IL-13: Champaign News-Gazette endorses Betsy Dirksen Londigran for Congress.
13th District voters have a politically reasonable alternative to Davis in Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate from Springfield who narrowly lost to Davis two years ago.
Londrigan’s prime reason for running, both times, has been to improve and lower the cost of health care. She also recognizes that rebuilding the agricultural economy will require expanded trade agreements because the current program — those billions in payments to farmers — is unsustainable.
She supports the Second Amendment but says there’s a need for legislation to apply universal background checks on gun sales and to keep firearms out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.
Londrigan deserves a chance to demonstrate what she can do in Congress. Davis has had eight years and has little to show for it, particularly the last four years with a Republican administration. The lack of a federal infrastructure bill, with Davis as the ranking member of a major transportation subcommittee, is an example.
If elected, Londrigan would become the first woman to represent Champaign-Urbana in Congress. We’d like to see her make history.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-our-choices-for-congress/article_055ed08a-a5dc-517b-9a4b-057cf9f8c0e6.html
