Advertisement: Poppa Mac's Roastery brings coffees to Evanston from around the world

Some folks don't know beans about coffee. Poppa Mac's Roastery, on the other hand, knows all about beans.

Coffee beans, that is.

Poppa Mac's roasts coffees from around the world for your enjoyment. Did you know that there are more than 40 countries where coffee is grown? Poppa Mac's scours the globe looking for the best beans for its customers, then roasts them right here in Evanston.

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Advertisement: Petition Review Helps Navigate the Petition Process with Ease

Described as “invaluable to political candidates,” Petition Review helps verify signatures on your petition and then provides a competitive edge with fast, accurate tools to assist with objection filing.

Every judicial campaign begins with the crucial step of signature gathering—a process that's both costly and time-consuming. Verifying signatures to confirm they're from registered voters is paramount, then scrutinizing the petition signatures filed by your opposition is just as critical. Now there’s a modern tool that helps at every step of this process.

Petition Review: Your Campaign's Digital Ally
Gone are the days of manual signature verification in the basement of a government building. Petition Review modernizes this fundamental campaign task with its specialized software package. Its web-based tool empowers your team to validate signatures anytime, anywhere, ensuring you not only meet but exceed the required signature threshold.

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Our system doesn't just verify signatures—it helps you construct a valuable database of supporters to reach out to later, providing a dual advantage as you campaign.

Opponent Signature Analysis
Post-filing, Petition Review becomes indispensable in examining your competitor's petition signatures. Designed for both speed and precision, the software allows for a swift and less strenuous review process compared to old-school methods. If an opponent falls short on valid signatures, Petition Review automatically generates the necessary exhibits for objecting to signatures.

A Proven Track Record With five years in the field, Petition Review has analyzed over 750 petitions, contributing to more than 75 successful objections. Check out a sample of our past clients.

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Campaign professionals like Sean Tenner have praised Petition Review for its simplicity, effectiveness, and critical role in ensuring candidates secure their spot on the ballot—and stay there.

Sean Tenner, President of KNI Communications:

“Petition Review has been incredibly helpful over the past several election cycles in helping clients quickly and efficiently review their petitions. It is a simple, user-friendly and valuable tool in ensuring the most important element of any campaign -- getting on the ballot -- gets done right!”

Join the Ranks of Successful Campaigns To learn more about how Petition Review can help your campaign navigate the petition process as the filing period quickly approaches, contact us at info@petitionreview.com. Please include details about your race (countywide, subcircuit, etc…) and any specific vacancies you aim to fill.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers assistance with petition signatures

It is petition time again. How are you going to get enough signatures to get on the ballot? Hopefully by hiring Victory Research. We'll guarantee you'll have enough signatures to get on the ballot. We have put dozens of Judicial candidates on the ballot. You could be next. Please call (312) 388-1782 or check out our website http://www.illinoispoliticsblog.com.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers assistance with signature gathering

We're about halfway through the petition season. If, like many others, your campaign is behind, please know we have experienced circulators on the street waiting to help you get on the ballot. We have helped put literally dozens of Judicial candidates on the ballot over the years. Call (312) 388-1782 to see how we can help. Visit https://www.illinoispoliticalblog.com.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers services to judicial candidates

To all Judicial candidates, just because the state delayed the primary for three months, that doesn't mean you should delay your campaign. Consider the three months a gift from God to get better organized. I believe those who wait will face an uphill battle to win the primary. Please call Victory Research (312-388-1782) to talk about how we might help you win June 28th. We have helped put two dozen judges on the bench and we can help you too. Visit https://www.illinoispoliticalblog.com.

Advertising Department: 39th Ward Democratic Organization sets Ice Cream Social for Saturday, July 17

Committeeperson Ram Villivalam and the 39th Ward Democratic Organization invite you to our annual Ice Cream Social. A donation of $39 dollars is welcome but not expected. This event will be held outdoors in the parking lot of Alarmist Brewing at 4055 W. Peterson in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 17, 2021 between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/4jbj4d7r.

To donate please visit https://secure.actblue.com/donate/icecream07.17.2021.

If you have questions, or want to RSVP directly, please contact Joey Slater at joeys@ramforsenate.com.

We hope to see you there,

Liam Kelly, President,
39th Ward Democratic Organization

Aside to the person who keeps leaving the comment, "Or you could just run"

Nearly everyone who comments on this site, or tries to, is named "Anonymous." But it is possible, sometimes, to discern particular individuals in this sea of anonymity, even if they can not be specifically identified.

