Friday, June 26, 2009

Dorothy Brown announces for county board president

Clout Street:
In her announcement, Brown said she “came out against the current sales-tax level passed by” the Cook County Board last year, when it upped that levy by a penny-on-the-dollar, touching off widespread criticism of Stroger. But before today, during nearly two years of debate on the sales-tax increase issue, Brown repeatedly declined to weigh in.

Brown made her announcement in a press release and planned to meet individually with reporters later in the day. First elected to her current post in 2000, she has twice been re-elected [to Cook County Circuit Court Clerk], but she was soundly defeated by Mayor Richard Daley when she sought his office in 2007.

Brown recently said she would stop accepting cash birthday gifts from employees after learning the Tribune was going to publish a story about the long-running practice in her administration.


Others mulling a run in next February’s primary are U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Sheriff Tom Dart, Assessor James Houlihan, Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin and Terence O’Brien, president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Can anyone say WIDE open?

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