I attended the hearings yesterday and today involving the objections to the candidacies of Elizabeth Jimenez for the D100 school board and Rita Maniotis for the D201 school board.
I discovered that any candidate running is in a Catch-22 situation regarding the Statement of Economic Interest. Both candidates had their Statements of Economic Interest objected to for different reasons. Jiminez was objected to because she used the Cook County version of the form and the Cook County version of the form does not have a line for address, which is not compliant with state law.
Maniotis was objected to because she used the version of the form that was on the State of Illinois site and was objected to because she did not use the Cook County version of the form (the wording is slightly different between the State of Illinois version and the Cook County version.)
So, candidates running for office are damned if they and damned if they don't. If they use the Cook County version, there is no line for an address, so they could be objected to. If they use the state version (which does have an address line), they could be objected to because they filed the state version of the form rather than the Cook County version.
It's a catch-22 situation.
And attorney's get more business.
Quote from: OakParkSpartan on January 14, 2015, 02:15:44 PM
And attorney's get more business.
That's the really sad part - Rita and Elizabeth had to go out and hire lawyers and spend their own money on the lawyers to defend this crap.
Quote from: Ted on January 14, 2015, 09:00:18 PM
Quote from: OakParkSpartan on January 14, 2015, 02:15:44 PM
And attorney's get more business.
That's the really sad part - Rita and Elizabeth had to go out and hire lawyers and spend their own money on the lawyers to defend this crap.
Why? it's almost as though lawyers crafted their own means of production... Thank you for playing....