Warren Grimsley

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Warren Grimsley

Green Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

March 15, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Warren Grimsley was a 2016 Green Party candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 5th Congressional District of Illinois. Grimsley was defeated by Rob Sherman in the Green Party primary on March 15, 2016.

Elections

2016

See also: Illinois' 5th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Mike Quigley (D) defeated Vince Kolber (R) and Rob Sherman (G) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Quigley was unopposed in the Democratic primary on March 15, 2016, while Sherman defeated Warren Grimsley to win the Green Party nomination. No Republicans filed in the race.

U.S. House, Illinois District 5 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Mike Quigley Incumbent	67.8%	212,842
	Republican	Vince Kolber	27.5%	86,222
	Green	Rob Sherman	4.7%	14,657
	N/A	Write-in	0%	3
Total Votes				313,724
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections

U.S. House, Illinois District 5 Green Party Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Rob Sherman	57.9%	157
Warren Grimsley	42.1%	114
Total Votes		271
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Grimsley's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Energy Policy: Green policy should be to adopt a new measure called Gross Energized Production (GEP), which measures the amount of energy consumed per dollar value of output, including subcategories by the amount of energy used by each energy source and each category of labor. Federal money should be budgeted for this measure and could be included in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once calculated, a component of this data could be used to calculate CO2 emissions per dollar of output. CO2 emissions could be taxed at finer increments along the production supply chain. Climate Change and other Environmental Policy: Recognize that the number of people and the amount of material human beings consume is the direct contributor of climate change and the destruction of the environment. The global focus should remain on CO2 emissions with the heating, acidification and rising of the seas as the primary metrics to be used in messaging. Economic Policy: Fair wages, including a $15 minimum wage within my district for all workers. Increase funding of Social Security and Medicare. Support the Green New Deal, including federal funding for public colleges and public universities, and the federal forgiveness of existing student debt. Campaign Finance and/or Election Reform: Support completely publicly funded campaigns and work to overturn the Citizens United decision. Crimes and Criminal Justice (including drug policy and gun violence): Shrink the list of crimes punishable by incarceration. End private prisons. End the war on drugs. Close the DEA. Curb the manufacture of handguns and assault weapons. Amend the Constitution to authorize the limit the possession of firearms withinany city, town or village which elects to do so.	”
—Warren Grimsley's campaign website, http://www.grizz2016.com/policies_of_warren_grizz_grimsley

Recent news

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See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Illinois' 5th Congressional District election, 2016
• Illinois' 5th Congressional District

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
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Footnotes

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Illinois' current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Tammy Duckworth (D)

Dick Durbin (D)

Representatives

District 1

Jonathan Jackson (D)

District 2

Robin Kelly (D)

District 3

Delia Ramirez (D)

District 4

Jesus Garcia (D)

District 5

Mike Quigley (D)

District 6

Sean Casten (D)

District 7

Danny Davis (D)

District 8

Raja Krishnamoorthi (D)

District 9

Jan Schakowsky (D)

District 10

Brad Schneider (D)

District 11

Bill Foster (D)

District 12

Mike Bost (R)

District 13

Nikki Budzinski (D)

District 14

Lauren Underwood (D)

District 15

Mary Miller (R)

District 16

Darin LaHood (R)

District 17

Eric Sorensen (D)

Democratic Party (16)

Republican Party (3)