As you regular blog readers already knew, the deadline for the Ken Weir recall to make it onto the November ballot has come and gone, leaving the recallers to work toward a March 3 election.

“Mr. Winn and others have not been honest or forthright throughout this entire process so it is no surprise that they would not honor their own June 30th deadline,” Weir said.

Will Winn did not explicitly use the words "pot" or "kettle" in his response today, but he came close:

We never set a deadline of June 30th for the recall as Weir incorrectly (disinformationally) states.  We merely understood that if we were to make the fall election we would need to submit the required number of signatures to Pam McCarthy by the end of June.  That was what we hoped to do.  But as for any deadline, we have, by law, 120 days from the approval of the petition to collect signatures, or until about the end of September (I think it's actually October 1).  That's the deadline.
 
As for Weir, his arrogance and condescension would try to demean us by declaring that we will not honor a deadline for the recall that we never set.  I'm sure he hoped (without good sense) that we would somehow stop the effort to recall him if we didn't make the goal of 4108 signatures  in three weeks!  If that had happened some folks would have been collecting "tar, feathers and a rail!" 
 
Of course, our group would have never let that happen.
 
By the way, Weir's statement that he has received an overwhelming positive response to his mailing is not being affirmed by our personal contact with Ward 3 voters.  A very small group of people have told us they would not sign because they support him.  My wife and I have had 7 out of several hundred to whom we have spoken who specifically stated support for Weir.  My other walkers have stated the same thing.  And, many have voluntarily said they had very unsatisfactory (some very angry) contact and/or no help from him concerning a wide range of important issues/problems.  He has obviously measured his importance by the rubber-stamping of the BRA and Young Republicans (before whom I was never given opportunity to address), and the few development-and-growth-machine special interests he has surrounding him.
 
The important question to ask is: What has Ken Weir done for this Ward since he was elected in 2006?  I haven't heard one positive thing from anyone, unless you want to allow his personal declarations of being "pro-family, pro-private-property rights, and fiscally conservative."  All of these have no substance when you really see what he has , or better, has not done to help and represent the people of the third ward. 
 
In other words, our contact with voters in the Third Ward shows he has very little "confidence and continued support" from the 20,431+ voters of Ward 3.
 
By the way, Weir has said that he won the 2006 election with an "overwhelming  majority" of the voters of Ward 3 against two little or unknown candidates.  The truth is that he garnered 5897 of the 11,364 votes cast, or 51.9%.  His vote percentage with respect to the total number of registered voters in Ward 3 would have been ~29%.  Weir has an "overwhelming" approval rating  is smoke and mirrors, exactly like his declaration that the Ward 3 voters say they are against the Hillside Ordinance -- selective fantasyland thinking.