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U.S. Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03) is being sued by Chicago college professor Iymen Chehade, who alleges that she violated a contract to offer him a job in exchange for dropping out of the March 2020 congressional primary. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
OAK LAWN, IL — A college professor is suing U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, claiming that she violated a contract to give him a job on her staff if he dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District.
In March 2018, the complaint asserts, plaintiff Iymen Chehade, an adjunct history professor at Columbia College, began mulling a run in the 2020 congressional Democratic primary. Newman also planned a second run for Congress in the 3rd District, having lost the primary district by a narrow margin to incumbent Dan Lipinski. Conscious of the district's large Palestinian-American community, Newman reached out to Chehade in 2018, offering him a job on her staff should she win the November 2020 election, the complaint said.