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Marie Newman

Not to be confused withMaria Newman.

Marie Newman(néeKlassen;born April 13, 1964) is an American politician andmarketing consultantwho served as theU.S. representativefromIllinois's 3rd congressional districtfrom 2021 to 2023. The district encompassed parts of southwesternChicagoas well as many of its nearbysuburbs,such asOak Lawn,Western Springs,andLockport.Newman was elected to theUnited States House of Representativesas theDemocraticnominee, after defeating incumbentDan Lipinskiin the2020 primary election.

Marie Newman
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives
fromIllinois's3rddistrict
In office
January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byDan Lipinski
Succeeded byDelia Ramirez(redistricting)
Personal details
Born
Marie Klassen

(1964-04-13)April 13, 1964(age 60)
Evergreen Park,Illinois,U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Jim Newman
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(m.1996)​
Children2
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison(BA)
Marie Newman's voice
Marie Newman speaks onTransgender Day of Remembranceand honors those killed
Recorded November 17, 2021

Due to redistricting as a result of the2020 United States Census,Newman in 2022 faced a choice between running in the heavily Hispanic4th districtwhich she had been drawn into, or againstSean Castenin a district with the majority of her former area.[1]Newman opted to run against Casten in the Democratic primary, but was defeated.

In April 2023, Newman was appointed chief executive officer of Little City Foundation, a social services organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Early life and career

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Newman was born Marie Klassen inEvergreen Park,Illinois,[2][3][a]on April 13, 1964, at the Little Company of Mary Hospital.[4]She attendedCarl Sandburg High SchoolinOrland Park.[5]After attendingMarquette Universityfor a year and a half, she transferred to theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison,where she graduated with abachelor's degree.[6]

Newman worked for multiple firms as an agency executive. She began her own consulting firm in 2005.[7]She also established her own nonprofit to combat bullying after one of her children was bullied.[7]GovernorPat Quinnappointed her to a regional anti-bullying task force andSears Holdings Corporationasked her to establish a national anti-bullying coalition of 70 nonprofit organizations.

Newman has worked on several Democratic campaigns for public office. Between 2015 and 2017 she lobbied forgun controlmeasures such as background checks.[8]

Career after U.S. House of Representatives

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In April 2023, Newman was appointed chief executive officer of Little City Foundation, a social services organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Little City serves over 900 people through its residential facilities, day programs, and at-home assistance in northern Illinois.[9]Newman had a personal connection to Little City, having volunteered when she was young. Two of her cousins received Little City services.[10]

U.S. House of Representatives

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Elections

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2018

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Main article:2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 3

Newman supportedBernie Sandersin the 2016 Democratic presidential primary in Illinois andHillary Clintonin theNovember general election.The day after Clinton lost, she applied to the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership.[11]By January 1, 2017, Newman had closed her business to turn her attention to politics full-time.[11]

On April 10, 2017, Newman declared her candidacy forIllinois's 3rd congressional district,[12]challenging Democratic incumbentDan Lipinski,a member of theBlue Dog Coalition,[13]who had held the seat since 2005, succeedinghis father,who held it for 22 years.[14][b]Newman ran to Lipinski's left, and was endorsed by theHuman Rights Campaign,theProgressive Change Campaign Committee,[15]Planned Parenthood,[16]EMILY's List,[17]theSEIUstate council,[18]National Nurses United,the Illinois Federation of Teachers,[19]theFeminist Majority Foundation,[5]NARAL Pro-Choice America,Democracy for America,MoveOn,andOur Revolution,[20]and several Democratic members of Congress, including SenatorKirsten Gillibrandof New York[21]and RepresentativesLuis GutiérrezandJan Schakowsky,both Illinois Democrats.[22]Lipinski defeated Newman with 51.2% of the vote to her 48.8%.[23][24]

2020

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Main article:2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 3

Newman ran against Lipinski again in the2020 Democratic primary.[25]She received endorsements from RepresentativeAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez[26]and presidential candidates SenatorsElizabeth Warren,Bernie Sanders,[27]Cory Booker,andKirsten Gillibrand,as well as Chicago MayorLori Lightfoot.[28]The race had special significance for progressive women's groups after other candidates they supported lost primary races earlier in March in Texas and the principal women candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination had ended their campaigns.[28]

On March 17, 2020, Newman narrowly defeated Lipinski in the Democratic primary with 47.26% of the vote to his 44.72%.[29][30]Her victory ended the Lipinski family's 38-year hold on the district.Bill Lipinskiwon the seat in 1983, when it was numbered as the5th district(it has been the 3rd since 1993), and handed it to Dan in 2005.

