19 Comments - Torco Sign - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 8:54 am: There’s a limit to how much people will tolerate hearing about “making history” if they think you’re not up to the job, one they just want done by a technocrat. - Pizza Man - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 8:55 am: These are not accidental errors am I sorry to say. She has run for (and currently holds) public office. She is experienced with what is needed to file with the election authority. This should not be a surprise to her. She is seeking her SoS job who would have oversight over lobsters and she is negligent with this important information? Be transparent and not sloppy. If your spouse is lobbying for x, y,z–report it. Don’t worry about how your candidacy is going to be perceived. This is added income. If you’re embarrassed about it, resign from doing that role. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 8:55 am: Blocking, tackling, fundamentals. (Sigh) - Jose Abreu's Next Homer - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 8:59 am: @Torco Sign, if Richard Irvin wins he’d be “making history” too - Torco Sign - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:03 am: @Jose Abreu’s Next Homer “Making history” is her primary (no pun intended) campaign message. Irvin is attacking Pritzker, not constantly talking about making history, which hits his party’s primary voters differently anyway. - Candy Dogood - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:09 am: ===one they just want done by a technocrat.=== This sounds like you’re implying that Secretary White is a technocrat. ===These are not accidental errors am I sorry to say=== This is an awfully high bar to reach. ===Be transparent and not sloppy. If your spouse is lobbying for x, y,z–report it.=== It does not behoove anyone to throw their spouse under the bus on the campaign trail but I am willing to presume that it is entirely possible for her to simply be unaware of the complete details of her husband’s contracts and payments and entirely possible for him to not accurately report them to her and without a 3rd party combing through records to make certain the report is accurate these things can occur. I find it very difficult to presume any sort of intent or malicious intent when there doesn’t actually seem to be any real benefit to withholding any of the information and failing to disclose it has more negative impacts than disclosing it would. Fudging this paperwork isn’t nearly as bad as what was happening with the paperwork at Broadway Bank. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:23 am: ===throw their spouse under the bus=== Simply filling out forms correctly, accurately, and timely is a fundamental. No one is a victim to not doing the necessary things. So much daylight is burning, every day Alexi can pass without dealing with his own issues or the endorsements and cash Valencia needs to tout, those are good days for Alexi. - Husband Unethical and tip of the iceberg - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:39 am: What else can be revealed by peeling back more of this stinky onion. If she can’t do that one ethics statement correctly, how can she oversee all state Lobbyist activities. A big No Thank You. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:44 am: === If she can’t do that one ethics statement correctly, how can she oversee all state Lobbyist activities.=== The other choice on the Dem side is an ethically challenged banker who has been missing for a decade while rainmaking in big banks, and was already rejected by Illinois when his history was put up against another candidate. If you’re concerned about peeled onions, don’t put your nose at Alexi. It was a form. It was messed up, it’s a fundamental, it’s shows the Valencia Crew really-really lacks, so much so they misspelled “amendment”… Take a breath on the ethics thingy when looking at choices on that side of the primary. - Pundent - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:53 am: The Anna Valencia campaign continues to disappoint and the best thing she may have going for her is that she’s not Alexi. Regardless of how “historic” a campaign may be, it can’t overshadow the need to execute on campaign basics. Flawed candidates are flawed candidates regardless of who they are. - Mark Johnson - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 9:56 am: Part of the issue may be Mr. Kazmi can’t admit to the world that he’s a lobbyist. Take a look at his professor profile on the UIC website. The lengths lobbyists will go to obfuscate that they’re lobbyists is incredible. https://ec.uic.edu/cnm/instructors/cnm-reyahd-kazmi/ - Pungent - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 11:08 am: It has to be Alexi, now. Otherwise, (to paraphrase Oswego) “The other choice on the Dem side is an ethically challenged [city clerk] who has been miss[pell]ing for a decade while [aiding her hubby’s] rainmaking” - Oswego Willy - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 11:11 am: === It has to be Alexi, now. “The other choice on the Dem side is an ethically challenged [city clerk] who has been miss[pell]ing for a decade while [aiding her hubby’s] rainmaking”=== Alexi is a proven loser statewide when voters are reminded of his real ethical issues, so Republicans would love to have Alexi be the nominee, won’t take much to remind folks how they rejected the absent Alexi last time. - Almost the Weekend - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 12:08 pm: This might be the seat independent voters use to vote R. I think the rest of the ticket has done a fine job, with exception of AG data breach, but that barely got any coverage, most likely due to covid. Rs get SOS they now have a bench for next gov race and quite a few jobs. This seems like best bet. - Lake Villa Township - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 12:57 pm: Alexi’s past is extremely questionable to put it lightly, but Valencia being appointed by Rahm is bad news, don’t want an enabler for the privatization that Chicago has seen statewide, already too many lobbyists having significant sway they gotta be properly regulated. - Pundent - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 1:48 pm: =It has to be Alexi, now.= No. Each of these candidates has to stand on their merits or lack thereof. Anna’s missteps don’t make Alexi’s shortcomings and history any more tolerable. The reverse holds true as well. - Been There - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 2:27 pm: ==== This might be the seat independent voters use to vote R. ==== I am a dem through and through. But if Alexi wins the primary there is a chance I move over to the R column in this race. Especially if Brady is their nominee. Of course the last time I voted for a statewide GOP candidate he won but got indicted. That was Bill Scott as AG - Pungent - Monday, Mar 28, 22 @ 3:12 pm: –This might be the seat independent voters use to vote R– This is a commonplace. But every race has TWO candidates. As a ticket-splitting D, I must say: Milhiser is neither an attractive candidate nor naturally suited to SoS. So, like Been There, I could be thrown back to a straight ticket, depending on the GOP quality of statewide candidates. On the other hand, Tom Demmer has been pretty convincing out the gate. If I vote for a single R in the Fall, he’s got the inner track. - Lionel - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 1:35 pm: Yet another reason not to vote for Valencia. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.