Today, with just three days left before Election Day, the family of Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, announced that he had personally endorsed Juliana Stratton for United States Senate. The reverend made his final endorsements and shared those preferences with the family before his passing in February. He is joined by his son, Yusef Jackson in endorsing Stratton.
Around two-thirds of the $2 million raised by Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller in the 2nd Congressional District race and two-thirds of the $2.55 million raised by state Sen. Laura Fine in the 9th District race came from people who had previously contributed to AIPAC or United Democracy Project, its affiliated super PAC, since 2023, according to a Tribune analysis that matched names and postal codes from early March campaign filings against the organizations’ own fundraising records. […]
In the 2nd District, which runs from the South Side to Danville, the super PAC Affordable Chicago Now has spent $4.4 million to support Miller. […]
Miller last month fired back at the AIPAC criticism, sharing a letter signed by 55 Jewish and Democratic leaders decrying “prejudicial rhetoric” and rejecting “the notion that Jewish civic participation or support for Israel should be treated as uniquely disqualifying.”
“How dare people think that Jewish people are only one-dimensional? They care about health care, they care about safe neighborhoods, they care about climate change,” Miller told the Tribune last week. “I have been on the forefront with all of those issues for decades. So for them to just put them in the box like, ‘You’re only this,’ is insulting.”
“We’ve hid nothing about my past convictions. And so, voters who are voting for me in this race are solid voters, because they don’t have any more questions,” [Jesse Jackson Jr.] said.
“People in my district know me. I represent, already, 27% of this district. I, also, the largest voting bloc population in this district is African American women over the age of 55; that’s me,” [Donna Miller] said.
“We have Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Working Families Party, a whole bunch of progressive labor unions and progressive groups that are doing work side-by-side with us. We believe we have the coalition that we can win on Election Day,” [Sen. Robert Peters] said.
* Back to CD9. Click here for a letter sent to the Skokie Jewish community on behalf of Sen. Laura Fine. Also, we posted this narrowly targeted mailer late yesterday, so you may not have seen it…
* Also…
A new super PAC has entered IL09, reporting $262K in spending to boost former FBI agent Phil Andrew. The PAC, Leading Democracy Inc., is largely funded by Wilmette residents, where Andrew lives. Phil Andrew is a moderate Democrat who complicates Laura Fine's path to win. pic.twitter.com/9Dx5nJXsB2
