1) A GOP primary for Congress against Bobby Rush (Mayor Don Peloquin of Blue Island vs. Fred Collins who was the GOP nominee for Sheriff in '08 vs. "Republican" Jimmie Lee Tillman, son of Dorothy),
2)A GOP primary for State Senator (Dr. Barbara Bellar vs. Dr. Ricardo Fernandez, difficult choice since both had a colorful resume for the job and virtually identical conservative views), and
3) A GOP primary for Cook County Board of Review (Sean Morrison vs. Dan Patlak...both of whom have turned me off with their constant mudslinging and pushy supporters). There are 3 Board of Review seats, this one represents about 5% of the city and 95% of the suburbs, so it's called the "suburban seat" for Crook County. Wish our judges worked that way because I'm damned tired of seeing 20+ judicial races in Crook County with "No Candidate" as the GOP nominee.
The RATs also have some contested primaries... Dorothy Brown has some hispanic alderman trying to unseat her as Cook County Clerk, and that will be a biggie since winning the RAT primary in Crook is tauntamount to being elected. Bobby Rush has 4 or 5 opponents, they all seem to be black marxists who are just as bad on the issues, even the suburban guy. I think there will be low turnout here since Obama is unopposed on the ballot in Illinois.
But the 2nd Congressional district, which is east of me, is expected to have high turnout since Jesse Jackson Jr. and fmr. Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson are beating each other up in the Congressional primary (I've seen tons of campaign signs for each... JJJ's signs read "OBAMA/JACKSON"). As I said before, I predict Jackson gets 90+% of the votes in majority black areas and wins easily. I doubt Debbie is going to get 90%+ in the white suburbs like Homewood and Crete, or in Will Co. (even if she did do very well there, there are far more Republicans in that part of the district whereas the Crook County part contains the bulk of RAT voters)
Hope you remembered to write-in Hector Concepcion for Congress in the 4th district. The good news is the spanish word for "conception" is "concepción" so in this majority hispanic district, most of the voters who pull a Republican ballot won't have any trouble spelling it. :-p
And I STILL haven't seen a Romney sign in Crook County as of election day (I figured they'd at least sprout up overnight like how Pat Quinn went from having a handful of signs scattered in odd places the day before, to thousands of them at every polling place on election day). With the thousands of dollars that Romney has pumped into robocalls to endlessly pester Illinois voters, you'd think they'd make use of the signs they already have.
Slow as hell up here in my neck of the woods. My precinct has over 900 registered voter split roughly 50/50 R&D. I just voted at 11:30 and was boter # 68 !!! Sheesh.
There were no signs at all from presidential candidates, which kind of surprised me. I had gotten an email yesterday from some pro-Isreal group literally begging for voluteers to put up Santorum at pollings places. I emailed them back a list of precincts I would be covering for Patlak and offered to help. They called me and said those precincts had already been covered, but yet there were no signs out this am.
Yes I wrote in Hector Concepcion. I think I spelled it right. I know I didn’t put in a “t”.
So does this mean he’ll be on the ballot in November?
The judicial races make me sad. At least we have a candidate for Supreme Court. They need divide Cook County into 3 districts rather than have it be one district with 3 seats. That way we could win one like with the BOR.
I’m surprised by the margin whereby Halvorson got killed. LOL.