Serendib Politics

Chicago Tribune piece on the candidates for D200 school board; we answered various questions for them.

A student journalist at Medill has published this timeline and explication of some of the recent events in Oak Park politics. It’s been a rough election cycle here.

Yard signs ordered! Yes! Checking things off the darn list, finally. If you haven’t told me already that you’d like a yard sign, and would like one, please let me know! If you HAVE told me, just hang in there — I’ll be back in touch as soon as I have them in hand. 50

Good morning, folks! ActBlue wasn’t set up for our school board race the last time I checked, but they are now, and I’ve finished my set-up, so if you’d like to donate to my campaign, this is your chance. This is a non-partisan election, so I’m not running as a Democrat per se, but by

Delighted to receive an endorsement from the Illinois Asian American Caucus. As someone who has taught Asian American literature & history at the college level, I know how far we still have to go in providing a comprehensive and complete education on those subjects to our students and the community at large. If elected as

My mother, Jacintha Mohanraj, was 18 when she married, 19 when she had me, 22 when we moved from Sri Lanka to America, arriving on a cold Christmas Day in New England. Jacintha had two more daughters after me; while my father worked long hours as a doctor at New Britain General Hospital, she kept

Hello, local peeps who would like to support my campaign! I have a yard sign design, woohoo!, and will be ordering signs tomorrow, to distribute hopefully by the end of the week. If you’d like to host a sign in your yard, let me know now? It’ll help me know how many to order tomorrow!

– asked Jed to fix my campaign website address – wrote apologetic note to campaign volunteer saying super sorry for being super slow – told her yes I am committing to the postcard mailing costs – waffled and then sent her some potential text for postcards – sent her photo for postcards (All of the

DPOP candidate forum done — we definitely got some questions that were a little different from the Democrat party peeps, than we’ve been getting from the general populace. Nice to have new questions to answer, though in general, much of what campaigning is, really is answering the same question over and over and over again

In DPOP candidate forum right now on Zoom, listening to the questions for the Village President candidates (my turn will come). They were talking about economic recovery and the budget, and I suddenly wondered whether, in the same way the federal government passes economic stimulus packages, that ever happens at a local municipality level. For