The Illinois Supreme Court appointed Judge Mays to the countywide Funderburk vacancy in November 2018 (though she did not assume her judicial duties until this past January). This past August, the Cook County Democratic Party slated Judge Mays for the vacancy she now holds.
Licensed as an attorney in 1990, according to ARDC, Mays is a former President of the Cook County Bar Association. Before her appointment to the bench, Mays operated her own firm, concentrating in the areas of family law, probate, and residential real estate.
Jennifer Callahan, a candidate for the countywide Mason vacancy, was introduced to FWIW readers in this post. At that time, Callahan had no campaign website; the first link in the preceding sentence will take you to her campaign website now.
FWIW readers will also recall that the Cook County Democratic Party slated 10 alternates for the Circuit Court this past August. These individuals are effectively pre-endorsed for judicial vacancies that, so far, have not materialized -- and, of course, the Party's support for any alternate is contingent on the alternate not running against a Party-endorsed candidate.
Among the tenuous 10 are Cristin McDonald Duffy -- but she had a campaign website before the slating meeting. (She is the Party's third alternate countywide judicial candidate.) At least three other alternates now have websites as well (the following links are to their respective sites, and each has been added to the blog Sidebar): Thomas E. Nowinski (1st alternate), Joseph Chico (7th alternate), and Diane Marie Pezanoski (8th alternate).
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Those alternates won’t make the ballot because they won’t have enough time to get sufficient good signatures. Even the 13 might not make it. That’s right everybody, the party is having trouble getting petitions. Wonder why?
Not just the party. Everybody is having trouble. It’s so bad that Gallagher and Ramos are using the same circulators as Amendola and McBride. Even O’Malley’s ASA slate is having trouble. Challenges should be fun this cycle.
WHY PAY THE PARTY $40,000 TO BE SLATED WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY MONEY ON TOP OF THAT TO GET SIGNATURES? THE PARTY CAN'T EVEN GET YOU ON THE BALLOT ANYMORE.
Your name doesn’t matter if you can’t get on the ballot.
No more Farmers Markets people. Temperatures consistently at or below 55 degrees. Oh yes, the petitions best have been gotten by now. Because Victory Solutions can’t help you with less than 80 days of circulation.
The party is a joke and has been for quite a while now. Historically several slated candidates are only paying for 1 mailer because they will lose the primary and get no benefit from the general election mailer that they helped subsidize with their $40,000 contribution. Don't believe me? Look at the old FWIW posts for 2008, 2012 and 2016. The mailer that Toni actually sends SUCKS. It puts a bunch of judges in a group photo shoot where you can't figure out who is who. For $40,000 I could do a whole lot of publicity for MY campaign and not subsidize the re-election of Toni's priority candidate, Kim "If They Holler Let Them Go" Foxx. Every cycle there is a new crop of suckers who don't know any better or rely on a certain short, Irish female campaign consultant (with obvious conflicts of interest of her own) to whisper sweet nothings in their ear . . . until the money runs out and they have lost their election. Good luck with that. If you didn't start circulating in September on day one and don't have a good crew (or multiple people on your sheet who are also circulating) you will NOT make the ballot. Unless, of course, your opponent also has no game. My guy is ready to knock off several of my opponents just like he did last cycle. I will pay him a mint to do so. But that is money that I would have to spend anyway and it saves me having to deal with all of my former opponents as actual opponents at the early voting locations in the south burbs this February and March. Good luck goobers, because come late November it's gonna get REAL!
Rumpelstiltsken
Uhm. The Party's slate will be on the ballot, don't be fooled. But it will be due to the candidates themselves and the simple reality of economies of scale, not true effort. Thirteen people on a single ballot tasked with getting 2,500 signatures will make the minimum threshold of 3,350 valid signatures. Loners seeking to challenge them will find it difficult because while they will have a lot of BAD signatures, they will submit approximately 29,000 which will yield more than 3,350. So they will be on the ballot. The real question is this: how many of those loners will have enough good signatures to make the 3,350 cut? It was much easier in 2016 when you only needed 2,250 but that additional 1,100 will be a sun of a gun to get. And those slated judges are desperate to keep their jobs. Oh yes, you Sons and Daughters of Ireland or Africa or Poland or Central America, it's about the math; not your gender or ethnicity or endorsements. Get on the ballot first.
Rumpelstiltsken
If you think signatures are hard to get now, just wait until 2022.
Last good weather weekend, people. Best get those signatures.
Forecast calls for a snowy Halloween and a very cold November. Just in time for three more vacancies to pop: Cheryl Ingram, Pat Martin and Arnette Hubbard. Just in time to save Celestia Mays and help Travis Richardson. And let’s not forget that Tom Hoffman vacancy on the appellate court for Dan Pierce.
This forum used to be fun.
First really cold rainy day — outdoor Petition time is done. Hope you guys and gals got all your sheets. Even Bowen of you slated by the party. Because I am just itching to knock off some candidates this cycle.
You ok, Jack? Or has it really been that much of a sleeper of an election cycle?
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