“As I said in 2019 when the situation happened, part of what I learned was that as you deal with personal stuff, I don’t know how deep I’ll go into this part publicly but I was shuffling back and forth between Springfield,” Buckner said. “My father was at that point, we thought, on his deathbed. He ended up not dying until a few months later. And, you know, I learned kind of about … how to really handle stress and if you ever have to ask yourself if you should be behind the wheel the answer is just you shouldn’t. Just straight up like that.”
Illinois lawmaker Kam Buckner says he wants to move forward after pleading guilty to second DUI
