The local is very proud to announce (unofficially) that several of its members have been elected to judical seats\u00a0in the primary election held on February 2, 2010.\u00a0 In addition, two former members of this local are also winners in the election.<\/p>\n
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Mark Levitt<\/strong> – winner of the Democratic primary in the 4th Judicial Subcircuit, Lake County.\u00a0 Mark has been an assistant Cook County public defender for almost 20 years and was lead counsel in the\u00a0“Browns Chicken” case.\u00a0 Mark will face a Republican challenger in the general election.<\/p>\n Terry MacCarthy<\/strong>– a supervisor and former member of the local won Full Circuit Bronstein seat in the primary.\u00a0 He has no Republican challenger in the general election.<\/p>\n Daniel Gallagher- <\/strong>Dan, an assistant at 26th Street was uncontested in the primary and will face a\u00a0 Republican challenger in the fall.<\/p>\n Ann Finley Collins<\/strong>– A member of the Homicide Task Force, won in a race with many qualified challengers including two sitting judges.\u00a0 Ann will not have a challenger in the general election.<\/p>\n Judge Jim Epstein<\/strong> – a former public defender who helped organize the local twenty years ago has won a seat on the 1st District Appellate court (McNulty vacancy).<\/p>\n Judge Geary Kull<\/strong> –\u00a0 another former public defender, was in a very heated race and it still might be too close to call because he has a slim lead of abut 80 votes based on the vote totals available as of\u00a0 2\/3\/10 at \/ 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n Best of luck to all the winners and thanks to the members of this local who spread the word to \u00a0the voters in Cook County to vote for and elect\u00a0the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The local is very proud to announce (unofficially) that several of its members have been elected to judical seats\u00a0in the primary election held on February 2, 2010.\u00a0 In addition, two former members of this local are also winners in the election. \u00a0 Mark Levitt – winner of the Democratic primary in the 4th Judicial Subcircuit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}