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Elections Sun Jan 31 2010
Xavier Nogueras Hit Piece in 8th District
A nasty hit piece hit residents of the 8th Cook County Commissioner's district. Coming from the phantom "Taxpayers Coalition Initiative" which provides no return address, the piece delves into Nogueras' tenure with the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce and unpaid water bills. The piece is huge--22x17--full color, glossy. The 60647 post office, from where the piece originated, did not provide information on the owner of the "Permit #1" used to send the piece out.
Nogueras' opponent, Ed Reyes, is an ally of 33rd Ward boss Dick Mell, who engineered his elevation to the seat after Roberto Maldonado was appointed by Mayor Daley to replace Billy Ocasio, who in turn was appointed to Governor Quinn's staff after he replaced Rod Blagojevich. To get that straight: Blagojevich gets impeached, Quinn taps Ocasio, Daley taps Maldonado, Maldonado pushes for Nogueras to replace him but gets outmaneuvered Mell.
The Nogueras campaign offered this comment:
We are certainly aware of the piece. It is without a doubt a last minute effort from the Reyes campaign to make up for what has been a rough couple weeks on their end. The Fox story [Cf., This] really knocked the wind out of them. This particular hatchet job should be called for what it is. We put our name out front and center in every mailer we send out.
Some scans of the piece (hard to get, given its size) after the jump.
A New Day in Cook County / January 31, 2010 9:02 PM
Commissioner Reyes likely contracted this out to one of three people:
Kevin Lamm- Political Staffer and Chief of Staff to Luis Arroyo
Bruce Anderson- an IVI-IPO member who is going "rogue" in order to fall in line behind Joe Berrios and Dick Mell.
Jesse Juarez-1st Ward Democratic Committeeman. Jesse is Berrios' Luca Brasi. Many of us in the 1st ward are left scratching our head thinking: "How on earth did Manny Flores get himself mixed up in all this?"
Whoever is responsible, they were obviously acting on Eddie Reyes' behalf. Fortunately, voters are turned off by this type of stuff. I received it and shared a laugh with all my neighbors because we all knew it was over for Reyes anyway.