We'd all be a lot more pleasant, and probably learn a few things, if we could listen to each other without name-calling and yelling.
I try not to get too into partisan political discussions with people outside my circle of immediate family and friends. It's not that I dislike discussing politics – quite the contrary. It's more that with people I don't know I fear the discussion descending into a bitter and very personal dispute that has little to do with the political differences that prompted it. This kind of thing has happened before, often enough so that now I think twice. I did not initiate these disputes, nor did I seek to engage them once they started, which led to name calling, expletives and one time someone walking out of a room, but never to fisticuffs. I think reasonable people can disagree and engage in lively conversation that can illuminate points both …
A three-person electoral board, consisting of Moraine Valley trustees, upheld an election objection and will likely disqualify Connie D. Martin from the upcoming Board of Trustees race.
A Moraine Valley Community College Electoral Board is expected next week to disqualify a Board of Trustees candidate after ruling a large number of signatures on her petition were forged. At a special meeting on Thursday, the school’s Electoral Board, which consists of trustees Joseph Murphy, Sandra Wagner and Patrick Kennedy, declared that at least 85 of 130 signatures on Oak Lawn resident Connie D. Martin’s election petition were likely fraudulent. Amy McGoogan, a school teacher from Crestwood, objected to 99 signatures as well as the home address listed on Martin’s petition, which had been circulated this fall by Yousif Zegar, from Orland Park. McGoogan did not contest an additional 10 signatures on the petition which had been gathered …
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