Brown Ends Stroger Petition Challenge

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Nov 28, 2009 5:15PM

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown has announced that her campaign is relenting on their petition challenge of incumbent Todd Stroger in the race for Cook County Board President. Brown, who has problems of her own, made the announcement yesterday via an email to supporters but not before taking a few more potshots at Stroger, including making the age-old "We totes could have won but had more important things to do" argument. The statement said:

Today, we ended our challenge of Todd Stroger's petitions. I wanted to send a special thank you to all of our members who gave of their time to help us wage such a substantial challenge to an incumbent’s petitions. We felt that Todd Stroger's petitions were in such bad shape and probably—after a long and protracted legal battle—we would have probably prevailed, but decided that the cost of such a battle would have been prohibitive.

It also would have taken the focus away from what the voters of Cook County is really concerned about, which is CHANGE. That's what this race is all about; change we can all really believe in.

The Stroger camp's response was...well, to forward Brown's statement to people on their list. And as for Brown, there is still a challenge against her that she has to defend. The Board of Elections picks up this challenge (and others) starting December 3.