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* Ya know, when the G is eyeing you like tomorrow’s dinner, it’s probably not a good idea to do stuff like this. Just sayin..
This is a page of "signatures" Dorothy Brown submitted for her nominating petitions. It gets worse. @fox32news at 9 pic.twitter.com/1s8l6wUFHe
— Dane Placko FOX 32 (@dsplacko) December 4, 2015
Line 18 from Dorothy Brown's petition is "Sheep Black." AKA Black Sheep Pub on W. Peterson. Oops. @fox32news at 9. pic.twitter.com/NCuMS1jUCw
— Dane Placko FOX 32 (@dsplacko) December 4, 2015
Line 13. Rugs Cozy on Clybourn signed as well. But the folks at Cozy Rugs never saw Dorothy Brown's petition. pic.twitter.com/V6dopHuAve
— Dane Placko FOX 32 (@dsplacko) December 4, 2015
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Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:04 pm
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Gee, the quality of roundtabling has really gone way downhill in this town.
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:12 pm
“Genesis Gallery” at 4201 S Archer Ave?
That’s a subdivision of Watra Church Goods Company — “serving the needs of churches of all traditions since 1935.”
http://www.yelp.com/biz/gallery-genesis-chicago
http://www.watra.com/genesis.asp
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:15 pm
This is more juvenile than some of the pranks I pulled in my Younger Sleep days.
“Cozy Cleaner”?!
To quote the awesome Hank Hill, “I don’t know whether to laugh or vomit.”
Comment by Team Sleep Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:19 pm
Cozy Cleaners is a huge Brown supporter. So much so that if you bring in your dry cleaning, they will do a pair of jeans for free. But only on Fridays.
Comment by Juice Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:24 pm
She is done.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:24 pm
best evidence of tabling i have seen in awhile…
Comment by bored now Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:35 pm
I bet Kasper is glad she’s not slated any more.
Comment by Quizzical Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:38 pm
===tabling===
Yeah. But definitelt not round tabling. That’s more like a TV tray.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:46 pm
Reminder: You can be completely crooked or you can be completely incompetent, but you can’t be both.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:52 pm
If they try to find “Gary P” to verify him, where is 823 West Wacker Drive?
Comment by Arthur Andersen Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 7:58 pm
who are Dorothy’s key people in the office?
Comment by Amalia Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:06 pm
Oddly, that’s a far more professional performance than we see from her office.
Comment by Gooner Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:14 pm
No proof she is responsible nor that its intentional spoofing on her part. She coulda had the neighborhood kids standing out there to get signatures, you are always likely to get some jokers. If there are good signatures on that page she would still turn it in to count the good ones.
Comment by internal angel Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:16 pm
You’re not supposed to roundtable with the yellow pages
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:23 pm
“No proof she is responsible nor that its intentional spoofing on her part.”
Ah yes, the old “You Can’t Prove She Isn’t That Inept” defense.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:27 pm
I had a couple people turn in sheets like that to me. Not even roundtabling, it was all the same writing at consecutive addresses. Seemed like a couple clueless people looking to get paid.
Anyone paying attention isn’t paying for those signatures and certainly won’t submit them. Incompetence at the least.
Filing fees, like more than 30 other states use for ballot access, sure would save our election boards a lot of time and money and free up campaign resources to do more voter education efforts. That is the best way to get rid of silliness like this and update our ballot access laws into the 21st century.
Comment by Jeff Trigg Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:39 pm
If you brought this crap into a good or any Chicago Democratic Ward Committeeman during the Richard J Daley years you would receive your job termination in return. Rich, so correct, not even a bad “round table”".
Comment by Lane Tech Lenny Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:46 pm
So bad it is newsworthy. Hall of fame bad.
Comment by siriusly Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 8:54 pm
Amalia: We know, we know. Maybe this is payback or abandonment by anyone who knows how to do this.
Comment by walker Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:01 pm
===Yeah. But definitelt not round tabling. That’s more like a TV tray.===
Yep, a one-person round table.
The tragic comedy of this is she just can’t not do something illegal.
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:06 pm
I can see a whole bunch of new nickname choices for the commenters who are unable to come up with one on their own.
