| 词条 | Laurel Lunt Prussing |
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|name = Laurel Lunt Prussing |image = |alt = |caption = |birth_date ={{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1941|02|21}}}} |birth_place = New York, New York |death_date = |death_place = |restingplace = |restingplacecoordinates = |birthname = |nationality = |office = Mayor of Urbana, Illinois |district = |term_start = {{start date|2005|May}} |term_end = {{start date|2017|May}} |predecessor = Tod Satterthwaite |successor = Diane Marlin |state_house2=Illinois |state2=Illinois |district2=103rd |term_start2 = {{start date|1993|January}} |term_end2 = {{end date|1995|January}} |preceded2 = {{nowrap|Helen F. Satterthwaite {{small|(redistricted)}} }} |successor2 = Rick Winkel |party = Democratic |otherparty = |spouse = John Prussing |partner = |relations = |children = Three |residence = Urbana, Illinois |alma_mater = Wellesley College {{small|(B.A.)}} Boston University {{small|(M.A.)}} University of Illinois {{small|(A.B.D.)}} |occupation = |profession = Economist |committees = |religion = |signature = |signature_alt= |website = |footnotes = }} Laurel Lunt Prussing is a Democratic politician. Early careerAfter earning degrees from Wellesley College and Boston University Lunt-Prussing worked as a research economist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign In 1972, she was elected to the Champaign County Board and in 1976 she was elected Champaign County Auditor. While Auditor, Prussing served as president of the Illinois Association of County Auditors and a member of two of the Illinois Comptroller's committees; the local government audit advisory committee and the committee on accounting, auditing and financial reporting. She is married to John Prussing and has three children.[1] She is the author of "Downstate County Government," and advocated for Champaign County to adopt the position of county executive as per the Illinois County Executive Act of 1970.[2] Illinois House of RepresentativesIn the 1990 redistricting the 103rd district’s longtime incumbent Helen F. Satterthwaite was gerrymandered into a more conservative district that removed the University of Illinois' campus and replaced it with rural, staunchly Republican territory in Champaign, Ford, and Douglas counties.[3][4] Prussing chose to run in the new 103rd district which now consisted of northeastern Champaign County and southern Ford County.[4] Lunt was narrowly elected, defeating Republican candidate Gregory Cozad, an attorney and financial planner.[5] A Republican target in 1994, she lost her reelection campaign in a cycle that saw a record number of Republicans elected. Her opponent, Rick Winkel, a Champaign County Board member and lawyer, succeeded her in office.[6] InterimIn 1996 and 1998, Lunt Prussing ran for Congress in Illinois's 15th congressional district against Tom Ewing. She ran again in 2000, but lost to college professor Mike Kelleher. Kelleher went on to lose to State Representative Tim Johnson. In 2000, she endorsed the presidential campaign of Ralph Nader. In 2002, she lost the Democratic primary for the 103rd district, which now only included Champaign and Urbana, to former Champaign County Recorder of Deeds Naomi Jakobsson.[7][8] Mayor of UrbanaIn 2004, Prussing announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Urbana against three term incumbent Tod Satterthwaite, the son of Helen F. Satterthwaite, her predecessor in the state house.[8] She won the municipal primary and ran unopposed in the 2005 municipal election.[9] She is the first female mayor of Urbana.[10] She was re-elected in 2009 and 2013.[11] As Mayor, Prussing chairs the Tax Increment Financing Joint Review Board and the Mayor's Neighborhood Safety Task Force.[12] She was defeated in the 2017 primary by Alderwoman Diane Wolfe Marlin.[13] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1993/ii930217.html|title=New members of Illinois House: The issues they view as most important to constituents and state|author=Pollack, James|journal=Illinois Issues|publisher=Sangamon State University|volume=23|date=February 1993|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1990/ii900844.html|author=Andreoli, Tom|title=Will County executive: New office takes hold under Adelman|publisher=Sangamon State University|journal=Illinois Issues|date=August 1990|page=46|issue=8|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1992/ii921027.html|author=Steinbacher-Kemp, Bill|title=Legislative Action: Republicans push for majority in Senate, House|publisher=Sangamon State University|journal=Illinois Issues|date=October 1992|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1992/ii921110.html|author=Wheeler III, Charles N|title=Redistricting '91: the World Series of Illinois politics|publisher=Sangamon State University|journal=Illinois Issues|date=November 1991|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-22/news/9204050437_1_endorsed-94th-district-structure|title=Final Illinois House Endorsements|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=October 22, 1992|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ii941024.html|title='Home field' for GOP: Computer-drawn map has GOP targeting House districts in attempt to gain control of lower chamber|author=Wheeler III, Charles N|publisher=Sangamon State University|journal=Illinois Issues|date=October 1994|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://elections.il.gov/Downloads/VotingInformation/PDF/Districts/RepDist103.pdf|title=103rd Representative Map}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2004-11-17/prussing-challenge-satterthwaite.html|title=Prussing to challenge Satterthwaite|author=Monson, Mike|publisher=The News-Gazette|date=November 17, 2004|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/politics-in-the-family-tod-satterthwaite|author=Meadows, Jim|publisher=Illinois Public Radio|title=Politics in the Family: Tod Satterthwaite|date=February 10, 2013|accessdate=December 21, 2016}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/image/2005-05-01/urbanas-first-woman-mayor-enthusiastic-about-her-future.html|title=Urbana's first woman mayor is enthusiastic about her future|first=Robert K. (photographer)|last=O'Daniell|publisher=The News-Gazette|date=April 30, 2005|accessdate=December 22, 2016}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/local-news/laurel-prussing-retains-role-as-mayor/82693711|title=Laurel Prussing retains role as mayor|publisher=Nexstar Broadcasting Group|date=April 9, 2013|accessdate=December 22, 2016|author=Smith, Robert}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://chambanasun.com/stories/510859520-tax-board-to-welcome-new-businesses-to-urbana|title=Tax board to welcome new businesses to Urbana|author=Torres, Louie|publisher=Chambana Sun|date=June 14, 2016|accessdate=December 22, 2016}} 13. ^{{cite news|last=Kacich|first=Tom|title=Marlin wins Urbana primary|date=February 28, 2017|accessdate=July 3, 2017|newspaper=The News-Gazette|location=Champaign, Illinois|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-02-28/live-marlin-wins-urbana-primary-wvideo.html}} External links
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