Jim Dodge will stay on the poll as a candidate for Orland Park village president towards incumbent Keith Pekau after an objection to his nomination papers was withdrawn Monday.
Dodge mentioned he plans a lawsuit to get better authorized charges incurred defending the problem.
John Hartmann filed a problem to Dodge’s nominating petitions to problem Pekau, arguing that information from Dodge, a former village trustee, create confusion about whether or not he’s operating for mayor or village president, though the phrases are sometimes used interchangeably.
But at a Monday assembly of the Orland Park Board of Elections, Dennis Reboletti, an lawyer representing Hartmann, mentioned Hartmann was withdrawing his objection.
Reboletti says it’s simpler to withdraw the attraction as a result of he can’t amend it after an error has been made within the wording of the objection. The objection filed requested the Board of Elections to declare Dodge ineligible to function Lombard village clerk, fairly than Orland Park village president.
The lawyer mentioned Monday that he didn’t draft the objection and was unsure how the error was made. Once filed, nevertheless, the objection couldn’t be amended to appropriate the error.
Dodge mentioned after the objection was dropped that his “petitions have been flawless” and referred to as the objection “frivolous.”
He mentioned he spent a number of thousand {dollars} hiring legal professionals on the agency Ancel Glink to defend the objection and deliberate to file a lawsuit to attempt to get better the cash.
In Monday’s session, court-appointed members Laura Jacksack and James Carroll had changed two Orland Park trustees who initially served on the elections board, together with village clerk Brian Gaspardo.
When the elections board first met Dec. 2 to listen to the objection, lawyer Keri-Lyn Krafthefer mentioned she requested Cook County Judge Maureen Ward Kirby to nominate an elections board made up of members who they don’t have any connection to Orland Park.
Trustees William Healy and Cynthia Katsenes have been on the election board together with Gaspardo, just lately appointed by Pekau as village clerk.
Krafthefer mentioned state election board information present all three have made contributions, both on to Pekau’s election board or to the People Over Politics occasion, which incorporates Pekau and incumbent trustees.
The lawyer mentioned that due to the contributions the panel members weren’t goal.
Krafthefer mentioned that even when the make-up of the board stays, the treatment or final result of what Hartmann is looking for can’t be achieved by the Orland Park committee. He mentioned Hartmann is prohibited by state election legislation from submitting a brand new correct objection to Dodge’s filings.
Dodge leads the Orland Park For All ticket and is operating with clerk candidate Mary Ryan Norwell and trustee candidates John Lawler, Dina M. Lawrence and Joanna M. Liotine Leafblad.
Dodge turned village clerk in 1989 was named trustee in 1996. He didn’t search re-election in April 2021.
Pekau is main the People Over Politics ticket within the April 1 election, and operating with him are Gaspardo, trustee candidates Sean Kampas and Brian Riordan, each incumbents, and Carol McGury.
