Saturday, March 16, 2019

Local Candidate Updates


There's a lot of new information, interviews, questionnaires and links for candidates in the April 2nd Consolidated Election (early voting has already begun!). The Champaign County Voter Alliance still has the best organized page for getting to know local candidates on your ballot (from the web, to social media, to email/phone contacts) here: Candidate Guide.

I've updated the Cheat Sheet: C-U Local's election page with candidates in the local government bodies we cover here. Below I have some links to various forums and events I've found on-line with the candidates and will be adding News-Gazette interviews as they're published. To jump directly to that click here.

First some recent candidate news items:

Champaign Mayoral incumbent Deb Feinen picked up support from local realtors. I don't know if it's related to the City Council looking into changing the rules on rental housing discrimination, but activists will likely assume a linkage.
Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen, who has nominal opposition from Azark Cobbs in her race for re-election this spring, reported two recent campaign contributions: $1,500 from the Realtor Political Action Committee in Springfield and a $1,035 in-kind contribution from the same group for a fundraiser this month.
Update: Tom Kacich had a little more on the mayoral fundraising in today's column:
Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen has collected four individual contributions of $1,000 or more in advance of the April 2 election, while her only opponent, Azark Cobbs, doesn't have an official campaign committee to accept campaign contributions.

Feinen has received a total of $4,535 from three different sources, the Realtor Political Action Committee, Champaign Firefighters Local 1260 and Attorney's Title Guaranty Fund Inc. It's likely she's also received smaller contributions, but those don't have to reported until mid-April, weeks after the mayoral election.

AFL-CIO endorsements, from last week's News-Gazette:
Matt Gladney was among six candidates on April's ballot to pick up endorsements Thursday from the AFL-CIO of Champaign County. Also getting the union workers' support:

— Deb Feinen for Champaign mayor

— Andrew Christensen and Jon Paul Youakim for Champaign City Council

— Karie Brown-Tess and Paul Poulosky for Urbana school board


Candidate Information and Links:

Here are links to videos and coverage of recent local candidate forums organized by the News-Gazette, Champaign County NAACP and League of Women Voters:

February 27th Candidate forums: (video from CGTV)
  • Urbana School Board Candidates: Additional News-Gazette coverage here.
  • Champaign School Board Candidates: Coverage here.
  • Parkland Community College Board Candidates: Coverage here.
February 28th Candidate forums: (video from CGTV)
  • Champaign City Council Candidates: Coverage here.
  • Champaign Mayoral Candidates: Coverage here.
  • Urbana Park District Candidates: (video only)
March 6th Candidate forums: 
  • Illini Democrats forum for Champaign City Council candidates coverage here. 
  • Champaign Federation of Teachers forum for Unit 4 candidates here. Facebook event information.
 
Candidate Meet & Greets:

News-Gazette Candidate Interviews and Questionnaires: N-G election webpage (See also CCVA Questionnaires here and Smile Politely Questionnaires here, and Washington Street Questionnaires here):
Champaign Mayor:
Champaign City Council:
Champaign School Board - Unit 4:
Champaign Park District:


Urbana School Board - District 116:

Urbana Park District:
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