Distinct Thoughts on the Incumbent Congressman
From https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/darin_lahood/412674 :
“President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup. “
“LaHood was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, LaHood joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected.”
The American Bar Association
The American Bar Association says that attorneys who helped former President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election should be held accountable by state bar associations, and that the legal profession must protect democracy during the 2024 election.” (Additional information from the ABA can be found at: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/news/2024/aba-democracy-task-force.pdf )
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger
“LaHood, from Peoria, is singled out in Kinzinger’s book for racing ‘to the unreasonable right,’ abandoning his ‘moderate positions.’ Kinzinger writes that LaHood, a co-chair of Trump’s 2020 Illinois campaign, has ‘tied himself to the most unethical and least-transparent president in history.’”
Chicago Tribune
“When a politician makes a decision with potentially disastrous ramifications for American democracy, it can undermine everything else he or she has done in office. That’s the case with U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, a Republican from Peoria.”
“We endorsed him in 2016, 2018 and 2020, viewing him as a principled, independent conservative who called out Democrats for spending recklessly and backed free and fair trade agreements that were good for farmers in his district. But like his downstate GOP colleague, Mike Bost, LaHood signed on to a court brief in support of a specious, last-minute effort by Texas to overturn the 2020 presidential election by invalidating Biden’s victories in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin based on unfounded claims of fraud.”
“He also voted against impeaching Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. To his credit, on Jan. 6 he voted to certify Biden’s election as president, and told us that overturning the results ‘of the Electoral College would far exceed the power given to Congress and the vice president in the Constitution, establish poor precedent and usurp the will of the American people.’ We commend him for that, but cannot countenance his decision right after the election to join in Texas’ amicus curiae brief. …The Tribune makes no endorsement in this race.”
WCBU Radio in Peoria
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2023-03-02/lahood-peoria-heights-leaders-tout-2m-in-federal-funding-for-prospect-road-reconstruction
"Later LaHood clarified his involvement in funding the project, acknowledging he voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that provided the funding after advocation for inclusion of the Peoria Heights project in the legislation."