Progress Illinois

In a recent mailer from his GOP campaign for states attorney, a photograph of Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica appears alongside that of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, above the words: "U.S. Attorney's Office Needs Help Fighting Corrruption In Cook County."  See the pic below:

Not surprisingly, Fitzgerald didn't take too kindly to the use of his image in campaign materials.  The Sun-Times' Abdon Pallasch reports:

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked Republican Cook County state's attorney candidate Tony Peraica to stop passing out a campaign flier that looks to Fitzgerald like Peraica is claiming his endorsement. [...]

Fitzgerald said in his letter he had never even met Peraica. "The flier creates the misleading assumption that I have endorsed your candidacy. . . . That is by no means the case. I have never endorsed any candidate in any race for anything (much less someone I do not believe I have yet had occasion to meet.)"

Fitzgerald's letter asks Peraica how many of the fliers he has sent out "and where they have been distributed and what efforts have been made to retrieve them."

Peraica said he will make no efforts to retrieve them.

"I don't think the flier is inappropriate," Peraica said. "I think any objective examination of that door-hanger piece would show that no endorsement is stated or implied."

UPDATE: Read Fitzgerald's letter here (PDF).