WHO IS JANET ROHR?
As a mother, school board member, and
businesswoman, Janet Yang Rohr is a committed leader who will fight to reduce
the tax burden facing hard-working families, increase access to health care,
and put the needs of the residents of the 41st House District first and
foremost.
Janet grew up in Naperville, where she met her husband, Dan. They decided to raise their three kids in Naperville because of its strong community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Economics from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is currently the Director of Global Data at investment data and research firm, Morningstar.
Janet joined the Naperville District 203 School Board in 2017 to ensure that all students have the opportunities they need to be successful. There, she used her business background to lower and abate property taxes and debt service levies by millions of dollars, while expanding the early childhood education and other programs that will help all students succeed.
Whether it has been on the school board or with other similar organizations, Janet uses her business and finance experience to push forward each group's goals and missions in measurable ways that use resources wisely.
As
state representative, Janet will use her commonsense mindset and drive for
practical solutions to get things done on behalf of all community members of
the 41st District.
AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE
Janet believes
health care is a right, not a privilege. She will take on insurance and
pharmaceutical companies and fight to put
patients ahead of corporate profits and guarantee high-quality, affordable
healthcare for all.
She will take on the
insurance lobby to protect coverage for individuals with pre-existing
conditions, stop double digit premium increases, and rein in out-of-control
prescription drug costs.
LOWER TAXES
As
a school board member who fought to deliver property tax relief for local
families, Janet knows we need to fundamentally reform the broken property
tax system that slams families with higher taxes every year. She will fight
for new funding for local schools to ease the burden on local property
taxpayers, and go further by creating an annual property tax rebate for local
families.
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
Janet believes we have a moral obligation to
future generations to do our part in averting global climate disaster. She will
work to provide more state-level incentives for
businesses, individuals, and municipalities to go green, while moving
more of our state resources--buildings, cars--in the same direction. She will
also work to invest in green jobs and green
technology that will not only have a positive impact on our environment, but
create good-paying jobs in economies of the future.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
As
a wife and working mother, Janet knows women deserve better than extreme
politicians who put women’s health and rights at risk. She will fight
to protect funding for Planned Parenthood, demand equal pay for equal
work, and defend a woman’s right to choose - no matter what extreme
Washington politicians do.
She
will demand funding needed to test every rape kit and clear the backlog that
has allowed violent predators to escape justice and to invest in
domestic violence shelters and in mental and physical healthcare for survivors.
QUALITY EDUCATION
The same big banks that
pocketed billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts are now locking
Illinois students into a lifetime of college debt. As a working mother and
volunteer on her local school board, Janet knows it’s time Washington
politicians stop bailing out Wall Street and start providing real relief to
those who need it most. As representative, she will fight for affordable education for students in our public colleges,
universities, and trade schools.
GOOD GOVERNMENT
Janet isn’t a politician. She’s
a working mother and business leader who's held accountable for delivering
results. She is outraged by the crooked self-dealing behavior of politicians
who put their own interests ahead of their constituents. She will fight to strengthen criminal penalties on politicians who commit
egregious acts of misconduct, strip pensions from any politician charged with a
felony, and crack down on insider lobbyists who make millions
trying to influence government and rig the system for the wealthy and well
connected.
Janet Yang Rohr is running against Grant Wehrli. What has Wehrli accomplished as the current Illinois State Representative?
ReplyDelete"He has denied health care to people with pre-existing conditions; he has stripped health care from 1.6 million children; he has opposed stronger background check on guns; he does not oppose the sale of bump stock modifications on weapons; he has protected loopholes that criminals have used to obtain military-grade weapons; he has eliminated funding for Meals on Wheels for the elderly; he has slashed funding for in-home health care options; he has blocked funding for rape kit testing; he has defunded lifesaving breast cancer screenings for tens of thousands of women; he has slashed funding for domestic violence shelters..." (from the Democratic Party of Illinois).
It is true most politicians, like Grant Wehrli, do not concern themselves with the examination of evidence, the real causes of the state’s financial problems, and the best solutions for crucial issues. They are concerned about their party’s agenda, their reputation and re-election, and maintaining their power and influence in their communities. To accomplish this, they like to use simple power-point slides that deliberately omit significant causal explanations for the state’s lack of revenue and pension debt that were caused by incompetent, irresponsible and corrupt politicians. This has been Wehrli's modus operandi.
ReplyDeleteThey like to cast the issue of teacher pensions, for instance, as an object of their bias to elicit mindless, hair-trigger responses from their supporters. They will not talk about how politicians have stolen public employees’ pension money over the decades to pay for the state’s needed services. They will not talk about the faulty back-loaded pension ramp that has increased the service debt to eighteen percent of the state’s budget.
Most politicians do not provide relevant and accurate scrutiny of the issues at a town meeting because they prefer to use fallacious reasoning when alluding to their favorite scapegoat. They prefer to denigrate teachers’ pensions and cost-of living-adjustments instead through use of biased selected instances that falsely extrapolate a particular pension amount of one member to all group members. But they do make it quite evident to their audience that the State of Illinois should not have upheld its constitutional contract with public employees through their not-so-subtle asides about the Illinois Supreme Court Ruling on May 8, 2015, however.
Indeed, most politicians have no qualms about hurting the lives of people who are not responsible for the state’s lack of revenue and pension debt because most politicians do not view their own conduct from a standpoint of values and interests of those they hurt. They do not want to talk about legal and moral ways to increase the state’s revenue. “We must have reform first before we restructure revenue,” they tell us.
Undoubtedly, they prefer to isolate and offer up the middle-class for hardship and create a dispossession by way of intentionally-diminishing laws when they tell us they support a plan that advocates violating the Illinois Constitution once again through pension reform, a plan that creates so-called “empowerment zones” to diminish collective bargaining rights under the guise of “giving local communities a voice,” a plan that will allow municipalities to file for bankruptcy, a plan that will prohibit only labor organizations from making contributions to campaigns of office holders and ban union agency and fair share fees, a plan that will cut unemployment compensation and benefits for injured workers, a plan that will take six and one-half years to reach a $10 minimum wage for millions of workers while perpetuating special exceptions and windfalls for wealthy benefactors.
Most politicians do not care about what is legally and morally right. They do not care about obligations to others – about the fair distribution of the tax burden, about constitutional guarantees, about demanding more for public employees, retirees, and union workers than they are willing to demand for themselves and their wealthy accomplices.
I attended Wehrli's town hall meetings in the past. I also met with him in his office to discuss why he sponsored an amendment to Article XIII, Section V of the Illinois Constitution: an amendment to impair and diminish teachers' pensions. Unfortunately, he is beholden to his wealthy lobbyists.