The Statement from the Dorothy Brown Campaign is as follows:

The Dorothy Brown campaign for Cook County Board President had over 200 volunteer petition circulators, who subsequently turned in over 45,000 signatures. The Brown campaign did not authorize anyone in her campaign to circulate petitions for any other candidate.

According to the law, people are free to circulate petitions for whoever they so desire, even opponents, as long as they are of the same party. To be clear, Dorothy Brown is not working with Terry O’Brien.

It is our hope that no one, especially the person who obviously alerted the Sun Times of this issue, attempted to deliberately put a poor light on the Brown campaign, by conspiring to have people to circulate for both campaigns.

If that is true, then this tactic WILL NOT WORK.  The citizens of Cook County are well aware of Dorothy Brown’s integrity and hard work as the Clerk of the Circuit Court.  Therefore, we will continue our campaign of reform, innovation, and saving taxpayers dollars and march on to victory on February 2nd.

*Dorothy Brown has served as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County for nine years.  She is a CPA, has an MBA, holds a law degree, and has the executive management experience and financial background to set Cook County’s financial house in order.

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