MEET CRAIG
THE FISCAL CHAMPION FOR DEKALB COUNTY BOARD
I am an Army Veteran who served multiple tours in Iraq as a combat medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 25th Infantry Division. I will be graduating from Northern Illinois University in the spring, with a Bachelors of Arts in Public Administration and will continue to pursue my Masters degree in Public Administration. I am a proud father of my beautiful 8 month year old daughter named Aubree.
Since leaving military service in 2011, I have witnessed firsthand the damages of big government utopianism and out of control spending. The fallacy of central planning is not about rationality and reason. It is not about knowledge and experience. It is about illegitimately exercising power over others. It is about the coercive imposition of an impossible utopian ideal, one that is complex and ambiguous; fixed and elusive; comprehensive and piecemeal; abrupt and gradual.
I intend on being a voice of Constitutional Republicanism on the DeKalb County Board. I am for reining in out of control spending. I am for downsizing government to save the taxpayers' money throughout the county. I do not believe in raising property taxes, especially when the value of property is decreasing. I am for a comprehensive review of our county's budget by an independent agency outside the "good ol' boy" system curently used by some of our board members. Finally, I wish to review the efficiency of every department within the county to determine the level of effectiveness and find ways to cut waste and spending. As a county, we should not recklessly spend our savings and raise taxes in order to fulfill self-interested projects.
Please join in restoring our founding principles to DeKalb County. It will take everyone's input and commitment to make this a reality.