Charles Ellington
Charles Ellington (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 15th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 17, 2020.
Ellington completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Charles Ellington earned a J.D. and M.D. from Southern Illinois University. His career experience includes working as a family doctor.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Illinois' 15th Congressional District election, 2020
Illinois' 15th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 17 Democratic primary)
Illinois' 15th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 17 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 15
Mary Miller defeated Erika Weaver in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 15 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mary Miller (R) | 73.4 | 244,947 |
 | Erika Weaver (D)  | 26.6 | 88,559 | |
| Total votes: 333,506 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 15
Erika Weaver defeated Kevin Gaither, Craig Morton, and John Hursey Jr. in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 15 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Erika Weaver | 51.9 | 17,778 |
 | Kevin Gaither | 22.3 | 7,653 | |
 | Craig Morton | 19.2 | 6,576 | |
 | John Hursey Jr. | 6.6 | 2,244 | |
| Total votes: 34,251 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 15
Mary Miller defeated Darren Duncan, Kerry Wolff, and Charles Ellington in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 15 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mary Miller | 57.4 | 48,129 |
 | Darren Duncan | 21.8 | 18,309 | |
| Kerry Wolff | 13.4 | 11,208 | ||
 | Charles Ellington | 7.4 | 6,200 | |
| Total votes: 83,846 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kimberly Wade (R)
- Lori Fuller (R)
- Ron McCuan (R)
- Jacob Lane (R)
- Alex Walker (R)
- John Christian Bambenek (R)
- Kent Gray (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Charles Ellington completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ellington's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Stop Sham Impeachment
- Completely overhaul Obamacare
- Stop the war on coal
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Campaign website
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Healthcare Obamacare is a fiasco. It created a bureaucratic nightmare that put huge burdens on physicians and patients. Yet it failed to address significant problems with our healthcare system, especially in rural America. Left behind the Democratic Party, rural America has been mocked and derided by liberal elites for far too long. I will work to completely overhaul Obamacare. My health plan won’t be written by a lying MIT economist or an east coast liberal elitist who wants an economy crippling 52 trillion dollar Medicare for All program. Instead, It will be written by a practicing rural family physician who not only understands health law and policy but most importantly understands the day to day problems patients face. And it will be based on facts, not fantasy. Access to a primary care physician over time has been repeatedly shown to make you healthier, make you live longer, and cost the system less money. This needs to be the centerpiece of any healthcare plan. Obamacare did the exact opposite. Half of all service provided come from primary care, yet under Obamacare primary care only receives 2-3% of the total healthcare spending. Rural physicians and hospitals are hit the hardest. They operate with razor-thin margins with little or no support to meet these new administrative burdens. These insane regulations have caused rural doctors to close their practices and have caused many rural hospitals to close or be at risk of closing. When rural hospitals are gone, so is the largest employer in the community. I will work to completely overhaul Obamacare putting the focus where it needs to be—on primary care, supporting doctors who work in rural and underserved communities, helping rural hospitals stay open, and ending crippling bureaucratic regulations. Also, Obamacare does nothing to fix the shortage of primary care physicians, especially in rural America. Residency training programs, which are funded by the federal government, often produce primary care physicians that do not practice in rural or underserved communities. Many of their graduates do not even practice in the United States. This needs to change. I will propose legislation to hold these programs accountable. They need to train young doctors to practice where they are needed most—right here in the United States and in rural and underserved communities. I will also work to strengthen and increase support for community health centers and rural health centers. These clinics are on the front lines providing much-needed services for the most vulnerable populations every day. We also need more primary care training programs. I will work to create partnerships between training programs and the VA system. More teaching programs connected to VA hospitals and clinics will enhance the education and training of young doctors, increase the likelihood they will practice in the VA system, and improve access to care for our veterans. I will do everything in my power to help our veterans to get better health care, better mental health services, and a VA system that works for them. They fought for us, it’s time we fight for them. IMPEACHMENT Make no mistake, the foundations of democracy are under attack. Nancy Pelosi and the Washington Democrats are bound and determined to overturn the will of the American people and reverse the results of the 2016 election. No president has done more good for the American people with less time and a more hostile Congress than President Donald J. Trump. Democrats are furious that their anti-American, socialist, liberal policies are not being enacted and the harm of the Obama administration is being reversed. The impeachment hearings are nothing but a farce. The investigation is a witch hunt. Just as Democrats made up the phony “Russian collusion” charges, they are taking the President’s words out of context to hide the crimes of the son of their favorite Democrat nominee for president. God willing, the Democrats will lose their majority in 2020, however, if they remain in power, this anti-democratic process will not stop. As your congressman, I will fight with our president to preserve the will of the people and end this phony impeachment process. Energy and Economy There is a strong relationship between health and wealth. When people have good jobs that pay a good wage, they are more likely to be healthier. When people are healthy, they are more likely to feel like working and being productive employees. The two fit together like hand in glove. Under President Trump, the economy is booming and unemployment is at a fifty-year low. However, here in the 15th District unemployment is over 2 1/2 times the national average. More can be done. The Democrats war on coal needs to end. We have enough coal in this country to last 300 years. Further, coal is necessary for the production of steel. When we rely on China for steel production we put our entire national security at risk. Further, when the coal mines closed down, many jobs were lost and many local economies suffered. However, carbon capture technology and near zero-emission coal plants hold great promise. They could provide numerous good-paying jobs and revitalize the coal industry and the economy of our region. I will fight to put these facilities right here in our district where it’s already been shown they can be feasibly built. When successfully established these facilities will be a model for the rest of the county and even the world. Taxes and Spending President Donald Trump’s tax reform has done more to stimulate the American economy than Obama’s stimulus package could ever dream of doing, but that is just one step. We need to make these tax cuts for the middle class permanent; the American people deserve to keep their hard-earned money. However, this is not enough, and this is where Republicans are just as culpable as the Democrats. Entrenched powers in Washington DC continue to pass unbalanced budgets. The federal deficit is approaching $1 trillion. This is unsustainable. It is time for our leaders to make the tough choices needed for the American people. As your congressman, I will fight for a balanced budget constitutional amendment, forcing congress to only pass budgets that are within our means. I will fight for entitlement reform, cutting one of the largest costs on our federal government and bringing our tax books back in balance. Common sense says you cannot spend more than you take in. The government finally needs to operate like a business, with sound bookkeeping and accounting.[2] |
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| —Charles Ellington 2020 campaign website[3] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 23, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Charles Ellington 2020 campaign website, “Issues,” accessed March 10, 2020
