- Al Podgorski /Sun-Times Media
- Jesus Garcia answers a question at a debate in front of the Sun-Times editorial board on January 30.
A front-page Sun-Times story yesterday linked Cook County commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia’s cosponsorship of a measure that benefited a law firm to his son’s free legal representation by that firm. Garcia told me yesterday he thinks the story raises a “completely false controversy” and is “totally misleading.” (For the record, the Reader and the Sun-Times are owned by the same company.)
He said he thought the Sun-Times “used this ethics angle to get at other stuff having to do with some of the problems my son has had. Has my son made mistakes? Absolutely. Does that have anything to do with me? I don’t think so.”
On his campaign website, Jesus Garcia calls for “comprehensive solutions to violence,” including restorative justice programs. “Those who have committed acts of violence need to be held accountable” but also deserve the chance “to learn from their errors” and to “forge productive and meaningful lives,” his website says.
