Update: Gordon v. Moore

THE DATE OF THE NEXT HEARING, as reported by the Gordon team yesterday, was incorrect. RPB spoke with Gordon attorney Michael Lavelle at 5:40 p.m. today, and he said the correct date is 1:30 pm on Wednesday, May 30. For location information call Citizens to Elect Don Gordon at 773-262-9473.

Excerpts from yesterday's RPB report:

A quote from Mr. Harrington's email: "We just learned from our attorney Mike [Lavelle] that late on May 15, after the Chicago Board of Elections filed a similar motion, Defendant Joe Moore filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Attorneys for Gordon et al were notified later via mail."

Mr. Harrington spoke with RPB ... [on May 21 and] noted that Alderman Moore himself does not attend the hearings. The reason Moore recently moved for a change of venue, from state court to federal court, was delay and deplete tactics. In other words, force more time to be used up, all the while forcing the Gordon team to expend legal fees in the hope of starving him into surrender. That is also why Moore's legal team filed the motion to dismiss on May 15: Delay and deplete.

There is another reason, however. Perhaps Moore has read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. If so, he knows that a good strategy for defeating a more powerful enemy is to use fewer soldiers simply to keep the enemy pinned down, unable to move, until the enemy's ammunition, food and water run out.

In other words, Moore's team hasn't a leg to stand on. If they had real ammunition, if their side of the case had merit or substance - or Truth - they would charge into the Gordon flanks head on.

But Moore's side is vapid, empty, without truth or merit. You can keep a modern army pinned down with arrows and slingshots, but only for so long. Moore is frightened and knows that time is truly not on his side, even as he tries to delay the inevitable.

If Gordon's side can maintain their perishable resources - time and money - then their nonperishable weapon Truth will dispense with the dark forces of Joe Moore once and for all.

The hearing on Wednesday, May 30 is open to public viewing. It would be nice to show moral support for Don Gordon. He is a man who is fighting the good fight. It is not about the election so much as it is about fair voting practices, battling endemic corruption, and giving back to a community that he has loved so dearly and for so such a long time.