House Speaker Welch is putting his reputation on the line as he seeks to oust the dean of the General Assembly — Rep. Mary Flowers.
Yvonne Tolbert votes at Windy City Motors in Chicago during Illinois primary election on March 19, 2024,
Antinisha Sturgeon, right, helps her grandfather, Ben Walker, vote during the Illinois primary election on March 19, 2024, at Marshall High School in Chicago. Basia Toczydlowska, right, a technician with the Chicago Board of Elections, inspects a ballot box that was malfunctioning along with Kevin Bess, an election judge, during the Illinois primary election on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at Marshall High School in Chicago.
Jessica Bloom, left, and Gretchen Emner vote during the primary election at the Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 in Chicago on March 19, 2024. After voting, Lawrence Weisler and his 6-year-old son, James Weisler, walk past voting booths at the Chicago Board of Elections’ Loop Super Site the day before Illinois’ primary Election Day on March 18, 2024.
Campaign signs are seen outside of the Humboldt Park Chicago Public Library during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, candidate for Congress in the 7th District in Illinois, greets supporters with her daughter, Geneva Ervin, 7, in red, during a “Get Out The Vote” celebration featuring Chicago artists and choirs on March 17, 2024, at Harmony Community Church in Chicago.
Dozens of high school students from various high schools take part in parade march down Lake Street after leaving a forum at the Chicago Teachers Union headquarters in Chicago, Friday, March 15, 2024, and marching to Union Park to vote. The Student Power Forum is organized by Chicago Votes, La Casa Norte, and the CTU.
Graciela Guzmán, candidate for State Senator, 20th District, smiles as people cheer for her during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. Justice Jesse G. Reyes, candidate for the Illinois Supreme Court, talks with students outside an early voting polling place at the Oak Park Village Hall on March 7, 2024.
Ray Adams, a supporter of Clayton Harris III, candidate for Cook County State's Attorney, listens to speeches during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. Welch, the state’s first Black speaker, is putting his reputation on the line as he seeks to oust the dean of the General Assembly — Rep. Mary Flowers, an African American South Sider who joined the House in 1985 as a fervent ally of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor. The Welch-backed challenger is Michael Crawford, a campus official of The Chicago School, a private college.
The Welch-backed effort to defeat Flowers saw more than $1.5 million in donations to Crawford. Nearly $600,000 of that total came from Welch and other House Democratic allies and far outpaced Flowers’ political war chest, records show. Welch and his acolytes have blasted Flowers, accusing her of going off topic in caucus meetings and pointing out she once said a staffer resembled Adolf Hitler.
In the Senate, two other candidates in the race with Toro and Guzman are Dr. Dave Nayak, who manages a Grundy County farming business and runs a free asthma and allergy clinic in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood, and Geary Yonker, a community organizer in Logan Square who has also worked as an executive for the Chicago Reader and WBEZ-FM 91.5.
Guzman, whose support includes Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, the county Democratic Party chair, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the former Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont, has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars, including from teacher-related unions. In another Democratic legislative primary race in Chicago, Rep. Theresa Mah, who has held her South Side seat since 2017 as the first Asian American elected to the General Assembly, is trying to stave off a challenge from Lai Ching Ng, an analyst for the Cook County Board of Review.
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