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Laurie Parman
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Laurie Parman (Republican Party) ran for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 66. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Parman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2024
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 66
Incumbent Suzanne Ness defeated Laurie Parman in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 66 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Suzanne Ness (D) | 53.3 | 27,757 |
 | Laurie Parman (R)  | 46.7 | 24,292 | |
| Total votes: 52,049 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 66
Incumbent Suzanne Ness advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 66 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Suzanne Ness | 100.0 | 5,028 |
| Total votes: 5,028 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 66
Laurie Parman advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 66 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laurie Parman | 100.0 | 4,223 |
| Total votes: 4,223 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Laurie Parman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Parman'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 a 30 year retired teacher. I have a doctorate in Educational Leadership. My dissertation was a mixed methods study focused on improving public safety. I am a mother of five and grandmother to 11. I have worked successfully to improve educational outcomes for students in free and reduced lunch buildings.
- I believe that we do not need more money to improve educational outcomes for students. There are key elements that keep teachers from working at their fullest potential. The adoption of new tests and new textbooks too frequently, state mandates that interfere with essential curriculum elements, and the prioritization of administration positions when more direct instructional positions would enhance outcomes more rapidly.
- Illinoisans are suffering under the weight of rising prices for almost every essential item they buy. Primarily they struggle to make impossible choices at the grocery store. Illinois is losing population through ex-migration at an alarming rate, followed by the exodus of businesses to other states and the shuttering of some businesses. This leaves fewer Illinoisans to bear the financial tax burden. It is time to start. It creates a "perfect storm" for the people in this state. I will be a representatives who prioritizes business incentives and lowering tax rates. I will vote for a child tax credit if given the opportunity.
- With a background in the study of public safety, it is no surprise that I am concerned about this for Illinois. I believe that certain elements of the SAFE-T Act make Illinois less safe, such as no cash bail, enabling certain drug offenses as misdemeanors. I believe that the best thing for young (18 and below according to the SAFE-T) is to face the penalty for crime while they are young enough to make corrections to their lives.
As I have knocked on over 1600 + doors during this campaign, I have developed a passion for families facing mental health challenges. I have been touched by the families who are facing some of the most difficult life circumstances that one could imagine. There are simply not enough resources that reach the people. I am concerned that we need more accountability and oversight of where mental health dollars are spent. I will pledge myself to bring those issues to the forefront if elected.
My father. He had only a 6th grade education, but was the smartest man I knew. He taught me that there is nothing you can't if you get a book from the library and teach yourself. Together my dad and I built brick walls and stone walls, and I used that principle to teach myself calculus so I could pass my 2 doctoral statistics classes each with an A. Thanks Dad!
The President and the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmead
It is a non-fiction book about the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. It tells the true story of how one helped the other to end slavery and save the Union.
It is a non-fiction book about the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. It tells the true story of how one helped the other to end slavery and save the Union.
I believe that you cannot be a good representative of the people unless you know the people. I have had hundreds of conversations with the people of District 66. I have walked my district in municipalities so that I can get a feel for what each community needs from its state government. I should not have been surprised that each municipality needs and wants different things, but I was.
I also think a state representative should not jump into solving a problem until first asking a few important questions: When did the problem first appear? What has been the impact of the problem and upon whom did that impact fall? Why did this problem happen? What has previously been done to fix this problem and to what outcome?
Today's young people talk about influencers quite a bit. I never set out to be an influencer, but I began to notice that I was an influencer in my work place. in a one on one meeting with a new boss, he made the statement, "I can't believe you got along with ___________. She either loved you or she hated you..." The implication was that she should have hated me because I can be resolute about things. I replied, "She either loved you, she hated you or she needed you". This boss was a good lady and she was smart enough to see who people listened to in the workplace. That how I began to realize that people listen to me. I am a difference maker because people listen to me.
The core responsibilities are to be responsible to read what is being voted on and be able to explain why they voted thusly. I also believe that the purpose of a district representative is to help people in their district with problems caused by the state such as slow processes or difficult red tape to wade through.
