Democrat Alex Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk will face Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones in the 2010 Illinois US Senate race. Sen. Roland Burris, who was appointed to Barack Obama’s former seat by now-impeached Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich, will not seek reelection.
LeAlan Jones is an author and journalist known for documenting poverty and violence in the inner-city Chicago neighborhoods where he grew up, most notably in the internationally-recognized “Ghetto Life 101″. Jones and his political views were profiled in Chris Hedge’s article “So Much for the Promised Land.”
“This is the only thing I can do to have peace of mind,” he said when I asked him why he was running for office. “I am looking at a community that is suffering because of a lack of genuine concern from their leaders. This isn’t about a contract. This isn’t about a grant. This isn’t about who gets to stand behind the political elite at a press conference. This is about who is going to stand behind the people. What these leaders talk about and what needs to happen in the community is disjointed.”
LeAlan Jones is running on an Illinois Green Party slate that includes Rich Whitney for governor, who earned over 10% of the vote in 2006. You can find out more about Jones on his website LeAlanForSenate.com.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Third Party Revolution // Feb 3, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Third Party Revolution would like to endorse LeAlan Jones in his campaign for the Illinois US Senate seat, along with many other third party and independent candidates seeking public offices nationwide, ranging from local to federal levels.
2 Don Lake .......... I think // Feb 3, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Intra partisan endorsements,
are a powerful but forgotten tool!
3 Dameocrat // Feb 3, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Every green in the country should be throwing money behind Lealan Jones. This is Obama’s old seat, and Alex Giannoulias is a corrupt machine endorsed banker.
It would really be a stick in the eye of Rahm, Obama and the corporate dems.
4 Thane Eichenauer // Feb 3, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Mr. Jones has some worthy accomplishments and is quite justly critical about the recent US government actions to socialize the losses of the banking industry. I look forward to the day when his web site has his positions stated.
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