One of these is the person who keeps leaving the comment, "Or you could just run." He or she leaves it on every post, no matter the subject matter, and, if I am not quick enough to pass the comment through, he or she will leave it again... and again... and again... on the same post.

I've printed the comment several times now, on several posts. But it's getting old.

I recognize, of course, that your message is not directed to me, but rather to the judicial wannabes who consult this site as part of their exploration of this possible career path. And I guess your point is that running for the office is the best way for a judicial hopeful to control his or her destiny. You may actually believe that the associate judge process, and the scrutiny of the CBA and the baker's dozen bar groups of the Alliance, are merely potholes and roadblocks on the road to a robe.

But I'm guessing that you're really selling something. Presumably your own services as a campaign consultant. Guru. Maven. Whatever.

I'm a little unclear on how you expect those that are persuaded to take the plunge by your simple, but direct, advice to beat a path to your door. Perhaps my little site is just a minor prong in your multi-faceted marketing strategy. I guess I don't care: Just buy an ad.

Persons peddling products and services aimed at judicial candidates have been invited to buy ads on this site since about forever -- check out the blog Sidebar, you'll find the notice -- while I reserve the right to edit or reject ad copy, for a one-time fee per insertion, I'll run your ad, in a distinctive typeface, clearly labeled as an ad, right here, with all the rest of the posts on this site. Available for as long as this site is up and running.

I haven't put a per-insertion price in the Sidebar because I've increased the price from election cycle to election cycle. However, between now and Labor Day, Or-you-could-just-run person, I will charge you -- or anyone else who wants to buy an ad -- $250 per insertion. Email me at jackleyhane@yahoo.com with any questions or to make arrangements to run your ad. Or ads.

Comments will be turned off on advertising posts if for no other reason than to keep your competitors from trying to run you down therein. My mother always said that you don't make your own candle shine brighter by blowing out someone else's. So... competitors of Or-you-could-just-run person, you could buy ads here, too, and make your own pitches.

Granted, $250 is a lot of money. But you're reaching a very specific, select audience here -- as you already know, Or-you-could-just-run person.

And you also know that a well-placed ad can bring dramatic results, a lesson reenforced recently by the case of the 90-year old California man whose two ads in the Wall Street Journal complaining about his Internet service brought personal apologies from the President of AT&T and, more importantly, the long-promised service upgrade.

But those ads cost $10,000. My ads are far less expensive. And do you really need a phone call from the President of AT&T?

Advertisement: Victory Research offers last-minute help with petition signatures

There's a month to go for petition circulating. If you are running for a countywide judgeship and the friends and family petition gathering plan hasn't worked out the way you wanted it to, please call Victory Research at (312) 388-1782 to finish the job. And check out our website http://www.illinoispoliticsblog.com.

Advertisement: Get an unfair advantage for your judicial campaign

Get an unfair advantage for your campaign. Use Petition Review to check your petition signatures, and your opponents'.

One of the first hurdles for every campaign is the petition process. Gathering signatures is a time consuming and expensive process, and you need to verify they are registered voters after you collect them. Then you need to do it all over again to review the petition signatures your opponents have filed. 

But fear not, the process has entered the 21st century! Enter Petition Review, the first software package geared exclusively to the process of verifying petition signatures. Our easy to use web-based tool allows your campaign to verify petition signatures any time, anywhere. 

First you can check your own signatures as you collect them to ensure you have more than the minimum required, all while building a valuable database of voters who have signed your petition.

Then after filing, use Petition Review to verify your opponent’s petition signatures. The software is built with speed and accuracy in mind, allowing you to quickly review all of the filed signatures with much less effort than going to the Board of Elections. Best of all, if your opponent is below the minimum number of required signatures then Petition Review will create all the exhibits you need to object to each signature.

Petition Review has been used over 5 years to review 750+ petitions, resulting in over 75 successful objections. Click here to see some of our successful past users (https://www.petitionreview.com/PetitionReviewClientList.pdf).

