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Heidi Henry
Heidi Henry (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 75. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Henry completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Heidi Henry lives in Marseilles, Illinois. Henry attended College of DuPage. She runs a commercial horse farm. Henry volunteered with the Future Farmers of America, an organization that promotes agricultural education to young students, and Indivisible, which describes its mission as "to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies"[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 75
Incumbent Jed Davis defeated Heidi Henry in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 75 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jed Davis (R) | 61.4 | 33,715 |
 | Heidi Henry (D)  | 38.6 | 21,169 | |
| Total votes: 54,884 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75
Heidi Henry advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Heidi Henry | 100.0 | 3,442 |
| Total votes: 3,442 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75
Incumbent Jed Davis advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jed Davis | 100.0 | 7,193 |
| Total votes: 7,193 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2022
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 75
Jed Davis defeated Heidi Henry in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 75 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jed Davis (R) | 61.0 | 24,296 |
| Heidi Henry (D) | 39.0 | 15,530 | |
| Total votes: 39,826 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75
Jed Davis defeated incumbent David Welter in the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 75 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jed Davis | 54.4 | 6,412 |
 | David Welter | 45.6 | 5,372 | |
| Total votes: 11,784 | |||
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2018
- See also: Illinois State Senate elections, 2018
General election
General election for Illinois State Senate District 38
Incumbent Sue Rezin defeated Heidi Henry in the general election for Illinois State Senate District 38 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sue Rezin (R) | 59.4 | 47,977 |
| Heidi Henry (D) | 40.6 | 32,799 | |
| Total votes: 80,776 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 38
Heidi Henry advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 38 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Heidi Henry | 100.0 | 13,616 |
| Total votes: 13,616 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 38
Incumbent Sue Rezin advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 38 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sue Rezin | 100.0 | 13,841 |
| Total votes: 13,841 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Heidi Henry completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Henry'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 am also a community activist and organizer helping to bringing both PADS and food pantries to my community beginning in 1990. Those programs have bloomed and expanded greatly since they started! I am active in local environmental projects, participating in river and trail clean ups and improvements. I am married to Stan(Retired IBEW 196) since 1982, we raised our two now grown children right here on our farm. They are both residence of the Quad Cities area, one a graduate of S.I.U. in Agricultural Economics and the other attends Palmer College of Chiropractic.
In addition to riding horses, I am an avid reader and fisherperson, I am a serious hiker and I attempt to garden yearly. We are members of Christ Episcopal Church in Ottawa were I have served in Vestry, lay ministry and as a Sunday School teacher.- Women's rights are human rights. No law or litigation should ever come between a woman and her doctor and her personal choices. Human rights must cover all people of all races, creeds and identity. No one should ever be harmed or made to conform by law to any religious code or ideology.
- Strong Unions equal a strong economy. Unions built the Middle Class and now after years in the trenches, Unions are becoming the best pathway again to excellent jobs, with great wages and benefits through collective bargaining, A stable Union Labor workforce, brings JOBS to our community and therefore prosperity and stability. These are kitchen table issues. Strong Unions benefit non Union workers by raising the standard of living within our community. A better standard of living means lower crime rates, better schools, and less community dysfunction. It also brings with it safer roads, improved infrastructure, and a far better quality of life for the majority of the community.
- Public Education is the key to every society. Public education provides a platform everyone can rise from. Striving toward parity in our schools, full staffing, proper funding, fiscal responsibility, pensions promised, pensions PAID, makes a standard of excellence possible . The value of our teachers is not recognized in the way it should be. Teachers are mentors, guides, confidants, inspiration and they build our community from the tiny to the top!
Death in the Haymarket by James Green. Because if you 2want to understand the importance of the Labor movement, you have to know Haymarket.
A cleaner world.
The unabridged version of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Then the struggle with insurance to just get stuff done! To just try to push through. It is relentless and it is heartless.
I had to stop working to take care of him. He had lots of appointments. My businesses fell apart. I had to ALWAYS be strong ALWAYS. I was terrified. I used to go out and walk a labyrinth in prayer and cry outside in my barn half the night so that the kids could not see me fall apart. I had to always have the answers. I had to always be strong.
Then the financial woes piled on and on and on. It was before the ACA and our insurance would "run out". But we would still take him to every appointment racking up hundreds of thousands in debt, it buried us. There are not enough spaghetti fundraiser dinners to off set debts like these, everyone knows that.
He became stable in his conditions that He will always have. But the bills kept coming. I stood shoulder to shoulder in the courthouse regularly to receive yet another judgement for bills owed for illness. I was not alone there were hundreds of others there with me, all living our own medical debt/ancillary debt hell.
It took most of 15 years to pay it all off. We lived like paupers, We sold everything including our truck and horse trailer(that is part of my business) to pay an MRI bill. Tatters of dignity everywhere.
