"If you can't beat them, cheat them."
Loser candidate tries to steal the election in the courts. Sound familiar to anyone? Hint: it's not George Bush in Florida. Don Gordon, loser in the 49th Ward aldermanic election last week, is taking his GOP playbook to court this week. He has challenged the results of the election on the basis of ... nothing. While my fellow bloggers disgrace themselves in their slavish service to DG, they have failed to produce a single shred of evidence there was anything wrong with the election last week. On behalf of the blogging community, I want to apologize. We're not all bananas!
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You missed one thing in your post. Gordon is sueing the election results because too many Black voters took part.
Just one little question I have for all you pro-Moore bloggers...
Why are you all either anonymous or hiding behind blogger names?
My real name is on my blog and I am easy to find.
What a bunch of cowards you little people are. That, and you have plenty to hide.
Yo north coast if you only knew. And c'mon what's with the coward stuff. It's not as if you're some type of fist in action, boots to rear person yourself, just because you type type type on all your blogs doesn't mean crap to me.
The self importance of your statement speaks for itself. The assumption that since you want to be known, then others should follow suit because of course your way it the right way.
And my favorite, cos someone has an opposing view, start the name calling and call them out personally. One thing I can promise you north coast, you're a lot happier now, not knowing me. Now be nice.
You missed one thing in your post. Gordon is sueing the election results because too many Black voters took part.
Westgard took down his post with the precinct map. I posted a comment, which never got published, pointing out that there were black and Hispanic precincts that were not challenged and white precincts that were challenged. I don't believe in coincidences.
what part of daily don't you understand?
Anonymous makes a good point
An Open Letter to Don Gordon:
We are the Steering Committee of the Edgewater/Rogers Park Democracy for America (DFA) Group. DFA is an organization founded by Governor Howard Dean and dedicated to progressive reform. We are writing to urge you to withdraw your lawsuit, which seeks to throw out more than half of the votes cast in the recent aldermanic election, thereby disenfranchising thousands of 49th Ward voters.
Your lawsuit claims you lost the aldermanic election through fraud. Yet you fail to allege any specific acts of fraud. On that basis alone, your legal challenge appears without merit.
What is even more troubling, however, is that while you say you wish to protect the right to vote, you ask the court to void the results in 22 precincts, which represent most of the precincts in the 49th Ward. In other words, if you were to prevail in your lawsuit, all votes cast in those 22 precincts would no longer be counted, and over half the voters in the last election would be disenfranchised.
This incredibly extreme measure runs contrary to every democratic principle. Mr. Gordon, if you have evidence of voter fraud, which we seriously doubt, we urge you to turn that evidence over to the U.S. Attorney, the Illinois Attorney General and the Cook County State's Attorney. But do not continue this attempt to deprive the voters in the 49th Ward of their right to vote.
We also find it extremely curious that the 22 precincts whose voters you seek to disenfranchise happen to be the same 22 precincts that Joe Moore won in the last election, a fact which underscores the blatantly political nature of your lawsuit and belies your claim that the purpose of your lawsuit is to see that "all the votes are counted." In fact, using such serious allegations for such a transparently political maneuver demonstrates a shocking level of contempt for the principles of our democracy and an appalling willingness to disenfranchise your neighbors for your own political purposes.
Many of our members participated as volunteers in the 49th Ward election, and none of us saw any evidence of fraud or misconduct on the part of election officials or Moore campaign workers. Instead, we observed many attorneys from the Cook County State's Attorney's office and many investigators from the Chicago Board of Elections, who monitored the polling places all day. None of these professional observers witnessed any acts of fraud or misconduct.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the attorney you hired to represent you on your lawsuit, Michael Lavelle, is the same attorney who represents Protect Marriage Illinois, the conservative Christian fundamentalist organization that attempted last year to place an anti-gay marriage referendum on the statewide election ballot.
Mr. Gordon, these divisive, anti-democratic, right-wing tactics have no place here in Rogers Park and Edgewater. It's time to acknowledge you lost the election and move on. Please join us in uniting, not dividing our community.
Sincerely,
Shannon Fisk, Jim Ginsburg, Carol Levy, Melissa Lindberg,
Michi Schulenberg and Sandra Verthein
Edgewater/Rogers Park
Democracy for America
Steering Committee
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