Proviso Township Supervisor
Corrigan has held the job for 15 years. Says nothing on his website —- but also appears free of scandal.
Jennings has a brain-dead page on Instagram- and raises no issues other than accusing his opponent (who was endorsed by the Democratic Party) of being a Republican. Huh ???
I’ll vote for Corrigan
Proviso Trustee
5 candidates for 4 seats - so one must be eliminated.
The “Public Servant Party of Proviso” has no website, no platform, no vision, no experience, no nothin’But I’ll vote for its candidate, Stacy Armstrong, just to have one possibly dissenting voice at the table. No noticiable difference between the others, so I won't vote for any of them.
Forest Park Park District
3 candidates for 2 positions
In comparison with the other two, Maria Alzamora appears to be clueless when answering questions, so I’ll vote for the others.
High School District 209
Does Proviso East really have a truancy rate over 50% ? That doesn’t mean that the classes are always half empty but still ….. it does mean that 50% of the student body have been absent without excuse more than nine times a year.
We’re more than twice as bad as the rest of Illinois.
And it’s not about race, either.
Nobody wants to go to that damn school
if there’s something else they'd rather do.
But on the other hand --
this statistic does not tell us the average daily % of unexcused absences.
If we had a 100% truancy rate,
and each truant misses 10 days a year,
out of a 180 day school year,
that only means that about 5% of the seats are empty on any given day.
Not so bad.
And it does occur to me that the purposes of public schooling need to be re-examined
now that so many workers will be replaced by robots or AI.
The MOST important thing about human life is to enjoy it
(and not go crazy).
Staying home from school may be good for those who do.
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Regrettably, the entire Proviso 209 United slate chose to skip the only candidate forum,
so I will skip voting for them, and vote instead for:
Smith, Molinaro,Morris Fisher
Triton College Board. Vote for 3 of 4
Princess Dempsey, the owner of a beauty supply store, is the only non-incumbent, but she has posted absolutely ZERO about her candidacy. As a perennial candidate for one position or another, she has already been mentioned twice on this blog.
From here on out, I'll just ignore her. She’s only running to promote her name.
I’ll be voting for the other three - at least they have experience.
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When I began this blog seventeen years ago, I figured that elections would be different in the age of the internet.
Candidates could communicate directly to voters - at great length and practically no expense.
Instead, it was taken as a golden opportunity to propagate lies so egregious, they've become an alternate reality, justified cynicism, and now threatens the democratic process itself.
We can assume that all these people running for office know more about local politics than I - so they probably have good reason for saying nothing about themselves and their concerns.
It would make no positive difference if they did.
I also was hoping that I would be one of many who blogged about each election, but there appear to be fewer bloggers now than then.
As of today, I cannot find a single one.
