Senator Bill Brady

Senator Bill Brady has led the way in efforts to restore integrity to state government, to improve the state’s job climate, and to use taxpayers’ dollars for the good of all Illinois citizens.

A lifelong resident of Bloomington and a successful businessman in the real estate industry, Senator Brady has represented areas of seven Central Illinois counties in the Illinois Senate since 2002 and previously was elected to four terms in the House of Representatives. He is currently the ranking Republican on the Senate Insurance and Pensions committees and a member of the Revenue and Public Health committees.

He was a leader in the effort last year to defeat the Blagojevich tax increases, the largest state tax increase ever proposed in the history of this nation.

He fought for and passed legislation to protect children from sexual predators. He is the leading voice in the Senate for efforts to create a business climate that will attract hundreds of thousands of new jobs to the state. He also is a leader in the effort to reform our grossly underfunded state pension systems while safeguarding the retirement security of state employees, university faculty and teachers.

He is a primary sponsor of legislation – that the President of the Senate refuses to call – to end pay-to-play politics in Illinois, and he is sponsoring a Constitutional amendment that would give Illinois citizens the power to recall public officials.

He chaired former Senator Fred Thompson’s Illinois campaign for president because he shares Senator Thompson’s common-sense conservative beliefs in limited government, low taxes, respect for life and strong national security. Senator Brady was a candidate for Governor in our 2006 primary and has continued to travel throughout the state helping to build a stronger Illinois Republican Party.

A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, Senator Brady and his wife Nancy have three children, Katie, William and Duncan.

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Let the Buyer Beware

If you didn’t hear the Governor’s budget speech on Wednesday, here’s what you missed.

More borrowing, higher business taxes, more spending, selling off state assets, and more debt.

Of course, he didn’t talk about those things. There was enough smoke and mirrors in the Capitol Wednesday to rival the shows Elvis used to stage in Vegas ... Read More 

Senator Brady Urges Fiscal Discipline, Not Tax Increase

The public’s support for Governor Blagojevich’s $7.6 billion gross receipts tax has been underwhelming, and that’s good.

People get it. They understand it’s not the “big bad corporations” the governor likes to talk about that will pay; it’s the consumers in their communities – from South Beloit to Cairo, from Nauvoo to Naperville – who will pay the Blagojevich tax. An extra 10 cents for a gallon of gas, an extra $8,000 for a new home, higher property taxes, more for visits to their doctor’s office or an emergency room, higher costs for food products, cable television, electricity and their telephone service  ... Read More