Plainfield Chamber of Commerce President Jeffery Dunn told the City Council last Monday that he is running for the Third Ward "to be part of the solution," but the first thing he may have to solve right now is the issue of his residency.
Dunn gave his address on the April 4 filing deadline as 1038 Central Avenue, home of his father, Malcolm Dunn. The city special charter requires a council candidate to be a resident of a ward for one year before seeking election to represent it. Challengers are alleging he gave a First Ward address when he voted last year. A hearing on Monday (April 11) may determine the outcome, or Dunn may take it to court.
The other filers for the Third Ward seat were Alma Blanco, 928 Grant Ave. and Charles McRae, 1228 Hazel Ave.
There is also a Citywide at-large seat up for election, with incumbent Councilwoman Tracey Brown seeking re-election and Councilwoman Rebecca Williams, currently representing the Second and Third Wards at-large, challenging her. All the filers are Democrats and winners in the June 7 primary will get the Democratic line on the November ballot.
The last big residency case came up in 2006, when some residents questioned whether Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs had been a "legal voter" in Plainfield for four years before seeking the mayoralty, as the charter requires. A judge decided the four years did not have to be consecutive, but also ruled that the complainants failed to take action at three possible junctures to object, so the case was out of time.
--Bernice
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He is not a registered voter in the third ward! He is a registered voters in the first ward! He should have run for at-large seat.
ReplyDeleteDunn is DONE... The Dunn family has DONE enough damage to Plainfield.. If Jeff was to get in we would really be DONE...
ReplyDeleteOn an address website Jeffery Dunn lists his address as 320 Park Avenue, a business address. That building is a commercial building so he can't legally live there. Something is very off here because when you register to vote you have to swear that you live where you say you live and now he swears that he lives with his parents>
ReplyDelete? His father was a councilman for years. You think that he would be familiar with the basic requirement to run, living in the ward you want to run in but maybe he thinks the clerk wouldn't notice. If he voted in the first ward in November then he didn't meet the basic requirement.
At the council meeting he gave his address as 320 Park Ave. which is in the first ward.
ReplyDeleteJeff Dunn is not a very smart person or a trustworthy political council candidate. If he can not tell the simple truth about his address or his finances how could he ever be a good councilman?
DeleteI'm not sure why Dunn thinks we will trust him to do more than represent himself. If he's not telling the truth about his real residence, how can we trust him to do what's best for Plainfield?
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Would mentally challenged be more acceptable?
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