Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is up for reelection in November.
And Foxx and friends — including her patron, Cook County Democratic boss Toni Preckwinkle, and her ally, Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans — act as if they’re untouchable.
Are they?
They certainly seem to think so. Preckwinkle is so confident as party boss that she spearheaded a nonendorsement of respected Cook County Judge Michael Toomin in the Nov. 3 election because he dared order a special prosecutor in Foxx’s Jussie Smollett alleged fake hate crime fiasco.
Preckwinkle hopes voters won’t connect the dots.
Are we also supposed to ignore the mass shooting on the West Side early Saturday that left three wounded and two dead, the alleged perpetrator an offender who was out on electronic monitoring from a gun charge this spring?
These issues are related. And they’re political.
They tell you everything that’s wrong with Chicago and Cook County’s toxic politics: judges like Toomin being muscled out of office and residents brought to the morgue because of bad public policy as homicide numbers keep rising.
“It’s outrageous what’s being done to Judge Toomin,” retired Judge Sheila O’Brien, who pushed for a special prosecutor in the Smollett case, told me. “Preckwinkle should be ashamed of herself. This is nothing but a hatchet job. The good news is that they revealed themselves for who they are.”
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