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You go to school to learn the three Rs. But if one of those Rs is School Referendum, you go to EO Sullivan Consulting.

Lake County GOP favorite son EO Sullivan is in the news. Rightwing grassroots astroturf pressure group Americans for Prosperity-Illinois filed an ethics complaint against Northwest Suburban High School District 214 ...

questioning the district's use of public resources for alleged referendum polling, voter surveying and campaign-related activity, as well as its contract with firm EO Sullivan Consulting.
Ethics probe clears District 214 for pre-referendum polling, but critic calls it 'unwritten loophole'

Were the EO Sullivan Consulting phone surveys conducted for the school district a violation of the state ethics act? A law firm hired by the school district to review the complaint says no. Nevertheless, Americans for Prosperity-Illinois do not desire to be made monkeys of. And have escalated their complaint to ...

further review by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke and a formal opinion from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.
Ethics probe clears District 214 for pre-referendum polling, but critic calls it 'unwritten loophole'

One political scientist told your LakeCountyEye: "I don't know why they went to all the trouble with filing an ethics complaint, just to stop a school referendum. The White House is going to send federal agents to all of the polling places, anyways. To arrest anyone who tries to vote in November."