Reed Showalter

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Reed Showalter completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Showalter's responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" id=\"heading-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>We must make housing more affordable. Housing is the most expensive thing in our lives, and it's getting worse. In Chicago, housing costs are rising 4 times faster than the national average. To combat this injustice, we have to both recommit the federal government to building housing, as well as addressing the issues with the private market.\r\n<p>I’ll push to have the government directly build more housing for people to sell at cost, so everyone can afford a home.\r\n</p><p>I’ll fight to stop giant, for-profit investors from buying up homes just to get rich, not to live in them. \r\n</p>\nI’ll ban big landlords from using the collusive algorithms that jack up rent prices for Chicagoans by over $450 a year.</li><li>We must fix our broken healthcare system, so that it is accessible and affordable for everyone. I support Medicare-for-All.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, as we build power to pass universal healthcare, I will work wherever possible to cap co-pays, deductibles, and out of pocket costs. \r\n\r\nI will fight to ban the middlemen that eat up profits in our pharmaceutical system or make them obsolete by doing that work ourselves. \r\n\r\nI will work to ban the corporate practice of medicine, expanding the existing bans in 33 states. \r\n\r\nAnd I will also push for our government to make critical drugs like insulin, inhalers, and chemo here in America, so we don’t have to depend on big pharma and insurance execs that hold healthcare hostage.</li><li>No one should struggle to afford food. We have a duty to take back power in our food system from giant multinational corporations and return it to local communities that need good, healthy, affordable, responsible food.\r\n\r\nI support the creation of public grocery stores, as well as expanding food assistance through these public institutions. \r\n\r\nI will fight to ban junk fees on grocery and food delivery.\r\n\r\nI support a moratorium on consolidation in Big Ag markets, as well as increased regulation of bad agricultural actors, so that giant corporations cannot continue to drive up the price of food.\r\n\r\nAnd I will work toward creative solutions to make fertilizer and other basic costs cheaper for farmers so food is cheaper for all of us.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-368406-2025-11-03\" id=\"heading1-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-368406-2025-11-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-368406-2025-11-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tI believe that we must take back power from giant corporations that are fueling the crises of affordability and democracy in our country. <br/><br/>\r\nAs an anti-monopoly attorney working in federal government service, I have seen how corporate power has not only driven up prices in every sector of our economy, but also completely overtaken our politics. We can take that power back for the people.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-368406-2025-11-03\" id=\"heading2-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse2-368406-2025-11-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse2-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading2-368406-2025-11-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse2-368406-2025-11-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tFormer Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, Jonathan Kanter\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.</i></p></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nReed Showalter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Showalter's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nPlease list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office? We must make housing more affordable. Housing is the most expensive thing in our lives, and it's getting worse. In Chicago, housing costs are rising 4 times faster than the national average. To combat this injustice, we have to both recommit the federal government to building housing, as well as addressing the issues with the private market. I’ll push to have the government directly build more housing for people to sell at cost, so everyone can afford a home. I’ll fight to stop giant, for-profit investors from buying up homes just to get rich, not to live in them. I’ll ban big landlords from using the collusive algorithms that jack up rent prices for Chicagoans by over $450 a year. We must fix our broken healthcare system, so that it is accessible and affordable for everyone. I support Medicare-for-All.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, as we build power to pass universal healthcare, I will work wherever possible to cap co-pays, deductibles, and out of pocket costs. \r\n\r\nI will fight to ban the middlemen that eat up profits in our pharmaceutical system or make them obsolete by doing that work ourselves. \r\n\r\nI will work to ban the corporate practice of medicine, expanding the existing bans in 33 states. \r\n\r\nAnd I will also push for our government to make critical drugs like insulin, inhalers, and chemo here in America, so we don’t have to depend on big pharma and insurance execs that hold healthcare hostage. No one should struggle to afford food. We have a duty to take back power in our food system from giant multinational corporations and return it to local communities that need good, healthy, affordable, responsible food.\r\n\r\nI support the creation of public grocery stores, as well as expanding food assistance through these public institutions. \r\n\r\nI will fight to ban junk fees on grocery and food delivery.\r\n\r\nI support a moratorium on consolidation in Big Ag markets, as well as increased regulation of bad agricultural actors, so that giant corporations cannot continue to drive up the price of food.\r\n\r\nAnd I will work toward creative solutions to make fertilizer and other basic costs cheaper for farmers so food is cheaper for all of us. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? I believe that we must take back power from giant corporations that are fueling the crises of affordability and democracy in our country. As an anti-monopoly attorney working in federal government service, I have seen how corporate power has not only driven up prices in every sector of our economy, but also completely overtaken our politics. We can take that power back for the people. What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign? Former Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, Jonathan Kanter\nNote: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it."}]