Illinois' 7th Congressional District
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Recent News About Illinois' 7th Congressional District
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Progressive tax structures are meant to 'bamboozle' voters, warns former congressional candidate
Former Republican Congressional candidate Dr. Jeff Leef says the progressive income-tax system Illinoisans will vote on in November is intentionally difficult to wrap one's arms around.
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Davis calls Trump plan 'unconscionable,' leaving Chicago's status as a 'sanctuary city' uncertain
Veteran Illinois Congressman Danny Davis is among the growing list of Democratic party leaders sending mixed signals about where they officially stand on President Donald Trump’s still evolving plan to send many of the undocumented immigrants now spread across the country to so-called “sanctuary cities.”
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Davis wins 7th Congressional District race
Democrat Danny Davis has been declared the winner in the 7th Congressional District against Republican Craig Cameron.
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Tax on retirement income won't solve state's problems, Cameron says
The state of Illinois has been short on money in the past few years, and recently, a Chicago-based think tank suggested that taxing retirement income could bring the state an extra $2.7 billion in revenue if taxed at the same 4.95 percent rate that wage income is taxed.
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'Reagan Republican' Leef blasts GOP's lack of leadership
Jeff Leef still proudly declares himself a “Reagan Republican,” which makes it all the more difficult for him to digest the stomach-churning depths to which he believes the current GOP has deteriorated.
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Leef says Trust Act is 'another assault on the rule of law'
Jeffrey Leef sees the passage of the Trust Act as a senseless action that only serves to handcuff law enforcement.
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7th Congressional District candidate says he refuses 'to sit idly by as our state slowly degrades' into totalitarian government
Dr. Jeffrey Leef proudly views himself as a force of one in his quest to join the ranks of U.S. representative.
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Faced with exodus, it's time to oust the charlatans, Leef says
With a new IRS report detailing more than 86,000 people fled Illinois at a cost of nearly $5 billion in adjusted gross income over just a yearlong period, Jeff Leef, a River Forest Republican vying for Congress in the 7th Congressional District, says he’s seen enough from Springfield.