Mark Wicklund
Elections and appointments
Mark Wicklund was a 2018 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 13th Congressional District of Illinois.[1]
Wicklund was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 13th Congressional District of Illinois.[2]
Elections
2018
- See also: Illinois' 13th Congressional District election, 2018
Wicklund sought election to the 13th Congressional District of Illinois in 2018.[1]
2016
- See also: Illinois' 13th Congressional District election, 2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Rodney Davis (R) defeated Mark Wicklund (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Davis defeated Ethan Vandersand in the Republican primary on March 15, 2016.[3][4]
U.S. House, Illinois District 13 General Election, 2016
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| |
Republican |
 Rodney Davis Incumbent |
59.7% |
187,583 |
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Democratic |
Mark Wicklund |
40.3% |
126,811 |
| Total Votes |
314,394 |
| Source: Illinois State Board of Elections |
U.S. House, Illinois District 13 Republican Primary, 2016
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
|
Rodney Davis Incumbent |
77% |
71,447 |
| Ethan Vandersand |
23% |
21,401 |
| Total Votes |
92,848 |
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections
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2016
The following issues were listed on Wicklund's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.
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- Women’s Reproductive and all Health Care Rights. I believe that the decision to terminate a pregnancy, as well as all decisions with respect to a woman’s health care, should be made by the woman in consultation with her physician. I will support Planned Parenthood in their vital services for women’s health.
- As the father of a disabled veteran, and as a citizen who respects the contributions and sacrifices of all veterans, I will fight for veterans’ interests. Those interests include ready access to all health care, especially with respect to health problems that have been incurred in military service. All health care includes mental health. The veterans’ health care system should be integrated with the civilian health care system so that veterans can readily be covered for care at all health care providers, not just specifically veterans’ facilities that may be far from their homes.
- I favor gun ownership rights, qualified by universal background checks for criminal activity and mental illness. The right to gun ownership is a deep and abiding part of the American heritage, and enshrined in our Constitution. But Americans also have a right to live in safety, protected from the possibility of being shot in the course of a crime or an acute episode of mental illness. We can, and must, balance both rights.
- Human-caused climate change is a threat to our nation’s and the world’s security. But changes in our means of producing energy threaten to dislocate many workers. We need to reduce our carbon output to the atmosphere, but we also need a transitional path to ensure that individuals are not thrown out of work by the switch to a greener economy. The hard fact is that coal use will decline as a fraction of our national energy mix, as a part of our response to carbon dioxide-caused energy change. We should accelerate that change with a tax on carbon at the point of extraction from the ground for domestic sources or the point of importation for imported sources.
- I will work to ensure that every American youngster who is qualified and motivated should have access to tuition-free public higher education. This needs to be a national priority. The cost for expanded Federal commitment to access to higher education should come from a tax on Wall Street financial transactions. Wall Street traders and executives readily send their children to elite colleges and universities, based on very high salaries, year-end bonuses so high that the average bonus alone is approximately four times the average American household income–and on top of that the money they gain by investments is taxed at a lower rate than the wages that comprise the income of most families.
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| —Mark Wicklund's campaign website, http://www.wicklundforcongress.org/issues/
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See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Facebook, "Wicklund for Congress," accessed September 27, 2017
- ↑ The News-Gazette, "Tom Kacich: Dem to announce run against Davis," October 14, 2015
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "Candidate List," accessed November 30, 2015
- ↑ The New York Times, "Illinois Primary Results," March 15, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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