On November 3, Newman won the general election, defeating RepublicanWill CountySupervisorMike Fricilone. With 88% of the vote counted, she led by about 30,000 votes, and had received about 55% of the vote.[31][32][33][34]

2022

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Main article:2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 6

In October 2021, Democrats in the Illinois legislature passed a new congressional map that radically changed Newman's district. The map placed Newman's home into a district with RepresentativeJesús "Chuy" García,who represents a majority-Hispanic district. Newman announced that she would run in the redrawn 6th District, which overlaps her original district. She thus challenged incumbent RepresentativeSean Castenin the 2022 Democratic primary.[1]In the redrawn 6th district, 41% of voters are from Newman's former district and 23% are from Casten's former district, according to calculations byDaily Kos.[35]On June 28, 2022, Newman lost the primary to Casten.[36]

Tenure

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In January 2021, Newman voted to impeach PresidentDonald Trump.[37]

In November 2021, Newman voted for theBuild Back Better Act,which passed the House of Representatives.[38]

House Ethics Committee review

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In 2021, theHouse Ethics Committeelaunched a review into Newman after she was accused of having signed a contract promisingIymen Chehade,a pro-Palestinian activist and potential primary opponent, a job in her congressional office in exchange for Chehade's not entering the primary; other documents alleged to be included in the review also stipulated that Newman adopt several policy positions with respect to theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.[39][40][41][42][43]

Federal Elections Commissionfilings show that Newman hired Chehade as a foreign policy advisor through her campaign, paying him $54,000 since the second half of 2021, more than twice what other employees working similar jobs were paid; Chehade was Newman's highest-paid employee.[44][41][45]In her contract with him, Newman also agreed to adopt specific stances with respect to BDS-related legislation and aid to Israel, and to refuse to work with a number of pro-Israel organizations, such as theJewish National Fund.[42][43]

On October 15, 2021, theOffice of Congressional Ethicsvoted unanimously that there was reason to believe that Newman's agreement with Chehade constituted a de facto bribe and to refer the matter to the House Ethics Committee.[46][47][48]Newman's representatives responded that Newman "cooperate[d] completely with the review" but that the OCE had "prejudged the matter from the beginning", also making it clear this was "political theatre".[39]

On February 3, 2022,FACTfiled a complaint with theFederal Elections Commissionon the grounds that Newman's continued payments to Chehade, a witness in the Congressional investigations, interfered with the investigation.[49]Newman denied wrongdoing, calling the complaint politically motivated;CREWsaid that the continued payments raised "serious ethics questions".[49]

In the course of the investigation, it was revealed that Newman had made a similar contract guaranteeing a job to another person, Shadin Maali, who had previously conducted political outreach for Chehade.[50][51][52]

The matter was closed in the late summer of 2022 after the primary election. No investigative subcommittee investigation was empaneled because it was not deemed needed and the matter was terminated with no violation cited.

Committee assignments

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Caucus memberships

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Political positions

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Newman hanging aTrans flagacross fromMarjorie Taylor Greene's office

Newman represented what has long been the most conservative district of the eight that divide Chicago. Described as "ancestrally Democratic,culturally conservative,multiethnic and viscerallypatriotic",[56]the 3rd is the only Chicago-based district with aCook Partisan Voting Indexlower than D+15. Newman identifies as a progressive Democrat. She supportsabortion rights,gun control, a $15 minimum wage,[7]and aGreen New Deal.[57][58]Her campaigns were supported byJustice Democrats,an organization that fundsprogressivecandidates, in both 2018[59]and 2020.[14]TheSunrise Movementsupported her campaign in 2020.[60]

LGBTQ+ rights

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Newman also supports theEquality Act,saying, "Without the Equality Act, this nation will never live up to its principles of freedom and equality." She says that she entered politics to make the world a better place for hertransgenderdaughter. After Republican freshmanMarjorie Taylor Greeneattacked the bill as "disgusting, immoral, and evil" on the House floor, Newman hung aTransgender Pride flagoutside her Washington office, which is directly across from Greene's.[61]

Israel

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Newman was one of eight Democrats to vote against the funding of theIron DomeinIsrael.[62]

Electoral history

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2018

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Illinois 3rd congressional district Democratic primary, 2018[63]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dan Lipinski (incumbent) 48,675 51.13
Democratic Marie Newman 46,530 48.87
Total votes 95,205 100.0

2020

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Illinois 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary, 2020[30]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Marie Newman 52,384 47.26
Democratic Dan Lipinski (incumbent) 49,568 44.72
Democratic Rush Darwish 6,351 5.73
Democratic Charles Hughes 2,549 2.30
Total votes 110,852 100.0
Illinois's 3rd congressional district, 2020[64]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Marie Newman 172,997 56.4
Republican Mike Fricilone 133,851 43.6
Total votes 306,848 100.0

2022

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Illinois 6th Congressional District Democratic primary, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Sean Casten 44,414 67.8
Democratic Marie Newman 19,031 29.1
Democratic Charles Hughes 2,018 3.1
Total votes 65,463 100.0

Personal life

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Newman lives inLa Grange,west of Chicago,[29]with her husband, Jim. They married in 1996 and have two children.[65][61]

Newman's daughter istransgender,and Newman has spoken about how the lack of support for transgender people influenced her to run for office.[66]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Sometimes described as a native of Beverly, her family lived in theBeverly neighborhood of Chicago,notBeverly townshipin central Illinois.[3]
  2. ^The district was numbered as the 5th from 1983 to 1993.

References

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