Politics & Government
Lipinski Primary Foe Marie Newman Wins Daily Kos Endorsement
Online political community Daily Kos calls Congressman Dan Lipinski "one of the worst Democrats in the House" in endorsement of challenger.
LA GRANGE, IL -- Daily Kos announced their endorsement of Marie Newman for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. The endorsement comes as the organization prepares for the 2018 election cycle with a focus on “electing more and better Democrats everywhere."
Daily Kos is an online political community with a quarter-million registered users and over 2 million monthly visitors. It is a hub for community advocacy, news, and more.
“I am so grateful to have earned the endorsement of Daily Kos,” Newman said in a written statement. “As an organization that has been such a vital hub for news and advocacy in the Democratic community, it means a lot that Daily Kos sees what we see in the 3rd working families and small businesses ready for positive change and true representation.”
Newman contrasts sharply with the entrenched incumbent Lipinski. She says she is pro-choice and supports gay rights, Obamacare (and would have voted for it in Congress unlike Lipinski), DACA, and gun control.
““Marie Newman is the Democrat in this race that is exciting voters in the 3rd district because she is the Democrat is this race …,” said campaign spokeswoman Anastasia Scourtes. “Everywhere Marie goes in the district she hears from people who are fed up with a congressman who supports Donald Trump’s positions more than their own.”
Daily Kos called Lipinski “one of the worst Democrats in the U.S. House” in its ringing endorsement of Newman, who is running against Lipinski in the 2018 Illinois primary.
“He supports amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage; he voted to overturn a regulation preventing states from withholding funds for Planned Parenthood; and he even reportedly sent some of his precinct workers to help a vocal pro-Trump mayor win re-election earlier this year,” said David Nir, political director of Daily Kos. “Lipinski’s district in the Chicago suburbs voted 55-40 for Clinton, so it can do much better, and marketing consultant Marie Newman is that better choice in next year’s Democratic primary.”
Read Daily Kos’s full endorsement.
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