I believe a representative should participate with municipalities to bring state dollars to municipal projects.Education
I would like people to say that Laurie Parman made a difference in my life.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy. I was 8.
I worked as a cashier for K-Mart from the time I was 14 until I was 24.
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen. it's about a hopelessly handicapped child in 1921. The non-communicative child, Petey, was committed to an insane but went on throughout the course of his very long life to change the life of everyone with whom he came into contact.
I would love to be Melanie from Gone With the Wind. She was so gracious and forgiving and magnanimous. She was non-reactive and able to live above circumstances.
The loss of our beautiful 26 year old daughter in a head-on collision with a driver who never should have been on the road.
If each branch of Illinois government stay to its own constitutional lane, theoretically state government should be able to maintain a workable balance. With an impractical super majority; Illinois is out of balance. Illinois is suffering from a lack of conversation in Springfield. The party in power has decidedly better odds of staying in power than any challenger of getting into the mix. Thus the need to converse is not there. With a same party Governor stamping the final product, there is little hope of change.
Our greatest challenge will definitely be a financial one. No amount of telling the public that Illinois is healthier than it has ever been will make it so. It will necessitate hard choices, budget cuts and Illinois needs business revenues.
Not necessarily. I have worked for thirty years with people who did not necessarily have the same ideas. We were able to learn to work together to improve academic outcomes for students in an at risk 5/6 building. People such as myself with experience working and achieving great things can be very successful in government. Remember: This is public service rather than politics. Politics is how we learn to operate in the concentric circles around public service, which could be a good thing or not so good.
Yes I definitely believe that the best relationships make for the best outcomes. Why wouldn't you want to know people and work with them? I believe that we have lost that concept due and imbalance in one party rule. I intend to make good relationships regardless of party affiliation.
I have studied the votes in the Illinois House of Representatives. I have sought to find out why certain legislators voted in certain ways. I found one legislator down state who casts his votes the same way I would have cast mine, had I been here as well. I contacted this legislator, Jed Davis from Kendall County, and set up a meeting for coffee at his office. I have since developed a friendship with Jed and the ladies in his office.
I knocked on a door and introduced myself. The people asked me to please come in. I said, I don't usually come in. They said "No, you come in." so I came in and they began to tell me of their struggle to help their 22 year old son with autism. He was just about to age out of the help that was provided to them by the school system and were trying to find workable solutions to systemic red tape. they also struggled to find a good place for him to continue his education. They told me, "There's more of us. right here in this town." I needed to fight back the tears when they told a story of their son becoming very agitated at the doctor's office. The office staff told the mom to get him out of here. The next week, the doctor's office sent them a letter telling them they were no longer welcome at the practice.
People who find their lives in situations such as this need help from state government, and I want to be there for them and others like them.
People who find their lives in situations such as this need help from state government, and I want to be there for them and others like them.
I believe that the public still has post traumatic stress feelings from the use of emergency powers during the COVID lockdowns. I believe that government in the United States of America should not have that type of unchecked power over people. The evidence is in... States who did not do any of those oppressive measures recovered as well as or even better from the disease than Illinois did. The treatment should never be worse that the disease. In the case those lockdowns it was. Children lost one entire year of academic progress. We should not trust a few people to decide what we can and cannot do, because as we have seen here it was entirely wrong.
Examination of the use of public dollars for mental health.
Illinois Family Action
National Federation of Small Business PAC
National Federation of Small Business PAC
Education Elementary and Secondary
Mental Health and Addiction
We need more of each. If Illinois is to survive this is a foundational need.
