Dan Sugrue Announces Candidacy for State Representative, 59th District

Libertyville, Illinois, August 15, 2009 — Republican Dan Sugrue announced today that he will run for state representative in the 59th District in 2010 against incumbent Kathy Ryg.

Declaring that “eight years of one party rule is enough,” Sugrue stressed that voters in his mostly Lake County district need a legislator in Springfield that represents their interests rather than “the Chicago machine.”  He criticized Kathy Ryg for voting in favor of a 50 percent increase in the state income tax just last May, a few months after voting to raise her own pay, “At a time when people are hurting, they don’t need  the State of Illinois taking more money out of their pockets because it can’t control its own spending.”  Sugrue said that he would work to bring jobs back to Illinois by giving incentives for businesses to come to Illinois.

Last year, in his first run for public office, Sugrue challenged Ryg and despite the fact that he entered the race only 7 months before the election against a career politician in a Democratic year, Sugrue did better than any other Republican challenger in the area. Sugrue is an attorney in Green Oaks, is married and has three children.

“For everyone in the 59th district, who’s tired of the corruption in Springfield, tired of the tax and spend policies of Chicago Machine Democrats, and tired of seeing jobs leaving the State of Illinois, come join my campaign” said Sugrue. “We can change the direction of government in Springfield, but only if we send new people down there who aren’t tied to the failed policies of the past.”

The 59th District includes all or parts of Waukegan, Park City, Gurnee, Green Oaks, Mettawa, Lake Bluff, North Chicago, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods, Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills and Wheeling. Here’s a map