Rolly: 'Shadow' spices up campaign

By Paul Rolly
Tribune Columnist

When campaign volunteers Metra Barton-Henry and Coral Coffey began distributing literature for Democratic legislative candidate Jen Seelig in Rose Park last week, they had no idea they were about to encounter "The Shadow."

The two women happened onto the residence of Seelig's Republican opponent in House District No. 23, Kelli Dickerson. They exchanged pleasantries and started to leave when their new friend decided to go along with them.

Dickerson told them to skip the next several houses on the block because those were her neighbors and already voting for her. As she continued to dictate which homes they should visit, they asked her to let them do their job alone.

The two women say Dickerson then followed them, picking up Seelig's literature from porches where they had left them. They finally gave up and left the area.

Dickerson says she only picked up one brochure from an abandoned house so it wouldn't blow around the neighborhood. She also says she wanted to look at it, even though she refused to take the brochure Barton-Henry and Coffey tried to give her.

"As long as we're talking about juicy tidbits," Dickerson added, "Jen Seelig has my bishop's name on her brochure as an endorsement, even though he got up in church and said he didn't endorse her."

So there

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