Miller: “Our schools should be safe”

QUINCY — Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said “a breakdown of our culture…a breakdown of the home” is to blame for this week’s school shooting in Texas.

“Our country is founded on Judeo-Christian values,” Miller said before taking a tour of the John Wood Community College Workforce Development Center on Friday morning. “We’re not perfect, but we adhere to the Judeo-Christian values. We’ve been telling our children that they came from nowhere…and so we need to tell children they were created by God. God has given them a gift. They have a purpose here on Earth.”

Miller also attributed the COVID lockdown and open borders to the breakdown of the family.

“I think the lockdown was very unhealthy for our young people. even the open border,” she said. “Let’s face it, we have a drug crisis in our country. Over 100,000 of our young people died of drug overdoses last year and they’re flooded (with drugs). It’s flooding over the border. “

Miller voted against sending $40 billion to aid Ukraine and said that money should go to security at home.

“It sounds like this young man (the alleged shooting in Texas) came from a troubled home environment and was not stable,” she said. “He fell through the cracks. It sounds like there were all kinds of warning signs. But also, this was a soft target. My opponent (Congressman Rodney Davis) voted to send another $40 billion to Ukraine. We’re all about securing safety for other countries when our own schools aren’t safe.”

Miller and Davis both attended Thursday’s Adams County GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. Miller spent the evening in Quincy and was touring JWCC facilities in Quincy and the school’s Agriculture Center near Baylis. They are both incumbent members of Congress running for the same District following an Illinois Democratic gerrymandering.

“You know, we are really having some philosophical discussions right now,” Miller said of the primary. “That is very healthy to have. I appreciate that we live in a representative Republic and elections are an opportunity to hold our elected officials accountable. “