State Sen. Bailey announces running mate

Posted on December 13, 2021
Stephanie Trussell, newly announced running mate for gubernatorial candidate State Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia), advocates zero-based budgeting. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – A Black woman from Lisle is the running mate of gubernatorial candidate State Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia).

The mother of five and former Chicago talk show host advocates zero-based budgeting.

“We’ll implement an honest review of each spending item,” she told supporters in Lisle Monday. “By the end of our second year, we intend to deliver a tax cut to the iIllinois families. After all, it’s your money.

(Gov. JB) Pritzker is a failure. We cannot afford four more years of failure. It will kill this great state.”

While Trussell’s previous anti-Trump statements would seem to put her at odds with Bailey’s position on the former President, the Bailey campaign Monday issued this statement via e-mail:

“Let me be clear: I support President Trump 100%. A lot of people had early concerns with President Trump and came on board to support his campaign. I love this country, and I continue to support the America First agenda that fights for working people, and I voted for President Trump in 2016 and campaigned and voted for him in 2020. I am a fighter and not someone who always toes the party line, but I support President Trump, and I will not apologize to the internet trolls or the left-wing media for who I am. As a mother of 5 kids and grandmother of 2, the future of Illinois is important to me, and I’m ready to focus on the real issues and fight with Darren Bailey to bring commonsense, conservative solutions to Springfield.”

Bailey is one of four declared Republicans for governor. The primary is June 28.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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