Opinion

For Cook County Board 17th District, Democratic: Forys

Posted January 20, 2010 10:00 pm

Three candidates are running for the Democratic nomination in the 17th Cook County Board district.

We endorse Dr. Victor Forys of Park Ridge, an internist and manager of a clinic on Chicago's Northwest side. Forys pledges to modernize the business end of Cook County health services, which he believes the Cook County Board can and should do, by enacting new policies that will collect the tens of millions of dollars of available revenue he claims no one is trying to get. He wants to make permanent the independent health panel. Forys has the backing of the Independent Voters of Illinois and the reform-minded Commissioner Forrest Claypool and U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley.

Patrick Maher, a small-business owner, is a worthy candidate with valuable experience as president of the Orland Park Fire Protection District board. He has helped close a $2 million budget deficit while fully funding the department's pensions, gotten ethics laws passed and returned $1.3 million to taxpayers. Also running is Donna Sanders of Orland Hills.

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