School board election money

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 Interesting news article:

http://www.schoolboardfocuswest.com/uncategorized/campaign-cash-trail-shows-pol-fingers-in-west-cook-school-board-elections/

April 21, 2015

Campaign cash trail shows pol fingers in west-Cook school board elections

by Jean Lotus   
 
School board campaigns can be expected to be low-budget affairs, since candidates are running for unpaid positions on volunteer boards. However, in west-central Cook County, some school board races involve big money. When local politicians and school district vendors get involved in school board campaigns, amounts are large enough to trigger mandatory campaign reporting with the Illinois Board of Elections.

First-quarter campaign cash-shifting is always reported by April 15, usually a week after elections on the first Tuesday in April. It's interesting to analyze who was paying what during the campaign.

We'll examine some of the politicians and candidates that moved four-figure dollar amounts in local school board races along the Des Plaines River.

J Sterling Morton District 201

Payments to election lawyers showed up on the campaign committee paperwork filed by Cicero Voters Alliance (The Larry Dominick Team). When candidates from the What Would It Take slate had their petitions challenged in election board hearings, challengers Michael Benda and Tom Tomschin were represented by Ancel Glink Diamond Bush DiCianni & Krafthefer and James Nally. Cicero Voters Alliance made two payments to Ancel Glink totaling $8,750 and one payment to Nally of $4,570.

Because the candidates Jeffry Pesek, Lido Manetti, Jr., Mark Kraft and Sandra Tomschin knocked their challengers off the ballot, no committee was created for them for this election. Manetti and Tomschin are employees of the Town of Cicero and Kraft is an employee of the Clyde Park District in Cicero.


Michael Kuzniewski

School district personnel also show up in the list of donors for Cicero Mayor Dominick's campaign. Joseph Keating, of Berwyn, a former D201 board member who stepped down to become head of Human Resources at the district donated $1,000. Morton D 201 Superintendent Michael Kuzniewski made four donations totaling $4,250.

Dominick's campaign committee also reached into another school district race. the Cicero Voters Alliance transferred in $500 to Proviso Children First Party committee in Proviso Township High School District 209.



South Berwyn Elementary School District 100

In the final days of the District 100 campaign, the Education First for Berwyn South School District 100 committee filed paperwork for a total of $2,811.50 in donations. Candidates were Lisa Clemente, Jennifer Mitchell, Mark Titzer and James Woywod. Smaller amounts do not need to be declared, but one big donation stands out.

A donation of $1,032.50 from MBN Holding, LLC at the address of 1441 S. Harlem Ave. in Berwyn was declared on April 7 (election day). This company is registered with Dun and Broadstreet to Michael Del Galdo, of Del Galdo Law Group, the school district's new attorneys. This 1441 S. Harlem address was the same address on a FOIA for candidate challenges in December for rival candidates Darlene Yoder and Elizabeth Jimenez.

Berwyn Mayor Robert Lovero, who resides in North Berwyn School District 98, campaigned with the Education First candidates. School district personnel pop up on documents for the Committee to Elect Robert J. Lovero. Lovero was not running for office in this election.


George Lambesis

District 100 Superintendent Stan Fields donated $300 to Lovero's campaign. Lovero's committee also paid District 100 Buildings and Grounds Director George Lambesis $850 for supplies.


Lyons-Brookfield Elementary District 103

The Parents for Student Excellence slate of Michael Bennett, Catherine Broderick,  Jorge "Rene" Torres, Coleen "Dawn" Shipbaugh and Gregory Ramirez won four of five seats in an 11-candidate race with backing from Lyons Mayor Christopher Getty.



Bennett, Broderick, Torres, Shipbaugh

The campaign finance documents declared $3,925 in receipts, and $563.90 in in-kind contributions.

Donations included three $975 transfers from Mayor Christopher Getty, the United Citizens Party and Friends of Jeffrey Tobolski (a Cook County Comissioner). The campaign also received a transfer of $250 from the IUOE Local 399 Political Education Fund in Chicago.

The slate also got a $500 donation from Reliable Materials Lyons, LLC – a company that has donated more than $10,000 to Christopher Getty and United Citizens Party in the past five years.

Maywood/Melrose Park District 89

Four incumbents Marie Urso, Gwaine Dianne Williams, Kasharii Parker and Jesse Macias in District 89 cruised to victory with the help of the United for 89 PAC. Donations included a $1000 gift from 7th District State Rep Chris Welch.

Welch

The United for 89 PAC has been around since 2011 and formerly received donations from former Maywood Mayor Henderson Yarbrough and his wife Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarbrough, as well as Melrose Park Mayor Ron Serpico.

