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Candidate Claims He Was Offered Job to Drop Out of Race

January 3, 2012
Fox Chicago

By Dane Placko, FOX Chicago News

Bridgeview, Ill. - A southwest side community activist who's running for State Senate says he was offered a state job and money to drop out of his political race, and he said that offer was secretly taped by the FBI.

Democrat Raul Montes Junior is running in the 12th District, a job that is also being pursued by incumbent 11th District Democrat Steve Landek, who is also the mayor of southwest suburban Bridgeview.

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Emanuel Makes Political Play in Ward Race

December 30, 2011
Chicago News Cooperative
by DAN MIHALOPOULOS | Dec 30, 2011
 
Alderman Ameya Pawar’s recent fund-raiser featured a praise-filled speech from his most prominent constituent, Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The event, on Dec.

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Berrios denies election ‘payback’ after judge rules against daughter

November 22, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Abdon M. Pallasch Political Reporter

Appellate Justice Rodolfo “Rudy” Garcia accuses Cook County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Berrios of stacking the deck against him in next year’s election for appellate court.

Garcia said Berrios sent a message through an intermediary seven years ago that he wanted Garcia to rule a certain way in a case involving Berrios’ daughter. Garcia ruled the other way. Last month, the party endorsed Judge Jesse Reyes over Garcia for the appellate court.

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Editorial: Law must treat all political parties fairly

November 18, 2011
LaGrange Suburban Life

La Grange, IL —

A legal dispute between a political party and a state agency reveals how grossly incoherent our election law has become.

Laurel Lambert Schmidt of Riverside, who is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from the state’s 3rd Congressional District, joined the Illinois Green Party in filing a lawsuit last month against the Illinois State Board of Elections. The board ruled that the Green Party does not qualify as an “established political party” for the 2012 elections.

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Harsh words for Illinois’ new signature law

September 7, 2011
Illinois Statehouse News Service

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News
 
SPRINGFIELD — Scott Lee Cohen had the signatures to demonstrate he deserved to be on the ballot.
 
In fact, he had 133,000 of them, five times the number required by law.

Cohen wheeled the 4-foot-high tower of nominating petitions on a dolly bound with screws and plywood into the Illinois State Board of Elections here, intimidating or preventing any challengers to stop his bid for office before it began.
 

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Congressional candidates won't face delay on signature-gathering

August 27, 2011
Chicago Tribune

U.S. judge allows petition-passing to begin next month despite remap challenge

By Rick Pearson, Tribune reporter

Illinois congressional candidates can start collecting signatures after Labor Day to get on next year's ballot, and the signatures will count even if a Republican lawsuit challenging the new, Democrat-drawn district boundaries succeeds in changing them, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.

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Justice Karmeier won't swear in Evans as state rep; possible legal action cited

August 26, 2011
Belleville News Democract

BY BRIAN BRUEGGEMANN - News-Democrat

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier will not be conducting the swearing-in ceremony today for Paul Evans as a state representative because questions about Evans' eligibility could eventually be decided by the high court.

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Judge tosses suit challenging East St. Louis school board member

July 12, 2011
Belleville News Democrat

By Kevin Bersett

A lawsuit seeking to prevent Khalil El-Amin from continuing to sit on the East St. Louis School District 189 Board of Education for allegedly being a convicted felon was dismissed Tuesday in St. Clair County Circuit Court.

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Judge says Mary Fultz not eligible for Aurora East School Board

July 18, 2011
Beacon News

By Stephanie Lulay

Community activist Mary Fultz has been ruled ineligible to serve on the East Aurora School Board.

According to Kane County Judge Thomas Mueller, Fultz was not a registered voter at the time of the April 5 election.

 

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Judicial candidate chaos reined in

July 18, 2011
WBEZ

By Kristen McQueary

A bill Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed aims to limit the chaotic nature of judicial candidate filings in Cook County.

Under the new law (Senate Bill 1586), candidates for judge will no longer be allowed to file for multiple races. Historically, the dozens of judicial candidates who run for office collect signatures and file in several races – a subcircuit, a countywide district, an appellate seat and so on – and then withdraw from all but one during the final stretch of the filing period.

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