It appears that the Chicago political machine is hard at work keeping a TEA Party candidate off the ballot. This time they kept off black mother of three. Why did they kick her off? Did she not get enough signatures? No, it was because there was a sentence just with “slightly different wording” than it should have been:
Illinois, the vote is being denied to the voters of the 43rd State Senate District by a frivolous challengeChicago - On Wednesday, one of Governor Quinn's routine bill signing ceremonies turned into a debate over ballot access and the Tea Party in Illinois.
A supporter of Republican and Tea Party activist Cedra Crenshaw jumped up and demanded to know why Democrats supporting incumbent State Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi, who was at the bill signing, had worked to get Crenshaw kicked off the ballot.
Crenshaw, a 37-year old mother of three who studied accounting at North Carolina A&T, submitted hundreds more signatures on her nominating petitions than required. But Will County officials knocked her off the November ballot, saying one of the sentences in her filing should have used slightly different wording.
"I am angry," said Crenshaw, an African-American who rejects complaints that the Tea Party movement is racist. "And a lot of the voters are very angry, as well. Right here in the State of Illinois, the vote is being denied to the voters of the 43rd State Senate District by a frivolous challenge."
Now, both sides do kick people off the ballot for cheap technicalities all the time, and I think that it is ridiculous. We should let all the people run on the ballot that wants to run. Let the people decide who they want.
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