Ruling on Senate Hopeful’s Papers Delayed
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES – A California family court judge put off a decision Monday on whether to unseal records in the divorce of Jack Ryan, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
…Ryan won the GOP nomination in the March 16 Illinois primary. Some of his Republican rivals raised the issue of the sealed papers, hinting that he was withholding documents because they contained embarrassing information.
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Blogged mostly because of my professional interest in leaving divorce records sealed once they’ve been so designated. Given that the records are three years old, what would be in the financial disclosure affidavits from a divorce that wouldn’t appear in financial disclosures made for the campaign? Nothing relevant, that’s what.
I’m on a general tear against both sides of the aisle today, it seems. This kind of behavior doesn’t serve the best interests of either party, nor is it necessary to properly vet a Republican candidate’s qualifications for a Senate seat, and I call bullshit on the Trib for unnecessarily digging in the mud.
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