Patrick Windhorst is running as the Republican candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives.
Patrick Windhorst is running as the Republican candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives.
Patrick Windhorst, the Republican candidate for District 118 of the Illinois House of Representatives, recently visited Southern Illinois University and toured the WSIU-TV Public Broadcasting facilities.
“Today I had the great opportunity to meet with R.J. Robertson and other members of the WSIU Friends Board to discuss the many benefits brought to Southern Illinois by WSIU Public Broadcasting,” Windhorst said in a Facebook post. “I would like to thank them for the invitation, and Katrina Stackhouse for providing an exceptional tour.”
Windhorst also touted the television station's contributions to the community and its work through the PBS Learning Media program.
Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie
“This is an incredibly efficient and powerful resource for our region,” he said.
Windhorst took time from his campaign running against incumbent state Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie (D-Elizabethtown) for the campus tour.
Windhorst has made the state’s growing out-migration problem a staple of his campaign, claiming the state’s spiraling tax rates are largely fueling the mass exodus. Illinois has lost more residents than any other state except New York. The state's population declined by approximately 138,000 residents from 2015 to 2016, according to the Chicago Business Journal.
He also recently took Finnie to task over her vote for the state’s $38.5 billion budget.
“Raising taxes, again, on the middle class and those just trying to get by in southern Illinois is fundamentally wrong,” he said. "When Rep. Phelps Finnie takes our voice to Springfield and uses it to echo Mike Madigan’s tax-raising agenda, Southern Illinois loses.”
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