For the first time in 24 years, Illinois voters will go to the polls in November without having Jesse White as a choice for secretary of state.
Former state representative and candidate for secretary of state Dan Brady, left, and challenger former Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias speak with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board on Oct. 5, 2022.
Giannoulias, seen as a political up-and-comer before stepping away from electoral politics after losing a race to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, handily won the Democratic primary over Chicago City Clerk Anna Valencia, who was backed by top state Democrats including White and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
“What the voters are looking for is not who has the most money in the bank but who has the best ability and who has the best ideas to streamline an office that needs to be brought into the 21st century,” Brady said last month during a Zoom-based forum sponsored by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors.
He also says he will seek to create “back end” voter registration procedures so that eligible residents would be automatically registered to vote when they apply for or renew state IDs or driver’s licenses. Individuals would be able to opt out after already being registered.He also wants to use the office to “push back” on book bans at libraries and provide ex-offenders being released from prisons with identification cards so they can more easily reenter society.
The program lost about $150 million after the fund manager used by Giannoulias, OppenheimerFunds Inc., invested in volatile securities tied to the unstable housing market. He was able to recover about $77 million from OppenheimerFunds for more than 65,000 Bright Start investors and, in defending his approach to the Tribune, said that financial analysts gave his administration generally high marks for how it ran Bright Start.
His campaign said Giannoulias never had any interaction “with any government entities or public pension funds at any time during his tenure at BNY.”Brady is trying to become the first Republican secretary of state since White took over from George Ryan, who went on to become governor before going to prison for corruption that occurred during his time as secretary of state.
“He wasn’t an extreme candidate . He was viewed more in the middle and he did very well in that primary,” Edgar said. “That I think will pay dividends when he goes in the general election.” Brady also wants to make driver’s license renewals more widely available through remote registration, and more mobile driver’s services at senior centers.
The secretary of state is Illinois’ official librarian, and Brady has also talked about developing a better system for broadband internet connectivity in libraries throughout the state, especially those in rural areas.
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