Steve Rhodes rolls out the old canard that John Cullerton was a stalking horse candidate to keep Dick Simpson from winning in 1994 against Dan Rostenkowski in the primary.

The problem is….Simpson only pulled in 14 percent of the vote to about 30 percent for Cullerton and 50 percent for Rostenkowski.  Stalking horses don’t pull in more than the ‘legit’ challenger not to mention, even Cullerton and Simpson’s votes together didn’t reach 50 percent.

There’s plenty to criticize Cullerton for, but he fought a tough race in 1994 and that isn’t one of them.  The larger problem isn’t Cullerton, but that one of the better indepedendent candidates didn’t have a shot like Don Harmon.