Posted on 11/13/2009 9:52:21 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
OK, say you are running for the Cook County Board. And say your daddy is the village clerk in the very district where you are hoping to get a whole slew of by-mail and early votes. Also say your cousin is running for Governor and he's already the State Comptroller now. Do you think your opponent might casually wonder if the fix is in?
... well, it is Crook County, after all.
Naturally, the above isn't just some bad TV script, but a real situation in southern Cook County. In Orland Park where Democrat Patrick Maher is running to unseat Commissioner Elizabeth Doody Gorman (R, Or. Park) we find that Maher's daddy just happens to be David Maher, the Orland Park Village Clerk, and Maher's cousin just happens to be Dan Hynes, Democratic State Comptroller and current candidate for the Dem. nomination for governor.
Naturally, Commissioner Gorman is a bit wary of the whole situation and is raising some red flags about it all...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
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