we’re not 90 p.c Republican, we’re most likely 55 p.c Republican right here, and now we have 90 p.c assist for our cops and for the actions that we take as a result of you understand what Democrats, democrat residents, not democratic elected officers, however Democrat residents, they assist the police. And that’s most likely an important factor we do in Orland Park is we assist 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 assist.
Pekau additionally criticized Casten for claiming inflation is “zero” and that the nation just isn’t in a recession.
“Should you suppose we’re not in a recession and inflation is zero, should you can not acknowledge that an issue exists. How are you going to probably resolve the issue?” Pekau mentioned.
Boyle and Pekau talked about how President Joe Biden’s unprecedented scholar debt switch negatively impacts working-class Individuals.
“That is appalling, as somebody, and I’ll simply communicate personally, as somebody who was the primary in my household to graduate from school that labored full time after which paid my scholar loans,” Pekau mentioned.
He additionally famous that he paid for his spouse’s and their kids’s scholar loans.
“And now the federal government’s gonna are available and say, ‘Oh, don’t trouble paying that again.’ After they took out that, they knew what they had been doing,” Pekau mentioned. “And the entire those that took this debt out, they’re adults, and so they made these choices and also you’re asking different folks 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 staff, and other people put themselves by means of commerce colleges or an automotive tech faculty, and so they’re having to pay for it, or for people who find themselves like my dad and mom and didn’t go to varsity however labored actually laborious in order that their youngsters, not so they might pay for his or her youngsters’ school, however so their youngsters had the values to go to varsity and use their intelligence as a result of it was one thing that was God given to them that they actually had a ability for and use that. And so they taught them to do this. And so they went out and did that, or they saved up the cash to assist these youngsters. Why ought to they need to pay for different kids to go to varsity?”
Pekau additionally faulted Biden for unilaterally taking motion on scholar debt as a substitute of appearing by means of Congress.
Pekau talked about how working-class residents of his district are historically Democrats however agree with him “on virtually each challenge.”
“There’s quite a lot of commerce staff, quite a lot of union staff which were historically Democrats,” Pekau mentioned. “However I can let you know that if I sit down with any of them, they agree with me on virtually each challenge and don’t agree with Sean Casten on something, and it’s a operate that unites.”
Pekau known as on Republican candidates throughout the nation to talk nose to nose with some of these voters and clarify the advantages of Republican insurance policies.
“The Republican Get together must get in entrance of those folks and clarify to them and get them to start out voting on the problems and never simply somebody who’s Republican and say, ‘oh, we are able to’t vote for them as a result of we voted Democrat our complete life.’ We have now to start out trying on the points,” Pekau mentioned. “And I feel that’s taking place an increasing number of and extra. And I feel that’s important, as a result of these insurance policies don’t assist the working class, they screw the working class.”
“They’re giving the folks making $50,000 to $60,000 a 12 months, a working couple every making $50,000 a 12 months struggling. You’re struggling to avoid wasting for his or her youngsters school, they’re paying for another person’s school, however not solely that, they’re paying for wealthy folks to purchase electrical Mercedes and electrical Tesla’s why? Why ought to they be funding their toys?” Pekau mentioned.
“I don’t care should you’re 18-years-old, you’re younger, you continue to must make higher choices and you could honor your debt,” Pekau concluded. “Nobody’s saying that you simply shouldn’t pay your mortgage. Nobody’s saying that you simply shouldn’t pay your auto loans. I’m positive that the Democrats begin saying that too. However I feel you’re taking off the debt. You’ve made the choice. You could pay it again.”
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Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart Information. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or comply with him on Twitter.
