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I launched my campaign officially Saturday at a full house at Jak’s Tap. We had music, song, rap (thanks to Lenny Zieben, Victoria Sometani and Corinna and Charles of Unearthed) and speeches. We launched “Arts 4 Tresser” and signed people up for house parties, community organizing, media work and more! Download a copy of my remarks. It’s [...] Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:38 — 3.3MB) pp_flashembed( Podcast: Play in new window We’re going to have a launch party and rally on Saturday, January 30, at 11:30am at Jak’s [...] From Dr. Linda Shelton’s profile of Tom in the Chicago Examiner: Tom Tresser, a long-time arts activist, prolific community development practitioner and consultant, organizer and educator, is an announced candidate for President for the Cook County Board of Commissioners. He is emerging as the dark horse candidate because, although a tenacious and talented activist and educator, he [...] It keeps getting hotter and hotter until you're cooked! The Cook County Political Buzz Examiner, Kelli Kobor, wonders when Chicagoans will get mad enough to fire Da Machine. There is no way to put this delicately, so I won’t even try. Chicago, you are like the proverbial frog in the pan of water that is slowly heated [...] From the Skyline Press’s year-end review of top news stories: An Olympic-sized loss The story of the year was the city’s failed bid for the 2016 Olympics. With nearly $75 million spent on the three-year bid campaign alone, shock and disbelief were the moods du jour when Chicago was dismissed in the first round of the International Olympic [...] Mike Volpe, the intrepid online political commentator for The Provacateur, interviewed me the other day about the connections between corruption in the city of Chicago and the county of Cook. He writes: “I first met up with Tom Tresser when I went to my first Olympics town hall event in the summer. Tresser lead the citizen activist group, [...] Watch this brief (under 4 minute) video of Tom’s remarks at a recent event for Green Party candidate Matt Reichel (5th CD). Download text of [...] Elena Demos, Chair Dan Madden, Meribeth Mermall This morning the Cook County Electoral Board met at 63 W. Washington in the Pedway Room to make decisions on a number of challenges brought against local candidates. My challenge against Sean Burke, CC-01, was heard at 10:30am. The Board is composed of representatives of the Cook County Clerk’s Office, [...] Frank B. Avila interviewed Tom for CAN-TV’s “Issue [...] I spent the day at the Cook County Clerk’s office going over Sean Burke’s signatures one by one with him present. He came very casually dressed and with no documentation or apparent preparation. I was with Alberto Bocanegra, the chair of the Cook County Green Party. The process of examining signatures is mind-numbingly slow. I must [...] 
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