I sat in his house trailer living room with him for a few hours and we talked about his problems and I took lots of notes. We also talked about Dogs, his dog had died and He wanted another dog, but He felt unable to care for it. We also talked about fishing. He was very fond of fishing in the Kankakee River.
I went back to visit him several times - even after I lost the election. I often brought one of my dogs with me. I connected him to several social service agencies that helped him get a new porch and ramp. I made a few repairs, but I am not a carpenter, it was more than my meager skills could manage. He connected with some groups that really helped him!
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2022
Heidi Henry did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Heidi Henry participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 29, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Heidi Henry's responses follow below.[3]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | Equitable Funding for Public Education which goes hand in glove with disconnecting Education Funding from property taxes A public option for high quality affordable health care Promoting a living wage and strengthening Unions[4][5] |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Health care!!!!!! My family has had 17 major medical crisis in the last 36 years. A Medical Crisis quickly turns in to a Financial crisis. We must manage health care risks and mitigate financial risks so that people can recover from accident, illness or injury without the humiliation and degradation of a financial crisis. As a primary care giver for a child with 2 chronic medical conditions and a spouse with health issues, I know my focus on their health and wellness was often pulled away so i could deal with the financial crisis that ALWAYS followed!Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[5]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Heidi Henry answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | FDR - The great society. A dream that became a reality. A government to serve the people. To help everyone have a opportunity to have the American Dream. The American life and lifestyle. We all prospered! The people, our country - we all bloomed and GREW! BUT - that has been slowly eroded until it is a pipe dream for most people.[5] | ” |
| “ | That is a complex question. I read and study daily. Much of my personal philosophy is shaped by my life - trial and tribulation. Plato is undoubtedly one of my greatest influences. I have read and reread everything He wrote. At the core of my believe in democracy is the simple A government should be to serve the people. A place where the people have a voice in their future. I do not believe that government should serve business over people.[5] | ” |
| “ | Integrity, listening skills, unbribable, trustworthy, available, indefatigable and loyal. A servant to the people that they represent.[5] | ” |
| “ | I am indefatigable. I am a fierce supporter of the people I wish to represent. I spend my days talking to the people who live here, listening to what their troubles are, what their solutions are, what their dreams are. I am dedicated to Illinois and Illinois alone. I am a full time resident of the 38th District in Illinois! I will never betray the trust of the people![5] | ” |
| “ | You have to listen to what the people: their needs, wants, desires. How they need to be helped.[5] | ” |
| “ | Health care we can all afford, a living wage so people can work and live with dignity and properly funded public schools.[5] | ” |
| “ | When JFK was shot. I was watching Bozo with my Sister and He came on TV and said ""The President has been shot"" I had just turned 3.[5] | ” |
| “ | I delivered the Hi Lighter news paper in Glen Ellyn for 2 years for money to ride horses. Until I was able to get a job job when I was 16. then i washed hair in a wash and set beauty salon - it was dreadful![5] | ” |
| “ | We had nothing in common to talk about so we went to two bad movies in a row.[5] | ” |
| “ | Easter. It is so filled with promise.[5] | ” |
| “ | I have several: Republic by Plato, Shadows of a Forgotten Ancestry - Sagan, The Blessing Way & Fly on The Wall - Tony Hillerman. You Can Make it Happen - Graham and 7 Pieces by Rohn[5] | ” |
| “ | YZMA - because She has the best lines[5] | ” |
| “ | The ice on my refrigerator - I love it - lol![5] | ” |
| “ | I won't Back Down - Tom Petty[5] | ” |
| “ | Medical and financial crisis - they go hand in glove. I have conquered the financial issues by paying for premium insurance - but those have been so so so hard[5] | ” |
| “ | The House can be adventuresome and at time erratic and the Senate is sensible and straight forward[5] | ” |
| “ | No. Now more than ever we need FRESH ideas and experiences and PUBLIC SERVANTS over politicians.[5] | ” |
| “ | Debt management - And if i can do it - i can do it for Illinois![5] | ” |
| “ | To balance one another.[5] | ” |
| “ | Yes. Working together, more can be accomplished.[5] | ” |
| “ | Fair and impartial[5] | ” |
| “ | Agriculture, Government reform, Labor, Public Health and Veterans affairs[5] | ” |
| “ | Yes, in any needed[5] | ” |
| “ | Peg Breslin. She was my childhood idol.[5] | ” |
| “ | No[5] | ” |
| “ | Affording medication. As a candidate, I have learned many things to help my District. One several occasions i have met people unable to afford their medication and I have been able to assist them. One woman was 83. Her Social Security check monthly was $832 and her insulin was $940 - that just tore me in two. I was able to help her get it for next to nothing. But why are there so many hoops to jump through?????[5] | ” |
