Wednesday, March 07, 2018

The Tribune begins making endorsements

The Chicago Tribune has begun making judicial endorsements. At this link you'll find the Tribune's explanations for the following endorsements in countywide races and for contests in Subcircuits 1, 2, 3, and 4 and two of the three races in Subcircuit 5:

Countywide Races

Brewer Vacancy - Oran F. Whiting
Clay Vacancy - Kathaleen Theresa Lanahan
Dooling Vacancy - Timothy John Leeming
Flanagan Vacancy - Preston Jones, Jr.
Hartigan Vacancy - Cecilia Anne Horan
Jordan Vacancy - Clare Joyce Quish
McGinnis Vacancy - Peter Michael Gonzalez
Rooney Vacancy - Jack Hagerty

Subcircuit Races

1st Subcircuit, Hambright Jr. Vacancy - Litricia Payne

2nd Subcircuit, Lampkin Vacancy - Fredrick H. Bates
2nd Subcircuit, Laws Vacancy - Adrienne Elaine Davis
2nd Subcircuit, Rhodes Vacancy - Toya T. Harvey
2nd Subcircuit, Turner Jr. Vacancy - Travis Richardson
2nd Subcircuit, Willis Vacancy - Debra A. Seaton
2nd Subcircuit, Valarie Turner Vacancy - Devlin Schoop

3rd Subcircuit, Delehanty Vacancy - Patrick Thomas Stanton

4th Subcircuit, Davy Vacancy - David R. Navarro
4th Subcircuit, Riley Vacancy - John Andrew O'Meara

5th Subcircuit, Banks Vacancy - H. Yvonne Coleman
5th Subcircuit, Jones Vacancy - David L. Kelly

More endorsements will presumably follow. I'll report them when I have them. And, yes, I'll be adding in these endorsements to the Organizing the Data posts as soon as I can.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SIXTH SUBCIRCUIT TOMORROW. ESPECIALLY THE COOKE VACANCY WHERE ALL 3 CANDIDATES ARE UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED.

Anonymous said...

It will be interesting. Can the chevere slate pull off a sweep? Highly doubtful given the negative bar ratings for 2 of the 3 candidates. It will say a lot about her ability to pick qualified candidates.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:05 AM - Agreed. Two of the candidates in that race are spending a ton of their own money trying to win a vacancy that really should not even exist. Funny how these two candidates (and all the candidates for that matter) would kill their own mothers to land a job that someone else did not even value and could not run away fast enough from.

Anonymous said...

Trib missed a layup in McGinnis vacancy race. Brad Trowbridge was only candidate with all positive bar ratings and no misconduct claims. Yet the paper that brought you the Gary Johnson endorsement for President missed this, too. Get out of the business of endorsing.