The Mayor of Harvey, Illinois, Eric Kellogg, is being told he can’t have his name on the city ballot as a candidate for re-election unless he pays old campaign finance fines. See this story. Harvey is in Cook County and has a population of 25,000. The problem with keeping a candidate off the ballot for misdeeds is that the voters are being denied their ability to elect the candidate of their choice.
Sounds like Mayor Kellogg is an arrogant, cocky politician who thinks he is above the law. I trust he is removed from office if he does not pay his old campaign finance fines – even if given the opportunity to pay for them at 50 cents on the dollar.
It’s time these cocky politicians are made to realize they put their pants on “one leg at a time.”