Emiliano Vera
Emiliano Vera (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 93. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 17, 2020.
Vera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Vera earned his B.S. in education and social policy with minors in sociology and Chinese from Northwestern University in 2016 and his master's in international relations from the University of the Americas Puebla in 2018. His professional experience includes working in elementary education at Bushnell-Prairie City Elementary School.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 93
Incumbent Norine Hammond defeated Scott Stoll in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 93 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Norine Hammond (R) | 65.9 | 27,892 |
 | Scott Stoll (D)  | 34.1 | 14,437 | |
| Total votes: 42,329 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 93
Scott Stoll defeated Emiliano Vera in the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 93 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Scott Stoll | 65.4 | 4,185 |
 | Emiliano Vera | 34.6 | 2,215 | |
| Total votes: 6,400 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 93
Incumbent Norine Hammond advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 93 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Norine Hammond | 100.0 | 6,141 |
| Total votes: 6,141 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Emiliano Vera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Vera's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Universal Healthcare
- Early Childhood through College Public Education Expansion
- Public Jobs Guarantee
Our region is also highly dependent on strong public education funding, as we are home to Western Illinois University, Spoon River College, Carl Sandburg College, and rural public school districts like my own. We need to not just reverse the devastating cuts of the Rauner years, but fully restore public education funding. And we must fairly fund education funding, not relying on unequal property taxes that burden middle class families.
Education funding ties in closely with my proposal for a universal public jobs guarantee, as most of our decent, middle class jobs are in the public education sector, and our rural schools are horribly understaffed. Private business "incentives" have wasted millions of dollars of public taxpayer money under both parties for decades, resulting in low-wage, unstable jobs but big profits for companies. If we want to make good jobs, we need to hire people directly as public workers.
She's the hardest working person I know, and there are far too many people who are going through the same struggles she did - and does to this day. Every person deserves healthcare as a human right. Every worker deserves to earn enough from one full time job to live decently. Every woman deserves to earn the same as a man for doing the same work. Every parent and caretaker deserves child care, paid parental leave, and paid sick leave to be able to take care of their family.
This is not just a principle, but a decision to remain accountable to working people by refusing to take corporate money. I hear all the time that "politicians turn their backs on us". Politicians listen to who puts them in office - if they get there by getting funded by millionaires and CEOs, that is who will get priority.
There were some other things that I can remember from earlier, like the death of Princess Diana, but witnessing the tragedy of September 11, 2001 live on TV with my 3rd grade classmates confused as my teachers cried in horror was a defining moment for me and my entire generation.
I still have my 3rd grade writing journal, and the fallout from 9/11 comes up a lot. For MLK Day in January I wrote, "I have a dream that one day this nation will show terrorism wrong. I have a dream that one day there will be no hijacked planes. I have a dream that one day terrorism will be stopped."
We would get on the bus at 4:30-5am, go out to the fields, and hopefully be done by 1. Some days we weren't back until 6 though. That's how I spent my summer that year!
Illinois is one of only 6 states in the country that has a flat income tax, and it is killing us. Workers are forced to pick up the tax bill with fees and fines because the rich and corporations are able to get off without paying their fair share. We need a Fair Tax Now, because our healthcare, education environmental protection, job growth, infrastructure and paying down our debt depend on being able to make the wealthy pay their fair share and taking the burden off of working people.
I've admired him since I was in high school, when I wrote about him for being an Independent in the Senate. That admiration only increased as he ran for president in 2016, inspiring my fight as a working class candidate to fight for the lives of people in my community instead of the corporate interests that influence both parties.
A woman in Macomb was on the verge of tears as she talked about the $1000 she has to pay for her husband's prescription that has driven them to the edge of bankruptcy.
Several others in Macomb are stay-at-home parents because the jobs that are available pay less than the cost of childcare.
A man in Bushnell is working 2 jobs while his wife works a full time job and goes to school for nursing school. He said "It doesn't matter how hard we work, we're still just barely above broke."
Several women in Galesburg have told me that there is no where safe for their kids to go after school since programs have been cut.
And my neighbor depends on another neighbor to volunteer childcare for his disabled infant daughter so he can work and maintain his employer-provided healthcare for her.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 19, 2020.
