Rep. Amy Grant is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives. She’s currently up for reelection and she may have just killed her chances after she criticized her Democratic opponent for being too gay and Black for public service.Grant is running against Ken Mejia-Beal, who is an openly gay Black man and proud of it.
In a recorded phone call leaked yesterday, she calls Mejia-Beal “just another one of the Cook County people.”“That’s all you’re gonna vote for in Cook County, another, you know, Black Caucus,” she says. “That’s all we need is another person in the Black Caucus.”Cook County is the most populous county in Illinois, with a population was over 5 million.