We are Oak Park elected officials who have endorsed Kina Collins to be the next 7th District Congressperson because Kina shows up. She trained the local Moms for their sit-in at Broadview, she helped the District 90 teachers union during negotiations to get a fair contract, and she is actively teaching the OPRF High School students how to organize for collective power. She fought to include trans women in the Illinois Council on Women and Girls Act, which she co-authored and helped pass in 2018. She has the respect of our local Moms Demand Action group because she has been showing up for gun violence prevention work in our community since she was 16.
Right now — when compassion, backbone, and integrity are in short supply — we are lucky to have a candidate who doesn’t waver, even when it costs her. In 2019, before anyone was talking about ICE, she was loudly calling for it to be abolished. AIPAC — a right-wing super-PAC known for attacking progressive candidates with millions in negative ads — targeted Kina last election season with $494,000 [1] and aggressive tactics because she was the only one unabashedly calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Yet, she did not back down.
We stand with her now. AIPAC has poured almost $3M [2] in this race to force us to choose between 2 establishment candidates, to ensure another vote for their anti-democracy project and another 2+ decades of diminished power in what should be a progressive district.
Today, we ask you to join us. Kina Collins is the progressive candidate who has proven herself to be up to the challenge, and the only one with a pathway to win. If you want the 7th District to be for the people and not bought and paid for by oligarchs, vote for Kina Collins.
Sources:
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/congress-election-pro-israel-lobby-aipac
[2] https://prospect.org/2026/02/10/aipac-super-pac-illinois-house-congress-melissa-conyears-ervin/
Colin Bird-Martinez, Library Trustee
Derek Eder, Village Trustee
Susanne Fairfax, Library Trustee
Jenna Leving Jacobson, Village Trustee
Teresa Powell, former Village Clerk
Kristina Rogers, Library Trustee
Annie Wilkinson, Library Trustee
Mika Yamamoto, Library Trustee
