Will David Beat Goliath in Chicago?

 

The Chicago Tribune has an article about a college student running for alderman, who has run up against the Chicago bosses.

…David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.

Krupa needed to file 473 signatures of ward residents to get on the ballot. He got 1,703. But an unnamed group went around afterwards and asked residents to sign an affidavit revoking their signatures on Krupa’s petition. The only problem is that more than 2,700 revocations were turned over to the elections board to cancel signatures on Krupa’s petition.

An attorney for Krupa says that a review of the revocations reveals only 187 matches between people on Krupa’s petition and people who signed revocations. In other words, 2,609 people who didn’t sign the original petition filed revocations anyways.

(Personal side question: Why do the revocations matter? If the 187 matching signatures are subtracted from Krupa’s petition total, he still has enough to run for alderman. It is a pet peeve of mine that newspaper articles often fail to address obvious questions.)

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  1. Doug Watt Member
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    They were just trying to give Mr. Krupa a preview of ballot math in Chicago. Counting ballots in Chicago was Common Core Math long before Common Core Math reached the public school system.

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  2. Nick H Coolidge
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    La Tapada:

    The Chicago Tribune has an article about a college student running for alderman, who has run up against the Chicago bosses.

    …David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.

    Good for him. Of course he’ll lose in a landslide because Chicago, but kudos for making the effort. 

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  3. Hank Rhody, Red Hunter Contributor
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    The thing about David vs Goliath conflicts is that the eponymous event was notable because David won. Goliath almost always.

    Nick H (View Comment):
    Good for him. Of course he’ll lose in a landslide because Chicago, but kudos for making the effort. 

    I mean, they’re going to steal it whatever he does but at least he’s making them work to steal it.

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  4. cirby Inactive
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    Nick H (View Comment):
    Good for him. Of course he’ll lose in a landslide because Chicago, but kudos for making the effort. 

    Lose?

    Hell, I’m shocked that he’s not already dead or missing.

     

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  5. TBA Coolidge
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    @RobtGilsdorf

    See this is what we have an FBI for. 

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence. 

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  6. OldPhil Coolidge
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    TBA (View Comment):

    See this is what we have an FBI for.

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence.

    Apparently those 2500 or so have committed felonies, because they signed sworn. notarized affidavits. But the AG of Illinois is the daughter of the Democratic party boss who is most likely behind the revocation push, so nada.

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  7. The Reticulator Member
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    La Tapada: It is a pet peeve of mine that newspaper articles often fail to address obvious questions.)

    I look at it more as an opportunity to mock the lack of intelligence and curiosity of journalists.

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  8. Mark Camp Member
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    TBA (View Comment):

    See this is what we have an FBI for.

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence.

    I Like this.  No, I really, REALLY Like this.  I couldn’t find that button so I’m typing this out longhand.

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  9. JosePluma Coolidge
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    La Tapada:

    It is a pet peeve of mine that newspaper articles often fail to address obvious questions.

    #MeToo

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  10. TBA Coolidge
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    JosePluma (View Comment):

    La Tapada:

    It is a pet peeve of mine that newspaper articles often fail to address obvious questions.

    #MeToo

    “We half-report. You decide from available data.” 

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  11. Valiuth Member
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    TBA (View Comment):

    See this is what we have an FBI for.

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence.

    Doesn’t it have to be a federal election? 

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  12. Old Bathos Member
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    No point in calling for prosecutions–Illinois law enforcement does not have jurisdiction over deceased and/or fictitious persons nor over persons with substantial political connections.

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  13. Old Bathos Member
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    Valiuth (View Comment):

    TBA (View Comment):

    See this is what we have an FBI for.

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence.

    Doesn’t it have to be a federal election?

    True that state and local elections per se are not federal. But tampering with the same voter registration rolls that are used in federal elections allows the FBI a window. 

    The FBI won’t touch this but they could, especially since the likelihood that this is unrelated to broader patterns of corruption is zero.

     

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  14. Valiuth Member
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Valiuth (View Comment):

    TBA (View Comment):

    See this is what we have an FBI for.

    Put those 2500 in jail. See if they have something interesting to say in exchange for a reduced sentence.

    Doesn’t it have to be a federal election?

    True that state and local elections per se are not federal. But tampering with the same voter registration rolls that are used in federal elections allows the FBI a window.

    The FBI won’t touch this but they could, especially since the likelihood that this is unrelated to broader patterns of corruption is zero.

     

    Well the FBI is run by a guy Trump appointed. But in Cook County you probably can’t throw a stick without hitting some form of questionable legal practices. 

    Did the guy get on the ballot in the end? 

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  15. Stad Coolidge
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    La Tapada: an unnamed group

    So much for intellectual curiousity by the reporters.  Surely this group had to state who they were when they turned the revocations in . . .

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