Tuesday, October 27, 2020

More County Money Wasted

And there's a name to blame this time:

  • The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said Monday it had mistakenly rejected and returned 1,000 judicial election guides that Injustice Watch sent to eligible voters detained at Cook County Jail.

    The guides, produced by Injustice Watch and printed in collaboration with the South Side Weekly, were mailed to the jail earlier this month to help people in pre-trial detention complete the long and often obscure judicial section of their ballots. Injustice Watch has produced Cook County judicial election guides since 2016, but this year marked the first time the organization sent print copies of their guide to voters currently detained in the jail.

    Emails show Injustice Watch had been in touch with county officials about mailing the judicial guide to jail detainees since early September. One official wrote on Sept. 24 that she would “advise the mailroom” about the incoming guides.

    But on Monday, Hanke Gratteau, director of the Cook County Sheriff’s Justice Institute, notified Injustice Watch Executive Director Juliet Sorensen that the delivery had been botched at the jail...

Gratteau is one of the many media spouses/children/pin cushions that Dart hired (at six-figures) so he would get positive media coverage, in this case, the wife of gadfly Mark Brown. 

This was an easily avoidable fuck-up, as stated by another of Dart's six-figure media hirees:

  • Cook County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Matthew Walberg said in a statement the guides had been mistakenly rejected “because the mailroom erroneously believed there was a ban on distribution of newspaper.”

    “This absolutely should not have occurred as our policy specifically allows for mail printed on newsprint to be disseminated to detainees. We are working to determine where the error in judgment took place,” Walberg said. “We have expressed our sincere apology to Injustice Watch leadership for our error, and we will be working with them to find ways to make this right to the fullest extent possible and to ensure that it does not happen again.”

It isn't difficult to get ballots or election materials to-and-from people who aren't going anywhere as they await trial.

But then again, it isn't hard to actually follow the rules as written to guarantee Officers in the department their due process either, and we see how Dart screwed the pooch on that one, costing taxpayers potential millions.

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17 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm thinking six cents of lead caps a reasonable response. You?

10/27/2020 12:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dart ... keep swallowing.

10/27/2020 12:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So we have an organization that distributes guides for criminals on what judges to vote for. Why don’t non criminal voters get guides to select judges who support the Constitution and the laws of the land?

10/27/2020 01:41:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

Little Tommy had officially been banned from the Bathhouse Club. Long overdue.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

10/27/2020 06:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No wonder. She lives in Oak Park....



http://www.triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/community/stories/2009/03/oak-park-resident-hanke-gratteau-to-head-prison-reform-group/index.html

10/27/2020 07:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That Sorensen is a special one too. Comes from DNC nobility. But is a fuck up:



In March 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in a unanimous panel opinion written by Judge Richard Posner, found that Sorensen had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct and made "a series of improper statements" in the trial court case of U.S. v. Farinella




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Sorensen

10/27/2020 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dart will fire some low-level black or hispanic guard over this. the media will make him a hero again like covid where his revolving jail exposed most of the community with virus.

10/27/2020 08:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Preckwinkle is waiting for Pelosi Stimulous to pay for all Dart flubs.

10/27/2020 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The best was the pic of papers that took half the jail mail room. It's a good thing Tom is so incompetent or he might be dangerous.

10/27/2020 08:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Word is the guards were telling them to write-in Judge Roy Bean!

10/27/2020 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Morons working for morons!

10/27/2020 09:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool, captive felons taking marching orders from Communists to cancel out the votes of law-abiding citizens. Democracy!

10/27/2020 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hate this county and city soo much

10/27/2020 10:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Injustice Watch
Who is the printer? Follow the money.
Lansing, Michigan, West Omaha, Nebraska, and one other
city: Live Trump rallies today.
That's three (3).
How many for Biden? ("asking for a friend")

10/27/2020 11:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dart becsme the Mayor of Ford Heights. Always dreaming of becoming Mayor and got his wish!!

10/27/2020 12:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hanke (Browns Wife) was in article few months back bragging how they ended solitary for the worst degenerates in the jail complex. Only problem was reporter saw they chained them to tables for up to 15hrs a day. Everything with Dart is dog-pony show.

10/27/2020 12:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She's Cara Smith's hand picked, far left, crony. Their only job was to beg Kim Foxx to agree to I Bonds for their, poor misunderstood, inmates. It was bad enough with Cara Smith there and got worse when she left Hanke in charge. She is constantly interfering with jail and court operations.

10/27/2020 04:16:00 PM  

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