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| NEWMAN: Will her 'time' finally arrive in 2020? |
Yet
Marie Newman is already thinking in terms of wanting to be like Mr. Smith and
go to Washington – where her goal remains the same as it was in 2018. She wants
to dump decade-long incumbent Dan Lipinski from his post on Capitol Hill.
NEWMAN,
WHO LOST to Lipinski by a narrow margin last year, has already begun her active
campaigning for office on the grounds that Lipinski is far too ideologically
conservative to represent a part of Chicago and surrounding suburbs in
Congress.
It
was the same strategy she tried employing the last election cycle – only to
have it fall short as long-time Chicagoans who remember back when Lipinski’s father,
Bill, was their representation in Congress stood fast and firm behind the Family
Lipinski.
He
won, no matter how much Newman reminded us over and over how Dan was amongst
the most conservative of Democrats in Congress. An abortion opponent, not a
backer of measures meant to reduce gun violence by restricting firearms access,
and the kind of guy inclined to think that focusing attention on protecting the
rights of gay people is a waste of everybody’s time.
About
the only thing that makes Lipinski line up with Democrats, rather than just
switch political party alliances, is that he can side with much of organized
labor and unions – at least up to the point when they start getting all floofy
on social issues.
IT’S
OBVIOUS THAT Newman plans to run her same campaign strategy, while hoping she
can make up the few votes she would have needed in the 2018 Democratic primary so
as to put her ahead – where she likely would have walloped Republican (alleged, that is)
Art Jones just as bad as Lipinski did in last year’s general election.
Hence,
the fact that Newman felt compelled to inform us Monday of all the endorsements
her second-chance campaign of 2020 has received.
EMILY’S
List (female candidates), Move On, NARAL (abortion), Planned Parenthood Action
Fund and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. It’s almost like an All
Star team of sorts of political activists who’d be inclined to oppose anything
ideologically conservative.
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| LIPINSKI: Is the 'old' Chicago alive? |
For
all I know, this puts the Newman campaign on an enemies’ list put together by
those people inclined to support this Age of Trump our society is now in. But
also on the side of those people who were in the majority who voted against
Trump in 2016 but could not generate enough of the Electoral College vote to
defeat him.
BUT
UNLIKE THE presidency, there is no Electoral College for members of Congress.
Newman will have to gain a majority of the vote in the Illinois 3rd
Congressional District come March of 2020 – if she’s to prevail at having a
shot at the Congressional seat.
And
seeing her endorsement activity, she’s certainly hoping that getting such an
early campaign start well before anybody is seriously thinking about the congressional
seats will give her the electoral advantage towards victory.
There
is just one thing – some people are inclined to think that Newman was a “sore
loser” when she was defeated by Lipinski. Or else they’re the ones ideologically
inclined to think that Danny is a remnant of the old days of the “Chicago
Machine” that made sense to their way of thinking.
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| Will Newman give us material for 21st Century sequel? |
CAN
LIPINSKI CONVINCE a majority of the congressional district’s electorate that he’s
still more aligned with their views – that he’s not too extreme to call himself
a Chicago congressman (even though he lives in suburban Western Springs)?
Or
has even the Chicago Sout’ Side that still worships the memory of Hizzoner himself Mayor Daley (the elder) progressed enough on social issues that Newman’s
“time” has come for “Mrs. Newman goes to Washington” to become a reality!
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