Rep. Andrew Chesney | Rep. Andrew Chesney's Website
Rep. Andrew Chesney | Rep. Andrew Chesney's Website
State Rep. Andrew Chesney called on the governor to “let the public watch our loved ones play ball in-person safely.”
Chesney joined a group of bipartisan lawmakers and educators who urged Gov. Pritzker to increase crowd capacity at extracurricular events.
“Joining a bipartisan coalition of legislators and educators, I signed on to a letter to Governor JB Pritzker this past week requesting a loosening of COVID-19 restrictions at K-12 extracurricular events to allow for increasing audience capacity to 25%,” Chesney said in a statement. “While I favor much higher capacity thresholds, it was the art of compromise that allowed us to receive this sweeping bipartisan support and to communicate such unity to the Governor.”
Chesney said that not allowing larger crowds in school extracurricular activities is “another example of the politics trumping the science at the hands of this Democrat Administration.”
To his assessment, “this is yet another example of Governor Pritzker not following the science. More than the two-week incubation period has passed since sports were allowed with no major outbreaks.”
The call has a “bipartisan support because more legislators understand this Administration is not following the science as closely as those legislators would like to begin a safe return to normalcy,” Chesney said.
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