But don’t just take it from us. Here are some testimonials from knowledgeable campaign consultants:

Sean Tenner, President of KNI Communications

“Petition Review has been incredibly helpful over the past several election cycles in helping clients quickly and efficiently review their petitions. It is a simple, user-friendly and valuable tool in ensuring the most important element of any campaign -- getting on the ballot - gets done right!“

Frank Calabrese, Judicial Campaign Consultant

“Last December, my team had 4 days to analyze Dorothy Brown's 24,000 signatures that she submitted for the mayoral ballot. By using Petition Review’s software, we were able to quickly file an objection that ultimately found that Brown submitted 900 signatures below the minimum, and she was removed from the ballot. Analyzing such a high number of signatures in such a short time was only possible with Petition Review. In 2018, I was able to file petitions for five judicial candidates without any objections filed against them, since I used Petition Review to verify their signatures before they were filed. With so many candidates running for judge this year, the key to victory will first be getting on the ballot, and second, removing your opponents from the ballot. Petition Review is an essential tool to victory.“

To sign up or get more information about Petition Review email info@petitionreview.com - please include whether you are running countywide or subcircuit, and if possible, what vacancy.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers help with petition circulating

It is petition time again. How are you going to get enough signatures to get on the ballot? Hopefully by hiring Victory Research. We have put dozens of Judicial candidates on the ballot the past ten years. You could be next. Please call (312) 388-1782 or check out our website http://www.illinoispoliticsblog.com.

Advertisement: Get an unfair advantage for your judicial campaign

Get an unfair advantage for your campaign. Use Petition Review to check your petition signatures, and your opponents'.

One of the first hurdles for every campaign is the petition process. Gathering signatures is a time consuming and expensive process, and you need to verify they are registered voters after you collect them. Then you need to do it all over again to review the petition signatures your opponents have filed. 

But fear not, the process has entered the 21st century! Enter Petition Review, the first software package geared exclusively to the process of verifying petition signatures. Our easy to use web-based tool allows your campaign to verify petition signatures any time, anywhere. 

First you can check your own signatures as you collect them to ensure you have more than the minimum required, all while building a valuable database of voters who have signed your petition.

Then after filing, use Petition Review to verify your opponent’s petition signatures. The software is built with speed and accuracy in mind, allowing you to quickly review all of the filed signatures with much less effort than going to the Board of Elections. Best of all, if your opponent is below the minimum number of required signatures then Petition Review will create all the exhibits you need to object to each signature.

Petition Review has been used over 5 years to review 750+ petitions, resulting in over 75 successful objections. Click here to see some of our successful past users (https://www.petitionreview.com/PetitionReviewClientList.pdf).

But don’t just take it from us. Here are some testimonials from knowledgeable campaign consultants:

Sean Tenner, President of KNI Communications

“Petition Review has been incredibly helpful over the past several election cycles in helping clients quickly and efficiently review their petitions. It is a simple, user-friendly and valuable tool in ensuring the most important element of any campaign -- getting on the ballot - gets done right!“

Frank Calabrese, Judicial Campaign Consultant

“Last December, my team had 4 days to analyze Dorothy Brown's 24,000 signatures that she submitted for the mayoral ballot. By using Petition Review’s software, we were able to quickly file an objection that ultimately found that Brown submitted 900 signatures below the minimum, and she was removed from the ballot. Analyzing such a high number of signatures in such a short time was only possible with Petition Review. In 2018, I was able to file petitions for five judicial candidates without any objections filed against them, since I used Petition Review to verify their signatures before they were filed. With so many candidates running for judge this year, the key to victory will first be getting on the ballot, and second, removing your opponents from the ballot. Petition Review is an essential tool to victory.“

To sign up or get more information about Petition Review email info@petitionreview.com - please include whether you are running countywide or subcircuit, and if possible, what vacancy.

Victory Research offers help for judicial candidates

Judicial campaign websites, social media management and petitions, petitions, petitions. In the last three election cycles, Victory Research has put more than 30 judicial candidates on the ballot. If you need help getting your signatures, we will get you on the ballot. Check out our website http://www.illinoispoliticsblog.com or call (312) 388-1782.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers additional services after petitions are filed

Now that petition filing is coming to an end, please consider Victory Research's other services including helping with potential challenges to your opponent's petitions. If you don't have a campaign website yet, we can put one up for you quickly and affordably. We also have the best yard sign crews in Cook County to get your name out. Please visit our website at www.illinoispolitics.webs.com to learn about our other services.

