Wednesday, January 9, 2013
A Jan. 11 hearing will determine whether three village candidates will stay on the April 9 ballot. A Jan. 15 date was set to hearing objections to the petitions of three library board candidates.
Mayor Mike Collins, challenger Michael Lambert and Plainfield village trustee candidate Mike Guinta will get the chance to defend their right to stay on the April 9 election ballot this Friday. Three separate hearings are scheduled for Jan. 11 to address objections to the candidates’ nominating petitions. Get Plainfield news delivered straight to your inbox – sign up for the Plainfield Patch newsletter. Collins faces a challenge from Plainfield resident John Ledvina, who claims that the mayor’s statement of candidacy omits language that states that Collins was known to the person who certified the nominating forms — which could lead to potential fraud, according to the complaint. Meanwhile, village resident Jeffrey Schmitt is objecting to …
Monday, January 7, 2013
Objections were filed Thursday in attempts to oust Collins, Lambert and Guinta from the ballot.
Both candidates for village president are facing challenges from Plainfield residents who say their nominating petitions for the April 9, 2013 election don’t pass muster. John Ledvina, a resident of the 11000 block of Chesapeake Drive, is challenging Mayor Mike Collins’ statement of candidacy, saying the form filed by the incumbent village present omits language that states that the candidate is “personally known to” the certifying officer. Collins didn’t return a call from Patch over the weekend. Get Plainfield news delivered straight to your inbox – sign up for the Patch newsletter. Ledvina’s objection asserts that the omission “results in a situation whereby a local election official, local election authority, objectors or electoral …
Peter Hurtado — whose daughter is seeking a spot on the library board — filed objections Thursday against three candidates.
A Plainfield Park District commissioner is questioning the candidacy of three people who are seeking spots on the Plainfield Public Library District Board of Trustees. Peter Hurtado, who was elected to the park board in 2011 and ran unsuccessfully against State Sen. Linda Holmes last November, filed objections to the nominating petitions of David Schmidt, Alice R. Adeszko and Lauren Ledvina. Hurtado’s 19-year-old daughter, Samantha, is among the nine candidates for the four open seats on the board in the April election. Click here for more on who’s running for office this April. The challenges allege that the nominating petitions contain signatures that are invalid either because the individuals do not live within the library district …
Shannon Antinori
11:47 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
No. As the story states, Mayor Collins will serve as chairman for trustee candidate Mike Guinta's hearing, while trustee Paul Fay will be the chairman for the village president candidates' hearings. more ›