Judge Rules Madigan's Power Sufficient to Reinstate Suitit

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 14, 2017 | Tina Sfondeles

[PBRCat]

(Judge) Kennelly said. . . that a constitutional issue may arise with Gonzales’ claim that there was “vote dilution” in the alleged placement of two fake candidates on the ballot.

“The fact that Gonzales argues the effect of this fraud was to dilute the Hispanic vote — the two alleged sham candidates have Hispanic surnames — does not negate the fact that the registration of sham candidates can, on its own, constitute a deprivation of a constitutional right,” Kennelly wrote.

Throughout the campaign, Gonzales maintained that he and Madigan were the only candidates on the ballot until he submitted his paperwork just minutes ahead of the filing deadline, allegedly prompting a Madigan operative to quickly pull out petitions in Grasiela Rodriguez’ and Joe Barbosa’s names.

[PBRCat]

The most powerful political and tax racketeer in Illinois exposed for election chicanery during a recent primary election. Fake candidates recruited to divide the primary vote. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan employs 19th century ward election tricks to maintain his power.

[TBP]

And gets away with it.

[rod1]

Just wow IL. and to top it off he has a political spawn. Aren’t the Moon babies (Landrieus) of LA enough to suffer through?

[ZOOKER]

While I read this post, I was thinking "since no party affiliation is mentioned, what can we assume?"

Turns out that yes, he is a 'rat.

In fairness, if you go to the original piece that fact is mentioned, but you snipped it out...

[Impy]

Madigan has been doing that shiite forever, gets fake Republicans to run against him too.

[PhilCollins]

I read that Madigan has been doing that for at least the past 10 years. I don’t think it’s a crime. If it is, I’m glad that someone filed the lawsuit.