Posted on 09/17/2020 1:48:30 PM PDT by PBRCat
Vote to keep Judge Michael Toomin on the bench.
Don’t let the Democratic Party, which has happily endorsed a parade of slugs for judicial retention for decades, succeed in dumping one of the more independent and capable judges.
Don’t let the party bosses win.
With all its vindictiveness and corruption, the party’s decision to dump Toomin looks like nothing more than retaliation. The judge crossed the party bosses once too often.
Toomin infuriated the old guard when he appointed a special prosecutor to investigate a possible cover-up of an assault by a nephew of former Mayor Daley. The assault led to the death of David Koschman. Webb’s investigation resulted in a charge of manslaughter against the nephew who pleaded guilty, as well as a report that excoriated the cops who mishandled the case.
The Daley clan and their allies could not have been pleased.
Toomin infuriated the new guard a year ago when he appointed a special prosecutor to investigate irregularities in how the Cook County state’s attorney handled the case of Jussie Smollett, the actor who falsely claimed to have been the victim of a hate attack. Webb concluded that the state’s attorney’s office had botched the case and filed new charges against Smollett for making false police reports.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, chair of the county Democratic Party and a mentor to State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, could not have been pleased.
Toomin drew Preckwinkle’s particular disapproval when he declined to follow a county ordinance that barred youths 12 and younger from being held in detention. Two 12-year-old boys with gun charges on their records who were accused of armed robbery had been released on electronic monitoring, but they repeatedly damaged their electronic monitors and ran away. So Toomin ordered that they be held in detention.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
After Dems try to oust Smollett judge, Cook County judges forego long-established group donation to party
In a rare display of political independence at election time, judges voted 42-13 against donating to the party’s get-out-the-vote efforts as they typically would.
Preckwinkle has been associated with Marxist fronts and causes for decades, esp. those of the Communist Party. See her record which should be at both www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org.
Looks like there’s a judge to vote to retain.
Here is what happens to you when you’re doing what you believe God and the people want you to do
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3884511/posts#20
#5 for later
Wasn’t it in Chicago that a black Trump supporting business owner was shot dead in front of his business? This business man had a large Trump sign in front of his business. A camera caught the image of a man shooting from across the street then running away.
No, that happened in Milwaukee.
I wonder if they caught that killer.
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