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Steve Schwartzberg
Steve Schwartzberg (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 5th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 20, 2018.
Biography
Schwartzberg is a former director of undergraduate studies for international studies at Yale University. He also taught at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University, his master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and his bachelor's degree from Reed College.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 5
Incumbent Mike Quigley defeated Tom Hanson in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Quigley (D) | 76.7 | 213,992 |
 | Tom Hanson (R) | 23.3 | 65,134 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 5 | ||
| Total votes: 279,131 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 5
Incumbent Mike Quigley defeated Sameena Mustafa, Benjamin Thomas Wolf, and Steve Schwartzberg in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 5 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Quigley | 62.5 | 66,254 |
 | Sameena Mustafa | 24.1 | 25,591 | |
 | Benjamin Thomas Wolf | 9.5 | 10,032 | |
 | Steve Schwartzberg | 4.0 | 4,196 | |
| Total votes: 106,073 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 5
Tom Hanson advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 5 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Hanson | 100.0 | 18,837 |
| Total votes: 18,837 | |||
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Campaign finance
The table below details the campaign finance reports of candidates in this race who had raised at least $10,000 as of February 14, 2018.
Endorsements
| Democratic primary endorsements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Endorsement | Mustafa[2] | Quigley[3] | Schwartzberg[4] |
| Federal officials | |||
| Tammy Duckworth, U.S. senator | ✔ | ||
| Dick Durbin, U.S. senator | ✔ | ||
| Jan Schakowsky, U.S. representative | ✔ | ||
| State figures | |||
| Susana Mendoza, Illinois state comptroller | ✔ | ||
| Heather Steans, Illinois state senator | ✔ | ||
| Local figures | |||
| Bridget Gainer, Cook County commissioner | ✔ | ||
| John Arena, Chicago city alderman | ✔ | ||
| Ameya Pawar, Chicago city alderman | ✔ | ||
| Michele Smith, Chicago city alderwoman | ✔ | ||
| Organizations | |||
| Americans for Democratic Action | ✔ | ||
| Illinois AFL-CIO | ✔ | ||
| Illinois Association of Firefighters | ✔ | ||
| Illinois Berniecrats | ✔ | ||
| Illinois Citizen Action | ✔ | ||
| Illinois Planned Parenthood | ✔ | ||
| Illinois Sierra Club | ✔ | ||
| Illinois State Council SEIU | ✔ | ||
| Independent Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization | ✔ | ||
| Justice Democrats | ✔ | ||
| Northside Democracy for America | ✔ | ||
| Social Democrats, USA | ✔ | ||
| Media outlets | |||
| Chicago Sun-Times[5] | ✔ | ||
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Steve Schwartzberg participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 26, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Steve Schwartzberg's responses follow below.[6]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Advancing Medicare for All, with a special emphasis on workforce and compensation structure issues to ensure that universal healthcare will be better quality healthcare for all (see: http://conta.cc/2ydWYy5 ) 2) Supporting massive infrastructure investment and the ""decarbonization"" of our economy through a Marshall Plan for America (see: http://conta.cc/2qgZwfq ) |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I am particularly passionate about the need to respect the sovereignty of the native peoples ( see: http://conta.cc/2qgno2A ). I have recently completed a book manuscript on the fight against Cherokee ""removal"" in the 1830s--the fight to try to prevent what became the Trail of Tears and Death. That fight was lost because the American people failed to act on the principle that all human beings are brothers and sisters and instead chose to appease Georgia's aggression and violation of the Cherokee Nation's treaty rights. We are now on the verge of making a similar horrific mistake in our policy toward undocumented immigrants. Any time our policy touches on issues of basic human rights, as it often does, I can be counted on to be--as I was described in a review of my first book in Foreign Affairs in 2005--""A passionate pro-labor Social Democrat.""Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[8]
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Campaign website
Schwartzberg listed the following issues on his campaign website. To read more, please click here.
| “ |
Here are my five top issues:
But there are many reasons to vote for social democratic leadership for the Illinois 5th District:
Among our purposes as a people in sustaining our nation, our Constitution speaks of providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity. Rather than campaign on “bullet points”—although I do offer a few—the first three links below are to extended essays on each of these topics. The next two links are to published articles of mine that deal with examples from the history of American foreign relations in which our government’s officials did more good than harm because they were concerned with the common good, and with the rights and interests of others, and not merely with our own advantages–an approach to which we should return. The last two links offer my positions on a range of contemporary issues.[9][8] |
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| —Steve Schwartzberg, 2018 | ||
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Illinois' 5th Congressional District election, 2018
- Illinois' 5th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Steve Schwartzberg 2018 campaign website, "About," accessed March 5, 2018
- ↑ Sameena Mustafa, "Endorsements," accessed February 14, 2018
- ↑ Mike Quigley for Congress, "Endorsements," accessed February 14, 2018
- ↑ Steve Schwartzberg for Congress, "Endorsements," accessed February 14, 2018
- ↑ Chicago Sun-Times, "ENDORSEMENT: Mike Quigley for Congress in 5th District Democratic primary," February 13, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Steve Schwartzberg's responses," February 26, 2018
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Schwartzberg for Congress, "Issues," accessed March 8, 2018
