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Today, though, he told reporters at City Hall that he would back “NBS—nobody but Stone.” Aftab said his supporters had told him they wanted to support Stone, and he’d decided that he needed to represent them. But it was clear that he was motivated primarily out of distaste for Naisy Dolar, who is squaring off against the incumbent in the April 17 runoff.
Aftab blames Dolar’s campaign for alerting the Sun-Times to his history of five arrests for disturbances stemming from arguments and fights. “People in the neighborhood really have to do their research and find out people’s background and experience and their temperament,” Dolar told the paper. Aftab was never convicted for any of the incidents and believes Dolar’s mention of them unfairly tarnished his candidacy.
“But he’s said he’ll work very hard on that.”
