Full Text of HR1549 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to honor our esteemed colleague, | 4 | | Illinois State Representative Careen Gordon, for her years of | 5 | | dedicated service to the people of Illinois and the Illinois | 6 | | House of Representatives; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Careen Gordon was born and raised in Morris; she | 8 | | is the youngest of the 3 children of her loving parents, Tom | 9 | | and the late Diane Gordon, from whom she learned the value of | 10 | | hard work, dedication, and giving back to the community; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon graduated from Morris | 12 | | Community High School in 1990; she went on to attend Purdue | 13 | | University and the University of Illinois, earning 2 bachelor's | 14 | | degrees in 1994; she returned home to begin practicing law | 15 | | after graduating from John Marshall Law School in 1998; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon began her career in public | 17 | | service as a prosecutor in the Grundy County State's Attorney's | 18 | | Office; she later served as an Assistant State's Attorney in | 19 | | Kankakee and Will Counties; due to her success as a local | 20 | | prosecutor, Gordon was recruited by Illinois Attorney General | 21 | | Jim Ryan to serve as an Assistant Attorney General in 2000; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, As a prosecutor, Representative Gordon fought on | 2 | | behalf of crime victims, working both to bring their attackers | 3 | | to justice and to ensure their victims' future safety; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon was appointed to serve in | 5 | | the Illinois House of Representatives in December of 2003 to | 6 | | complete the term of retiring Representative Mary Kay O'Brien; | 7 | | she was first elected to serve as the State Representative of | 8 | | the 75th District in November of 2004; she subsequently won | 9 | | re-election in 2006 and 2008; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon used her knowledge as a | 11 | | prosecutor to stand up for victims of violence and crack down | 12 | | on the most dangerous criminals in Illinois; she spearheaded | 13 | | legislation to require lifetime registration for the most | 14 | | dangerous sex offenders and fought to increase penalties for | 15 | | methamphetamine producers; she also worked to increase | 16 | | penalties for domestic abusers and routinely worked with law | 17 | | enforcement to make it easier to track, catch, and prosecute | 18 | | criminals of all kinds; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Growing up in a working family, Representative | 20 | | Gordon always understood the need to create and keep jobs in | 21 | | Illinois; she led the charge to restore important sales tax | 22 | | exemptions for manufacturing and trucking companies to help | 23 | | spur their growth and fought against attempts to increase taxes |
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| 1 | | and fees on businesses and individuals; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon made education one of her | 3 | | top priorities; she frequently brought home more money for | 4 | | rapidly growing schools in her district and worked to make sure | 5 | | that more education dollars were going into the classroom; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, During hard economic times, Representative Gordon | 7 | | led by example, repeatedly cutting her own pay and donating | 8 | | salary increases to charitable causes in her district; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Representative Gordon has worked extremely hard | 10 | | to provide the people of Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, | 11 | | and Will Counties with effective representation in | 12 | | Springfield; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 | | thank Representative Careen Gordon for her service to the State | 16 | | of Illinois and wish her great success in all of her future | 17 | | endeavors; and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to Representative Careen Gordon as a symbol of the | 20 | | esteem and respect we have for our colleague and friend.
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