I'm not sure what your beef is on this one. The guy isn't eligible to run. It doesn't matter if his motives are pure as the driven snow. He doesn't live in the city. Is it just because you hate O'Day, you think non-residents should be allowed to represent residents of the city?
@cjsummers : I'll tell you what the beef is:
1)I'd bet my house in Peoria that Nichols filed, fully believing that he lived within the city limits because he was told that when he sought to verify.
It makes no sense for him to go through the entire process otherwise.
2) These claims of possible "voter confusion" by O'Day are silly. Just because someone circled the wrong word on a form! You can look at my other comments to see further analysis on that.
3) O'Day works in the same law firm as one of the at-large candidates. He has made it clear in one of his comments on a PJ Star article about this at-large race, that "It's time to drain the swamp."
4) Because of points 2 and 3, I don't believe for one second O'Day's motive of doing this because he is a concerned citizen. Hogwash! I believe O'Day to be deceptive in this whole matter, therefore I'm stating that none of these people are being deceptive. He acts as if they've done something to seriously disqualify them from office, as if they did it on purpose! I don't believe they did.
5) If there's one thing I can't stand, it's someone who uses the letter of the law to gain an unfair advantage. I believe in this particular case, we have someone in O'Day who is using the letter of the law to disqualify people with good intent. That's neglecting the spirit of the law. That's living under tyranny, to be honest. Because in that type of world not a single mistake can be made. And if you take anything away from what I've said, at least take away this last point.
