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Christopher Kruger
Christopher Kruger (Green Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 17. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Kruger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kruger was born on January 17, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the Loyola University Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1995 and master's degree in 1998. He went on to obtain his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2004. His professional experience includes working as a constitutional, civil rights, employee, and consumer attorney-advocate. He has been affiliated with the Poor Peoples Campaign and Jewish Voice for Peace.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 17
Incumbent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz defeated Yesoe Yoon and Christopher Kruger in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 17 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D) | 67.6 | 42,471 |
 | Yesoe Yoon (R)  | 29.8 | 18,728 | |
 | Christopher Kruger (G) | 2.6 | 1,606 | |
| Total votes: 62,805 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 17
Incumbent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 17 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz | 100.0 | 21,489 |
| Total votes: 21,489 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 17
Yesoe Yoon advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 17 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Yesoe Yoon | 100.0 | 2,238 |
| Total votes: 2,238 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Christopher Kruger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kruger's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Chris is running in the Green Party to become your state rep in the 17th district. As your representative, he will provide a corporate-free, independent voice for Illinois families, serve as a watchdog on the corruption of the two major parties, and support an agenda of Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Food and Clean Energy to fulfill the promises of the Twenty-first Century.
Chris is not beholden to special interests, nor is he afraid to take on the challenges of the COVID Pandemic and the concurrent economic crisis, which is certain to have profound effects on all Illinoisans, including those in the Illinois 17th district in the coming months.
Chris' corporate-free, people-powered campaign accepts no money from political action committees, corporate interests or lobbyists.
- Elect Donor-free Candidates.
- End the Tax Boycott by the Mega-Rich.
- Enact a Social Democratic Platform of Economic Rights, Social and Environmental Justice; Demilitarize America at home and overseas; restore constitutional rights and civil liberties eroded by the Surveillance State.
Our first priority must be defending Illinoisans against a tsunami of debt, defaults, destabilization and collapse of social cohesion that is coming, has already started, and will intensify, AFTER the elections, as a result of the CARES act and other corporate welfare that is projected to bankrupt 40-50% of the small business community.
I will additionally propose an "Illinois Commission on Reparations, Truth and Reconciliation" to hold hearings, make findings, and compose draft legislation to remediate and repair the lingering effect of slavery on tens of thousands of Illinoisans descended from the shameful legacy.
Cornel West
Chris Hedges
Medea Benjamin
Rev. William Barber, Jr.
Rev. Liz Theoharis
Julian Assange
Edward Snowden
"The Plowshares Five"
Forgive them their Debts by Michael Hudson, debt forgiveness essential for social cohesion, applicable to 1.8 trillion student loan disaster;
The Enchantment of Mammon, capitalism as practice is as "magical" and unrealistic as any religious or metaphysical belief.
The People, No! by Thomas Frank, an account of American elites suppression and undermining of genuine democracy and the defaming of popular leaders like William Jennings Bryant and Eugene Debs.
Lawmakers should know law, and I will wager I know more law then either of my opponents.
This is because re-districting is legislating, and legislating is partisan by its very nature.
On a more serious note, I admire the heroism of ordinary people struggling to make their lives work in an environment underscored by forty years of wage stagnation and debt.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 18, 2020
