With the primary elections right around the corner on Feb. 2, this issue features the Windy City Times Primary Election Guide. ( Early voting runs through Jan. 28. )
Windy City Times does not endorse those in political races. Rather, the editorial staff submits questionnaires to statewide, Cook County, and U.S. Congressional candidates and publishes a rating of their responses along with the endorsements of gay and progressive groups and local bar associations. ( See next week for more ratings, including those from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. )
Click the link for these reports in the form of printable charts: www.windycitymediagroup.com/pdf/WCT_STATE20100120.pdf
And click this link for a printable chart outlining the judicial races: www.windycitymediagroup.com/pdf/WCT_JUDGES20100120.pdf
In this issue os WCT are also interviews and profiles of lesbian judicial candidates Joanne Fehn, Linda Pauel and Sebastian Patti, the first openly gay individual to be appointed a state appellate court judge who is running for the post again. In addition are interviews with state Senate incumbent Heather Steans and Democratic challenger Jim Madigan. If Madigan wins this tight race, he could be the first openly gay state senator in Illinois history.
Other interviews, such as with candidates running for Cook County board president and the U.S. Senate seat, appear online this week and in print next week.
Online only, in the current and recent website editions of Windy City Times, are interviews regarding the following upcoming elections:
-U.S. Senate candidates
David Hoffman and Alexi Giannoulias
-State House candidates
Ed Mullen and Eamon Kelly
-U.S. House candidates
Julie Hamos, Dan Seals,
Danny Davis, Jim Ascot and
Darlena Williams-Burnett
-Governor opponents
Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes
-Illinois Attorney General
Lisa Madigan
-State treasurer opponents
Robin Kelly and
Justin Oberman
MWRD commissioner candidate
Todd Connor
Cook County Board President
opponents Dorothy Brown,
Terrence O'Brien, Toni Preckwinkle
and Todd Stroger
-Cook County Board commissioner
candidates John Fritchey and
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
View all Windy City Times online political coverage, by either going back to the index of this issue or clicking on the links that fall below the bar at the bottom of this page. Those links will show below each article you view.