Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough seeks end to historic anti-patronage case despite charges that she ‘stonewalls’
that he helped patronage workers land no-work jobs with utility giant Commonwealth Edison while the company wanted him to back its lucrative legislative agenda.
Spangler’s brief in August 2022 maintained the unresolved issues refuted Yarbrough’s position that oversight was no longer needed, noting the clerk repeatedly rejected monitor and inspector general recommendations and fell short of the appeals court standards. Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough goes door to door as she campaigns with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey on Nov. 1, 2022, in Bellwood.
“Unlike the other defendants in the case, the clerk’s office has not embraced the principles of the Shakman decrees or the need to reform employment practices to prevent unlawful political patronage,” Hays said in an emailed statement. “The city, county, sheriff, and assessor all went above and beyond what was minimally required and worked to bring transparency and accountability to try to prevent political patronage from returning.
To satisfy the standard set by the Pritzker ruling, Yarbrough’s office would have to demonstrate it had “substantially complied” with the terms of the decree and implemented a “durable” remedy to prevent backsliding. The motion agreed Yarbrough has worked to revise her personnel manual, implement policies banning unlawful political discrimination and increase transparency in decision making.
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