No one needed to vote for Jones. The Republican Party rightfully distanced itself from him, and, if you did not want to vote for Lipinski, there were two more conservative candidates that voters could have written in. Still over 55,000 of my neighbors in the Chicago-area chose to vote for Jones, and we should be ashamed of this. His vote tally serves as a stark reminder that there are Americans who are willing to forget our nation's struggles with the very dark policies that he promotes.