Yes definitely. Perhaps we do away with them. Let's keep voting simple and keep political opinions off the ballot and just vote for the people.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
Current members of the Illinois House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Emanuel Welch
Majority Leader:Robyn Gabel
Minority Leader:Tony McCombie
Representatives
District 1
Aaron Ortiz (D)
District 2
District 3
Eva Delgado (D)
District 4
Lilian Jiménez (D)
District 5
District 6
Sonya Harper (D)
District 7
Emanuel Welch (D)
District 8
La Shawn Ford (D)
District 9
Yolonda Morris (D)
District 10
District 11
Ann Williams (D)
District 12
Margaret Croke (D)
District 13
Hoan Huynh (D)
District 14
Kelly Cassidy (D)
District 15
Michael Kelly (D)
District 16
Kevin Olickal (D)
District 17
District 18
Robyn Gabel (D)
District 19
Lindsey LaPointe (D)
District 20
Brad Stephens (R)
District 21
District 22
District 23
Edgar Gonzalez (D)
District 24
Theresa Mah (D)
District 25
Curtis Tarver (D)
District 26
Kambium Buckner (D)
District 27
Justin Slaughter (D)
District 28
Robert Rita (D)
District 29
Thaddeus Jones (D)
District 30
William Davis (D)
District 31
Michael Crawford (D)
District 32
Lisa Davis (D)
District 33
Marcus Evans (D)
District 34
Nicholas Smith (D)
District 35
Mary Gill (D)
District 36
Rick Ryan (D)
District 37
Patrick Sheehan (R)
District 38
District 39
Will Guzzardi (D)
District 40
Jaime Andrade (D)
District 41
Janet Yang Rohr (D)
District 42
Terra Howard (D)
District 43
Anna Moeller (D)
District 44
Fred Crespo (D)
District 45
Martha Deuter (D)
District 46
District 47
Amy Grant (R)
District 48
District 49
Maura Hirschauer (D)
District 50
District 51
Nabeela Syed (D)
District 52
District 53
Nicolle Grasse (D)
District 54
Mary Beth Canty (D)
District 55
Martin Moylan (D)
District 56
Michelle Mussman (D)
District 57
Tracy Katz Muhl (D)
District 58
Bob Morgan (D)
District 59
Daniel Didech (D)
District 60
Rita Mayfield (D)
District 61
Joyce Mason (D)
District 62
Laura Dias (D)
District 63
Steven Reick (R)
District 64
Tom Weber (R)
District 65
Dan Ugaste (R)
District 66
Suzanne Ness (D)
District 67
Maurice West (D)
District 68
Dave Vella (D)
District 69
Joe Sosnowski (R)
District 70
Jeff Keicher (R)
District 71
Daniel Swanson (R)
District 72
Gregg Johnson (D)
District 73
Ryan Spain (R)
District 74
Brad Fritts (R)
District 75
Jed Davis (R)
District 76
Amy Briel (D)
District 77
Norma Hernandez (D)
District 78
Camille Lilly (D)
District 79
Jackie Haas (R)
District 80
Anthony DeLuca (D)
District 81
District 82
Nicole La Ha (R)
District 83
Matt Hanson (D)
District 84
District 85
Dagmara Avelar (D)
District 86
Lawrence Walsh (D)
District 87
Bill Hauter (R)
District 88
Regan Deering (R)
District 89
Tony McCombie (R)
District 90
John Cabello (R)
District 91
Sharon Chung (D)
District 92
District 93
Travis Weaver (R)
District 94
Norine Hammond (R)
District 95
Mike Coffey (R)
District 96
Sue Scherer (D)
District 97
Harry Benton (D)
District 98
Natalie Manley (D)
District 99
Kyle Moore (R)
District 100
C.D. Davidsmeyer (R)
District 101
Chris Miller (R)
District 102
Adam Niemerg (R)
District 103
Carol Ammons (D)
District 104
District 105
Dennis Tipsword (R)
District 106
Jason Bunting (R)
District 107
Brad Halbrook (R)
District 108
Wayne Rosenthal (R)
District 109
Charles Meier (R)
District 110
Blaine Wilhour (R)
District 111
Amy Elik (R)
District 112
Katie Stuart (D)
District 113
Jay Hoffman (D)
District 114
Kevin Schmidt (R)
District 115
David Friess (R)
District 116
Dave Severin (R)
District 117
District 118
Paul Jacobs (R)
Democratic Party (78)
Republican Party (40)
