FWIW readers are responding to my "pics or it didn't happen" request for palm cards -- thank you. If you have a card to send, scan or photo it and email it to me at jackleyhane@yahoo.com.
This one, strictly speaking, isn't a palm card. It appears to be an image of an email from 19th Ward Ald. and Committeeman Matthew J. O'Shea. Because it is only an image, the links shown above are not "live."
O'Shea breaks ranks with the countywide party in two ways here -- both by encouraging a "yes" vote for Judge Michael P. Toomin, officially dumped by the Cook County Democratic Party, and by seeking a "no" vote on Judge Diana L. Kenworthy. (O'Shea also requests a "no" vote for Mauricio Araujo -- but Araujo, who was also dumped by the Party because he was facing removal in a trial before the Illinois Courts Commission on charges of personal misconduct, has, as noted in the text of O'Shea's email, already resigned his judgeship.)
Kenworthy is endorsed for retention by the Cook County Democratic Party. She is also rated qualified for retention by the Chicago Bar Association and all 12 members of the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening. She was found Recommended for retention by the Suburban Bar Coalition.
