Years served: 2009 - Present
Committee assignments: Agriculture & Conservation; Aging; Appropriations-Higher Education; Fire Protection; Elementary & Secondary Education; Railroad Industry; School Transportation.
EDUCATION
Cavaletto voted against groundbreaking school choice legislation.
Cavaletto voted against SB2494 which would have given parents in underperforming Chicago school districts a voucher to cover educational expenses at nonpublic schools. SB2494 represented a lifeline to poor children who face bleak futures as a consequence of the awful and dangerous public schools in the City of Chicago. To read more about this disgrace - go here. (2010)
GAMBLING
Cavaletto voted to allow video poker at truck stops and VFW halls and to make it more difficult to regulate gaming operators.
Cavaletto voted for HB4927 - a controversial video poker bill that state gambling regulators fear will allow operators of illegal machines to stay in business throughout the state. The bill requires a felony conviction on gambling charges before regulators could deny a license to operate video gambling machines in Illinois. HB4927 further expands gambling by adding truck stops and VFW halls to the list of venues that will be allowed to have on-site video gambling machines that make payouts to patrons. (2010)
Cavaletto voted to allow video poker at OTB locations.
Cavaletto voted for SB744 allowing restaurants and bars attached to off-track betting locations to have video gambling machines. (2010)
REFORM (or the lack thereof)
Cavaletto desperately opposes a common sense reform that would once again allow ALL Republicans to directly elect the senior leadership of their own Illinois Republican Party.
Bost continues to keep rank-and-file Republicans from having the same voice all Illinois Democrats enjoy in their State Party. Cavaletto opposes SB600 - returning to the better system of direct election Illinois Republicans used until the late 1980’s. Illinois has been a “Blue State” ever since the change to the easily corruptible system Cavaletto dishonestly still protects.
Bost did nothing to help cleanse the Illinois Republican Party of the tainted National Committeeman Bob Kjellander.
Bob Kjellander could have been removed and replaced with an honest leader a lot earlier, if only Republican “leaders” like Cavaletto were serious about reform. Bost never joined the rank-and-file and more serious officials who overwhelmingly called for Kjellander’s immediate ouster. It’s only because Cavaletto and a tiny handful of other old guard faces refuse to unify on reform that even this simplest of clean-ups remain difficult to accomplish.
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