On August 23, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly dismissed the lawsuit Gonzales v Madigan, n.d., 1:16cv-7915. It had been filed in 2016 by one of Michael Madigan’s opponents in the Democratic primary. Madigan is a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He has been speaker for 33 years and is also chair of the Illinois Democratic Party. His district has been tending toward being a majority-Hispanic district. In the 2016 primary, Madigan appears to have recruited two candidates with Latino names to run against him, to divide the Hispanic vote, and defeat Jason Gonzales. Madigan won the primary.
In 1973, the Seventh Circuit had ruled in Smith v Cherry that when a sham candidate is recruited, that is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. Gonzales depended on that precedent, and filed a federal lawsuit against Madigan. But after three years of complicated proceedings in the Gonzales case, the judge dismissed it on the grounds that during the 2016 primary campaign, the charge that two of the candidates were sham candidates had been widely publicized. Here is the 19-page decision.
How about creating fake new parties —
for more DIVIDE AND CONQUER math ???
Mike Madigan’s campaign manager was Marty Quinn.
Marty Quinn’s brother is Kevin Quinn.
Kevin Quinn recruited the sham candidates and circulators for their petitions.
One of the petition circulators evaded process servers, until the federal judge issued an arrest warrant. In his deposition he said he asked Kevin Quinn why he wanted to help someone running against Madigan, and Quinn gave him a poker face.
Another petition circulator, apparently of limited education, blurted out that he was not alone. His “helper” was a precinct captain, who in his deposition said he did it because he didn’t think the other guy was up to it. It is unclear who did most/all of the talking. Apparently the formal circulator, who signed the sheets as witness was less able to be traced back to Madigan. The precinct captain when asked if he thought that there would be a negative reaction when it was found that he was helping Madigan’s opponent said he did not believe there would be any negativity.
When Gonzalez filed his petition, he deliberately went to Springfield, rather than filing in Chicago, and waited until the last minutes of the last day. After he filed, someone waiting in the lobby filed the two sham petitions.
You will recall that a recent high school graduate and De Paul freshman David Krupa had cashed his saving bonds and the money from his part-time job to run for alderman against Marty Quinn. Krupa needed 400-odd signatures and filed 1000. An associate filed 2700 revocations. After the discrepancy in numbers became apparent (a story that the kid had collected 2700 or more signatures and hadn’t filed most of them isn’t very plausible), the challenge to the petitions had been withdrawn. Quinn crushed Krupa in the primary with tons of cash.
A federal lawsuit is pending in that case. Presumably, a false revocation is perjury, which could result in 1000s of Chicagoans being deposed. That’s a lot of witnesses to coach.
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Any Chi-town witnesses in a Chi-town graveyard ???
See 1960 Chi-town graveyard votes for soon to be Prez JFK.
A new Union Army [North Force] needed to liberate Chi-town from its dictators ???
South Force very busy in TX, FL, GA, NC, VA, MS, Etc.