AFSCME Endorsements: 2020 General Election
VOTE FOR OUR FUTURE
The 2020 General Election provides a historic opportunity to build a new future for our state and our nation. AFSCME Illinois PEOPLE has endorsed the following candidates who will fight not just for workers’ rights but the health, safety and dignity of every human being.
Election Day is November 3, and early voting runs in most counties through November 2. Click here to find your polling place.
Federal and state legislative incumbents are noted by inclusion of their AFSCME PEOPLE voting record. AFSCME does not typically endorse in uncontested races.
FAIR TAX AMENDMENT: VOTE YES
The proposed amendment grants the State authority to impose higher income tax rates on higher income levels, which is how the federal government and a majority of other states do it. The amendment would remove the portion of the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution that is sometimes referred to as the “flat tax,” that requires all taxes on income to be at the same rate. The amendment does not itself change tax rates. It gives the State the ability to impose higher tax rates on those with higher income levels and lower tax rates on those with middle or lower income levels. You are asked to decide whether the proposed amendment should become a part of the Illinois Constitution.
NATIONAL
PRESIDENT: Joe Biden VICE PRESIDENT: Kamala Harris
U.S. SENATE: Dick Durbin, 96%
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
District 1: Bobby Rush, 100%
District 2: Robin Kelly, 98%
District 3: Marie Newman
District 4: Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, 100%
District 5: Mike Quigley, 97%
District 6: Sean Casten, 100%
District 7: Danny Davis, 99%
District 8: Raja Krishnamoorthi, 100%
District 9: Jan Schakowsky, 100%
District 10: Brad Schneider, 90%
District 11: Bill Foster, 95%
District 12: Raymond Lenzi
District 13: Betsy Dirksen Londrigan
District 14: Lauren Underwood, 100%
District 17: Cheri Bustos, 95%
STATE
JUDICIAL:
5th Supreme Court District: Judy Cates
5th Appellate Court District: Sarah Smith
3rd Supreme Court District, Retain: Tom L. Kilbride
ILLINOIS SENATE:
Senate District 10: Robert Martwick, 100%
Senate District 11: Celina Villanueva, 100%
Senate District 19: Michael Hastings, 100%
Senate District 25: Karina Villa, 100% in the House
Senate District 28: Laura Murphy, 94%
Senate District 31: Melinda Bush, 100%
Senate District 34: Steve Stadelman, 100%
Senate District 40: Patrick Joyce
Senate District 46: Dave Koehler, 100%
Senate District 49: Meg Cappel
Senate District 52: Scott Bennett, 94%
ILLINOIS HOUSE:
House District 16: Denyse Wang-Stoneback
House District 17: Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, 100%
House District 18: Robyn Gabel, 100%
House District 19: Lindsey LaPointe
House District 20: Michelle Darbro
House District 35: Frances Hurley, 100%
House District 37: Michelle Fadeley
House District 38: Debbie Meyers-Martin, 94%
House District 41: Janet Rohr
House District 42: Ken Mejia-Beal
House District 45: Diane Pappas, 100%
House District 47: Jennifer Zordani
House District 48: Terra Cost Howard, 88%
House District 49: Maura Hirschauer
House District 51: Mary Edly-Allen, 94%
House District 54: Maggie Trevor
House District 55: Marty Moylan, 100%
House District 61: Joyce Mason, 100%
House District 62: Sam Yingling, 100%
House District 64: Leslie Armstrong-McLeod
House District 65: Martha Paschke
House District 66: Suzanne Ness
House District 67: Maurice West, 94%
House District 68: Dave Vella
House District 70: Paul Stoddard
House District 71: Joan Padilla
House District 72: Mike Halpin, 100%
House District 76: Lance Yednock, 94%
House District 77: Kathleen Willis, 100%
House District 78: Camille Lilly, 100%
House District 79: Charlene Eads
House District 80: Anthony DeLuca, 94%
House District 81: Anna Stava-Murray, 82%
House District 83: Barbara Hernandez, 100%
House District 85: Dagmara “Dee” Avelar
House District 90: Seth Wiggins
House District 92: Jehan Gordon-Booth, 100%
House District 94: Angel Smith
House District 96: Sue Scherer, 94%
House District 97: Harry Benton
House District 103: Carol Ammons, 94%
House District 111: Monica Bristow, 88%
House District 112: Katie Stuart, 100%
House District 113: Jay Hoffman, 100%
House District 114: LaToya Greenwood, 100%
House District 116: Nathan Reitz, 84%
COUNTY
Champaign
Circuit Clerk: Katie Blakeman
Coroner: Chaundra Bishop
Treasurer: Cassandra “CJ” Johnson
Cook
State’s Attorney: Kim Foxx
Jackson
Circuit Clerk: Cindy Svanda
Treasurer: Liz Hunter
Kane
County Board
Chair: Corrine Pierog
District 4: Mavis Bates
Lake
Coroner: Howard Cooper
County Board:
District 4: Gina Roberts
District 7: Carissa Casbon
District 13: Sandy Hart
District 16: Terry Wilke
Madison
Auditor: Joe Silkwood
Circuit Clerk: Amy Gabriel
Coroner: Steve Nonn
State’s Attorney: Crystal Uhe
County Board:
Chair: Robert Daiber
District 2: DeAnn Rizzi
District 18: Jack Minner
District 19: Dina Burch
District 20: Kristen Novacich-Koberna
District 27: Paul Rydgig
Peoria
Auditor: Jessica Thomas
County Clerk: Rachael Parker
Coroner: Jamie Harwood
Randolph
Circuit Clerk: Sherry Johnson
Rock Island
County Board: Edwin Langdon
Sangamon
County Board District 23: Kevin McGuire
Whiteside
Treasurer: Kristin Nicole Walrath
County Board:
District 1: James Duffy
District 2: Shaun Dowd
Will
Executive: Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant
Coroner: Laurie Summers
County Board
District 1: Sherry Newquist
District 12: Erin Moncek
District 12: JoAnne Hamilton-Gunkel
District 13: Mica Freeman
District 13: Mark Ferry
Winnebago
State’s Attorney: Paul Carpenter
Board Chair: Joe Chiarelli
County Board:
District 4: Elizabeth Lindquist
District 17: Rob Young
District 19: Angela Fellars