I just saw your request for candidate information on the 19th Ward Chicago blog. I am a Republican candidate for the 35th IL House district. Thanks for getting the word out about the candidates. Your readers are exceptionally in tune with the challenges our current House leadership has brought us. I hope to give them an alternative to more of the same.
Thanks
Steve
I grew up in New Madrid County Missouri and graduated from New Madrid County Central High School in 1983. I attended college for a year and then worked in my parents’ small businesses as well as a local factory before joining the U.S. Air Force in May of 1985.
In the Air Force, I served as a Law Enforcement Specialist (Police Officer) at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, TX for 2 years before earning a position in the San Antonio Armed Forces Police Detachment (AFPD) in the San Antonio Police Department. During my two years at AFPD, I was responsible for the military’s relationship with 26 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies as well as investigating over 100 deserter incidents per year.
After being honorably discharged from the military in 1989, I entered the University of Memphis and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance in 1992 while working full-time for the Germantown, TN Police Department as a dispatcher/jailer.
After graduation, I entered the private sector and over the last 20 years have held Internal Audit and Information Technology positions with Ameritech, Federal Express, CCC Information Services, and CNA Insurance. While working full-time, I attended Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business, earning a Master of Business Administration degree in Technology Strategy, Management, and Entrepreneurship in 2001. While in these positions, I have led numerous process improvement initiatives to drive out waste and inefficiency, saving those organizations millions of dollars.
Today, I am a Director in the IT Business Management Office at CNA Insurance leading the Metrics, Reporting, and Analytics group and a key leader in planning and managing the organization’s $350 million budget.
My family moved to Orland Park in 2006. My wife earned a Bachelor and Master degree from Northern Illinois University and is a stay at home mom after holding positions in audit and product management. My son is currently in first grade at Centennial School and is actively involved in sports within Orland Youth Association. Our family supports numerous charities including Toybox Connection, The Julian Center, Orland Township Food Pantry, St. Barbara Food Pantry, Susan G. Komen For the Cure, Dress for Success, and Literacy Volunteers of America.
I am also an avid mountain biker and member of the Chicago Area Mountain Bikers, a non-profit advocacy and education organization.
In the legislature I will focus on improving the Illinois business environment to bring jobs, particularly manufacturing jobs, to those hardest hit by the current economic situation. As we are able to put people back to work, I will shift my attention to reducing state spending to enable tax relief and balance the budget. Finally, I will work to prepare Illinois for the future by prioritizing strategic investment in long term assets like education and infrastructure.
I welcome any feedback. Given the diversity of the 35th House district, listening to my constituents will be a top priority for me as I simply cannot know everything that is impacting those in the district. You can connect with me at my website (http://www.stevenwilliams.org), through email info@stevenwilliams.org, or at my Facebook page Steven Williams for IL 35th House District.
If you feel that you are inclined to support the candidacy of Steve Martin, feel free to write about why, below.
The Illinois House is not ready for a guy with credentials like this. He may win in the suburbs, but not in the 19th Ward.
ReplyDeleteHe would get alot of votes in the 19th Ward. Not everyone here is drinking the tax party government handout, govt job, govt wipe my a** Democrats. In fact many of us work for what are referred to as "Private Enterprises" - it is a whole culture not controlled cradle to grave by Big Daddy Govt. While the 19th Ward Machine politicians have virtually no experience in this world, many of us do. Or we work for PRIVATE unions - and the Regulation Party is the one that is killing our jobs. I see more qualifications in the first paragraph for this guy than the 19th Ward's pick. Is Fran Hurley really the best this neighborhood has to offer? Her stated "qualifications" for the job as expressed by her in the Beverly Review are basically that she helps people thru the 19th Ward. I am sure that she does that earnestly. However she is just basically helping people work thru the labyrinthine maze of our huge bloated bureaucracy...and the "help" she often gives - involves taking taxpayer's money and giving it to someone else...
ReplyDeleteMurph - Thanks for posting this. I'll continue to watch this post and answer any questions your readers may have.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - Thanks for the compliment. I'm hoping the independent voters of the 19th Ward and those that are fed up with where politics as usual have gotten us will look past the party and vote for the person they feel is most qualified to represent their views. I've walked in a lot of different shoes over the last 46 years and believe I can relate to nearly any circumstance in which anyone finds themself.
To the candidate I offer my humble advice: Run against the city Machine politics of the Democrats - most people who live in the suburbs you want to represent do not like Chicago. Turn it into a choice between being represented by Chicago political hacks versus someone from the suburbs who will be interested in the suburbs' needs more than Chicago. Do not give up campaigning in the 19th Ward. But also do not judge your strength in our Ward solely by yard signs etc... we simply cannot put up the signs on our lawns because the Democrat gestapo will be takin names... but we still have the private vote !! Also beware of any phoney candidate they try to put up in the Republican primary... they are dirty players and never over estimate their ethics for one second !! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI assume its Steve WILLIAMS and not Steve MARTIN. Although at least Steve Martin would be an entertaining candidate if nothing else
ReplyDeleteThanks Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to give up on the 19th Ward. I know there are a lot of people there who are fed up with the way the state has been run and that can be attributed to the machine politics.
I have a lot in common with the residents of the 19th Ward. I've worked blue collar jobs and white collar jobs; I've dug and slept in foxholes as an enlisted member of the military, turned the cell key putting people into jail, worked in my step-fathers garage doing everything from body work to engine work, worked on a farm driving a tractor and chopping cotton (literally), and worked the midnight shift in a factory making extruded plastic car parts, as well as the more comfy white collar jobs I've held since.
Fortunately, we are passed the filing period and I do not have a primary, which will give me time to get to know the needs and concerns of the district's residents.
Thanks again,
Steve
good luck battling the democrats of beverly,they should be ashamed of there party. the dems support abortion, homosexual marriage , municipal unions,big government , class warfare, anti catholic prinicples. Will the Catholics of the southside ever get a clue???
ReplyDeletewould you really post my remark , if so good for you, if not good luck when you met God and he knowns the side of Truth
ReplyDeleteThe beverly people should wake up and realize the democrats are the anti life , pro choice/abortion, anti gun ,pro homosexual marriage, pro municiple unions, pro tax, pro big government and anti capitalist.
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