Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Free publicity for Peraica ends with tax re-vote

Daily Herald:

Tony Peraica lost twice Tuesday.

The first defeat was a foregone conclusion: His effort to roll back a wildly unpopular 1 percentage point sales tax increase had been widely acknowledged as doomed because no "yes" votes on the county board had indicated they would reverse their votes.

The second loss, however, was more subtle. Against Peraica's wishes, he lost an effort to defer the measure to the September board meeting, thus losing future free publicity he had managed to generate from his anti-tax proposal.

Peraica would benefit from the free publicity to compete against his better-funded Democratic opponent in the race for Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Anita Alvarez.

Alvarez had $167,957.29 in campaign funds on hand at the end of June while Peraica had just $43,522.87.

Peraica denied the move to defer was an effort to milk publicity for another two months. He contended that he wanted to defer because two potential swing voters, Commissioner Roberto Maldonado and Commissioner Earlean Collins, had asked for more information so they could consider the measure.

This story goes back to the whole money advantage by Anita Alvarez. Via the Capitol Fax morning shorts.

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