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Heidi Henry participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 3, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Heidi Henry's responses follow below.[6]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Education |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Education funding parity without directing public funds to private schools. Illinois minimum wage has not kept up with our economy, we must become a living wage state! We absolutely must have a affordable public option for health care so all the people of Illinois can have affordable care.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[5]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Heidi Henry answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | I admire FDR because He put the people first and foremost. Mother Jones because She cared for working people and their rights, Susan B Anthony because of her tireless fight for women's rights. Jim Rohn because he teaches thought process that is possible.[5] | ” |
| “ | So many books, I read all the time, I recently finished Radium Girls = why we have OSHA, Cherry Mine Disaster = Why we have Workman's Compensation. Shadows of a Forgotten Ancestry, Carl Sagan's brilliant work on the origins of race relations. Tokens of Trust by Rowan Williams a centering book of religious philosophy.[5] | ” |
| “ | Honesty, integrity, the 100% desire to be a servant of the people. To be their voice and their vote. To work tirelessly for the benefit of my community, state and country.[5] | ” |
| “ | Leadership and integrity. I am the person people count on to get things done. I finish the projects I start. I never leave until the job is done. I own my mistakes and always strive to learn and improve.[5] | ” |
| “ | To be the voice and vote of the people of my community. To listen to them, to value their opinions, to represent them fairly and with great integrity.[5] | ” |
| “ | Strong evenly funded PUBLIC schools no longer divided by zip code, geography, color or creed. A public option for affordable health care, A living wage for all and strong Unions. A thriving economy, funded pensions and no Illinois debt!!!![5] | ” |
| “ | The Vietnam war - how it took people from my neighborhood growing up and sent them to war. The ones that never came home, the grief of their families, the horrors they endured that played out nightly on the news.[5] | ” |
| “ | Delivering News papers - 2 years I was 12 when I started. I wanted to earn money so i could ride horses more often.[5] | ” |
| “ | Oh poor Eddie! I was shy He was shy - we went and saw two movies because we could not talk to each other. I hope He has a happy life. He was a nice boy.[5] | ” |
| “ | Easter - so full of live and promise.[5] | ” |
| “ | I have several but I will narrow it down to 4 Fiction - I love Tony Hillerman's Fly on the Wall & The Blessing Way Motivation and Philosophy: You Can Make it Happen by Stedman Graham - Honestly I wish I could have learned this in high school! Five Major Pieces to The Life Puzzle by Jim Rohn - my favorite gift to give to graduates.[5] | ” |
| “ | Yzma - only because i adore Eartha Kitt and Emporer's New Groove is full of fun![5] | ” |
| “ | My books[5] | ” |
| “ | River of Dreams - Billy Joel But usually it is I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty - who is my spirit animal - except for the drugs.[5] | ” |
| “ | Wanting to be better.[5] | ” |
| “ | The creative sometimes "wild" imagination of the House balanced by the more "serious" Senate.[5] | ” |
| “ | No[5] | ” |
| “ | Budget, Debt, Pensions, nothing can function until we straighten these out.[5] | ” |
| “ | A good working relationship of give and take and COMPROMISE![5] | ” |
| “ | Yes, working together we can bring the collective voices of our communities together to form change.[5] | ” |
| “ | Fair and impartial.[5] | ” |
| “ | Health care, human services, education, economic[5] | ” |
| “ | When I was a girl I kept a scrap book on women in office because there were so few. I have always admired Peg Breslin and Mary Kay O'Brien who are retired Representatives. I loved the compassion and sense of community Pat Welch and Frank Mautino brought to their respective offices.[5] | ” |
| “ | No[5] | ” |
| “ | There are a few that I always hold close. One older man was so lonely, his wife was in the nursing home and He was unable to visit often because he could no longer drive. He was also unable to afford his medication and often chose to go without because He had to pay someone to drive him. He was so dear and kind, I helped him find free transportation and I check on him every now and then because He needs company. Another woman was recently separated. She had no food in her home and her children were having popcorn and kool-aid for dinner - for the third night in a row. She did not know how to get social services and Her car was not running and there was no one to help. I put her and the kids in my car and took her to the food pantry. They took her under their wing. I check on her often. There is food for the family, Her child support is finally coming in, someone from her Mom's church fixed her car - I am so glad! I know She has a LONG road ahead, but now She is on the path to getting back on track to her future. A school teacher that got books for his school from the dumpster of another school because his school was so broke. A woman that cannot afford Drivers Ed for her Son - who will graduate without a drivers license in a small town with no opportunities.[5] | ” |
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Indivisible, "Home," accessed February 5, 2018
- ↑ Elect Heidi Henry, "About Me," accessed February 1, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Heidi Henry's responses," May 29, 2018 Cite error: Invalid
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