FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Contact: Hannah Lee Flath, hannahlee.flath@sierraclub.org, 860-634-0225
Chicago, IL. -- Today, the Sierra Club Illinois Chapter PAC announced its first round of Aldermanic endorsements in the Chicago municipal election. The following candidates have been endorsed: Daniel La Spata (Ward 1), Jeanette Taylor (Ward 20), Rossana Rodriguez (Ward 33), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (Ward 35), Andre Vasquez (Ward 40), Matt Martin (Ward 47), and Maria Hadden (Ward 49). Our full list of endorsements can be viewed here and will be updated as additional endorsements are announced in the weeks to come.
“Chicago has a long way to go to build a city where all residents have access to clean air, clean water, open space in their communities, and safe, accessible, reliable, and clean transportation,” said Sierra Club Chicago Political Chair David Teeghman. “Sierra Club is proud to support incumbent Alderpersons in our first round of endorsements who have consistently gone above and beyond to demand environmental justice for communities across Chicago.”
In recent years, Sierra Club Chicago volunteers and members helped secure the City’s commitment to transition public buildings to 100% clean electricity, and supported the campaign to keep notorious polluter General Iron from opening up on the Southeast Side. In the coming years, Sierra Club will be doubling down on our efforts to secure environmental wins alongside partners and allies in Chicago’s vibrant and powerful environmental movement, and has endorsed candidates whose values align with those goals.
“Sierra Club Chicago is looking forward to mobilizing our neighbors to support our endorsed candidates to secure further environmental victories,” said Sierra Club Illinois Organizing Director Caroline Wooten. “We’re committed to ensuring the City reinstates the Department of Environment, passes an ordinance to electrify buildings across Chicago in order to end our reliance on fossil fuels like fracked gas, reforms our racist zoning practices that disproportionately place polluters in communities of color, and more. In order to achieve these victories, we need champions in the Chicago City Council who will fight for these priorities.”
Sierra Club’s contacts with Illinois voters on behalf of endorsed candidates are funded by Sierra Club Illinois PAC. Copies of our reports are available from the State Board of Elections in Springfield, Illinois.