Wednesday, June 22, 2022

AMVOTE PAC offers endorsements in 2022 Cook County judicial races

The American Middle East Voters Alliance Political Action Committee (AMVOTE PAC) has issued endorsements in several Cook County judicial races.

As is often the case with groups announcing primary endorsements in our little corner of the world, AMVOTE PAC's endorsement list tends to echo the overall Democratic Party's slate. In countywide judicial races, for example, AMVOTE PAC lines up exactly with the announced Party Circuit Court slate -- but the group endorsed former Judge Russell Hartigan for the Hall vacancy on the Appellate Court. And, of course, this year, with definite information about formal subcircuit slating being so hard to come by, every announcement of subcircuit endorsements has some news value.

The group's complete list of endorsements can be found here. In Cook County judicial races, AMVOTE PAC makes the following recommendations:

Appellate Court
  • Russell "Russ" Hartigan (Hall vacancy)
Circuit Court (Countywide)
  • Howard B. Brookins, Jr. (Brennan vacancy)
  • Tracie Porter (Callahan, Jr. vacancy)
  • Diana López (Gordon Cannon vacancy)
  • Thomas E. Nowinski (Hyman vacancy)
  • Yolanda Harris Sayre (Ingram vacancy)
  • Rena Marie Van Time (Leeming vacancy)
  • Michael Weaver (Lynch vacancy)
  • Ruth Isabel Gudino (McGury vacancy)
  • Araceli Reyes De La Cruz (O'Brien vacancy)
  • Thomas More Donnelly (Sullivan vacancy)
Subcircuit Vacancies
  • John W. Wilson (1st Subcircuit, Johnson vacancy)

  • Nick Kantas (4th Subcircuit, Gavin vacancy)
  • Shawnte Raines-Welch (4th Subcircuit, Rogers vacancy)

  • David L. Kelly (5th Subcircuit, Portman-Brown vacancy)

  • Kerrie Maloney Laytin (6th Subcircuit, Vega vacancy)

  • Marcia O'Brien Conway (7th Subcircuit, Martin vacancy)

  • John Fritchey (8th Subcircuit, Gordon vacancy)
  • Stephen Swedlow (8th Subcircuit, Lipscomb vacancy)

  • Sanjay Tailor (9th Subcircuit, Cleveland vacancy)
  • Barry Goldberg (9th Subcircuit, Jacobius vacancy)

  • Chris Taliaferro (11th Subcircuit, McGuire vacancy)

  • James "Jack" Costello (13th Subcircuit, Groebner vacancy)

  • Viviana Martinez (14th Subcircuit, Jagielski vacancy)

  • Bernadette Barrett (15th Subcircuit, Lawler vacancy)

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