Calumet City, Ill. (ECWd) –
In a case which should have never been brought, the Appellate Court upheld the Calumet City Electoral Board’s decision to deny Nyota Figgs’ objection to Thaddeus Jones’ name appearing on the ballot, which was based on state legislation passed overturning a local referendum on the holding of dual offices while elected to a Calumet City office.
From the Appellate Court Opinion:
“At issue in this appeal is whether the state legislature has the authority under the Illinois Constitution to enact legislation to invalidate a referendum passed by a home rule city’s voters disqualifying candidates for mayor if they hold an elected, paid office created under the Illinois Constitution, such as state representative. We hold that the Illinois Constitution grants the state legislature the power to do so and, therefore, affirm the judgment of the circuit court finding in favor of the candidate and against the objector.”
Thaddeus Jones’ name will remain on the ballot for Mayor of Calumet City.
Read the Opinion below:
Figgs v Jones
1 Comment
Lincoln
Posted at 15:07h, 21 FebruaryIt is highly suspicious for the court to side with a political candidate who is under federal investigation for the alleged misuse of campaign funds as reported by the Chicago Tribune. It is also illegal and highly suspicious of the appellate court to provide a generic statement regarding the Illinois constitution without providing actual language from the clause or statute to support their so-called decision. The case should now be fast tracked to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It is so unfortunate that the will and the constitutionally protected rights of the voters in Calumet City is being overlooked by the proven corrupt courts. With Jones’ pathetic and desperate ties to Madigan, who was recently found guilty in federal court on numerous counts, it is no surprise that the pay-to-play scheme likely connected to blackmail and bribery continues.
Politicians in Illinois should be afraid as there is a new FBI Director in D.C. who will dismantle corruption by following the actual law. The illiterate and inept southland mayors like Jones, Henyard, and Clark have learned nothing from their beloved friend and mentor’s trial and that speaks volumes. Pritzker, Welch, Raoul, and others serve as the delusional “leaders” continuing Madigan’s marching orders. The connections are all blatantly and pathetically clear.
To the people of Calumet City, Dolton and Harvey, remember this: the louder those mayors scream, the more they attack those who question their actions, the more lies they tell, only means one thing: they are spiraling downward and are desperate to keep the fraud going.
The mayors have proven they do not have the intelligence to amass that amount of money in the private sector and turn to politics to unlawfully enrich themselves and their families. They have all been selected and trained by the derelict democrats of Illinois to destroy those communities as they say and do the exact same things.
Vote those mayors out! At this point, the residents only have more to gain and too much to continue to lose if they repeatedly follow the current fools.