The 59th Legislative District winds from south of Lake Cook Road in Wheeling all the way up to parts of Waukegan. One could say it was gerrymandered ("Terry-mandered?") to benefit the State Senator who designed it (being one half of the 30th Senate District), Terry Link, by diluting the imapct of some GOP-favored areas in the 59th like Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Mettawa, with more Democratic strongholds like Waukegan.Today, the Daily Herald came out for Green Oaks attorney Dan Sugrue, who ran for this seat in 2008, when popular incumbent State Rep. Kathy Ryg made this quite a challenge.
Sugrue wins the Daily Herald endorsement for his plan to attack Illinois' financial mess by cutting most state spending by 10 percent, eliminating commissions like the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, reforming the state employee pension and Medicaid systems, and reining in education and correctional spending.
Now the battlefield is a little different, with Ryg having resigned this year to take an executive director position with a public interest organization, and the Dems nominating businesswoman Carol Sente to the post. Buffalo Grove Mayor Elliot Hartstien, who had indicated his desire to be apppointedm wasn't taking that lying down, so he is running against Sente in the Dem primary.
Hartstein, not Sente, was endorsed by the Herald on the Dem side, and a Hartstein win would make Sente a lame duck, which would set up a battle for a truly open seat.
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it will also be interesting to see if Sugrue can build an organization and raise any $$. A couple things he has been unable to do over the course of the last 13 months.
Congratulations Dan!
Great job -you earned it buddy!
Sugrue is a solid dude. He was willing to hold the mantle for the GOP in 2008 and should be rewarded for doing so now.
Congratulations, Dan!
I for one am tired of the "wisdom" of the HRO. How's that working out for ya? Dan is a quality candidate who carried water in 2008and works his tail off. He will be a fine State Rep even without the HRO and in fact a step in the right direction.
If Segrue doesn't have any money in the bank when the reports come out then he is toast. He needs a bank of at least 50 g's. Maybe the previous commenter could help him out if he/she doesn't think HRO is worthy of supporting the guy.
No matter what happens to Sugrue this year, I pray when Mike Madigan draws the legislative map next year he puts him in the same district with that weasel Eddie Sullivan. Congratulations on your endorsement Dan!!
Anon 2:28,
I fully expect a primary challenge and/or redrawn to a less than advantageous district should I win in November. The likelihood of Dan and I being put in the same district is fairly remote. If you are going to attack me at least make sense.
I am not going to get into a discussion as to why I have supported a candidate other than Dan. Certainly not with someone that is posting anonymously in their underwear from their parents basement. I will give you a glimpse of the statistics of the district. In the last Governors race there were 26,648 ballots cast with 16,082 coming out of Vernon Township. Vernon Hills is the gorilla in the room when we talk about turnout. I hope you can put two and two together and read between the lines.
Rep. Ed Sullivan
To the moron post referencing the desire to have Sugrue and Sullivan drawn into the same district please try to figure out what would happen if you got your wish. The district would have to be drawn as such that Sugrue would be fingered into Sullivan’s district. You see Sugrue is on the boarder of the 59th and 51st while Sullivan is in the heart of his district. I doubt Sullivan is worried.
Also, if you are truly a Sugrue supporter why are you trying to bait people into talking about your candidates deficiencies? Foolish.
Serioulsy? the argument for Sugrue is that he ran last time (got 35%) so he must be the candidate this time. Sounds like the argument for Dole (with an e) in 1996. How did that work out for us? If Sugrue wins the primary, so be it. but make no mistake. he has a lot of ground to cover before he can take on the dems.
Hartstein will be the next Rep from the 59th district. Sente is running an active campaign, but he knows everyone that there is to know in that area and no one has a bad word to say about him. Sugrue will cruise to the GOP nomination, but he will be lucky to even be close to Hartstein come November
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