Full Text of HR1385 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois General Assembly is losing one of its | 3 | | own members - Illinois State Representative Mike Bost - to the | 4 | | United States House of Representatives; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was born and raised in | 6 | | Murphysboro; he and his wife, Tracy, have been married for 34 | 7 | | years and have 3 children and 9 grandchildren; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost grew up working for Bost | 9 | | Trucking, a small business owned by his father and uncle, doing | 10 | | everything from hauling coal to washing trucks on weekends; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost began his extensive and | 12 | | dedicated tradition to public service with his enlistment in | 13 | | the United States Marine Corps right after high school; he | 14 | | served as an electronic specialist and radar repairman, | 15 | | receiving an honorable discharge as a Corporal in 1982; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost graduated from the Certified | 17 | | Firefighter II Academy of the Illinois Fire Service Institute | 18 | | at the University of Illinois in 1993; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost served as a part-time and | 20 | | full-time firefighter for the Murphysboro Fire Department; he |
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| 1 | | has continued to serve the Murphysboro Fire Department during | 2 | | his 6 terms as State Representative on an as-needed basis; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was first elected to public | 4 | | office in 1984 when he was elected to the Jackson County Board; | 5 | | and | 6 | | WHEREAS, In 1986, Representative Bost served as President | 7 | | of the Jackson County Republican Boosters and Treasurer of the | 8 | | Jackson County Young Republicans; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost served as precinct | 10 | | committeeman for Murphysboro Precinct #4 from 1985 to 1989; he | 11 | | also served as Treasurer for the City of Murphysboro from 1989 | 12 | | to 1992 and as a Murphysboro Township Trustee from 1993 to | 13 | | April of 1997; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost was elected to the Illinois | 15 | | House of Representatives for the first time in 1994; since that | 16 | | time, he has had the privilege of representing southern | 17 | | Illinois in the Illinois House of Representatives; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Representative Bost currently represents the | 19 | | 115th District, which encompasses all or part of Jackson, | 20 | | Jefferson, Perry, Union, and Washington Counties and the | 21 | | communities of Anna, Ashley, Carbondale, Cobden, De Soto, |
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| 1 | | DuQuoin, Mt. Vernon, Murphysboro, Pinckneyville, and | 2 | | Vergennes; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, On November 4, 2014, Representative Bost was | 4 | | elected to the United States House of Representatives from the | 5 | | 12th Congressional District of Illinois; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 7 | | Representatives would like to thank Representative Bost for his | 8 | | 30 years of public service in the State of Illinois; the | 9 | | members of this body will miss the passionate speeches and | 10 | | floor debates that Representative Bost has shared with us for | 11 | | the last 20 years; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 14 | | we congratulate State Representative Mike Bost on his election | 15 | | to the United States House of Representatives and wish he and | 16 | | his family all the best in his future endeavors; and be it | 17 | | further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 19 | | delivered to Representative Bost and the members of the | 20 | | Illinois congressional delegation.
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