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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:50 am 
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Burt hits the jackpot again, more taxpayer money down the drain with this phoney election board and their attorney

http://nwi.com/articles/2009/01/14/news ... 816b33.txt


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:49 pm 
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According to the rumor, Alderman Tarka hasn't actually resided in the 5th ward, since he tried to mow down his step-son last summer. Also according to the rumor, he lives with his mother in the 3rd ward. So, if the rumors are true, isn't all of the business he has voted in favor of, null, void, and illegal? I wish someone would clear up these rumors. Technically he has no business being on that kangaroo election board.

Michelle, you have stooped to a very new low. Is Jerry Genova your advisor? If he is, please ask him where the money for his legal defense is.
Clerk Dooley, you would be wise collecting the late fees on all of the vehicle stickers that these "new residents" refuse to buy. (My next door neighbors have two cars. Both cars have Indiana plates and NO stickers.)
Alderman "Leni", you would be wise just brown nosing the big Z per usual.
The Times wrote:
Cal City cop off from Feb. 24 ballot

BY GREGORY TEJEDA
Times Correspondent | Friday, January 16, 2009
CALUMET CITY | The city's electoral board on Thursday removed the mayoral candidacy of Calumet City police Sgt. Pam Cap from the primary ballot, saying her law enforcement duties make her ineligible to run for mayor.

The Feb. 24 ballot now has current Mayor Michelle Markiewicz Qualkinbush running unopposed.Aldermen Magdalena "Leni" Wosczynski and Gerald Tarka, along with city Clerk Gloria Dooley, comprised the electoral board that voted against Cap. Tarka filled in for Qualkinbush, who sat out the portion of Thursday's hearing that involved Cap's case.

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:59 am 
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Its that election specialist Burt doing his thing for a BIG BUCK

http://nwi.com/articles/2009/01/19/colu ... 128e8b.txt


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:01 pm 
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Not worthy of comment. . . . .
unitedtoserveyou.com wrote:
Mayor Michelle
Calumet City has made progress in reducing street crime and gang activity while
encouraging the help of our residents through the Neighborhood Watch Program.
Earlier this year, Mayor Michelle recruited DEA Agent Edward Gilmore to be the
new Calumet City Police Chief.

As the Mayoral nominee of the Democratic Party in 2003 and 2005, Michelle
has worked with other Democratic Party officials in the county, state and federal
government to help bring new jobs and businesses to Calumet City
. Michelle
is looking forward to working with Illinois officials in the Obama administration
this year to bring much needed federal assistance to Calumet City for flood
prevention and infrastructure improvements.
“For the last 30 years I have witnessed the successes and failures of our city
government and I know which policies work and which do not. I need no on-
the-job training,” she said. “The most successful efforts in our city have been
the ones where the entire community participated in the process – where we
acted as a group for the benefit of all. I want to continue to have an all-inclusive
administration which listens and learns from our residents and uses that
information to lead our government in the right direction.”

Mayor Michelle began her career in government as an assistant to the
Calumet City Clerk in 1977. After being encouraged to run for City Clerk
in 1985 by family and friends, Michelle was elected City Clerk and re-
elected in 1989, 1993, 1997 and 2001.

More than any other candidate for Mayor, Michelle knows the details
of Calumet City government that are crucial to running an efficient and
cost effective administration. Municipal planning, staffing, budgeting and
economic strategy are what Michelle deals with everyday. Because of the
responsible fiscal planning over the last five years, Calumet City is able
to weather the current national economic crisis without tax increases,
service cuts or employee layoffs.
Very few working class communities
have governments that are performing as well as Calumet City in these
tough times.

. . . . and certainly NOT worthy of my vote.

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:31 pm 
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Calumet City Removes Mayoral Candidate from Ballot

By Jeff Wartman • January 16, 2009

In a strikingly illiterate decision, an “election board” in south suburban Calumet City has ruled that Mayoral candidate Pam Cap cannot run for Mayor.