Comment by Blago's Hare Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:10 pm
Corporations ARE people, my friend. Therefore the signatures stand (just gotta take it to the US Supremes).
Comment by Jimmy CrackCorn Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:29 pm
MrJM I think I could prove she is incompetent
Also in order to round table you need people round the table as it were
Comment by Oneman Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:35 pm
==Corporations ARE people, my friend. Therefore the signatures stand==
Have to be registered to vote
Comment by FRM Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:40 pm
I’m sure Rauner is at the bottom of this.
Comment by Junior Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:41 pm
DB has to get rid of Madigan’s Moody brothers. She cant possibly win if she’s allowing them to help her one day and Alderman Harris the next.
Comment by FRM Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:43 pm
I guess handling any legal documents in a proper orderly manner as prescribed by statue is just not her forte.
Too bad filed legal documents is also her sworn duty, but I digress…
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:52 pm
FRM - I knew it. Because Madigan, right?
Jim Laski had a nice story about roundtabling in his post-prison memoir.
Comment by Keyrock Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:57 pm
Remember, Dorothy Brown is a statutory member of the Cook County Officers Electoral Board and is empowered to pass upon objections to nominating petitions filed in suburban Cook County!
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 9:59 pm
Is that Jay Cutler on line 11 of the third sheet?
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 10:00 pm
Round tabling as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
Comment by mokenavince Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 10:25 pm
There are times when I don’t feel guilty laughing at the incompetence of others, and this is certainly one of those times. I don’t think this reflects the level of effort that grade school kids put into forging their parents signature.
Comment by AC Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 10:29 pm
If she paid her signature gatherers what Rauner paid his term limit signature gatherers, maybe she wouldn’t have had these issues. /s
Comment by AC Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 10:38 pm
This is just unbelievable. If there was someone being paid by the campaign who submitted these petitions, they should be fired. If it was a volunteer ( or perhaps with DB a “volunteer”)’ they should be referred to one of her opponents. Did somebody actually think no one would look at these. Maybe they thought the County Clerk would just weigh them and say they’re heavy enough so they must be ok. Got to agree with Jeff Trigg, filing fees and forget this nonsense. That will never fly however because we don’t want nobody nobody sent.
Comment by West Side the Best Side Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 11:19 pm
Remember when she wanted to be mayor?
Comment by Marty Funkhouser Thursday, Dec 3, 15 @ 11:33 pm
I showed better forgery techniques in grade school while trying to sign my mother’s name to a permission slip.
Comment by Archiesmom Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 12:20 am
Didn’t these signature gatherers have any training? Wasn’t anyone checking their work on a regular basis? (And didn’t anyone think to pull them aside, one by one, and teach them how to be proper fraudsters? Holy crap, not even an attempt to vary the handwriting on each line!)
Enterprising souls might wish to pull Ms. Brown’s prior petitions (if still available in some dusty Cook County vault) and compare the old to the current–might be interesting to see if the names, addresses, or handwriting are on past petitions…And who were the notaries who signed off on these? Should the notaries be calling their lawyers, too?
Jaw-droppingly bad…don’t know what to say, aside from: call your lawyer, get a fat retainer paid before the feds freeze the campaign fund, and consider dropping out before this get in front of a judge.
Comment by Lynn S. Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 12:41 am
I’ll be really disappointed if one of those lines isn’t signed Epstein’s Mother.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 12:52 am
“And who were the notaries who signed off on these? Should the notaries be calling their lawyers, too?”
Probably not.
The notary only attests to the validity of the signature of the petition circulator. But if those petitions were circulated by “Harold S. Chicken” or “Rocky Roll McDonalds”, then the notary would have some problems.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 12:58 am
Zoinks!
Comment by Anon Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 1:21 am
All the capital Cs look identical…
Comment by Visual Manager Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 6:12 am
Reminds me of the old “Thompson Proposition”.
Comment by Chad Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 6:47 am
Oh yeah MisterJayEm, well up your nose with a rubber hose.
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 7:42 am
When you’re forging petition signatures using the phone book, you need to remember to just use the residential listings part. The yellow pages part doesn’t work.
Comment by titan Friday, Dec 4, 15 @ 8:20 am