It must have been something in the Chicago water system that made him forget that he already voted that day.
If there’s one thing Donovan Riley apparently learned during his time in Chicago, it was “Vote early and often.”
Riley, 69, the former CEO of the University of Illinois Medical Center and a former law professor at Loyola University, is running for a state senate seat in Milwaukee.
On Nov. 7, 2000, the day of the big election between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Riley appeared at the polling place in Oconomowac, Wis., where he had registered to vote just the day before, voting records show. His ex-wife owned a home there.
“Then he drove down to Chicago where he was already registered and he voted again,” said Michael Crooks, a Wisconsin attorney who filed a complaint against Riley with Wisconsin election officials. “This is about as blatant as it gets.”
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“My best recollection is that I was splitting my time between Wisconsin and Illinois and it’s possible I made a mistake,” Riley said in a statement released last week.
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Riley faces incumbent Jeff Pale in next month’s Democratic primary election for a state senate seat in Milwaukee, 35 miles from Oconomowac.
If you click on the link, you’ll see that, as usual, the paper waited until the next to the very last paragraph to mention his party affiliation. And in truth, the last paragraph is a single sentence.
How quaint.
I can chalk a good number of things up to deja vu, but going to my polling place isn’t one of them.