Why is Judy Bowlby running for Congress in Illinois’ 15th District? In a recent radio interview, she explained her plan to fight for our communities. Listen below as she details why she will tackle the real-world issues facing our farmers and seniors and demand the millions in federal funding our current representative left on the table.
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Shawn Balint (WCIS): Recently we told you there’s competition for Congresswoman Mary Miller on the Republican side. Judy Bolby is still in the process of securing sufficient signatures. She is a Republican out of Riverton. There are four Democratic opponents looking to uh face off against Miller in November. Bolby is the first Republican. She talks about her concerns with Miller’s service since being inaugurated to her third term. Along the way during that speech you uh expressed some concerns about her performance. What uh, what are the voters and constituents lacking in your mind?
Judy Bowlby: Well, I think to begin with, Mary takes on topics that I don’t see are as relevant to the people that are in her district. When I look at the 15th district, which is one of the biggest if not the biggest congressional district in the state. It is 35 counties. It it covers the east side of the state to the west side of the state. It it’s literally a third of the state. And that that congressional district is made up of farming community, uh seniors, uh working class people with concerns about, you know, the availability of housing, you know, what’s going to happen to their Social Security and their Medicare, um the cost of food, uh farmers who are worried about their marketplace because of what’s going on right now and their ability to bring an income back to the family. That, those are issues that I really don’t feel like my opponent is addressing as she could. The other thing that, you know, when you’re, when you get elected to the house, you know, you’re one, you’re one of many, okay? But the one thing you can do is there is an availability to bring back funding, public funding dollars. Um every other congressional district has done that. And what that that public funding money is for, a lot of times it’s for uh road improvement, water improvement, sewer system improvement. When I looked around at what was being done, I looked at the fact that if we go back to the six years that the the three terms, six years that she’s been in there, she’s had the ability to request funds for her district. Um for instance, the 13th district, if we just look at what was requested for 2025, the 13th district is looking at 8.3 million of requested funds. Second district 4.9 million, the 12th district 1.1, 16th district 6.5. 15th district is my opponent has not requested any public funding dollars. And that makes no sense to me. Those are dollars that are available to congressional members that they have to fill out the request. She hasn’t even requested it. Let alone, you don’t get money if you don’t ask for it. So, so that is concerning to me. And it should be concerning for any small community that needs dollars for their area.
Shawn Balint (WCIS): And we’re reaching out to Miller for comment.