In yesterday’s Herald News, there was letter to the editor penned by Jodi Wartenberg, who also happens to be my campaign chairperson. The reason she has the position is primarily because I begged her. But the reason I wanted her help in the first place is because I know how devoted she is to the things she believes in. And I’m lucky enough to be able to say she believes in me.
But more than she believes in me, she believes in the democratic process. Jodi doesn’t sit back and whine about things she doesn’t like. She doesn’t wallow in cynicism about an inability to change things that are unacceptable to her. If she’s got a problem with something, she gets off her backside and tries to do something about it.
Well, this week, she’s got a problem with the Will County Democratic party. And it’s a problem we all should be aware of.
The other day, she received a letter signed by Dan Vera and Dan Maher, two local Democrat officials, endorsing Jeff Allen for the judgeship I and two other candidates are running for. Basically, the local politicos have ordained Allen as their guy. As part of their ordination process, they’re using their positions to foist him on (they hope) unsuspecting voters as the only choice in the upcoming primary election.
Here’s the link to Jodi’s letter:
Don’t think Allen isn’t aware of this. He also, no doubt, was aware that some guy named James Broniarczyk–who is also a local Democratic Party official–filed objections to the nominating petitions of Dan O’Connell and Melanie Manning, the other two candidates in the Democratic judicial primary. My petitions, apparently, were sufficiently bulletproof to pass muster. But think about it, who benefits if two people got thrown off the ballot in my judge race? Not James Broniarczyk. No, the only ones who would benefit are Allen and me. Well, I can tell you most assuredly it wasn’t me who had anything to do with trying to kick those two candidates off the ballot. After getting a thousand signatures of my own out in the community, as well as spinning all the plates of running for office, I respect anyone who’s willing to take the personal risk of putting their name out there for public examination in the polling place. Dan O’Connell and I have shared a beer a couple of weeks ago. We wished each other the best of luck. I want to beat him, sure. Just like I want to beat the other two. But I’m not going to forget who I am in the process. If I wanted to file an objection to someone running in my race, I sure as heck would have put my own name on the objection. I wouldn’t have left it to Mr. James Broniarczyk to be my henchman. Likewise, I wouldn’t be taking part in campaigns to supposedly educate Democratic voters in ways that amount to nothing more than misinformation. There’s another name for people who pull the tricks the Will County Democrats are trying to slip by local voters: they’re called Republicans.
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