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Interesting news article:

http://www.schoolboardfocuswest.com/uncategorized/campaign-cash-trail-shows-pol-fingers-in-west-cook-school-board-elections/

April 21, 2015

Campaign cash trail shows pol fingers in west-Cook school board elections

by Jean Lotus   
 
School board campaigns can be expected to be low-budget affairs, since candidates are running for unpaid positions on volunteer boards. However, in west-central Cook County, some school board races involve big money. When local politicians and school district vendors get involved in school board campaigns, amounts are large enough to trigger mandatory campaign reporting with the Illinois Board of Elections.

First-quarter campaign cash-shifting is always reported by April 15, usually a week after elections on the first Tuesday in April. It's interesting to analyze who was paying what during the campaign.

We'll examine some of the politicians and candidates that moved four-figure dollar amounts in local school board races along the Des Plaines River.

J Sterling Morton District 201

Payments to election lawyers showed up on the campaign committee paperwork filed by Cicero Voters Alliance (The Larry Dominick Team). When candidates from the What Would It Take slate had their petitions challenged in election board hearings, challengers Michael Benda and Tom Tomschin were represented by Ancel Glink Diamond Bush DiCianni & Krafthefer and James Nally. Cicero Voters Alliance made two payments to Ancel Glink totaling $8,750 and one payment to Nally of $4,570.

Because the candidates Jeffry Pesek, Lido Manetti, Jr., Mark Kraft and Sandra Tomschin knocked their challengers off the ballot, no committee was created for them for this election. Manetti and Tomschin are employees of the Town of Cicero and Kraft is an employee of the Clyde Park District in Cicero.


Michael Kuzniewski

School district personnel also show up in the list of donors for Cicero Mayor Dominick's campaign. Joseph Keating, of Berwyn, a former D201 board member who stepped down to become head of Human Resources at the district donated $1,000. Morton D 201 Superintendent Michael Kuzniewski made four donations totaling $4,250.

Dominick's campaign committee also reached into another school district race. the Cicero Voters Alliance transferred in $500 to Proviso Children First Party committee in Proviso Township High School District 209.



South Berwyn Elementary School District 100

In the final days of the District 100 campaign, the Education First for Berwyn South School District 100 committee filed paperwork for a total of $2,811.50 in donations. Candidates were Lisa Clemente, Jennifer Mitchell, Mark Titzer and James Woywod. Smaller amounts do not need to be declared, but one big donation stands out.

A donation of $1,032.50 from MBN Holding, LLC at the address of 1441 S. Harlem Ave. in Berwyn was declared on April 7 (election day). This company is registered with Dun and Broadstreet to Michael Del Galdo, of Del Galdo Law Group, the school district's new attorneys. This 1441 S. Harlem address was the same address on a FOIA for candidate challenges in December for rival candidates Darlene Yoder and Elizabeth Jimenez.

Berwyn Mayor Robert Lovero, who resides in North Berwyn School District 98, campaigned with the Education First candidates. School district personnel pop up on documents for the Committee to Elect Robert J. Lovero. Lovero was not running for office in this election.


George Lambesis

District 100 Superintendent Stan Fields donated $300 to Lovero's campaign. Lovero's committee also paid District 100 Buildings and Grounds Director George Lambesis $850 for supplies.


Lyons-Brookfield Elementary District 103

The Parents for Student Excellence slate of Michael Bennett, Catherine Broderick,  Jorge "Rene" Torres, Coleen "Dawn" Shipbaugh and Gregory Ramirez won four of five seats in an 11-candidate race with backing from Lyons Mayor Christopher Getty.



Bennett, Broderick, Torres, Shipbaugh

The campaign finance documents declared $3,925 in receipts, and $563.90 in in-kind contributions.

Donations included three $975 transfers from Mayor Christopher Getty, the United Citizens Party and Friends of Jeffrey Tobolski (a Cook County Comissioner). The campaign also received a transfer of $250 from the IUOE Local 399 Political Education Fund in Chicago.

The slate also got a $500 donation from Reliable Materials Lyons, LLC – a company that has donated more than $10,000 to Christopher Getty and United Citizens Party in the past five years.

Maywood/Melrose Park District 89

Four incumbents Marie Urso, Gwaine Dianne Williams, Kasharii Parker and Jesse Macias in District 89 cruised to victory with the help of the United for 89 PAC. Donations included a $1000 gift from 7th District State Rep Chris Welch.

Welch

The United for 89 PAC has been around since 2011 and formerly received donations from former Maywood Mayor Henderson Yarbrough and his wife Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarbrough, as well as Melrose Park Mayor Ron Serpico.

It's always interesting to hear how some Berwynites hate everything to do with Morton School District 201 but yet are happy to have the Del Galdo Law Office contribute to their campaign.