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Editorial Final US House endorsements Budzinski Underwood King

10/22/2022 5:15:00 PM

The Tribune Editorial Board endorses Nikki Budzinski 13th Lauren Underwood 14th and Esther Joy King 17th for U S House

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The Tribune Editorial Board endorses Nikki Budzinski 13th Lauren Underwood 14th and Esther Joy King 17th for U S House For the U.S. House of Representatives, the Tribune Editorial Board endorses: Nikki Budzinski (13th), Lauren Underwood (14th) and Esther Joy King (17th). (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)AdvertisementAdvertisement(Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)“I don’t think that’s the best way to tackle college affordability,” Democrat Nikki Budzinski said during a candidates forum organized by Illinois Public Media this month. “I’m concerned about how we’d be paying for that type of initiative.” Budzinski thinks a better approach would be to allow students to refinance their loans the same way homeowners refinance their mortgages. That makes sense. U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood talks with students about mental health concerns at Neuqua Valley High School on April 18, 2022, in Naperville.Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood from Naperville likes to tout her track record for getting things done in Washington — and she should. Read more:
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WHCOS Biden strikes again. Another ally going… this guy is poison. House of the Dragon Isn’t Just a Game of Thrones Spinoff AnymoreA thrilling episode marks the moment when the show’s change of perspective actually starts making a difference. Oct 22, 2022 at 5:00 am Expand The U.induction stoves , and other devices that would replace appliances that use natural gas.“100%” Calacanis replied.In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, just shared with Secrets, likely voters expect the Republicans to win control of the House. S. Capitol at sunset on Sept. Representative Bill Johnson, a Republican congressperson from Ohio and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives, said in an interview that he had been discussing the issues with the gas industry and was eager to try to elevate them in the new Congress that convenes in January. 8, 2022, in Washington.. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP) This is the last installment of the Tribune Editorial Board’s endorsements for U. Johnson, who represents a part of rural southeastern Ohio that is a major source of natural gas.S. Among Democrats, the split is even, 42% agree and 42% don’t. House races in the Nov.” A rush to green agenda? Does Johnson have a functioning brain in his head? Is he aware that people in his area are suffering from more frequent storms, extreme heat, and punishing droughts that are directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels, or is he just a fossil fuel stooge who will do anything and say anything to keep the flow if campaign funds from the natural gas industry flowing, the health and safety of his constituents be damned? You decide.S. 8 general election. 12th District Advertisement After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, then President Donald Trump’s loyalists ginned up a lawsuit in Texas in a spurious bid to overturn Biden’s legitimate victory. Lauren Urbanek, a deputy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has pushed the shift away from natural gas, said she was not surprised the fossil fuel industry was preparing to team up with Republicans in the House of Representatives to push back. Many of Trump’s enablers in Congress signed onto a court brief in support of that half-baked effort, including U. government.S. “This is really about making sure they continue to exist as an industry. Most, by a 53%-44% margin, chose Election Day, though that was mostly a GOP preference as with past elections. Rep. Mike Bost, a Republican from downstate Murphysboro. The industry also argues that gas heat, particularly in very cold regions, can be less expensive on a monthly basis, an assertion that renewable energy advocates dispute. Treasury, that could change quickly. The U.S. Another consideration is that the cost of electricity does not fluctuate wildly from month to month or ever week to week the way natural gas and propane prices often do. Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit, but Illinoisans should never forget the cynical refusal by Bost and other Trump backers to accept that the former president was undeniably defeated. Advertisement But Musk has also parroted Russian talking points about the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Ukraine should allow Vladimir Putin to keep Crimea, an area the Russian autocrat illegally annexed in 2014. Bost’s Democratic opponent, Homer “Chip” Markel of Carbondale, is a retired Illinois corrections officer who needs political experience at the local level before making the jump to Congress. Known as the Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Furnaces, it would effectively ban new installations of traditional furnaces, which waste a significant amount of the natural gas they burn to make heat. Advertisement Bost has been this district’s representative in Washington since 2015, but we cannot back him in this race. No endorsement. One of the primary reasons to drive an electric car is that it converts up to 95% of the electricity in its battery into forward motion. Musk’s business with Twitter also includes foreign investors, something the White House is concerned about given the amount of data the social media company has on Americans. U.S. The Energy Department argues that this furnace efficiency rule alone would save consumers $30 billion over three decades and eliminate more than 363 million tons of carbon emissions. House District 13 candidate Nikki Budzinski at a campaign event at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Aug. After the Bloomberg story broke late Wednesday, one Twitter user commented that it would be “hysterical if the government stopped Elon from over paying for Twitter. 25, 2022.” Translation — they are unfavorable to the industry. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune) 13th District It’s not only the Republican candidate vying for this remapped downstate district who believes that Biden’s move to forgive college debt is a bad way to spend American taxpayers’ money. This is a version of the typical blather from reactionaries that the government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers in the commercial space, even if some of those losers are actively degrading the ability of humans to survive on the Earth. “I don’t think that’s the best way to tackle college affordability,” Democrat Nikki Budzinski said during a candidates forum organized by Illinois Public Media this month. “I’m concerned about how we’d be paying for that type of initiative. But House Republicans can make life miserable [think Benghazi and Solyndra here] by inundating administration officials with demands for documents and testimony.” Budzinski thinks a better approach would be to allow students to refinance their loans the same way homeowners refinance their mortgages. That makes sense. “She has managed to dodge questions when she’s been before a Democrat committee chair,” said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, an oil industry group. Budzinski’s resume includes working as Gov. J. She hasn’t really had her feet held to the fire. B. Pritzker’s senior adviser on labor issues, as well as chief of staff for Biden’s Office of Management and Budget. “They are going to be looking for the next Solyndra,” Ms. Her moderate views and strong experience should appeal to voters in this district, which stretches from East St. Louis to Champaign and includes parts of Decatur and Springfield. The Takeaway The reactionaries in Congress, especially in the House of Representatives, have made it clear they would rather promote the business interests of their major campaign contributors than the best interests of the people who elected them. She’s also staunchly pro-abortion rights and an advocate of gun control measures such as a federal assault weapons ban. Her Republican opponent, Regan Deering, is a Decatur philanthropist and granddaughter of the late Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas. Especially since the ruling the so-called Supreme Court, American government at all levels has been for sale to the highest bidder. Deering supported the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and doesn’t see a need for any new gun control measures in the wake of recent mass shootings in Highland Park, Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo.. “I think we have good laws on the books,” she said during the forum. Budzinski is the best choice for this district, and gets our endorsement. U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood talks with students about mental health concerns at Neuqua Valley High School on April 18, 2022, in Naperville. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune) 14th District Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood from Naperville likes to tout her track record for getting things done in Washington — and she should. Advertisement After joining Congress in 2019, she has gotten 10 of her bills signed into law, six during Trump’s presidency and four under Biden. One of those bills made lower-cost, generic insulin available to patients more quickly. She also has been accessible to residents in this west suburban district, holding more than 40 town hall meetings to better understand constituents’ concerns. She’s passionately pro-abortion rights, and calls the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol “outstanding. ” Her Republican opponent, Scott Gryder of Oswego, continues to dodge the question of whether he thinks Biden was legitimately elected president. He told us that “in the rush to confirm the election of Joe Biden by interested parties, evidence of election irregularities was not fully considered.” Gryder, who is chairman of the Kendall County Board, doesn’t do his party, or America for that matter, any favors by stoking doubt about the results of the 2020 presidential election. Our endorsement goes to Underwood. 15th District It would be hard to find someone more ensconced in Trump’s camp than Republican incumbent Mary Miller from downstate Oakland. On Jan. 6, 2021, she voted against certifying the election of Joe Biden as president, falsely claiming the results were marred by election fraud. She also called the House effort to investigate the insurrection on the Capitol on Jan. 6 a “sham,” and says the best way to combat authoritarian dictators is to “reelect Donald Trump.” That’s a ridiculous idea. // Miller’s opponent, Democrat Paul Lange, is a retired commodities broker from Quincy waging a grassroots campaign. We make no endorsement in this race. 16th District Advertisement When a politician makes a decision with potentially disastrous ramifications for American democracy, it can undermine everything else he or she has done in office. That’s the case with U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, a Republican from Peoria. We endorsed him in 2016, 2018 and 2020, viewing him as a principled, independent conservative who called out Democrats for spending recklessly and backed free and fair trade agreements that were good for farmers in his district. But like his downstate GOP colleague, Mike Bost, LaHood signed on to a court brief in support of a specious, last-minute effort by Texas to overturn the 2020 presidential election by invalidating Biden’s victories in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin based on unfounded claims of fraud. He also voted against impeaching Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. To his credit, on Jan. 6 he voted to certify Biden’s election as president, and told us that overturning the results “of the Electoral College would far exceed the power given to Congress and the vice president in the Constitution, establish poor precedent and usurp the will of the American people.” We commend him for that, but cannot countenance his decision right after the election to join in Texas’ amicus curiae brief. His opponent is Democrat Lisa Haderlein, a member of the far northwest suburban Harvard City Council who acknowledged to us that she doesn’t “have all the answers, but I am compassionate and hardworking. ” The Tribune makes no endorsement in this race. 17th Congressional District Republican candidate Esther Joy King welcomes volunteers to her campaign's headquarters on Sept. 15, 2022, in Moline. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune) 17th District Republican Esther Joy King, 36, says she can empathize with families struggling to endure the body blow delivered by rising inflation. She grew up in Juarez, Mexico, and for the first three years of her life, her family was homeless. She blames the Biden administration’s spending policies for the shape that the economy is in right now. “People in northwestern and central Illinois are struggling and all the administration can talk about is more spending,” she told us. Advertisement The East Moline lawyer’s impressive background includes working as an aid worker for women’s rights in Afghanistan and serving as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Her Democratic opponent, Eric Sorensen, is a 46-year-old former meteorologist from Rockford who supports federal codification of a woman’s right to an abortion and reforming Congress’ budgeting process to pare down the federal deficit. That’s good, but our endorsement in the 17th goes to the Republican, King. Join the discussion on Twitter .