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Election 2013 New Lenox

Saturday, January 12, 2013

D122 Member Kathy Miller Plans to Appeal A Decision to Kick Her Off the April Ballot

Kathy Miller, whose nomination petition for the NLSD122 Board was invalidated, plans to probe the matter she believes was both personally and politically motivated.

In a room crowded with administrators and staff from New Lenox School District 122, Kathy Miller, an incumbent for the D122 Board of Education, was kicked off the April ballot Friday due to a notary error. Miller, who was elected in 2009 and was running for a two-year term, said she intends to appeal the decision. She has five days in which to file her appeal with the Will County Circuit Clerk.   Miller's petition was not the only one to receive an objection. Another objection was filed against New Lenox's Thomas T. Hottinger for similar errors. However, the objection was withdrawn because he had more than enough voter signatures to substantiate his filling. No information on the short-lived objection to Hottinger's petition was made …

New Lenox Mom

5:21 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

Sally maybe you should google slander, you obviously do not know what it means. I was happy to see board members vote against his payraise, it was about time. The new math program has stunk since it was introduced. The kids are supposed to learn all these crazy ways of doing math and then they get to 6th grade and oops, this isn't taught in jr. High so guess what, unlearn all you learned, we are …   more ›

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Candidate Petition for New Lenox School District Challenged; Hearing Set for Friday

Election 2013 is heating up. A signature on a petition for an incumbent candidate for the NLSD122 Board has been challenged.

New Lenox School District 122 Board of Education Kathy Miller's petition for nomination was challenged over a signature. A hearing on the validity of Miller's candidacy is set for 3 p.m. Friday at the Haven Administration Center. Miller was the last of nine candidates to file a nominating petition at 4:29 p.m. Dec. 26, the deadline for filing petitions for the April 9 primary election. The challenge comes from Nikki Sanders of New Lenox. Miller did not return a Wednesday night call from Patch. Sanders said in her objection filed on Jan. 3 at the District Office that Miller's nomination papers are "insufficient." Specifically, she challenges the petition circulator's signature. Page 4 of the five-page nomination petition shows reads that …

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