Progressive Robin Kelley defeats Debbie Halverson for IL congressional seat.

[RandySF]

Former state Rep. Robin Kelly won the Democratic primary Tuesday night in the race to replace the disgraced Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress, helped by millions of dollars in pro-gun control ads from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s political fund.

A snowstorm and lack of voter interest kept turnout low as Kelly had 53 percent to 24 percent for former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson and 11 percent for Chicago 9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale with more than three-fourths percent of precincts counted.


Kelly will formally take on the winner of the Republican primary in an April 9 special general election in the heavily Democratic district. In the GOP contest, the nomination fight was tight between convicted felon Paul McKinley, businessman Eric Wallace and talk show host Lenny McAllister.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-2nd-congressional-district-jackson-20130226,0,4718425.story#sthash.2xiebyTR.dpuf

[pennylane100]

1. I do not know much about either candidate

except that the are democrats but I am glad the gun control person won.

[JaneyVee]

2. That NRA badge is like a scarlett letter now. Good.

[Tx4obama]

3. Robin Kelly got 57% of the vote, results on the link below

Results here: http://chicagoelections.com/race_results.php?id=32

And Halvorson got only 8.91% of the vote, not 24%.
And Beale got 20.50 % of the vote, not 11%

I wonder why the numbers in the article are so wrong.