The race for the 107th District State Representative seat will again be a contested one as Dave Seiler of Effingham has announced that he will once again oppose Republican Blaine Wilhour on the ballot in 2020. Seiler lost to Wilhour in the 2018 election and in his announcement statement, he mentions partisan issues as one major factor to him running for the seat once again. Seiler states “During the campaign two years ago, I argued that electing me as State Representative would give the 107th district a seat at the table in forming state policy. The message I heard in reply from my opponents was that they didn’t want a seat at the table because they disagreed with the majority leaders in the General Assembly.” Seiler continues the statement saying ”they got their way. By voting no on virtually everything, our representatives and senators ensured their irrelevance and actually denied the voters of the 107th district a role in the policy making process in Springfield. Our representatives say that the answer to the problems in Illinois is splitting up the state. I disagree. Downstate and Chicago are better off together than separate because we need each other in order to prosper. These examples show a failure to have positive ideas.” Seiler’s campaign announcement on Tuesday came just a few weeks after Wilhour announced his run for re-election.
