The Cook County-est news items of the week
Friday, Jun 15, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller
By Hannah Meisel
* First there’s this Sun-Times story (don’t miss the photo or its caption)…
Cicero town president pulled into primary rival’s election suit against Madigan
An unlikely figure is surfacing in a federal lawsuit that accuses House Speaker Mike Madigan of winning elections by recruiting “sham” candidates to dilute the opposition vote:
Cicero Town President Larry Dominick.
And it apparently hasn’t been easy for unsuccessful Madigan primary challenger Jason Gonzales to pull Dominick into the heated case.
According to a motion filed Thursday, a man who tried to deliver a subpoena to get Dominick to sit for a deposition said he wound up being arrested by Cicero Police and left shivering in a room with the air conditioning cranked up — after he had been forced to remove his shirt.
There’s a lot more weirdness deeper in the story.
* Then there are these two dispatches from the Trib’s Jason Meisner…
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 15, 18 @ 2:56 pm:
That Cicero story is just chock full of people I don’t want to root for.
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jun 15, 18 @ 3:03 pm:
Ron Burgundy, spot on. The full story is worth a read, tho.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 15, 18 @ 3:03 pm:
Right on Ron.
- NeverPoliticallyCorrect - Friday, Jun 15, 18 @ 3:04 pm:
Sometimes I just don’t want to admit I live in Cook County (or Crook County as those of us who live here refer to it).
- wordslinger - Friday, Jun 15, 18 @ 3:46 pm:
–According to a motion filed Thursday, a man who tried to deliver a subpoena to get Dominick to sit for a deposition said he wound up being arrested by Cicero Police and left shivering in a room with the air conditioning cranked up —–
Too much AC? Cicero ain’t what it used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS49c9KZw8