Openline-Blog Article 10-25-12 Election 2012 Illinois 42nd District Could Peter Hurtado Knock Out Linda Holmes
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Election 2012 Illinois 42nd State Senate | Could Peter Hurtado Knock Out Linda Holmes?
After an all-out war where the political mafia threw over a million bucks into getting Linda Holmes elected as a state senator previously against Terri Ann Wintermute, this time, the race has been far more quiet as Peter Hurtado challenges the incumbent, working hard to knock her out with old-fashioned retail campaigning and meeting voters.
The 42nd State Senate District includes portions of Aurora, Naperville, North Aurora, Montgomery, Oswego and Boulder Hill. Holmes, who moved to Plainfield and voted to increase taxes for Illinois, has not waged a high-profile campaign and has a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank if she wanted to spend it. She lists her accomplishments as finding ways to waste millions of tax dollars into Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner's park project that was supposed to be privately-funded. Meanwhile, her challenger is Peter Hurtado, a business owner, who mission is to be fiscally responsible in Springfield and more involved in the community. As Illinois is engulfed in an ethical and leadership crisis and appears to be headed off a fiscal cliff, Hurtado wants to change things while Holmes says she will continue to do more of what she has been doing. Marie Wilson of the Daily Herald adds and reports:
Holmes said her ability to “be open-minded and listen” allows her to work across the aisle with Republicans and accomplish positive changes for her district, such as helping Aurora use the state’s River Edge Redevelopment Zone Investment tax credit to build RiverEdge Park and co-sponsoring a new unemployed veterans’ tax credit. “It’s always been curiosity and fact-finding,” said Holmes, 53, of Aurora. “It’s doing all the background work and doing all the research to find out facts that I think has always been fascinating to me.” Hurtado criticized state budgeting practices and said he would be “more fiscally responsible” than Holmes and “more involved in the community.” He said the state has a spending problem that can be fixed by budgeting with hard numbers instead of revenue assumptions and by removing “stupid spending.” Holmes said the process of “budgeting for results” the state has been using the past two years is on the right track to producing more financial stability in the future.
Election 2012 Illinois 42nd State Senate | Could Peter Hurtado Knock Out Linda Holmes?
After an all-out war where the political mafia threw over a million bucks into getting Linda Holmes elected as a state senator previously against Terri Ann Wintermute, this time, the race has been far more quiet as Peter Hurtado challenges the incumbent, working hard to knock her out with old-fashioned retail campaigning and meeting voters.
The 42nd State Senate District includes portions of Aurora, Naperville, North Aurora, Montgomery, Oswego and Boulder Hill. Holmes, who moved to Plainfield and voted to increase taxes for Illinois, has not waged a high-profile campaign and has a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank if she wanted to spend it. She lists her accomplishments as finding ways to waste millions of tax dollars into Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner's park project that was supposed to be privately-funded. Meanwhile, her challenger is Peter Hurtado, a business owner, who mission is to be fiscally responsible in Springfield and more involved in the community. As Illinois is engulfed in an ethical and leadership crisis and appears to be headed off a fiscal cliff, Hurtado wants to change things while Holmes says she will continue to do more of what she has been doing. Marie Wilson of the Daily Herald adds and reports:
Holmes said her ability to “be open-minded and listen” allows her to work across the aisle with Republicans and accomplish positive changes for her district, such as helping Aurora use the state’s River Edge Redevelopment Zone Investment tax credit to build RiverEdge Park and co-sponsoring a new unemployed veterans’ tax credit. “It’s always been curiosity and fact-finding,” said Holmes, 53, of Aurora. “It’s doing all the background work and doing all the research to find out facts that I think has always been fascinating to me.” Hurtado criticized state budgeting practices and said he would be “more fiscally responsible” than Holmes and “more involved in the community.” He said the state has a spending problem that can be fixed by budgeting with hard numbers instead of revenue assumptions and by removing “stupid spending.” Holmes said the process of “budgeting for results” the state has been using the past two years is on the right track to producing more financial stability in the future.
