Election wins for Democrat Nabeela Syed and Republican Brad Fritts mark the advent of Gen-Z in the Illinois legislature.
State Rep.-elect Nabeela Syed meets fellow Illinois Democrats during a gathering at a River North restaurant in Chicago on Dec. 15, 2022. In November, she defeated Republican incumbent state Rep. Chris Bos 53% to 47%.
Both Syed and Fritts share stories from their recent days in college as partial inspirations for their burgeoning political careers.Syed of Inverness remembers a professor at the University of California at Berkeley once describing the ideal candidate for voters as someone they could see themselves kicking back at a bar with, a description that to Syed conjured an image of an older white man.
“You can’t just walk in and start making changes, especially when you’re new,” Mooney said. “There’s a lot to learn … but they will have the opportunity, if they so desire, to find a place to make a name for themselves.” “I’m 22. Have you lost your freaking mind?” Fritts recalled responding before thinking he could be a fresh voice for rural residents who have become frustrated with state government. “And I thought, you know what, why not me?”
Fritts nevertheless won the primary, defeating Dixon Mayor Liandro Arellano Jr. 58% to 42%. The win secured Fritts’ seat in the House because no Democrat ran against him in the general election.Since he’s recovered from the crash, the Newman Central Catholic High School graduate has tried to learn about his district before he heads to Springfield.
While Fritts and Syed join an exclusive club because of their ages, they aren’t thought to be the very youngest lawmakers in Illinois history. Downstate Rep. Avery Bourne of Morrisonville was 22 when she was appointed to fill a House seat in 2015. In 2022, Bourne, now 30, did not run for reelection to the House seat because she instead ran on Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin’s ticket for governor. Irvin and Bourne, the lieutenant governor candidate, lost their bid for the GOP primary.
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