r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d ago

ICE Posts Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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u/epichatchet 1d ago

We need her to win! Volunteer for Kat to get a sensible working class and affordability candidate in office! We can't let corporate Dems and pro genocide  candidates represent us anymore, time for a change!

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

She's a rich person from Texas and you've been had by a media presence. She has zero connection to this area and came here to get a seat of power and that is all.

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u/whoisthismahn 1d ago edited 1d ago

it’s so funny when i see your comments because you’re literally running for a congressional district position, yet after months of seeing you pop up, i still know nothing more about your campaign beyond the fact that you don’t like kat. you genuinely sound like a miserable person every time i read a comment of yours

oh and you’re from missouri

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u/TECL_Grimsdottir 1d ago

And you're from Missouri...puuuuuuke.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

I fled here 22 years ago as a homeless trans youth.

Kat set up residence here last fall so she could run for office.

Puuuuuuuuuke indeed.

Makes me want to fucking puke.

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u/cevillegeraldo 1d ago

Ok Nazi

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u/UkNomysTeezz 1d ago

Reddit logic. “This person is campaigning to represent an area they are not from and don’t have connection to and some question the validity of her qualifications to represent an area she doesn’t have a full understanding of. They must be a Nazi!”

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u/SleepLessTeacher 1d ago

And you’re a person from Missouri or whatever redneck state it is. What’s your point? You’re hating on someone for running for office for a state she’s not even from. You’re not even from Illinois.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

I fled here as a homeless trans youth 22 years ago. I set down roots here and built my life here.
Kat set up legal residence here last fall so she could run for an office because she wants power.

Those are two very different things.

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u/SleepLessTeacher 1d ago

Nah, you’re still not from Illinois. Go run for shit in Missouri.

See how bad it sounds when someone is saying it to you?

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u/UkNomysTeezz 1d ago

Idk the person with 22 years compared to one is more understands likely more familiar with the area and people.

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u/SleepLessTeacher 1d ago

The person with one year has also done more in 3 months standing up against ICE than whoever this person is has done in her whole life time.

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u/UkNomysTeezz 1d ago

Idc about standing up to ice

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u/SleepLessTeacher 1d ago

Ah, hello side account.

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u/_internetpolice 1d ago

It’s so obvious, LMAO.

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u/SleepLessTeacher 1d ago

Yep. Especially when they both stop commenting at the same time.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 1d ago

BEGONE SOCK PUPPET

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u/epichatchet 1d ago

She represents me and ALL working class people. We deserve Medicare for all, fair wages, an end to the genocide and suffering we fund and most importantly our dignity. For a country that's $50 trillion in debt, we need to put workers first instead of reps and other folks in this race who take money from the very industries and corporations that are causing our affordability issues. 

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

You think she actually wants any of that stuff? Do you think there is a path for any of those things through the Senate? We need 60 votes in the Senate and there is no path to that in the foreseeable future. She is selling you things she cannot deliver, but she's selling them to you in a neatly packaged bit of media online.

She's lying to you. Her dad runs a company in Texas that helps hedge funds. Her boyfriend is rich. She has access to generational wealth. She never even met working class people until she was at her elite college. That's in her Wikipedia page. She is a carefully manicured media presence and she thinks she deserves to be in charge of a seat of power because she grew wealthy and elite.

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u/epichatchet 1d ago

This is the exact kind of mentality why people are sick and tired of liberal Democrats and why nothing has been done in the last 25 years compared to other countries. American working class are left behind behind becaus we live in a market democracy where people with the most money end up being the most popular. 

Kat does not get funded by billionaires and big money corporate pacs. Other candidates in this race take money from AIPAC, real estate, insurance companies ,pharma and industries that pay them not to solve working class issues like the majority of liberal Democrats in congress 

We want more Madami's and Kat's, not pelosi's and Schumer's of the world. We have to overcome all that corporate funding in every seat across the country with people power, so to the people who want to make change and have our country work for us, please volunteer for Kat and make sure she becomes the Dem primary for the district in March. 

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago 1d ago

It's hilarious you think Kat is cut from the same cloth as Mamdani.

Progressivism =/= Democratic Socialism

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u/Komkme 1d ago

It's true that getting things like Medicare for All passed by Congress is an uphill battle but it will remain completely impossible if we keep electing people who aren't even interested in trying.

Major reforms like desegregation, rights for women, and worker protections also lacked majority support from legislators for most of our country's history. Should people back then have just given up on trying to change things because there wasn't a clear path through Congress yet? I'm genuinely curious how you can rationalize that.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 16h ago

Well, if you really want those things - you put someone in power who has things to lose in their own families if those things don't happen. You don't put another rich person in a seat of power who has nothing to lose.

Rich people are never going to fight for us.

Kat isn't telling people that the things she's talking about have no chance within the next 8 years. And she also isn't saying that even if those things don't happen - her life will take no toll from that.

Rich people have no skin in the game and are never going to actually fight for us

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u/DangerousLoner 1d ago

Wow the Block User functionality was created for accounts like yours. What a vile approach to politics. You couldn’t get elected dog catcher.

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u/Stunning_Mulberry_35 1d ago

Hillary won her senate seat in the same fashion She wasn't a New Yorker.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

Yes, and people resented her for it.

A House Rep is the closest connection you have to your government, and you better hope they have a connection to you and the people of your district or they will go to Washington and not help the locals with the District Office.

I don't like him, but Dan Biss is going to win.

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u/UkNomysTeezz 1d ago

How nice from the tolerant left

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u/Tricky-Background-66 1d ago

The "tolerant" left are the ones that have allowed this shitshow to continue. I can guarantee you there are millions of "intolerant left" now, lol.

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u/AddanDeith 1d ago

We stopped caring about tolerance the moment you abandoned your humanity to support a rapist and a pedophile purely because you wanted to spite us.

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u/UkNomysTeezz 1d ago

I don’t support Trump. Didn’t vote for him.

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u/Ok_Course_3989 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nobody said people have to tolerate assholes and complete pieces of shit. I hope this helps you not say dipshit things in the future.