Callahan, 57, said she would seek to change the health care system – specifically for the nearly 2 million uninsured in Illinois. She said current policies in the Middle East aren’t working and the U.S. cannot continue to spend money on “a war with no end.”
Changes also should be made in the education system and for thousands of college graduates facing large tuition debts, and to the economy, with staggering gas and oil prices and mounting household debt.
“It’s time to work together to create change and it’s time to refocus on middle-class values and needs,” Callahan said Monday during her announcement speech from her family farm. “Our families fought for Social Security, Medicare and the G.I. Bill and now here we are fighting to preserve them. It’s time to do better.”
Callahan said specific solutions on issues will come in a week or so.
Schock is a heavy favorite in this District, but she has a profile that could make her competitive given the national mood.