- After months of saying he is likely to run for Cook County Board president, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis hedged his bets today by indicating he'll file paperwork that will preserve his option to seek re-election to Congress.
Davis said today that he plans to turn in nominating petitions for his 7th Congressional District in addition to the ones he's already filed for county board president.
"I am driving to Springfield, Illinois tomorrow," Davis said as he left an anti-violence rally in the Lawndale neighborhood. "I'm going down there with six or seven thousand signatures."
While Monday is the deadline to register to get on the primary election ballot, candidates have until Nov. 9 to drop out of a campaign. For the time being, Davis said he will remain in both races.
So to run for the US Congress, Danny Davis, police-hater and weasel, has to file 5,000 signatures or so.
But for citizens of Chicago to get a referendum on the ballot, we have to collect a minimum of 121,600 valid signatures (and probably twice that to survive challenges).
Does anyone see something wrong with this system? After all this is said and done, maybe we'll see if we can't run a few dozen coppers for aldercreature or congressweasel. If Danny Davis can do it, we're pretty sure regular people can do it.
But for citizens of Chicago to get a referendum on the ballot, we have to collect a minimum of 121,600 valid signatures (and probably twice that to survive challenges).
Does anyone see something wrong with this system? After all this is said and done, maybe we'll see if we can't run a few dozen coppers for aldercreature or congressweasel. If Danny Davis can do it, we're pretty sure regular people can do it.
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