Could a Gun-Loving Libertarian With No Campaign Budget Beat Jesse Jackson Jr.?
Not even if she were a Kennedy. But Stephanie Sailor’s not trying to win–she’s just trying to get heard. Author: Jeffrey Felshman Date: October 15, 2004 Appeared in Section 1 Stephanie Kennedy Sailor is running against Jesse Jackson Jr. for the Second District congressional seat, but she won’t be making any speeches, shaking any hands, or kissing a single baby. She’s running her campaign almost entirely on the Internet from her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey. As she sat at a table in the Milk & Honey Cafe in Wicker Park early last month, Sailor’s scoopneck shirt exposed a fresh surgical scar below her collarbone, to the right of her neck. Surgery in August for a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome had left her unable to sit at a desk for more than an hour without pain. Sailor used to live in the neighborhood, a few blocks from the cafe, until about three years ago, when she moved to Jersey. “My legal residence is in Illinois,” she says, but “my primary work is in New Jersey, and a
