Nico Tsatsoulis

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Nico Tsatsoulis

Libertarian Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

University of Chicago, 1988

Graduate

University of Chicago, 1989

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Nico Tsatsoulis (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Cook County Board of Review to represent District 3 in Illinois. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Nico Tsatsoulis earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1988 and a graduate degree in 1989.

Elections

2024

See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2024)

General election

General election for Cook County Board of Review District 3

Incumbent Larry Rogers Jr. defeated Nico Tsatsoulis in the general election for Cook County Board of Review District 3 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Larry Rogers Jr. (D)	86.0	505,842
		Nico Tsatsoulis (L)	14.0	82,368

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 588,210
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Review District 3

Incumbent Larry Rogers Jr. defeated Larecia Tucker in the Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Review District 3 on March 19, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Larry Rogers Jr.	61.0	108,779
	Submit photo	Larecia Tucker	39.0	69,662

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 178,441
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2022

See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2022)

General election

General election for Cook County Assessor

Incumbent Frederick Kaegi defeated Nico Tsatsoulis and Clifton Graham Jr. in the general election for Cook County Assessor on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Frederick Kaegi (D)	82.3	1,063,188
		Nico Tsatsoulis (L)	17.7	228,425
	Submit photo	Clifton Graham Jr. (D) (Write-in)	0.0	65

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3	Total votes: 1,291,678
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Cook County Assessor

Incumbent Frederick Kaegi defeated Kari Steele in the Democratic primary for Cook County Assessor on June 28, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Frederick Kaegi	53.8	258,848
	Submit photo	Kari Steele	46.2	222,371

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 481,219
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Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for Cook County Assessor

Nico Tsatsoulis advanced from the Libertarian primary for Cook County Assessor on June 28, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Nico Tsatsoulis	100.0	1,931

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,931
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Campaign themes

2024

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2022

Nico Tsatsoulis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tsatsoulis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am an irate citizen who cannot afford to reside in Cook County anymore because of the ever-increasing property taxes. Profligate politicians are destroying our way of life. Billionaires and millionaires who enter politics having no clue how the average citizen lives. Illinois has the second highest property taxes in the nation after New Jersey and still, our local officials do not get it. Rich and poor residents are choosing to move to different states but still, our politicians do not get it. When you tax property owners like there is no tomorrow, you are hurting mostly the poor and middle class who can no longer afford their own property and have to rent.

The present assessor panders that he is making the rich pay their fair share by charging commercial properties more than residential properties. What he forgets to tell us is that the tax burden reverts to the poor, because the poor spend a larger percentage of their income in buying goods from these properties that now have to pay more taxes. All the taxes eventually revert to the poor.

Soon our tax base will be eroded like it is already happening in some of the southern suburbs. The tax rates will increase (Park Forest is already at 34%) and the downward spiral of increased taxes and reduced revenues will be a dead end. Let us save Cook County. Let us reject the people who want to kill our economy and well-being. Let us vote Fritz Kaegi out of office. Vote Nico Tsatsoulis for Cook County Assessor

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Assessments in Cook County believe it or not, have nothing to do with the underlying value of our property. They only have to do with how much money the politicians want to collect. Let us put an end to this outrageous arrangement and limit the value of the tax to 1% of the value of our property. Otherwise our properties will be confiscated by the government in no time. Also the assessments are unjust, erratic and rapacious. People at the assessor's office are employing third pary corporations to assist them with the assessments instead of using transaction values which optimally reflect the fair value of a property. We should be using transaction values and then limiting increases to 2% a year.
• The assessor is in collusion with property tax lawyers. The more outrageous his assessments the higher the fees the lawyers charge the property owners since the fees are a percentage of what is euphemistically called "savings" (the difference between the original inflated assessment and the final value after the owner appeals to the Board of Review). This is a racketeering scheme to extort illegal economic rent and transfer wealth from the property owners to the property tax lawyers. Under Fritz Kaegi this illegal scheme has increased exponentially. This scheme can be exterminated if the assessor uses transaction values as opposed to subjective approximations of fair market values.
• Of the 102 counties in Illinois, only Cook County charges commercial properties 250% more than residential properties. Section 74.64 needs to be repealed immediately to level the playing field between Cook and the collar counties. Look at Lake Cook Road. The majority of the commercial properties are on the north side of the road, which is in Lake County. The absence of commercial development on the south side of the road is a direct result of this ill-advised provision and hurts our tax revenues. This catastrophic statute hurts mostly the poor and middle class. They are the ones that now have to pay more for goods and services produced and sold in these excessively-taxed properties. And these expenses as a percentage of their income

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Property taxation is an issue that concerns every citizen whether they own property or not since it also affects rents and the cost of goods we all buy. Governments increasingly encroach on this area since real estate by virtue of being immovable is easy prey. Unfortunately, the victims of taxation policies are again the poor.

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