Category: State Representative

State Representative

Allen Skillicorn: Memories of Bad Ideas

Lisa

I wrote about this on Facebook back in August and October 2016. Skillicorn here is looking at Underwood’s seat in 2020 I hear. Good time to dig this up and rehash.

August 30, 2016:
Here Skillicorn and friends are talking about turning public schools into CORPORATE charters. A “revolutionary idea”. PFT! Actually, Skillicorn sits mostly silent at his own townhall while Proft rambles on. Proft likes to refer to the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) for facts and figures.

See where it is going? Corporate run schools K-12 do not have to follow state education guidelines. They can choose their own books. Own curriculum. They still get your tax $$ while they groom your kids into good little worker bees. Chip away at teacher morale by imposing impossible test result expectations. They get penalized if test scores drop. Demoralize them and they will quit. Break up unions. Send it all into free fall then privatize it!

October 13, 2016:
I went to the League of Women Voters Candidate Forum at Jacob High School tonight. I wrote up a question for Skillicorn v. Zettler: Please explain their thoughts on charter schools especially how they align or differ from ALEC’s model. Skillicorn said he did not know what ALEC’s model is.

Did you see that video above?

He thinks charters lead to better ideas and he supports that. He referenced Khan Academy and my eyebrows hit the ceiling. Khan Academy is FREE. Geared towards a world class education.

 

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Allen Skillicorn Supporting the Crass Politicization of Religion

Lisa

Allen Skillicorn is working to simultaneously bring the GOP and Project Blitz playbooks to our district. He wants “In God We Trust” displayed in public schools. So much for the separation of church and state.

He filed House Bill HB3871 with the Clerk  on August 20.

I think, if this bill gets signed into law (which it probably won’t any time soon), that the motto should be displayed by mounting currency with the motto on it next to currency lacking the motto. This way it can encourage discussion and students can learn about the actual bigoted history of these four words.

 

 

 

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Representative Allen Skillicorn Mutes Constituents on Social Media

Lisa

In 2016, Justin Timberlake posted a selfie on his Instagram of him preparing to vote. This resulted in a torrent of news articles expressing concern that young voters might not know it could be illegal to take a picture inside their polling place. The same concern extended to ballot selfies. While not illegal in all states, both types of photography were, and still are illegal in Illinois.

During this nationwide awareness effort, Allen Skillicorn, then candidate for Illinois Rep 66th District, posted a picture of his ballot, inside his polling place, to his public FB page. I had a polite exchange with him about it and it was clear that he knew it was illegal. When he brushed it off citing pending legislation to change the law, I told him he was setting a bad example for young voters. Then Skillicorn muted me on FB. I am his constituent and I have been muted ever since.

This July I spoke to Representative Skillicorn at the Crystal Lake Independence Day parade. I asked him directly why he has muted me. I also asked if he received my emails on the subject.  He confirmed that he had. He went on to tell me that his FB is his private property and he could mute or block whoever he wanted.

I informed him that there is a case in which the ACLU has filed suit against a Governor on behalf of constituent who had been blocked on social media, and a Federal Judge recently upheld a ruling against Donald Trump for blocking certain critics on Twitter. I told Representative Skillicorn I would share info on these legal cases with him.

I am an elected Precinct Committee Person and I have a public FB page. On July 9 I posted articles to my public FB referencing the two legal cases for Representative Skillicorn. This is when I discovered that he had made comments on my public FB just a few weeks before. Representative Skillicorn apparently enjoys the freedom to post on my public FB page while he keeps me, a constituent, muted on his.