Jesse Jackson Pat Dowell, a Chicago alderperson and a former nonprofit administrator and Jacqui Collins, who has served in the Illinois state Senate for two decades.ĭepth of history: Jackson has extensive experience in foreign policy. But the limited polling in the race has shown Norington-Reaves, who is endorsed by the Chicago Tribune, trailing three candidates: Jonathan Jackson, an activist who is the son of the civil rights leader Rev.
Set the stage: Rush attempted to anoint a successor by endorsing Karin Norington-Reaves, a lawyer and the CEO of the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership. Jewish Insider’s Gabby Deutch talked to the four candidates who are leading in the polls. The result is a Democratic free-for-all ahead of the June 28 primary, with 17 Democrats set to appear on the ballot to represent the heavily blue 1st Congressional District. When voters on Chicago’s South Side head to the polls later this month for the state’s first-ever June congressional primaries, they’ll face several changes: warm weather, newly drawn congressional boundaries and the first election in 30 years without retiring Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Jamie Kirchick, author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Join us next Thursday at 5:30 p.m. for a special Insider Access event in Washington, D.C., featuring a conversation between Rep. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Israel Policy Forum’s Chief Policy Officer Michael Koplow emphasized Cofman Wittes’ support for the Abraham Accords. Her nomination has been held up amid scrutiny of past tweets and comments that some saw as critical of the Abraham Accords.
ambassador to Saudi Arabia.Ĭofman Wittes was first nominated nearly a year ago, on July 19, 2021. Embassy in Israel who has been nominated as U.S. Agency for International Development’s assistant administrator for the Middle East, and Michael Ratney, the former chargé d’affaires at the U.S. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a confirmation hearing today for Tamara Cofman Wittes, the long-delayed nominee to be the U.S.