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Cassandra Goodrum
Cassandra Goodrum (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 1st Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 28, 2022.
Goodrum completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Cassandra Goodrum was born in Fort Lewis, Washington. She earned a bachelor's degree from DePaul University in 1979. She earned a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1987. Goodrum's career experience includes working as a professor with Chicago State University.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Illinois' 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 1
Jonathan Jackson defeated Eric Carlson, Tori Nicholson, and Babette Peyton in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jonathan Jackson (D)  | 67.0 | 159,142 |
 | Eric Carlson (R) | 33.0 | 78,258 | |
| Tori Nicholson (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 13 | ||
 | Babette Peyton (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 12 | |
| Total votes: 237,425 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mitchel Davilo (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 1
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 1 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jonathan Jackson | 28.2 | 21,607 |
 | Pat Dowell | 19.0 | 14,594 | |
 | Karin Norington-Reaves | 14.1 | 10,825 | |
 | Jacqueline Collins | 12.1 | 9,299 | |
 | Chris Butler | 5.4 | 4,141 | |
 | Jahmal Cole | 5.3 | 4,045 | |
 | Jonathan Swain | 3.3 | 2,554 | |
 | Michael Thompson | 2.2 | 1,680 | |
| Charise Williams | 2.1 | 1,601 | ||
 | Cassandra Goodrum | 1.9 | 1,422 | |
 | Marcus Lewis | 1.2 | 901 | |
 | Robert Palmer | 1.2 | 899 | |
| Nykea Pippion McGriff | 1.2 | 892 | ||
 | Terre Layng Rosner | 1.0 | 780 | |
| Ameena Nuur Matthews | 0.9 | 686 | ||
 | Kirby Birgans | 0.7 | 511 | |
 | Steven DeJoie | 0.3 | 251 | |
| Total votes: 76,688 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darius Dee Nix (D)
- J. Darnell Jones (D)
- Howard Spiller (D)
- Michael Payne (D)
- Stephany Rose Spaulding (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 1
Eric Carlson defeated Jeff Regnier, Geno Young, and Philanise White in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 1 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Carlson | 40.5 | 10,755 |
 | Jeff Regnier | 39.0 | 10,375 | |
| Geno Young | 14.5 | 3,853 | ||
 | Philanise White | 6.0 | 1,598 | |
| Total votes: 26,581 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Matthew O'Keefe (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cassandra Goodrum completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Goodrum's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked as an Assistant States Attorney with the Cook County States's Attorney, owned and operated a private practice for 20 years, and for the last ten years have been a Professor of Criminal Justice at Chicago State University . I am passionate about criminal justice reform, education and Peace in our Community. I have worked to engage, educate and empower people especially young adults by mentoring students, running a Safe Haven program, participating with women's and civic organizations.
As the Congresswoman from the 1st Congressional district I will promote legislation that preserves our constitutional rights, provides economic resources to revive the economy, prioritizes education, restores our environment, and impels reparations .
- My campaign is to engage, educate and empower our community for peace. Peace is a sense of security and safety and is what we all want. My vision of peace includes affordable housing, adequate healthcare, state of the art schools that offer a comprehensive curriculum and thriving economic corridors. I am dedicated to securing the necessary resources for the 1st Congressional district that will provide for peace.
- Educational equity is key. It is imperative that we eliminate the digital divide and ensure digital literacy to all students. Additionally, it is time to teach restorative practices to students of every age to provide them with tools to curtail violence and promote peace. Finally, education must prepare a workforce and citizenry that is equipped with the skills and the knowledge to be an engaged, prosperous constituency. It is time to create a pipeline for prosperity and peace instead of a pipeline to prison.
- It is time for America to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slaves. America must acknowledge and readdress the systemic racism in our country that perpetuates the the inequities in education, criminal justice, lending practices and job acquisitions.
Criminal Justice Reform is a public policy that I am passionate about. As a professor of criminal justice I continually encourage my students to question the status quo, and to formulate solutions to the recurring problems of qualified police immunity, imprisonment practices to re-entry of returning citizens and police training. We must restore the trust between the police and the community,
Compassion
Racism is the plague of our nation and colors everything from immigration policy to policing to lending practices to the transfer of property. Yet, I foresee a future that strives to correct the impact of systemic racism and corrects for our historical errors.
Education and Labor
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 18, 2022
