One of the five Republicans asking for the party’s nomination in the Illinois House 105th District is Don Rients of Benson, Illinois. He says he’ll meet with anyone and listen to their views. But he’s fiscally and socially conservative and not quick to appease anyone with a compromise.
Rients says the state needs pension reform, but it shouldn’t cut any promised pension benefits.
Rients believes Chicago is running Illinois and he’d like to stop that.
He says more about his run for office in this interview: