In his quest to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for assessor, Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool is leaving no stone unturned.
His campaign was at yesterday's Tea Party protest at Daley Plaza, asking the 1,000 or so people there to support his bid.
It makes sense for Claypool - disenfranchised with Machine politics - to seek support from Tea Partiers, who are disenfranchised with high taxes and the government, in general. Read more...
Scott Cisek, the newly-minted political director of the Cook County Democratic Party, and Tom Bowen, County Commissioner Forrest Claypool's campaign manager, got into it on Facebook yesterday, in what appears to be the philosophical ouster of Claypool from the party.
On his Facebook page, Cisek wrote, "Cook County Democrats, remember what Benjamin Franklin said, 'We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.'" Read more...
Scott Cisek, who has led Alderman Toni Preckwinkle's campaign for Cook County board president, announced yesterday he is leaving the campaign to become political director for the Cook County Democratic Party.
He told the Current Preckwinkle suggested he take the job.
"She said we're in a strong position and some of the ticket is not in a strong position," he said. "She asked me if I would do it ... and I said I would do whatever she would want me to do." Read more...
Candidates for County Board president spent more than $1 million on television advertising in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 2 primary.
And though television attacks ads were few and interest groups stayed off the airwaves, the same can’t be said for the Internet, an unbridled and little regulated bastion of political communication.
Specifically, YouTube, the video sharing site, became a forum for not only candidates to publish campaign ads, but also for others to anonymously share political videos. Read more...
Candidates for Cook County Board President made their cases last night during a debate hosted by ABC7 at the television station’s downtown studio.
In the first televised debate, President Todd Stroger defended the controversial sales tax hike, saying again it helped sustain the Cook County Health and Hospitals System. But his opponents, Clerk of Courts Dorothy Brown, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District President Terrence O’Brien and Alderman Toni Preckwinkle all vowed to repeal it. O’Brien says he’d move to cut the tax on his first day of office.
News reports of the debate make mention of a few new campaign points, including the possibility of giving more Cook County Jail prisoners diversion sentences. Read more...
