2 Democrats on 3-member Election Panel vote to kick her off

From Jeff Wartman:

It's pretty clear that the Chicago machine is terrified of the change they know will come -- people are fed up with corruption and people who stand up against corruption are going to their number one target. Because Cedra is that person standing up against corruption, we need to stand up with her in support.

From the Chicago Tribune editorial "Mom vs. Machine Illinois Senate hopeful Cedra Crenshaw":

From the start, Illinois Senate hopeful Cedra Crenshaw wasn't just running against Democratic state Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi, of Joliet. A darling of the tea party movement, she sometimes sounds like she's running against Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress. These days, she's running hard against the Chicago Machine, which seems quite afraid of her.

Crenshaw, of Bolingbrook, is an accountant and auditor turned stay-at-home mom. She's also African-American. Three kids and a mortgage "catapulted me into the conservative I am today," she says. Her campaign stresses fiscal responsibility and government accountability; she supports Second Amendment rights and traditional marriage and opposes abortion.

With no candidate in the primary, Will County Republican leaders needed someone to challenge Wilhelmi in November, and Crenshaw said yes. Nominated on March 30, she had only 19 days to collect 1,000 signatures before the filing deadline.

She turned in 1,500.

And then the Democrats noticed.

The Will County Electoral Board threw her off the ballot last week after the Democrats sent in attorney Michael Kasper to keep her off the ballot. The two Democrats on the election board rejected her. The lone Republican voted to let her run. A Will County judge will consider her appeal Wednesday.

Crenshaw was bounced from the ballot, which just goes to show you how panicked the Dems are about the prospect of being held accountable in November.

CedrawCrenshaw.com

Editor's Note - Jeff Wartman is a former Libertarian Party of Illinois Exec. Board member turned Republican activist (local GOP precinct committeeman and campaign volunteer). He is a Sports fanatic, (Bears & Blackhawks, of course), who lives in Chicago.