Victory Research offers help for judicial candidates

Running for Judge is never easy under any circumstances. If you aren’t slated by the party, you know how difficult it can be to even get on the ballot. Now, even if you’re slated the party wants you to get some of your own signatures.That’s where Victory Research comes in. Since 2012 we have successfully put more than two dozen judicial candidates on the ballot. Including our work for Independent Maps, we collected more than 100,000 valid signatures during the 2016 election cycle. This year, it is your turn. If you hire us you WILL be on the ballot. Then, with the other services we offer, we will help you win your campaign. Please visit our website at www.illinoispolitics.webs.com, then call us at 312-388-1782, and ask for Mr. Murphy to find out how we can help you get on the ballot and win your campaign for Judge this year.

Victory Research offers help for judicial candidates

Running for Judge is never easy under any circumstances. If you aren’t slated by the party, you know how difficult it can be to even get on the ballot. Now, even if you’re slated the party wants you to get some of your own signatures.That’s where Victory Research comes in. Since 2012 we have successfully put more than two dozen judicial candidates on the ballot. Including our work for Independent Maps, we collected more than 100,000 valid signatures during the 2016 election cycle. This year, it is your turn. If you hire us you WILL be on the ballot. Then, with the other services we offer, we will help you win your campaign. Please visit our website at www.illinoispolitics.webs.com, then call us at 312-388-1782, and ask for Mr. Murphy to find out how we can help you get on the ballot and win your campaign for Judge this year.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers help in getting on the ballot, knocking others off

Judicial vacancies that open this late in the petition filing process make it even more difficult to get on the ballot. Difficult but not impossible, thanks to Victory Research.  We have the ability to generate large numbers of valid petition signatures in a short period of time. We've been doing it for more than twenty years. If you hire us, you will be on the ballot.

For all judicial candidates, please take a look at our other services-such as petition objections. We are almost as good at taking people off the ballot as we are at putting them on. Working with your election lawyer, if your opponent can be knocked off the ballot, they will be.  Also, for less than it costs for you to schlep to Springfield to file your petition, for a reasonable fee, we will do it for you.  Please call Victory Research at 312-487-0338 and ask for Mr. Murphy.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers judicial candidates help in getting on the ballot

Running for Judge is never easy under any circumstances. If you aren’t slated by the party, you know how difficult it can be to even get on the ballot. That’s where Victory Research comes in. Since 2010, we have successfully put nearly fifty candidates on the ballot. This year, it is your turn. If you hire us you WILL be on the ballot. Then, with the other services we offer, including filing your petitions in Springfield for a reasonable fee, we will help you win your campaign. Please visit our website at www.illinoispolitics.webs.com then call us at 312-388-1782, and ask for Mr. Murphy to find out how we can help you get on the ballot and win your campaign for Judge this year.

Advertisement: CBS Radio advertising is more than just ads on the radio

CBS Radio is looking for judicial candidates to advertise on its six Chicago-area radio stations this campaign season, but on-air ads are only the beginning of what CBS Radio has to offer your judicial campaign.

There was a time when radio was something one heard on the alarm clock, or in the car, but voters also listen to radio these days on their computers and smart phones. CBS Radio can provide on-air ads, but also ads that air during on-line streaming, banner ads on station websites, and even emails that can be narrowly targeted to probable primary voters and likely campaign donors, countywide or in your subcircuit. CBS “Radio” can even point persons searching for information about judicial candidates directly to your campaign websites.

If you’d like to learn more about how CBS Radio can help your campaign, see the Candidate Marketing page on the CBS Local website or call Ron Murphy at (312) 297-7722. (You can also email Ron at ron.murphy@cbsradio.com.)

Advertisement: Victory Research offers petition filing and challenge services

For a small fee, Victory Research will file your judicial petitions in Springfield (on the first day or last day or any day you specify).

And, once filing begins, we'll do the legwork and research for your election lawyer on your opponents' petitions. If you think your opponents' petitions are deficient, call Victory Research at 312-504-3782 and ask for Robert Murphy. We'll do the rest.

Advertisement: Victory Research offers judicial candidates help in getting on the ballot

Running for Judge is never easy under any circumstances. If you aren’t slated by the party, you know how difficult it can be to even get on the ballot. That’s where Victory Research comes in. In 2012, we successfully put more than a dozen candidates on the ballot. This year, it is your turn. If you hire us you WILL be on the ballot. Then, with the other services we offer, we will help you win your campaign. Please visit our website at www.illinoispolitics.webs.com, then call us at 312-388-1782, and ask for Mr. Murphy to find out how we can help you get on the ballot and win your campaign for Judge this year.