The headline in McHenry County Blog’s article last Saturday was
“Will/Should County Officials Recuse Themselves from Electoral Board Service in the Colatortoii Petition Challenge?“
Now, they have.
Both Circuit Clerk Kathy Keefe and County Clerk Joe Tirio have removed themselves from the decision-making Electoral Board.
Their replacements will be appointed by Chief Judge James Cowlin.
State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally has handed off his position to an Assistant State’s Attorney from Lake County, who has previous McHenry County Electoral Board experience.
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The original article is below:
The challenge to the eligibililty of Tony Colatorti’s candidacy will intitially. be determined by the McHenry County Electoral Board.
That entity consists of the
- State’s Attorney
- Circiut Clerk
- County Clerk
Two of those have officially endorsed one of the candidates:
- State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally has endorsed Colatorti and
- Circuit Court Clerk Kathy Keefe has endorsed his opponent Robb Tadelman
The third, McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio, has attended numerous fundraising events for Colatorti, but made noformal endorsement.
Sources report that photos of Trio at such events have been being scrubbed from various web sites.
Should any of the statutory members of the Electoral Board recuse themselves, they would be replaced by a Court appointment.
Attorneys Steve Haugh and David Stone were appointed to serve on the McHenry Township Electoral Board in 2017, for instance.
Stone was also a replacement member on a 2012 Nunda Township Electoral Board.
Any decision, of course, could be appealed to Circuit Court.
And, considering that incumbent Sheriff’ were exempted from the new law, my non-lawyer thought is that, should he lose, Colatorti could use the lack of equal protection under the law as a reason to vitiate the legislation.
Who’s the mysterious Lake County asst. SA?
Tirio continues to disappoints.
Kenneally has to always have everything revolve around himself.
We always laugh at this guy who thinks he’s relevant but just an ass clown.
Patty’s just a real insecure idiot.
Dede it’s Lisle Stalter.
She’s a Bureau Chief for the Civil Division in Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart’s office.
Because of the nature of this occurring in McHenry County, and McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally and his very own Bureau Chief of Civil Division Norm Vinton both supporting Mr. Colatorti’s campaign efforts, they both knew that it would be a huge conflict of interest if either of them were sitting on this board.
It will be interesting to see if the board finds any potential conflicts or issues of bias with ASA Statler remaining on the board.
From what I’ve gathered, April 21st is the official day for candidates to be placed onto the ballots.
So this is going to be interesting to see if this actually winds up in the Appellate Court for the 2nd District in Elgin where the 2nd Appellate Court District presides over their cases.
The decision to see if ASA Statler can remain on the board is this coming Tuesday.
What would’ve been the better route was if Chief Judge Cowlin appointed the replacement as far as from the States Attorney aspect.
Veritas odit moras.
Seneca
Paul Revere Truth does hate delay
I guess the fix is in to terminate the candidacy of Colatorti.
The Nygrenites are cheering.
The decent people are jeering.
Has Prim been asked if he’s being blackmailed?
Tirio is no better than his predecessor. Clueless to the office he was elected.