From the Chicago Daily Herald:
In the annals of Chicago-area political dirty tricks, this one’s new: An anti-war candidate in the key 8th Congressional District claims he was duped by a person posing as a consultant promising to gather 10,000 signatures to help him get on the ballot.
Those signatures never materialized, and the upshot is independent candidate Bill Scheurer of Lindenhurst almost certainly won’t be on the Nov. 7 ballot, providing a small boost to Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean of Barrington as she tries to fend off a challenge from Republican David McSweeney of Barrington Hills.
Running as an Iraq war foe, Scheurer was expected to pull 1 percent to 2 percent of the voters — voters who otherwise might have supported Bean. In a close race, that could have been the difference.
But Scheurer said Monday he filed 13,000 signatures with the State Board of Elections, about 1,000 short of what he needed to survive a legal challenge to his nominating petitions. Why Scheurer says he was unable to get the required signatures is a bizarre story.... [more]
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