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to support working and middle-class families, invest in small businesses and teachers, expand healthcare access, create more affordable housing and new pathways to home ownership, build a green economy with good-paying jobs, fight to end gun violence to protect our communities, and protect fundamental human rights - LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive healthcare rights, and immigrant and refugee rights. As a political underdog in the race, Huynh was heavily outspent 3:1 by other candidates in the race.
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mutual aid efforts to get emergency supplies out to communities in need all around the
Chicago area, working with community-oriented organizations to support COVID-19 prevention efforts on the ground. He was also a founding member of Celebrate Argyle, a community initiative to support local small businesses and promote storytelling in the Asia on Argyle neighborhood in Uptown.
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Huynh lives in Uptown, Chicago in the 13th
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Huynh began his grassroots organizing in
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Springfield: Appropriations - General Service; Appropriations - Health & Human Services; Health Care Availability & Access; Housing; Immigration & Human Rights; Transportation: Regulations, Roads & Bridges; First Responder Subcommittee; and
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As a grassroots candidate and political newcomer, Huynh announced his candidacy for State
Representative of the 13th District in 2021, after the incumbent, Illinois House Majority Leader Greg Harris, announced his retirement that year. Huynh ran for the Illinois State House to fight for legislation
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