Mailer, Kirk Dillard for Republican Governor, with endorsement by former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, Illinois Republican Primary, 2010

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Title

Mailer, Kirk Dillard for Republican Governor, with endorsement by former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, Illinois Republican Primary, 2010

Description

2010 campaign mailer with a large color photo featuring a smiling Kirk Dillard, the banner “Candidate for Republican Governor”, and his Republican gubernatorial campaign slogan, “Because it is time for Illinois to work again”. The flyer also features a smaller color photo of former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. Below Edgar’s endorsement of Dillard, stating that Dillard will create jobs, balance the state budget, and ‘clean up Springfield’. Dillard is defeated in this primary. Contributor Mary Hudgins is a former legislative intern. A graduate of Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois at Springfield) in Political Science, she is originally from Naperville. She believes that the election items in her personal collection are rare, and wants to insure their preservation through digitization in the 2016 UIS History Harvest project

Subject

Campaign mailer for Kirk Dillard for Republican Governor, bearing an endorsement from former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar in the Illinois Republican Primary, 2010

Source

Private Collection of Mary Hudgins

Creator

Dillard for Governor Committee

Publisher

Cheryl Thompson

Date

2010

Contributor

Mary Hudgins

Rights

[no text]

Relation

[no text]

Format

6"x12"

Language

English

Type

Mailer,

Identifier

Hudgins_Mary_Scan_B_2

Coverage

Coverage=2010
Coverage=Illinois

Files

Hudgins_Mary_Scan_B_2.jpg

Citation

Dillard for Governor Committee, “Mailer, Kirk Dillard for Republican Governor, with endorsement by former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, Illinois Republican Primary, 2010,” UIS History Harvest, accessed November 14, 2024, https://uishistharv1.uis.edu/items/show/193.