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He ran for judge, lost, changed parties, took Irish name, won Cook County race
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| Last Edited | RBH Oct 25, 2020 01:24pm |
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| Author | Abigail Blachman |
| News Date | Friday, November 9, 2018 11:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Besides voting out a sitting judge on Tuesday for the first time since 1990, Cook County voters also elected a Democrat to be a judge for the northwest suburban 13th “subcircuit” for the first time since the county established subcircuits in 1992.
The new judge? Shannon P. O’Malley.
The name might not be familiar because Judge O’Malley was going by his old name, Phillip Spiwak, when he unsuccessfully ran, as a Republican, for a judicial seat in Will County in 2010.
Irish-sounding names have long given Cook County judicial candidates an electoral edge. It also might not have hurt that O’Malley’s first name is gender-neutral in a year when Democratic women won elections up and down the ballot. |
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