EVEN LAWYERS FORGET
Let’s face it, folks, love him or hate him, Ward
5 Ald. Sam Cahnman sometimes finds himself in sticky situations.
At last week’s meeting of the Citizen’s
Club, Mark Reichert, president of the Sangamon County Farm Bureau, called
Cahnman out for unethical behavior. Cahnman and Reichert were part of a
four-person panel that addressed the pros and cons of the county board
cutback referendum; Reichert accused Cahnman of meddling with the petition
that boosted the measure onto the Nov. 4 ballot.
“Mr. Cahnman is sitting down there,”
Reichert said. “He is an attorney, he knows the rules, but he himself
signed the petition twice. Mr. Cahnman should know better than that. You
can only sign it one time.”
Cahnman shrugged off the finger-pointing.
“The petition had 500 pages,” he explained
to Cap City. “I probably signed it once at the beginning, and then
forgot and signed it again.”
This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2008.
