After weeks of legal haggling, the contest for power in the 25th Ward comes down to this: are the signatures on the nominating papers for alderman Danny Solis legit?
Now six candidates are running against him, among them Medrano, who served his time and ran unsuccessfully for alderman in 2003. But the biggest pain in Solis’s neck isn’t even on the ballot. That would be Anthony Sutor, a city transportation department employee on disability leave who heads up a group called the 25th Ward Independent Democratic Organization.
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After that meeting, Sutor says, he decided to go back to Medrano: “After he [Solis] stuck it up my ass, after he stuck it up my guys’, I was through with him.”
Ironically, Wilson took a different stance on another objection Sutor had filed against Solis. In addition to the signature challenges, Sutor had asked the board to remove Solis from the ballot on the grounds that he misidentifed the office he was seeking on his economic disclosure statement: instead of writing “alderman of the 25th Ward,” Solis wrote “City of Chicago.” In this case Wilson declared the error inadvertent and threw out the challenge.
Actually, that’s not what happened, I told him. Wilson dismissed the challenge because Sutor didn’t put his address on the objection.
