Sign Them Up!

As mentioned in a different comment post, below is the link to a Drop Box folder where you’ll find, right now, 20 files that are the nominating petitions for the following candidates:

For Village Board Trustee--6 candidates for 3 seats up (1 incumbent, all normal full 4-year terms):
Mark Chmura, John Green, Bill Lamb (incumbent), Michael Lambert, Ed O’Rourke, and Brian Wojowski

For Plainfield Fire Protection District Trustee--5 candidates for 2 full 6-year terms):

Dennis Bennett (incumbent), Thomas Paul, Mark Reynolds (appointed incumbent), Jacob Snitko, and James Sossong

For Plainfield Public Library Trustee--4 candidates for 4 seats up (3 incumbents for full 4-year terms and 1 for a 2-year vacancy term fulfillment):
Crystal Andel (4-year), Carl Gilmore (4-year), Sharon Kinley (4-year), and Jason Puetz (2-year vacancy fulfillment)

For Plainfield Township Park District--5 candidates for 4 seats up (2 incumbents for 2 full 6-year terms and 3 running for 2 one-time expansion terms of 2-years):
Rob Ayres (2-year), John Ledvina (2-year), Mary Kay Ludemann (6-year), Larry Newton (6-year), and Mimi Poling (2-year)

Also in this folder is the candidate packet sign-out sheet (taking the file count here to 21) for those interested in the village trustee election. That’s people who asked for a blank petition form to use as well as some base info on how to circulate and file for a spot on the ballot for the village trustee election. Note that my name is on that list, but this was one of two public entities that I collected candidate packets from (the other was the park district) for a writing gig I have, not because I was going to circulate a petition or had any interest in seeking office. Others who took out a packet but did not file their petitions were (apologizes in advance for any misspellings—some of the hand-writing is a touch hard to make out): Bob Barma, Lori Caton, David Chobar, Sheila Radditz, Lori Sharum, Charles R. Worden. Other units of government did not send me such an actual sign-out sheet, but the library did tell me who picked up packets and it was only the four who filed--Andel, Gilmore, Kinley, and Puetz--plus David E. Schmidt. I don’t know who requested packets from the PTPD and, at least not yet, from the PFPD.

Here’s the link: Petitions for April 2015 Elections in Plainfield.

FYI, if you have any reason to file an objection or a challenge to any petition, note that there is some difference among the different public entity offices represented here on those deadlines. Here’s the latest info on deadline for filing any objection to any petition:

I spoke with a nice man named Gary at the Illinois State Board of Elections (their number is, FYI, 217-782-4141) mid-day on Dec 29th and confirmed the rules below FOR ALL ENTITIES EXCEPT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT—that is handled by the Will County Clerk’s office at 815-740-4625 or 815-740-4794. (Please note and accept my apologies that I’ve clearly not done this leg-work as regards the school district elections. Only so much time I could give this round. Has anyone else out there done any work on the D202 election info?)

The “business days” deadline rules—for anything and for whatever amount of time is set, for petition challenges or responses to challenge, etc.—count as a business day any day of Monday through Friday that the entity’s office is open for business for at least 7 hours. Each municipal entity then has to adjust its deadline based on its open business hours.

All petitions were due to be filed by Monday, Dec 22nd, end of business. This means for our Plainfield governmental units involved in the April 2015 election that the 5 business day deadline for objections to be made to any petition go thusly:

Plainfield Village Board—deadline should be close of business on WEDNESDAY, Dec 31st –the closings to that office are only Dec 24th, 25th, and Jan 1st—unlike our other units of local government, their offices are not closed on New Year’s Eve, so their five days for challenges are Dec 23rd, 26th, 29th, 30th, and 31st.

Plainfield Public Library District—they are closed on Dec 24th, 25th, 31st, and Jan 1st which put’s their challenge deadline out to Friday, Jan 2nd (and they’ve already attested to that).

Plainfield Park District—same closings as Library—deadline for challenges is on Friday, Jan 2nd.

Plainfield Fire Protection District—same closings as Library—deadline for challenges is Friday, Jan 2nd.

Is anyone else out there learning a lot? I know I am!

If you need to contact me, comment on this article or just email or mail me at:

radical4plainfield@gmail.com

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