Write-in candidate joins congressional race to counter GOP Holocaust denier with neo-Nazi ties
A La Grange lawyer is taking a long-shot dive into Illinois’ 3rd District congressional race as a write-in candidate because, he says, he wants to challenge the views of the Republican nominee, who has past neo-Nazi ties and denies the Holocaust happened.
Justin Hanson, 35, said he was spurred to action while watching the unopposed GOP candidate, Arthur Jones, get more than 20,000 votes in the March primary election, an essentially perfunctory vote on his way to challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski this fall. The district stretches from Chicago’s Southwest Side into the south and west suburbs.
