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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmy sister won! some thoughts from a purple county.
my sister, sheila rutledge, ran for a county board seat in formerly solid red dupage county. there were 3 candidates for 2 seats.
my sister outworked the next vote getter, erica green, but the vote totals are pretty close in all. looking at the precinct totals, i can see where sheila campaigned, and where the erica did.
they were #1 & #2 on the ballot. the #3 candidate, a young man named john macguire, was the loser, a distant third.
the message? the women are coming for you, republicans.
although sean casten won the right to face peter ro-scum for the 6th cd, out of 7 candidates, 2 men and 5 women, he only got 35% of the vote. the other man got 2%, and the 5 women split the rest of the votes.
up and down the ballot here, women outperformed men.
it's a new day.
onward to november.
mcar
(42,293 posts)Congratulations to your sister!
JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)elleng
(130,834 posts)Been thinking of y'all!
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)suburban chicago area.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)ruiner is deeeeeply unpopular. jb has some baggage, but he also has some very deep support throughout the party.
he is a good guy, he has all the money in the world and is ready to spend it. i dont think anyone in the party has any grudges from the primary.
rauner took a beating in his primary. he barely squeaked by.
jb has run a really good, idea oriented campaign. he will continue to do that.
brucie is gonna get sent home bloody and a whole lot less rich.
Sampan
(121 posts)LAS14
(13,780 posts)I'm hoping more and more Dem candidates show up. Can I ask what generation your sister is in?
mopinko
(70,069 posts)she is a very young 61, and i am a very old 63.
LAS14
(13,780 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)i had a thread up yesterday that was full of good wishes for her. i read them all to her, and they really made her smile.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)dems pulled 10k more ballots yesterday than those other clowns.
80k to their 70k.
LAS14
(13,780 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)the bottom of the ticket matters, people. it really matters.
bluestarone
(16,894 posts)Happy for her!!!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)KT2000
(20,571 posts)Congrats to her and all of her hard work. Gives us all hope!
Civic Justice
(870 posts)malaise
(268,846 posts)You worked hard
askyagerz
(776 posts)lame54
(35,277 posts)StarryNite
(9,442 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)samnsara
(17,615 posts)diva77
(7,638 posts)Squinch
(50,934 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)to your sister, and please thank her (and everyone involved) for all their hard work!
mopinko
(70,069 posts)they have resurrected themselves from a party used to getting beaten badly to a force to be reckoned with.
it has been a joy to watch.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)That is fantastic news!
barbtries
(28,787 posts)yay
mucifer
(23,521 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)i'll buy you dinner.
mucifer
(23,521 posts)cp
(6,622 posts)And to you, mopinko, for cheering her on!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Stryst
(714 posts)Great news, congratulations.
shraby
(21,946 posts)sheshe2
(83,710 posts)Congrats to you and Shelia!
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)I'm so happy for all of you!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You must both be thrilled!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)She outworked and won. Hopefully you'll be able to offer some insights into county government now and then.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)in her plan to build a tiny house village for homeless vets and ex-offenders.
just getting started w this, but the county fair grounds is going to be available in 2 years.
druidity33
(6,445 posts)You might try to partner with them. Excellent folk doing good work. Just like you and your sister! Congrats! We're all looking forward to hearing of your adventures and travails in the coming months...
Cheers!
K&R
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to look into. I wonder if prices have come down to match mobile homes on or off foundations. We're snowbirds wintering in one and very comfortable. In any case,what a wonderful ambition.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Great Words,,,and wonderful work !!!!!! Kick and rec!!!!!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)this IS a new day. thank your sister and yourself.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)mopinko
(70,069 posts)i appreciate that.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)FakeNoose
(32,613 posts)spanone
(135,811 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)On to November!
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)ancianita
(36,014 posts)PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Thats fantastic news!!!
Upthevibe
(8,030 posts)That's wonderful.....
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,560 posts)It's a new day, all right!
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)This is good news.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)thank you sis.
dae
(3,396 posts)posts!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)LeftInTX
(25,205 posts)Women did very well in Texas primaries.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)Congratulations to you and your sister...and all Dems involved!
Tanuki
(14,916 posts)msongs
(67,381 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)If she has an ActBlue page, you might want to post it here.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)PoorMonger
(844 posts)So happy to hear this news. Gonna be thinking of you all in November!
Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)sandensea
(21,615 posts)And to all those who helped see her through to victory.
CaptainTruth
(6,582 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)DownriverDem
(6,227 posts)I can't believe I'm saying this: Now we need to realize that TOO many women running for the same seats split the vote and the other candidate usually wins. Strategy is our friend.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)all the candidates signed a pledge to drop out if they were not the top vote getter.
they only want one dem per race on the ticket in november.
sheila is going against 2 incumbents. in a vote for 2 scenario, they dont want to split the vote, just as you say.
tho i saw last night that, in the state, rethug votes were down, iirc, 19%, and dems were up 185%.
10k more dem votes in dupage county IS a blue wave.
ProfessorGAC
(64,963 posts)Anything to move DuPage away from having the NW Tollway named after that charlatan is a step in the right direction.
malthaussen
(17,183 posts)Local politics are where we really need to start making progress.
-- Mal
calimary
(81,181 posts)May this be a harbinger of Much MORE similarly outstanding news!!!
Hey, WE WOMEN are the real majority. EVERYWHERE. There are more women than men on this planet, and in this country. Seems to me a real democracy (yeah, I know...) would already reflect that fact.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)more women is good, whoever they are.
i know that many people in this race didnt even know who the candidates were. they just hit- woman, ok.
calimary
(81,181 posts)This may wind up being THE Year of the Woman. In November, anyway. How cool that your sister is part of it!!! Exultant!!!
mopinko
(70,069 posts)what a nightmare that would have been. 7 months of that nut on the teevee machine? dodged a big bullet there.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)Democratic primary, nearly double the number of Republicans. Candidates were fielded in areas where they were hard to come by in years past.
I lived in DuPage County for years, and know how tough it can be there. People are pissed. And demographics are changing in DuPage, too.
Congrats to your sister. Local government is very important to us.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/illinois-primary-democratic-turnout-477569543.html