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Familiar name on Mendoza’s team: Comptroller Susana Mendoza has tapped Springfield native Jack Londrigan to manage her 2022 re-election campaign.

He starts today. “I first took note of him in Urbana-Champaign when he was outreach director for the University of Illinois College Democrats. Since then, he has been an active and passionate campaign professional, working to help elect great candidates throughout the state,” Mendoza said in a statement.

Londrigan managed state Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel through a three-way primary and on to a general election win in 2020. Londrigan’s campaign experience runs deep. His mom is Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, a congressional candidate who told the story of her son’s harrowing experience as a child being put in a medically induced coma after he was bit by a tick.

View the press release: Jack Londrigan to manage Mendoza’s 2022 re-election campaign for Comptroller.