Twenty year veteran Illinois House member Rosemary Mulligan is dropping her 11th re-election bid, she told the Daily Herald Wednesday. She was booted off the ballot when she didn't turn in the required number of signatures and then decided against a write-in attempt.
“I was spending too much time getting angry about it,” Mulligan said in a phone interview. “I watched the stuff going on with (U.S. Sen.) Mark Kirk (who suffered a stroke over the weekend) and I thought, you know, life is too short. You have to watch somebody like that and think, ‘Why am I racing my motor over this?’”
With Mulligan bowing out, the GOP primary race in the 55th House District — which includes parts of Des Plaines, Park Ridge and Elk Grove Village — is now between two Park Ridge women, Susan Sweeney and Kelly Schaefer, both write-in candidates.
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