[LPIL - Board of Directors] April P.D. Report and additional notes

[Jake Leonard]

All,

Apologies for the delay in getting the April report in. There wasn't 
much happening in the three weeks since the April meeting, which is why 
there isn't a May report. All divisional developments from the month of 
May will be in the June report.

With the likely potential that we will opt not to petition for the only 
statewide race in Illinois for 2024 (POTUS/VP), we may need to prepare 
to focus on petitioning drives for other races from county-level to 
General Assembly.

Jim Humay, Regional Deputy Director for the Chicago/Cook & DuPage 
Counties region has been reaching out to those who previously expressed 
interest in running for General Assembly in 2022, but never responded to 
email or phone communications leading up to said election cycle. We're 
hoping that some of them will opt to run in 2024, regardless of whether 
the Cook County Clerk and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners 
want to play their dirty political games like they did two years ago 
when it came to our established party status in the county.

We have two more inquiries within his region since the April meeting:

  * *Phillip Perez*
      o First contact: April 27, 2023
      o Resident of Posen - 9th Congressional District/SCC
        Representative: Jason Decker
      o Current trustee, Posen Park District
      o Seeking to run in Senate District 15. SD15 runs into parts of
        Will and Kankakee counties, so signature requirements would
        based on new party/independent rules. Established in Cook and
        Kankakee counties, not currently established in Will County.
        District often runs uncontested Democrat, currently held by Sen.
        Napoleon Harris. /All or parts of //Beecher, Blue Island,
        Bourbonnais, Bradley, Burnham, Calumet City, Chicago, Chicago
        Heights, Country Club Hills, Crestwood, Crete, Dixmoor, Dolton,
        East Hazel Crest, Flossmoor, Ford Heighs, Glenwood, Goodenow,
        Harvey, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Kankakee, Lansing, Lynwood,
        Manteno, Markham, Midlothian, Momence, Oak Forest, Olympia
        Fields, Park Forest, Peotone, Phoenix, Posen, Riverdale,
        Robbins, Sauk Village, South Chicago Heights, South Holland,
        Steger, Thornton, Tinley Park, and University Park./
      o Nearest chapter (currently): Libertarian Party of Chicago (at
        least until South Cook Libertarians reestablishes)
      o Will be attending a LPC meet-and-greet in Blue Island on May 20
  * *Aris Garcia*
      o First contact: May 11, 2023
      o Resident of Streamwood - 8th Congressional District/SCC
        Representative: Julie Fox
      o Seeking to run in Senate District 22. SD22 runs into parts of
        Cook and Kane counties, so signature requirements would based on
        new party/independent rules. Current sitting state Sen. Cristina
        Castro has run uncontested the past couple/few cycles.
        Established in Cook County, not currently established in Kane
        County. /All or parts of Barrington Hills, Bartlett,
        Carpentersville, East Dundee, Elgin, Hanover Park, Hoffman
        Estates, Schaumburg, South Barrington, South Elgin, and Streamwood./
      o Has previous experience working as a project manager for Sen.
        Castro a couple of election cycles ago, worked the position to
        get insight and experience
      o Immigrant from Germany who is a naturalized citizen, small
        business owner, late 20s
      o The 2022 Libertarian ticket (statewide + countywide) did perform
        quite well in the Cook County portion of this district.
      o Nearest chapters: Northwest Cook Libertarians, Libertarian Party
        of Chicago, Fox Valley Libertarians

Only one other candidate inquiry came in since the April meeting, and 
I'm handling that currently:

  * *Curtis Ryan*
      o First contact: May 11, 2023
      o Formerly of Decatur, now residing in Taylorville - 15th
        Congressional District/SCC Representative: John Phillips Jr.
      o Was briefly in the running for 2022 gubernatorial race before
        dropping out
      o Initial campaign interest: Senate District 54. SD54 runs into
        parts or all of Christian, Cumberland, Effingham, Macon,
        Macoupin, Menard, Montgomery, Moultrie, Sangamon, and Shelby
        counties. Montgomery County is only established county within
        district. Went uncontested Republican in 2022, represented by
        Sen. Steve McClure. /All or parts of Assumption, Athens, Auburn,
        Carlinville, Chatham, Decatur, Effingham, Gillespie, Girard,
        Hillsboro, Litchfield, Macon, Moweaqua, Neoga, Pana, Raymond,
        Riverton, Shelbyville, Sherman, Sullivan, Taylorville, Virden,
        Williamsville, etc./
      o Open to: Christian County Circuit Clerk OR Christian County
        Coroner. Would be a target campaign in Christian County due to
        being a collar county around currently established Montgomery
        County. /Could be manageable if we can maintain between 627 and
        1,003 signatures based on the 5% to 8% range, but this is still
        an early projection until the official numbers come out from
        County Clerk Jodie Badman next year./
      o Chapter in rebuilding: ChrisMont Libertarian Central Committee
        (estimated re-establishment: April 2024)

-- 
*Jake Leonard*
*Interim Chairman and Executive Director | ChrisMont Libertarian Central 
Committee* (/Christian County, Montgomery County/)
/*Congress*: 15/ | /*Montgomery County*: Illinois Senate 54/55, Illinois 
House 107/108/110/ | /*Christian County*: Illinois Senate 48/54, 
Illinois House 95/96/107/108/

*Political Director | Libertarian Party of Illinois*
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