Columnist Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times reports here that Forrest Claypool, a Cook County Commissioner, may run for Cook County Assessor this year as an independent. Scroll down to “Scoopsville.” Claypool would need 25,000 signatures by June 21.
Claypool is a former Deputy State Treasurer of Illinois, and a former head of the Chicago Park District. Here is his web page.
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Claypool doesn’t have that kind of a political army. I don’t see something like that happening.
As it so happens, we’re running an *actual assessor* – a guy with 20+ years experience _doing assessments_ – for the office. His name is Robert Grota. Claypool and his people should consider backing our candidate.
Not too sure how I found this blog but glad I did find it. Think I was looking for something else on google. Don’t know I agree 100% with what you say, but have bookmaked and will pop back to read to see if you add any more posts. Keep up the good work