{"id":7724,"date":"2010-02-05T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/illinois-gop-primary-results-how-did-libertarian-leaning-republicans-fare\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:08:19","slug":"illinois-gop-primary-results-how-did-libertarian-leaning-republicans-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/illinois-gop-primary-results-how-did-libertarian-leaning-republicans-fare.php","title":{"rendered":"Illinois GOP Primary Results: How did libertarian-leaning Republicans fare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Kirk easily won his primary for US Senate against four lesser-known challengers with 56% of the vote.  The moderate-to-conservative Kirk was supported by at least one prominent Libertarian Republican, Chicago-area activist and former Libertarian Party of Illinois board member Jeff Wartman.  <\/p><p>David Ratowitz won the GOP nomination for the 5th Congressional seat.  He is a US Army Vet from the famed 82nd Airborne.  He's a practicing Attorney in suburban Chicago. According to Dave Nalle, RLC National Chair:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S2ow3UlPizI\/AAAAAAAAJoA\/7LeCOk0i-BE\/s1600-h\/DavidRatowitz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/30a83_DavidRatowitz.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><blockquote><p>Ratowitz is one of the most libertarian-leaning Republicans running this year, with backing from groups like the Republica Liberty Caucus and LibertySlate. He beat two conservative Republicans for a chance to run against incumbent Democrat Mike Quigley in the fall in a district which is mostly middle class Chicago suburbs and leans Democrat, but was held by a Republican during the mid 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Dr. Arie Freidman running for the Mark Kirk seat in Congress, Northlake shore, finished 4th with 13% in a field of 5.  The winner of the GOP primary was Robert Dold.  <\/p><p>For Governor, political newcommer Adam Andrzejewski, a favorite of the Tea Party movement placed a dissapointing 5th in a field of 7, with 14.4% of the vote.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/30a83_7828681836623105417-7543244571931731051?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Kirk easily won his primary for US Senate against four lesser-known challengers with 56% of the vote. The moderate-to-conservative Kirk was supported by at least one prominent Libertarian Republican, Chicago-area activist and former Libertarian Party of Illinois board member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/illinois-gop-primary-results-how-did-libertarian-leaning-republicans-fare.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}