ArchPundit

NRCC hits him and rightfully so.

Hurckes, a man of no small ego, is not merely Dan Lipinski’s chief of staff, earning $107,224. Nor also just a paid consultant to Bill Lipinski’s dubious foundation, the All American Eagles, which brags about helping kids but mostly helps fund friendly candidates.

Hurckes also is a trustee of Oak Lawn, southwest of Chicago, and an aspiring mayoral candidate.

And so, he likes to brag, he’s the guy who’s bringing home the bacon to Oak Lawn. As the suburban SouthtownStar newspaper and Roll Call reported this month, Hurckes was not a happy camper when some of his fellow trustees entertained the notion of hiring a Washington lobbyist to attract federal dollars to Oak Lawn.

“Repeatedly using the phrase ‘It is I who’ to preface his accomplishments,” reported Roll Call, “Hurckes ticked off earmarks he claimed to have secured for the village. . . . $100,000 for the Oak Lawn Children’s Museum, nearly $4 million in transportation infrastructure funds.” Hurckes, self-important if not always grammatical, added, “It was I that brought . . . the Army Corps of Engineers.”

Heavens, why would Oak Lawn need a lobbyist when it’s got Jerry Hurckes? For that matter, why would the 3rd District need Dan Lipinski when Hurckes is clearly the go-to guy?

And Marin revisits the Bohica bar voter registration drive 

Hurckes was then registered in the 23rd Ward even though he lived in Oaklawn.