[LPIL - Board of Directors] Political Division Report - February 2022

[Jake Leonard]

All,

 

Things have been considerably limited in the Division this past month. Of
course, one of the biggest issues would be that of our current lawsuit
against the Cook County government (since the Chicago Board of Election
Commissioners are allegedly going to abide to whatever the decision is).

 

The initial lawsuit is the precursor of a potential ballot access lawsuit
for this cycle regarding ballot access for all Congressional and General
Assembly races in districts exclusively within the county.

 

The only political subdivision that LP Chicago/Cook County Libertarian
Central Committee will be unable to run candidates for is the Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District, which has a small amount of territory protruding
into DuPage County. Earning recognized party status in DuPage will resolve
that issue if a countywide candidate was to run this year to secure
countywide ballot access.

 

Petitioning in our seven established counties are still ongoing, and they
must have their petitions turned in by the end of the day of March 14, the
final day of filing for the June 28 primary. In the case of Cook County, I
would hope for a quick decision in the courts so that the candidates for
county commission can be on the ballot for the primary.

 

I could not express enough the importance of using your powers as
established counties to utilize the post-primary nominations in vacancy
(NiV) system. Those candidates will still have to collect the signatures
required for an established party as a part of the NiV to represent the
party in the November general election.

 

Only one candidate inquiry came from National in the past month: David
Pruitt, who is seeking a run for mayor of Chicago in 2023. Currently, I do
not know if we receive candidate inquiries via our website like we did under
our pre-CiviCRM website format.

 

I'm still trying to recover all the campaign training materials to pass on
to the statewide campaigns, but I have not had the time or opportunity to
access them. I hope to have that information out by the next BOD meeting.

Jake Leonard
Chapter Chairman | Tri-Counties Libertarian Party
BOD Member and Political Director | Libertarian Party of Illinois
Ballot Access Committee Member | Libertarian National Committee
800 Capps Ave., Nokomis, IL 62075
Website:  <http://www.tricountylibertarians.org/>
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