State Senate 49th District candidate Stacey Keagle | staceyforstatesenate.com
State Senate 49th District candidate Stacey Keagle | staceyforstatesenate.com
Stacey Keagle has won the State Senate District 49 GOP primary.
After leading the Republican primary, Keagle will face State Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel (D-Shorewood) in the Nov. 8 general election.
“There are so many people I wish to thank. I especially wanted to thank Heather Catherine, Zyan Wilven, Jim Lanham and Jimmy Greenway for coming in at the 11th hour and saving me,” Keagle said on Facebook. "Special thank you’s to Dawn Damiani, Raquel Melanie, Matthew C. Starr, Michelle L. Smith for the 97th, Bill Passaglia, Jennifer Sanalitro, Lockport Township Republicans, Whetland Township Republican Organization, so many precinct committeemen and the VOTERS in the 49th District. I look forward to serving the citizens of Illinois."
Keagle, according to Ballotpedia, secured the victory in the three-way race with 46.6% of the vote and 4,876 votes. Nearest opponent James Lawson Jr. received 38.6% of the vote with 4,040 votes while Felicity Joy Solomon received only 14.8% of the vote with 1,550 votes.
"I am a proud resident of Illinois," she stated in her campaign bio. "I am a Republican woman with solid conservative values. It’s pastime that we have a candidate with a solid backbone that will stand up and represent not only the interests of the State of Illinois, but the best interest of the residents. As a state senator, I will promote job growth and security, fight to lower taxes, be an active advocate for our senior residents, veterans and police, advance education curriculum, maintain a firm focus on our youth and work to develop youth programs and training to keep our youth off the streets and in school, supporting union jobs, defending the rights of parents to decide for their children, community safety, fiscal accountability and rooting out wasteful use and corruption that has plagued Illinois for decades."
Keagle came out against the COVID-19 protocols Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democrats enforced on Illinoisans.
“Gov. Pritzker along with many other Democrats, sensationalized the mitigations and circumvented the safeguards protecting Americans from government overreach," Keagle told the Daily Herald. "The governor unilaterally made decisions circumventing the legislature and local governments. The Democrats ignored repeated calls for local governments to make some of these decisions.”
Keagle thanked both of her opponents Solomon and Lawson for a clean race.
"They’re both awesome people and worked hard," she said on Facebook.
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