The board ruled Cap should have resigned or taken a leave of absence in order to run for mayor.

“It’s disheartening,” said Cap, who is taking the issue to Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday when she says she will ask a judge to rule she can run for mayor. In 2005, no one questioned her candidacy when she ran for mayor in the primary, Cap said.

The electoral board—consisting of the city clerk and the two most senior aldermen—based Thursday’s decision on a legal opinion that candidates must have the same qualifications as office holders. The reasoning is that because state law prohibits police from holding the position of mayor in the city where they work, a police officer cannot run for mayor.

But Cap’s attorney, Jeff Jurgens, said no state law bars police officers from running for municipal office where they work. Such a law, he said, would be “patently unfair.”

The obvious distinction that the board failed to understand is that there is a big difference between being mayor and running for Mayor. The law says she can’t be both mayor and a police officer, and the board ignores the clear fact that if Pam Cap were elected mayor, she’d resign as a police officer.

This action points to a larger problem in Calumet City. For years, this was a town known as “sin city” for the various unsavory activities that went on, and the town had their own Blagojevich-type scandal when Mayor Jerry Genova was sent to prison.

Any assertion that because Cap is currently a police officer she is prevented from running for municipal office is absurd and shows a clear misunderstanding of the law. The “board” claims she cannot be both a police officer and mayoral candidate in Calumet City. What is the difference, other than residency, between Cap and Tim Baldermann, who is both the Mayor of New Lenox and the Chief of Police in Chicago Ridge?

Mayor Michelle Qualkinbush and Clerk Gloria Dooley are keeping people off the ballot because they fear competition. Want proof? In the same action, that “board” also removed the name of Kellie Nelson, a Cap supporter running for City Clerk, because on her petition forms she listed her the office she’s seeking as “Clerk” instead of “City Clerk”.

This un-American activity by the City of Calumet City illustrates clearly why people are moving out of the town, and why most good people have given up on helping Calumet City.

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:50 pm 
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PAM IS ON THE BALLOT........
Thanks alot mayor Quack.....for wasting taxpayer money with your phoney election board stooges.....just making Burt a rich man....on the taxpayers back


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:52 pm 
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Pam Cap for Mayor

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
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:smt006 :smt006 :smt006

So,.......the ' crack-in-the-bush' is truly loosing it! This is sooooo funny to see!!!


PAM CAP FOR MAYOR
IN 2009!!!!


PEOPLE GET READY THERE'S A CHANGE A COMIN'

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:51 pm 
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"CHANGE" Seems like someone who just won and took a much higher office used that word with great sucess!! :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:54 am 
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funnyman wrote:
"CHANGE" Seems like someone who just won and took a much higher office used that word with great sucess!! :lol:

Difference is: Pam Cap means it!

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
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George Costanza from The Times wrote:
Michelle:
Pam Cap did not lose...the citizens of Calumet City have.
You have taken away our vote, but you will not silence us.
You have awakened a silent GIANT.

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:00 pm 
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Pam is back on the early ballot......
Go Pam.......

What is Quack and her election Guru going to do now.....


Last edited by oldtimer on Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:57 pm 
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oldtimer wrote:
Pam is back on the ballot......
Go Pam.......

What is Quack and her election Guru going to do now.....


This is great news if it's true, what are your sources for this information oldtimer, don't see it on the NWI.com web site.


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:08 am 
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funnyman wrote:
oldtimer wrote:
Pam is back on the ballot......
Go Pam.......

What is Quack and her election Guru going to do now.....


This is great news if it's true, what are your sources for this information oldtimer, don't see it on the NWI.com web site.


I found this article in the nwi.com website. It states that Pam Cap is on the ballot until the 17th when Pam's appeal goes to the Appellate Court.

http://nwi.com/articles/2009/02/10/news ... 0b09b3.txt


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 Post subject: Re: Calumet City Mayoral Election
PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:00 pm 
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Cal City never changes, does it?

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