State Senator Neil Anderson has announced that he will run for re-election in a sense, but in a new Senate District.
Republican Anderson hails from Andalusia, Illinois, and has been representing the nearby 36th District in the Quad Cities area.
Anderson is a firefighter and paramedic for the City of Moline, where he holds the rank of engineer.
The newly redrawn maps by the Democratic-controlled legislature very narrowly put Anderson in the 47th where he will run to represent parts of Knox, Rock Island, Warren, McDonough, and Fulton counties.
Anderson says that some have “strongly encouraged” him to run for statewide or Federal office.
In the end he says, “I can do a lot more good if I stay in the Senate and keep building on what we’ve begun there.”
Anderson says the 47th reflects border community, rural, and urban issues.
He says, “we have strong manufacturing, higher education, agribusiness, food chain infrastructure, small business, and logistics industries here. We have workforce shortages that aren’t easily resolved.
