<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong>I am honored to have earned the confidence and support of community leaders and organizations across the district and beyond. </strong></span><em>Would you like to meet or discuss supporting our campaign? </em><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)" href="mailto:patrick@hanleyforillinois.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong><em>Don't hesitate to reach out!</em></strong></a></span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>"A pension is a promise. </strong></span>Public servants accepted lower wages in exchange for retirement security, and they kept their end of the bargain, paying into pension plans as politicians took pension holidays. </p><p>"Our present crisis was created by politicians who took “pension holidays” for decades as costs compounded. <strong>We cannot balance politicians’ greed on the backs of our teachers, firefighters, or sanitation workers."</strong></p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Chicago Sun Times:</span> Patrick Hanley Candidate Questionnaire</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Prices are too high. From <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">groceries</strong> to <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">utilities</strong> to <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">rent</strong> and <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">housing</strong>, we're simply paying too much for too little.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">In Illinois, the state government can prioritize policies that help bring costs down: we can build housing, rewire the electric grid, encourage food production and small business ownership. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">I'll pull every lever and lift every stone to bring down prices in our district.</strong></span></p>

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<h2>Affordability &amp; Prices</h2>

<p>— State Senate race: Democrat Patrick Hanley is out with a new ad in the Democratic primary to fill the seat now held by Laura Fine. <a href="https://url4027.email.politico.com/ss/c/u001.6HEYi829KcnuK0nZNn_ilKgolF8QstVHVbafk7h-dIvgrBxM1F1rV82CLNnUipDXTuujZhHwFUUuR2MnM8s9tA09CWhvjjlqIrv9qyx2uCL5HMEqr0IucVBdhaFotNiQ/4og/eL19UX2PRo6JaqjZYUtOig/h23/h001.Dx6I2_9vHUjSDusCqXQDrAzbH4fOI1x90TSh98wX_FA"><strong>Watch here</strong></a></p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Politico:</span> Hanley video</h4>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Journal &amp; Topics:</span> NTD Patrick Hanley In Running For 9th State Senate — With Schakowsky’s Endorsement</h4>

<p>Winnetka’s Patrick Hanley officially launched his campaign to replace State Sen. Laura Fine in Springfield Tuesday evening with a large crowd of supporters at Sketchbook Brewing Co. in Skokie.</p><p>Hanley, an environmental activist, business owner and political organizer who co-founded <a href="https://www.operationswingstate.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Operation Swing State</a> last year, announced Tuesday night his name will officially be on next March’s ballot after receiving enough signatures exactly <a href="https://evanstonnow.com/candidates-to-start-seeking-signatures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">one week after petitioning kicked off</a>.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Evanston Now:</span> Hanley officially kicks off bid for State Senate</h4>

<h4>David Orr Endorses Hanley</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">I am fighting for a <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">safer Illinois</strong>: safe from <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">masked federal agents</strong>; safe from <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">anti-Black racism, antisemitism, and religious hatred</strong>; safe to <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">access reproductive healthcare </strong>and safe from <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">gun violence</strong> in our schools; safe for LGBTQIA+ friends and loved ones; safe for victims and for individuals moving through the legal system. Safe because of investments made to address root causes of crime.</span></p>

<h2>Safety for our communities</h2>

<p>Northfield Township Democrats filled the council chambers at Glenview Village Hall on Sunday (Feb. 1) for an endorsement session backing a full slate of candidates, ranging from U.S. senator to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Journal &amp; Topics: </span>Northfield Dems Endorse Patrick Hanley</h4>

<p>Hanley said his campaign would not take “corporate PAC money.” He said he viewed such large contributions as flaws in the statewide campaign finance system.&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>“Folks realize that the system’s broken,” Hanley said.</strong></span> “We’ll continue to raise money in our grassroots way from individual donors.”&nbsp;</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Daily Northwestern:</span> Hanley refuses corporate PAC money</h4>

<p>"It is an unprecedented moment for this country and for this state,” Hanley said. “And I think this election happened the way that it did, because <strong>voters are looking for a new generation of leadership,</strong> new active, organized leadership that we feel can take the fight back to Donald Trump and can fight for an Illinois that is safer, that is greener, that is growing, that is affordable.”&nbsp;</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Evanston Roundtable:</span> Hanley tops Ruttenberg in 9th District State Senate race</h4>

<p><em><span style="color: var(--color-text)">Radio interview on WCPT 820</span></em></p>

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<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text)">Environmental leader, grassroots organizer Patrick Hanley launches State Senate bid with endorsement</span></h4>

<h4>Northfield Township Leaders Endorse Patrick Hanley for State Senate</h4>

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<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">WCPT 820:</span> Patrick joins Joan Esposito</h4>

<p>Hanley holds board positions on several local nonprofits and has led community organizing efforts. <span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">He co-founded the voting advocacy program </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>Operation Swing State with </strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">[Cook County Board of Commissioners president Toni] </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>Preckwinkle and outgoing U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston).</strong></span></p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Daily Northwestern: </span>State senate candidates emphasize differing experience</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>Hanley has attracted support from a wide coalition</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">, support that appears grounded in outreach, experience and engagement.</span></p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Chicago Tribune:</span> Letter to the Editor</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Sustainability is the lens through which I see the world</strong>.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">I will fight to build an Illinois powered by </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">sustainable, clean energy</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"> sources. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Native planting, rewilding, green infrastructure</strong> each have a role to play in restoring a resilient and green Illinois.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Our clean, fresh water</strong> is perhaps our greatest natural asset. We must be thoughtful, long-term stewards of the Great Lakes and our watersheds.</span></p>

<h2>Green Illinois: Energy, Water, &amp; Prairies</h2>

<p>Hanley, a community organizer from Winnetka who’s <strong>endorsed by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky</strong> and the Illinois AFL-CIO, raised just under $66,000 to close out 2025, a fundraising haul that included <strong>a $20,000 contribution from the Ironworkers District Council of Chicago PAC</strong>, also in mid-December.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Evanston Now:</span> $20,000 from Ironworkers to Hanley</h4>

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<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text)">Senate Leaders Morrison, Murphy endorse State Senate Candidate Patrick Hanley</span></h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">This is Illinois' moment for leadership</strong>. We need leaders in Springfield who will <strong>stand up to Trump &amp; ICE</strong> and protect our communities from a lawless federal government.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">From gutting Medicaid funding to purging federal workers to sending masked agents to disappear neighbors in our communities, <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">faith in our federal government is at an all-time low and state government has never been so important.</strong></span></p>

<h2>The Crisis &amp; the Moment</h2>

<p><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Winnetka environmentalist Patrick Hanley </span></strong>spoke out about the urgency of looming crises, criticizing the current political climate and focusing on sustainability. “There’s nothing sustainable about a president with unchecked power,” he said.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Evanston Roundtable:</span> Hanley addresses NO KINGS rally in Evanston</h4>

<p>Meanwhile, Hanley’s fourth quarter <strong>fundraising primarily came from individual donors,</strong> but he also received some <strong>large donations from regional trade unions:</strong> the political fund of Iron Workers Local 1 gave him $5,000 on Dec. 4, and the PAC for the Ironworkers District Council of Chicago &amp; Vicinity gave $20,000 on Dec. 8.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Evanston Roundtable: </span>Hanley fundraising primarily came from individual donors</h4>

<p>Democrat Patrick Hanley was endorsed by <strong>Run for Something, a national group that supports progressives,</strong> in his bid for the 9th District seat.</p>

<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Politico: </span>Run for Something Endorses Hanley</h4>

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