NTDO ---- THE NEW TRIER DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION ---- NTDO
Welcome to the New Trier Dems Website
"We are who we've been waiting for."
Barack Obama - 2008
At Issue:
2012 is a Presidential Election Year of critical importance. The New Trier Dems will be reaching out to neighborhoods and groups across the township, offering forums, social gatherings and grassroots activities to share information and ideas and to stimulate participation in our democracy.
If we, as voters, hope to have any effective voice in what happens next, it's important that all of us learn all of the facts. The more we know about the situation the better we will be equipped to communicate our views to our elected legislators. That's what grassroots politics is all about, connecting our neighborhoods with our elected officials and keeping that connection alive. We invite you to be a part of this process as the New Trier Dems move into a new year that, along with many challenges, holds a great deal of promise.
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Last year it looked like the reelection of President Obama and the election of a Democrat to represent the U.S. Tenth Congressional District were the two contest that would require most of our organization's efforts. But the retirements of both of New Trier's Democratic State Senators and one New Trier Democratic State Representative created a whole new dynamic. The following Democratic candidates are presently campaigning to represent New Trier in Springfield.
Daniel Biss, presently our 17th District State Representative, is running to become the next State Senator for Illinois' 9th State Senate District, filling the seat of retiring State Senator Jeff Schoenberg.
Julie Morrison, a West Deerfield Township supervisor, and Milton Sumption, a Lake Bluff business consultant, are competing in the March Democratic Primary to replace retiring State Senator Susan Garrett in Illinois' 29th State Senate District. The district includes New Trier's northernmost precincts. (A website for candidate Sumption could not be located by the NTD News as of 12/21/11.)
Scott Drury, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, is running to fill the office of the retiring IL 58th House District Rep Karen May, representing some of New Trier's northernmost precincts.
In New Trier's 9th Congressional District, seven-term Congresswoman and Chief Deputy Whip Jan Schakowsky is being challenged in the March Democratic Primary by Simon Ribeiro, a high school teacher in the Chicago Archdiocese who ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2010 9th Congressional race.
The Primary Election to choose a Democrat to run for New Trier's 10th Congressional District (covering the northernmost New Trier precincts in Glencoe) is being vigorously contested. There are now five Democrats vying to become our next 10th U.S. Congressional District Representative. They are Vivek Bavda - Brad Schneider - Aloys Rutagwibira - Ilya Sheyman - John Tree - You are urged to visit the websites of each of these candidates to learn about their positions on key issues. One of these candidates will oppose U.S. Rep. Robert Dold, a first-term congressman who has already established himself as a supporter of obstructionist Republican policies that are strangling any chance for Congressional compromise.
Laura Fine, Northfield Township Clerk is the unopposed Democratic Primary candicate to become New Trier's next 17th District State Representative, replacing State Rep. Daniel Biss who is running for the State Senate. Robyn Gabel, our present 18th District's State Representative is also running unopposed in the 2012 Democratic Primary.
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