Savor that headline, will you? The Democratic stronghold of Oak Park, home of trendy downtown shops and many Obama signs, is working with its lawyers to keep a homeless man off the ballot for the next village election.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Oak Park’s village board voted 2-1 to prevent Daniel Fore from running for village trustee on the April 7 ballot because he does not have a residential address. Fore is, however, registered to vote in Cook County using the address of an Oak Park relative and has been a well known citizen of the area since the 1970s.
Mr. Fore never misses a village board meeting and is active in several local community causes such as the Adopt-a-Sailor program, which brings Naval cadets from Great Lakes Naval Training Station to Oak Park for holidays.
The Tribune reports that Fore has a serious blood-clotting disease that has made full-time employment all but impossible.
The village electoral board consisting of President David Pope, Trustee Ray Johnson, and Village Clerk Sandra Sokol voted 2-1 (with President Pope voting in favor of Fore) to deny Fore his spot on the ballot over the address issue. They point to state law as the reason.
State law requires a candidate’s nominating petitions to include their place of residence with “the street and number thereof, if any.”
Fore is claiming, though, that the “if any” clause clearly states that an address is not a requirement.
I don’t believe that candidates in Oak Park run under party banners, however this is a strongly Democratic area. We can see this by the fact that President Pope’s name appears on the list of those endorsing a Democratic candidate for State Senator for the 39th District. One of the first photos that you encounter on that webpage is that of Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), one of the most virulent and partisan, left-wing Democrats in Congress. One also finds Pope’s name nestled in with various union thugs and other left-wing activist groups. A conservative area is isn’t!
So, let’s revisit the main point here. We have a homeless man attempting to run for the village board of a left-wing Chicago suburb and the Democrats in charge of the village are ruling him ineligible.
Now, don’t we always hear how Democrats so love the homeless? Don’t we always hear from the left and its willing Media lap dogs that it is the Republicans that are mean to the homeless?
But, here we have Democrats mistreating a homeless man that wants to run for office?
So… HOW do the lefties explain this one away?
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
homeless people are often discriminated against
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 1:01PM EST (link)mistreated, have stereotypes about them and everything else. People in general here think homeless=criminal, it’s really sad. OK my point though is that people who are homeless can usually not afford lawyers and these are the kind of people the left do things like this too to get their way- any group that can’t fight back. They do this with everything, they won’t pick on someone their own size so they pick on people that won’t fight back.
Who are they to say the relative’s address is not his. They would do this to other people too but they don’t even try because they know others would fight back and they would not get away with it.
Like Illinois Democrats
kat (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:28PM EST (link)Have ever cared about little things like laws or even let something like the Constitution stand in their way when it comes to electing their own. I’m not a “truther”, but we have a President who has been elected without proving he meets the requirements of even being President. These folks use the law only when it works in their favor.
What a shame, an individual being denied his right as an American. He should have gone to Obama’s town hall campaign and whined like Mrs. Hughes and her son and he could have been given a free permanent address too.
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WTH:
Tanggor (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:32PM EST (link)Wasn’t it just this last election cycle that ACORN (et al) declared that homeless people should be allowed to register the street corner where they hang out as their “address” for voting purposes?
The hypocrisy is enough to make one gag…
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” – George Washington