With 31.34 percent more of the total vote than her contender, DuPage County board member Tonia Khouri came out on top in last night's primary election.
The Republican candidate for the 49th House District seat, who was endorsed by Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove), Sen. Michael Connelly (R-Wheaton) and Sen. Dan McConchie (R-Hawthorn Woods), beat her opponent Nick Zito by almost double the votes.
While Khouri saw 4,197 ballots in her name, Zito only received 2,194 votes, or 34.33 percent.
The co-owner of Green T home services company, Khouri has fought long and hard to gain the success she saw last night, campaigning for months on families, education and job creation. She has also shown concern for the infrastructure of the 49th District, which covers Cook and DuPage counties, along with St. Charles, South Elgin and West Chicago.
But most of all, Khouri has stood up for switching up the political status quo in Springfield, promising if elected in November that she will separate herself from long-time incumbents who remain part of the problem and not the solution.
“Springfield’s appetite for our money is insatiable,” Khouri said in a DuPage Policy Journal report. “Our families pay the highest property taxes in the nation, and the Chicago Democrats’ and 'surrender' Republicans’ answer was to burden us with a 32 percent income tax hike without any reforms.”
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