Cook County judicial endorsements from Scott Waguespack

Thirty-second Ward Ald. and Committeeperson Scott Waguespack has released an email detailing his endorsements (including his endorsements in Cook County judicial races) for next Tuesday's Mel Brooks Birthday Primary.

Only he doesn't call it that, of course. Still, I'm hoping it will catch on somewhere.

There is ordinarily limited news value in these sorts of releases: After all, the 50 ward and 30 township committeepersons supposedly agreed on a countywide slate last December. It should be expected, then, that any committeeperson would support the entire ticket.

Any news value would be in deviations therefrom.

So the news in this is that Mr. Waugespack actually strays twice from the party line, supporting Debra B. Walker for the Hall vacancy on the Appellate Court over the Democratic Party's slated candidate, Dominique C. Ross, and Elizabeth "Beth" Ryan over the Party's candidate, Yolanda Harris Sayre, in the race for the countywide Ingram vacancy on the Circuit Court.

In recent election cycles we've known much more about subcircuit slating than we do this year. Thus, the revelation of any committeeperson's choices in subcircuit races has more news value this year than it might have had in years past.

For 2022, in the 8th Subcircuit, Waguespack has endorsed Bradley R. Trowbridge for the Gordon vacancy and Stephen Swedlow for the Lipscomb vacancy. In the one contested 6th Subcircuit race, for the Vega vacancy, Waugespack has announced support for Kerrie Maloney Laytin.