Lindenhurst resident announces run for president again
Lake County Republican James Creighton Mitchell Jr. says he's running for president again.
Mitchell has held elected posts at public agencies including the Lake County Regional Board of Education, Lake Villa District Library and the Lake County Board. The perennial candidate from Lindenhurst unsuccessfully ran for the county board in 2012, the College of Lake County board in 2009, president in 2008, Congress in 2006 and state House in 1992.
In his latest presidential campaign announced Thursday, Mitchell lists untangling “the health care mess” and securing U.S. borders with fences as some of his top issues.
“I am prepared with enthusiasm and good ideas to turn this great country, America, around,” Mitchell said.
He is the second Chicago-area politician to announce a presidential run. Willie Wilson, a Democrat who received 11 percent of the vote when he ran in the Chicago mayoral primary early this year, announced his entry for the nation's highest office in June and said he'd have an anti-tax platform.
Democratic presidential Hillary Rodham Clinton grew up in Park Ridge. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum spent his senior year at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein and graduated in 1976.