Election 2011: School Board Candidates Talk Issues at Tea Party Forum
Planners said the forum was non-partisan, despite Tea Party backing.
Updated at 1:50 p.m.: District 230 incumbent candidate Kathy Quilty and candidate Rena Esposito-Sheehan said Friday they never received an invitation to this forum. A message left with John Sendra, who was in charge of marketing the event, was not immediately returned. The crowd was scant, but the issues were hot at a candidate forum bringing candidates from four local races to the Tinley Park VFW Thursday night. Unlike recent School District 146 Town Hall meeting, the audience at this event was small enough to count on a couple hands, while only about half the invited candidates showed. Knowing that it was an event sponsored by the local Tea Party may have deterred some folks from coming out, organizer Jim Fuentes said, but that wasn’t …
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