(WAND) - Businessman and educator R. Cary Capparelli is seeking the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from Illinois.
Capparelli is the son of the late Ralph C. Capparelli who served in the Illinois House of Representatives as a moderate Democrat for 17 terms.
R. Cary Capparelli has organized the first motorsports competitions between the United States and the former Soviet Union and developed a vineyard in Argentina.
"I am not a politician," he said in a statement. "However, I am a hard working individual with the experience and ability to function as an effective 'America First' lawmaker."
Capparelli holds four degrees, including a doctorate in geography from the University of London.
"Washington has plenty of lawyers but lacks common sense economists, geographers, and those from other important disciplines that form domestic and world opinion," he said.
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