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Mayoral candidate Daniel Biss rejects Ald. Ann Rainey’s endorsement
Former state Senator and Evanston mayoral candidate Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) said Friday he could no longer accept Ald. Ann Rainey’s (8th) endorsement.
This statement comes after Rainey apologized, and then recanted, to City Clerk Devon Reid for anti-Black comments she made at a candidate forum last week.
“Ald. Rainey… reiterated the view that she has the right to control the way in which one of her political opponents tells his own personal story,” Biss said. “The principle that we should give everyone an opportunity to be heard simply does not work when one person uses her voice to silence someone else’s.”
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Mayoral candidate interview: Sebastian Nalls
Sebastian Nalls, 20, is a candidate for mayor in the Feb. 23 Evanston primary. A junior at Purdue University, this is his first run for elected office.
Sebasian Nalls (Photo by Jill Norton Photography)
Sebastian Nalls, 20, is a candidate for mayor in the Feb. 23 Evanston primary. A junior at Purdue University, this is his first run for elected office.
Evanston Now’s Jeff Hirsh interviewed Nalls about key issues in the campaign, including police staffing, affordable housing and the city’s reparations program.
Nalls offered the following information on his background and what he views as the key issues in the campaign in response to an Evanston Now questionnaire.
Biss said the role of the police in the realm of public safety has become too broad.
“Over the course of the last really 50 years in American life, we have massively cranked up the number of problems to which we’ve decided that the solution is a guy with a gun,” Biss said. “And it has, most of all, harmed the communities… whose problems are attempted to be solved in the wrong way.”
Biss, a former state senator representing Evanston and a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, is campaigning for Mayor of Evanston in the city’s upcoming municipal elections. He will run against local activist Lori Keenan and recent Evanston Township High School graduate Sebastian Nalls.