One day late last summer, Tom Courtney came up with the preposterous notion of running for alderman of the 27th Ward.
He wasn’t the only 27th Ward candidate playing the election-law game. Alderman Walter Burnett Jr.—the four-term incumbent —was also at it.
Then Courtney knocked Rowans off the ballot for owing $60 on a parking ticket.
And since Nally—I mean, Courtney—couldn’t prove otherwise, Kasper—I mean Burnett—won that round.
To which, Burnett counters, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Burnett is one to talk about frivolous election-law challenges. One of his supporters challenged Courtney on the grounds that he referred to himself as Tom in his statement of candidacy and Thomas on one of his nominating petitions.
In Fassett’s case, Burnett contended that she shouldn’t be allowed to run because she hadn’t resided in Chicago for a full year prior to the election. Using her Texas driver’s license as evidence, Kasper argued that she was in fact a resident of the Longhorn State and not Chicago, where she was born and raised.
