Double Entendres

The summers in Lake County are so hot you could light a medicinal marijuana cigarette right off the sidewalk. So when Lake County operatives crave ice cream -- and lots of it -- your LakeCountyEye directs them to Fremont Township. Because that's where all the double dippers are.

Haha, your LakeCountyEye loves that joke.  Fremont Township boasts no fewer than two double dipping elected officials:

• Diana O'Kelly
  Fremont Township Supervisor
  County Board Commissioner
• Ed Sullivan Jr
  Fremont Township Assessor
  State Representative

But as much as your LakeCountyEye loves that joke, this may be the last time you'll get to hear it. Your LakeCountyEye recently received a cease-and-desist letter from the Ice Cream Advisory Board. Who knew? -- but the term double dipping along with other terms like sherbert, sorbet, gelato, softserve, hardpack and brainfreeze are protected property of the ice cream industry. And the Ice Cream Advisory Board would be so very pleased if your LakeCountyEye could cease and desist from using the term double-dip without proper attribution.

Now your LakeCountyEye doesn't know who invented it, nor particularly cares for the term double-dip -- and would be happy to have a better substitute. The correct term of the art is dual mandate -- the practice in which elected officials serve in more than one elected or other public position simultaneously -- but that's a term only a policy wonk could love.

So, your LakeCountyEye has delved into the reference literature and found ten other sobriquets in common use that describe politicians elected to two positions. Here are ten of them:

Ten Better Names to Call Political Double Dippers

Double Dealers Second Stringers Double Crossers One-Two Punchers Double Talkers Two Timers Double Trouble Twin Pickens Double Whammies Send-in-the-Clones

Look for your LakeCountyEye double parked near you.

D'Oh! Kelly

Mirabile dictu, Lake County just held an election a couple days (or weeks or months) ago, and your LakeCountyEye has the news. Fremont Township got a new Supervisor and her name is County Board Commissioner Diana O'Kelly.

It is a well known fact that County Board Commissioner Diana O'Kelly is a Lake County Board Commissioner. Less known is the fact that O'Kelly was elected to the position of Fremont Township Supervisor promising to quit her County job if she won. O'Kelly told the Daily Herald ...

she will resign her county posts if she wins the township race. "I will not double dip," she said.
Diana O'Kelly, Glenn Garamoni to seek Fremont Township's top post

The Daily Herald, as a matter of policy, does not endorse any candidate that double dips. It's probably no coincidence that your LakeCountyEye advises candidates to always say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done and worry about the consequences after they get elected.

At the time O'Kelly may not have known that the Daily Herald would decide not to endorse candidates in any 2013 township election. And neither O'Kelly nor her opponent would see the benefit of a Herald endorsement, regardless of what was promised.  Haha, you been punk'd.

It is a well known fact that the typical Lake County voter has the long-term memory of a goldfish. So it is probably no coincidence that after her unsurprise win, O'Kelly borrowed some footwear out of Sheriff Mark Curran's closet and flipflopped. The Daily Herald is now reporting that ...

Veteran Lake County Board member Diana O'Kelly on Wednesday said she won't resign that post once she's sworn in as Fremont Township's supervisor in May.
O'Kelly won't quit county post despite township win

Haha, who been punk'd?

O'Kelly will not be the only Republican Fremont Township official who double dips at a second elected post. State Representative Ed Sullivan Jr is also the Fremont Township Assessor. As readers of this blog are recently aware ...

The Fightin' Irish

Sullivan's political enemies are seeking a Republican candidate to challenge him in the 2014 Primary. It is unknown whether or not O'Kelly is interested. If she were, O'Kelly would be on track to become a triple-dipper, a Lake County record. Your LakeCountyEye advises anyone in that position to tell the Daily Herald that they plan to resign their two other posts.