Doug Truax in Survey of 2014 Senate campaign websites

On Education: Allow parents and students more choices

On Immigration: Secure the border, but wary of comprehensive solutions

On Principles & Values: Unalienable rights are granted by God, not by government

On Gun Control: Hearings on "Stand Your Ground" laws don't address issue

Truax said. "While Chicago continues to be a shooting gallery where our children are murdered every night, Dick Durbin holds ideological hearings in Washington that have no bearing on the root causes of the killings."

Truax said as senator he will address the root causes of inner city violence: lack of jobs, lack of quality education, a growing dependency class, and family breakdown. "We can talk around this important issue or we can try to solve it," Truax said. "Dick Durbin is the master at avoiding the hard truths we must confront if we are to save precious lives."

On Health Care: ObamaCare is a disaster based on ideology

Truax, whose successful business provides health care consulting services, noted that ObamaCare is already wreaking havoc on the middle class in Illinois and the rest of America.

"These are just a few of the thousands of Illinoisans already learning first-hand how ObamaCare is a disaster," Truax said. "These folks were happy with their health care and now they are being forced to pay significantly more. This is a hardship for many Illinois families."

"President Obama and Democrats like Dick Durbin forced a partisan trainwreck of a plan on America without a single Republican vote," noted Truax. "There were plenty of good ideas Obama and Durbin ignored in order to please his ideological base and ramrod the legislation through Congress."

On Government Reform: Return to Confidence: stop expanding federal government

That's a lot to be confident about. However, during the last six years, we have been shoved from one manufactured crisis to the next that all have the same root cause: an overly intrusive, arrogant, forever expanding federal government.

What our country desperately needs is to get back to limited government, get our financial house in order, get the government out of the private sector's way, and "We the People" will return America and then the world back to confidence. Those of us of voting age still remember what that looks like. It can be done...if we have the right people working for us in Washington.

On Crime: Justice means making sure wrong gets punished

The Rule of Law:With the rule of law, we can be sure that what is lawful today will be lawful tomorrow. Without the rule of law, might makes right and the individual gets crushed.

Personal Responsibility: With personal responsibility, we feel the dignity of hard work and success or the sting of personal failure. Without personal responsibility, little by little, entitlements steal our sense of self-worth.

On Free Trade: Market-based competition instead of bureaucratic decisions

Freedom: With freedom, we can make the choices that benefit our situation as an individual, a family, and a community. Without freedom, our choices are limited by people who have consolidated power around themselves in far off places.

Fairness:With fairness, we know that our effort or lack of effort will be rewarded or discouraged appropriately. Without fairness, the results of our efforts become arbitrary and based on the shifting standards or those that currently hold power.

On Government Reform: Without accountability & transparency, power corrupts

Transparency:With transparency, outcomes can be measured and evaluated for their effectiveness or lack thereof. Without transparency, those with the most money find ways to hide poor results so they can get more money from the system.

Accountability: With accountability, we become confident in our processes and leaders because we know that results will be measured. Without accountability, power corrupts.

On Homeland Security: Learned about duty, honor and country at West Point

He began a successful private sector career as a rising manager who aspired once again for the American dream--starting his own business. Doug beat the odds by launching his business just before a recession devastated the economy...and succeeded. Today, he is co-owner and managing partner of Oak Brook-based Veritas Risk Services, LLC, a strategic risk consulting firm that empowers employers in controlling their healthcare costs, benefits, retirement plans and business risk.