There are two ways people get elected to office in Cook County: by the people who vote for them and by the people who contribute to their campaign. I mistakenly assumed that only Cook County residents would vote via their campaign contributions. This was a false assumption. A multibillionaire in New York City donated two million dollars to Kim Foxx’s campaign for Cook County State’s Attorney in February 2020.
From watching News Nation, it seems to me that Kim Foxx is performing a soft-on-crime experiment. The very rich man who gave her millions does not have to live with the consequences of his actions; we do. At the very least, it would be more democratic if the public were alerted to rich people in other cities altering our elections. If this rich guy wants to help, why not fund serious fact-collecting about prison inmates’ decision-making along with their family and schooling experiences? There is much more to humans than superficial appearance.
Robert Sullivan
Oak Park
