Lake County Democratic Party chairman Terry Link filed a pretty desperate objection to the nominating papers of his GOP opponent, Keith Gray of Mettawa, but more on that later. I'm proud to say that the Lake County GOP has taken some back some initiative from their rivals, the Lake County Democratic party. Based on comments to our last post, this hasn't gone unnoticed among even the rank and file Dems, who seem to fall into three camps: Those who support Terry Link, and his hatchetman, Pete Couvall; those who support the "do-gooders", among them Lauren Beth Gash, Nancy Shepardson and that bunch; and those that aren't clued in enough to the local scene to know any better and think anyone with a "D" next to their name must be better than the "R" alternative (think Green, anyone?).
In any event, the lawyer for the Dems is rattling his saber and has stated that he plans to file an appeal of the recent ruling that the four Dem slated candidates for county board will not be on the fall ballot. See the Daily Herald update here. Based on what I know of the cases, at least three of the four are very likely to stand up on appeal.
GOP objections to two state rep contenders, and the Dems objections to GOP candidates Keith Gray and Dan Sugrue (running against State Rep. Kathy Ryg), will be resolved in the next few weeks.
I like our chances, though. Especially in the Alexander v. Gray (Cynthia Alexander is a Link disciple and is the complainant in the objection) complaint, the jist of the complaint appears to be that the GOP had a meeting to nominate Gray in Waukegan, and then later that same day, had a meeting in Green Oaks to nominate Dan Sugrue. Therefore, the two meetings could not have happened and someone must be lying.
Seriously, that's it.
I guess only Democrats are so inefficient that they cannot contemplate actually getting a nominating meeting done in one place, and then driving a few miles to do another meeting. You can see the original Alexander v. Gray complaint, and then Gray's Motion to Dismiss with Affidavit.
It seems pretty clear that Link is desperate to avoid having an opponent this fall. First, he really doesn't like to have to work at campaigning; his interest is really playing power politics and being Emil Jones' hatchetman. Based on his troubles in doing the nuts and bolts of campaigning like getting petitions signed by actual living voters, you can imagine why he'd much rather simply waltz into another term. Plus, he'd much rather be out in other states stumping for Barack Obama this fall (if the opportunity arises) than waste his time here among the unwashed voters of the 30th District.
MARK KIRK IN THE NEWS: A nice spread this morning on Mark Kirk's involvement in the remediation of the former OMC plant in Waukegan in the News-Sun. Dan Seals, you taking notes?
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I too read the article about Congressman Kirk in Waukegan yesterday. He has been working for Waukegan/North Chicago his entire time in Congress. I was wondering where is the pup while Kirk is out working for his constituents?
Link looks very ill. I wonder of the pending indictment of Couvall is getting to him.
Link has a motor neuron disesase, that he doesn't admit to, but if you're around him long enough you'll see him shaking. It's something like Katherine Hepburn had.
Do we have any updates from Dan Seals' class at NU?
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