Following the emergence of blistering details in the report about the deadly COVID-19 outbreak in LaSalle Veterans Home, Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) joined his fellow Republican lawmakers in asking for accountability.
Republicans say the tragic loss of the veterans was a result of incompetence and lack of leadership, and as such there are people who should be held accountable.
“There has to be more accountability for the loss of 36 of our valued heroes who were entrusted in this home,” Durkin said as he reminded the House of the famous quote the buck stops here made by former President Harry Truman.
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By Benjamin Cox on May 7, 2021 at 9:59am
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he wouldn’t have hired a person to run the Illinois Veterans Department if he knew then what he knows now.
The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs released a scathing report on the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans Home that took the lives of 36 people. Pritzker says new acting director Terry Prince and IDVA have begun taking corrective actions at the facility. Pritzker said he called for the report and investigation at the LaSalle home because he felt that the citizens of the state deserved to know what happened.
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