Republican state House candidate Patrick Windhorst
Republican state House candidate Patrick Windhorst
Republican state House candidate Patrick Windhorst is making it a point of hitting all the hotspots in his run against Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie (D-Elizabethtown) in the 118th District.
“I knew it was going to be a good weekend when Superman stopped by the office yesterday,” Windhorst posted on Facebook. “Kicked everything off with the 40th Annual Superman Celebration in Metropolis, swung by the Union County Republican tent at the Annabelle Festival and finished off the day with a great crew at Shawneetown’s Coal Days Parade.”
Windhorst has made the state’s growing outmigration problem a staple of his campaign, arguing in an earlier Facebook post that the state’s spiraling tax rates are largely fueling the mass exodus.
“Rep. Phelps Finnie just voted to make the tax burden even greater on our working families,” Windhorst wrote soon after legislators passed the state’s new $38.5 billion budget, which Gov. Bruce Rauner quickly signed into law.
“Raising taxes, again, on the middle class and those just trying to get by in southern Illinois is fundamentally wrong,” he added. "When Rep. Phelps Finnie takes our voice to Springfield and uses it to echo Mike Madigan’s tax-raising agenda, southern Illinois loses.”
The 118th House District includes parts or all of Alexander, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline and Union counties.
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