The Daily Heald joins Establishment Democrats in endorsing State Senator Laura Fine for Congress.
The paper notes that the 9th District is so gerrymander toward the Democratic Party that the primary winner will be the next Member of Congress.
All of Algonquin Township is in the 9th District. My home in Lakewood is almost at the northwestern tip of the district.
Here is the Daily Herald’s pitch
“…our choice is State Sen. Laura Fine, an experienced legislator from Glenview who has demonstrated a remarkable ability to work with others to get things done. She displays the refreshing analytical thinking the country needs in Washington to focus on creatively solving problems rather than engaging in the beltway game of reflexive polarization. In her time in Springfield, she has shown herself to be a workhorse, not a show horse, and she is widely respected by colleagues and constituents because of that.
“She boasts endorsements from an impressive and exhaustively large array of community leaders and Legislator of the Year recognition from a number of organizations, and she has had a hand in passage of scores of bills in Springfield, with a particular interest in health care matters. She’s not one of the flamboyance magnets who seem to be famous for being famous. She is more old school than that. She works behind the noise to accomplish things.
“All that said, she also has grit and strength. We don’t agree with all of her positions. While we share grave concerns about the way the current immigration enforcement has been handled, we view her bill to ban ICE agents from consideration for Illinois law enforcement jobs to be doctrinaire. But for the most part, Fine assesses problems and takes measured positions that see past the day’s crises to the fundamentals that lie beneath them. While certainly left of center, she understands that most issues come with complexity that cannot be solved with dogmatism.”
If Fine has visited McHenry County, it has not come to my attention.
