Published by admin on Sun, 03/17/2024 - 12:45pm
“The woke left is coming after me for peeing on a tree during my college days,” state Rep. Adam Niemerg (R-Dietrich) told me not long ago.
I’ve told you about this race before. The 102nd Illinois House District is one of a handful of southeastern and southern Illinois Republican primaries that might slow or intensify the Republican Party’s rightward lunge. They’ve featured far-right candidates trying to fend off or battling with more mainstream Republicans. US Rep. Mike Bost’s race against the much further-right Darren Bailey has been another.