Bobby Schilling

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Bobby Schilling (2011)

Robert Todd "Bobby" Schilling (born January 23, 1964 in Rock Island , Illinois ) is an American Republican Party politician . From 2011 to 2013, he represented Illinois' 17th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives . He is running for the 2nd Congressional District of Iowa in 2020 .

Family, education and work

Bobby Schilling attended Alleman Catholic High School on Rock Island until 1982 and then Black Hawk College in Moline . From 1983 to 1987 he worked first for the Container Corporation of America and then for an insurance company (Prudential Insurance Company, 1987 to 1995). In 1996 he and his wife opened a pizza restaurant in Moline, which is still owned by the family today. He is the director of the CMB Regional Center for Government and Legislative Affairs.

The Catholic Schilling has ten children with his wife Christie . The family lived privately in Colona , but moved to neighboring eastern Iowa in 2017 - according to their own information for tax reasons.

Political career

Schilling was originally politically close to the Democratic Party and the trade unions in the United States ; From 1983 to 1987 he was a member of the United Paperworkers International Union , and from 1987 to 1995 he was Treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. His views became more and more conservative; he became a member of the Republican Party and later the right-wing libertarian Tea Party movement . In the Congress, however, Schilling showed a rather moderate voting behavior compared to his party friends.

In the 2010 election , Schilling was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th congressional electoral district of Illinois , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Phil Hare on January 3, 2011 . During the election campaign, like the tea party movement popular at the time, he opposed the Washington establishment and emphasized his role as an outsider. He was one of 87 newly elected Republicans after that wave election in which the Democrats lost their comfortable majority to the Republicans. In around 90 percent of the cases, Schilling voted in the House of Representatives with his party leadership, but initially voted against the extension of the security policy USA PATRIOT Act and for the interests of the workers, who make up a large proportion of the population in his constituency. In the 2012 election , he distanced himself from the Tea Party and described himself as a middle-class man. He lost 47 to 53 percent of the vote to Democrat Cheri Bustos , who replaced him in Congress on January 3, 2013 . There he was a member of the Agriculture Committee , the Armed Forces Committee and the Committee on Small Business, as well as four sub-committees.

In the 2014 election , Schilling ran again for his previous seat against Bustos, but lost with 44.5 percent of the vote. In July 2019, Schilling announced that he would be running for the 2020 House of Representatives election in Iowa's 2nd congressional electoral district in the Republican primary . This constituency connects directly to the west of its previous one (see Quad Cities ). Schilling moved to Iowa in 2017 and announced in 2019 that it would open a pizzeria in Davenport .

Web links

Commons : Bobby Schilling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bobby Schilling's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  2. ^ A b Bridget Bowman: Democrats go on defense in crucial heartland House race in Iowa. In: Roll Call , August 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Rep. Robert “Bobby” Schilling. In: Govtrack.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Steinhauer: Ex-Outsiders, Running on Record in Congress. In: The New York Times , October 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ Schilling, Bobby. In: Our Campaigns.
  6. ↑ Julia Shanahan: Former US representative announces bid for Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. In: The Daily Iowan , July 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schilling, Robert Todd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rock Island , Illinois