For Immediate Release

August 2, 2026
 
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Diane Harris Cell:  815-733-0579
 
Giannoulias Abandons State Of Illinois For City Of Chicago
 
JOLIET — Diane Harris, GOP nominee for Illinois Secretary of State, today called on Alexi Giannoulias to withdraw as a candidate for Illinois Secretary of State after Giannoulias announced his campaign for Mayor of the City of Chicago for the February 23, 2027 Chicago municipal primary election.
 
"Abandoning your public responsibilities in August, 2026 to run for another public office after you pledged to voters in December, 2025 that you planned to serve four years as Secretary of State is just wrong.  Giannoulias is abandoning his government duties for the full-time job of running for Mayor of Chicago, but he is hollowing out his very politicized government staff to populate his campaign office, starting with his Chief of Staff while he wrestles in the political mud with the other candidates in Chicago for the next six months ?"
 
Retiree Diane Harris is a former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 15, and Chief Steward, a small business owner and former Illinois licensed insurance agent, and a current part-time substitute teacher for a Joliet school district.  Harris also currently serves as an elected member of the Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees and appointed to the Joliet Public Library since 2016.
 
"When you try to do two full-time jobs at the same time, you are destined to fail at both.  That's not good for the State of Illinois or the City of Chicago, both of which are currently suffering from a lack of responsible leaders who will create long term solutions to solve decades old problems," said Harris.  "Worse still is the prospect of Giannoulias winning the Mayoral election and, if he is re-elected to his state office in a few months, creating a vacancy in the office of Secretary of State which will undoubtedly be filled by some unelected political hack chosen by party insiders in a back room in Springfield."
 
Diane Harris pledged unequivocally that if she is elected to the office of Illinois Secretary of State, she will serve the full four year term.

"If the voters of Illinois elect me you will be sure  to find me in the office of the Illinois Secretary of State from January, 2027 through January, 2031," said Harris.

The choice is clear: elect someone committed to the job, not the next opportunity.
 
Visit Diane At:  www.HarrisForSOS.com

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