* McCullagh is running against Meg Loughran Cappel in the district currently held by Democratic state Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant…
* From May 9th…
“All lives are essential, everything about our businesses is essential,” Shorewood resident and Republican candidate for state senate in the 49th district Tom McCullagh said during a speech to the crowd at a rally to support safely reopening Illinois businesses and industries during the coronavirus pandemic at Mason Square along Route 34 in Oswego Saturday. “We live in a state where every single person in it is corrupt, if you’re in the legislature,” McCullagh said.
* August 5th…
Republican state Senate candidate Thomas McCullagh isn’t buying Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stated reasons for threatening to move several counties backward in the fight to safeguard the state from COVID-19.
“I firmly believe he’s trying to show the worst impact of COVID that he can so he can get the federal bailout he wants to address all the state’s other problems, like pensions,” McCullagh told the Will County Gazette. “He’s trying to politicize the moment by using people’s suffering to get the bailout that he wants.”
* From his Democratic opponent Meg Loughran Cappel…
This speaks for itself. It is shameful that anyone, let alone an office-seeker, would share a stage with felon Rod Blagojevich after he tried leveraging our state’s highest office for personal gain.
* From Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady’s office…
“We were not involved in this event. I support President Trump and I support Tom McCullagh.
*** UPDATE *** ILGOP is not amused…
