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Former Illinois Congressman Phil Hare Endorses David Gill
Written by Andrea MillerHare said Illinois families need more progressive voices in Congress. “I trust David to be a passionate voice for middle- class people,” Hare commented. “I know David will protect the rights of workers. And who better than an ER doctor like David Gill to block the Republicans’ attempts to end Medicare as we know it?”
Barbara Lee Statement on the Trayvon Martin Case
Written by Rep. Barbara Lee
“The tragedy surrounding the senseless shooting death of unarmed, 17 year-old Trayvon Martin has pricked the conscience of our nation.
Jonathan Klate: A candidate's connection
Written by Jonathan Klate | Gazette.com
Retired Amherst gentleman John Kick is not known as a political activist. In the Springfield union hall where he ventured last October to hear Democratic senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, he might have seemed a world-weary citizen with vague curiosity about the professor turned politician.
But John's sorrowful demeanor and disconsolate eyes betrayed a woefully wounded heart. His son, Gabe, took his own life just a month earlier, at the age of 28. John keeps moving, somehow, in the dreadful private agony understood only by parents who persist in such an aftermath.
Bernard Schoenburg: Will Gill’s liberalism play in new 13th?
Written by Bernard Schoenburg | SJ-R
The November race in the new 13th Congressional District, which includes much of Springfield, is shaping up to be far different than some Democrats — like U.S. Sen. DICK DURBIN, D-Ill. — had hoped.
Gill is consensus Democratic candidate against Tim Johnson - most endangered Republican incumbent in the country
Written by Andrea MillerWith Jay Hoffman, James Gray & Greene County State’s Attorney Matt Goetten dropping out of the Democratic Primary in the 13th District (which the Cook Political Report ranks as a D+1 district), David Gill is the consensus Democrat running against Tim Johnson, who pollster PPP (the nation’s most accurate pollster) has just found to be - by far - the most endangered Republican incumbent in the country right now.
Macon County Democrats Unanimously Endorse David Gill
Written by Gill for Congress
Bloomington- Macon County Democratic Committeemen, including Macon County labor leaders, unanimously endorsed David Gill’s candidacy for Congress in Illinois’ 13th District last night. The vote was 50-0, with a weighted voted of the committeemen of greater than 3000-0.
Gill enters Democratic race to challenge Republican Johnson in new congressional district
Written by Chris Lusvardi | Herald Review
The first Democrat has announced plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson in his new district, and the two candidates are quite familiar with each other.
13th District still too close to call
Written by Cody Bozarth | My Journal Courier
The race for a U.S. representative for Greene and Macoupin counties has yet to be called with an incredibly narrow margin separating two candidates.
Gill challenges Goetten to 13th District debates
Written by Tom Kacich | The News Gazette
Accusing his Democratic congressional opponent of hiding in "a groundhog hole," Bloomington physician David Gill on Thursday challenged Matt Goetten to a series of six debates around the new 13th Congressional District
Gill declares victory over Goetten in 13th Congressional
Written by Staff Report | The Telegraph
Dr. David Gill declared victory Wednesday over opponent Matt Goetten in the Democratic primary election for Illinois' 13th Congressional District.
Gill made the declaration at 4:50 a.m. Wednesday.
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