Candidate Profiles - March Primaries
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Bernie Lubell | February 22, 2012, 6:17 pm
Homewood
Jesse Jackson, Jr. has served the South Side and south suburbs for nearly two decades, but recently has encountered “distractions,” as his opponent Debbie Halvorson likes to call them. There’s his alleged involvement in the Blagojevich scandal, among others, but Jackson, Jr. says he has never been afforded the presumption of innocence. Jackson, Jr. says his only distraction is Halvorson herself.
