{"id":7760,"date":"2025-05-10T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:33:02","slug":"gop-candidate-appeals-removal-from-la-salle-county-coroners-race-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"GOP candidate appeals removal from La Salle County coroner\u2019s race – Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"


Dr. Larry Powell (left) was removed from the Nov. 5 ballot for coroner Monday, June 17, 2024. Powell, seen here with La Salle County GOP chairman Larry Smith, now wants a La Salle County judge to reverse his removal and put him back on the ballot. Court dates are pending in La Salle County Circuit Court. <\/span>(Tom Collins)
An Ottawa<\/a> physician said his name was improperly removed from the Nov. 5 ballot for La Salle County<\/a> coroner. Now, Dr. Lawrence Powell wants a judge to put him back on the ballot.
Powell, a Republican who was removed from the race on June 17, has filed an appeal in La Salle County Circuit Court<\/a>. Court dates are pending. The case is assigned to Circuit Judge Troy D. Holland.
In his pleading, Powell said a three-member panel got it wrong in sustaining a ballot challenge filed by Democrat Rich Ploch, the incumbent coroner seeking reelection.
Ploch\u2019s lawyer, La Salle<\/a> attorney Tom McClintock, had said Powell missed a key deadline and circulated numerous petitions outside the time frame spelled out by the Election Code \u2013 indeed, circulated petitions before the GOP even selected him.
\u201cYou have to dot the Is and cross the Ts to stay on the ballot,\u201d McClintock said.
Now, Powell has said the La Salle County Republican Central Committee slated him on March 13 \u2013 an affidavit from chairman Larry Smith was filed at the courthouse \u2013 and that the petitions were circulated within the correct timeline.
Powell said the panel based its decision on an \u201cinaccurate\u201d reading of the statute and \u201cimproperly applied the law in sustaining (Ploch\u2019s) objection.\u201d Powell also cited case law that he said supports him being restored to the ballot.
The three-member review panel was comprised of La Salle County State\u2019s Attorney Joe Navarro (a Democrat), County Clerk Jennifer Ebner (a Republican) and Circuit Clerk Greg Vaccaro (a Republican). The trio emerged from closed-door deliberations and unanimously upheld Ploch\u2019s challenge.
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Dr. Larry Powell (left) was removed from the Nov. 5 ballot for coroner Monday, June 17, 2024. Powell, seen here with La Salle County GOP chairman Larry Smith, now wants a La Salle County judge to reverse his removal and put him back on the ballot. Court dates are pending in La Salle County Circuit Court. (Tom Collins)An Ottawa physician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t