Petition Challenge Paralyzes the Campaign of Foxx

The Nadig Press ^ | December 11, 2019 | Russ Stewart

[PBRCat]

As is now demonstrably clear, 2020 countywide Democratic candidates Kim Foxx and Mike Cabonargi are not feeling blessed. In fact, they are probably feeling angry, paranoid and downright disgusted. Both were the slated candidates for the state's attorney and Clerk of Circuit Court, respectively. Both were on the same nominating petition. Each gave the Democratic Party $40,000 to get the necessary minimum of 7,279 signatures, as well as to be on the party sample ballot and have a countywide mailer.

And both are now in serious jeopardy of being knocked off the March 17 primary ballot due to an insufficient amount of VALID signatures. The duo filed petitions with about 20,000 purported signatures.

Should such occur, the blame lies squarely on the Cook County Democratic Party, its chairwoman Toni Preckwinkle, Foxx's enduring unpopularity, and Cabonargi's misjudgment in allowing himself to be conned by party leaders into being on the same petition with Foxx. Cabonagi was told, according to party sources, that conjoining his name with Foxx's was necessary to get white Chicago and suburban committeemen to circulate for her, and for African-American committeemen to circulate for him. It was a total hoax.

Not surprisingly, the Foxx-Cabonargi petitions were "a mess," said attorney Jacob Meister, "filled with forgeries, circulator fraud" and, he added,

[PBRCat]

Foxx's corruption and incompetence are mind boggling. Good pick by George Soros as to who could mess up a prosecutorial office.

[poinq]

This has to be on purpose. You can’t really do that bad a job. Remember its the Chicago machine that collected the signatures. There is an old trick of questioning the signatures. If the machine gets your signatures and they are bad, you have been wacked. You are no longer wanted in your party.

[libstripper]

When viewing candid, unretouched pictures of Foxx, I’m always reminded of a long ago movie starring the late, great Charlton Heston whose title began with the word, “Planet.” Nuff said.

[Magnum44]

Nuff said.

Not quite as dangerous as quoting Imus here, but, yeah...

[PBRCat]

Foxx’s sponsor, failed mayoral candidate and current Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is also the head of the Cook County Democrats. In order to get Foxx endorsed for a second term at the Democratic Central Committee Meeting, Preckwinkle had to call for a voice vote rather than distributing secret ballots. In the opinion of the chair, Preckwinkle, Foxx secured a majority.

Petition circulators for rival candidates had an easy task collecting signatures. They simply said “X is running against Foxx.” The voters usually responded “Hand me the pen” or “Where do I sign?”

[libstripper]

Making one's point indirectly can be very effective and add a bit of humor. Of course, when viewing Foxx, it's a bit hard not to have certain naughty thoughts. How, indeed, did she ever manage to pass the Illinois bar exam???