Illinois primary has a few key races
So if one cares enough to look at primaries, Illinois is an interesting one. There are several state house seats that can move. There is also a governor seat that went Republican for the first time in 4 elections, and is now being pushed from both left and right.
Primary season is early, and Illinois could be a good thermostat on things to come in May.
Coming from someone who is not part of either party, both sides have the corporate candidate highly favored. In a country where we distrust our government and politicians get low ratings, society continues to vote in those who are already in power.
Let's change it all. This state is a start. With Open Primaries we can attack the parties from the outside.
Republican Incumbent Vs Right
Bruce Rauner incumbent
Bruce is a Republican who seems to have moved to the middle, at least according to his opponent. He started his 1st campaign based on cleaning up government with term limits, tech jobs to Chicago, and reforming education. He had a scandal brought up in his first election and now has a scandal dealing with getting his daughter into a select school that she did not qualify for due to absences.
Jeanne Ives
Jeanne is a Illinois house representative running on the fact that Rauner gave abortion rights to state employees and medicare recipients. She is running as a "true conservative" feeling that Rauner is too moderate. She is a former ROTC. She is quite a ways behind in most recent polls I could find, being an average of 20 points behind.
Democrat Millionaires Vs a Progressive
JB Pritzker
JB is a venture capitalist heir of the Hyatt Hotels. He is currently leading the primary polls with an eight point lead over both of the other Dems mentioned here. He calls himself a progressive, but speaks in platitudes and vague runarounds. He looks to bring tech jobs to Chicago but has several ties in healthcare, showing zero interest in medicare for all.
Chris Kennedy
This Kennedy is just that, a Kennedy. He has had several high level jobs in different sectors. He is running on the belief that no matter where you start, you deserve high level education and a shot at success. He has a long, well thought out platform, going into most issues with a concise direction for his state. However, he has now started attacking the progressive saying it could swing the party, so we will see...
Daniel Biss
Daniel is a state senator who is running on raising taxes on the wealthy and putting money into healthcare and education. He is a Harvard/MIT grad. He is endorsed by Lawrence Lessig (who ran on one issue, end Citizens United), and is Anti-Pac and for spending limits for campaigns.
US House Seats
There are several interesting racing in the primaries at the state level. The primary races I am concerned with are those of candidates whom are not tethered to corporate donors. There are 4 candidates who are running on clean money campaigns.
Marie Newman
3rd District Race. Against Corporate Democrat.
Sameena Mustafa
5th District Race. Against Incumbent.
Anthony Clark
7th District Race. Running against a long time seat Dem, whom is fairly progressive.
David Gill
13th District Race. Primary has 5 Democrats and no one primarying Republican incumbent. Who is one of the biggest PAC money recipient in all of congress.
Primary is Tomorrow March 20th.
I have my obvious leanings, but i can not vote in this state, or 48 others. So please share, remind friends and family, and get out and vote in your primaries. One can not complain about your surroundings if you do not participate in there creation.
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