Judge Denies Gonzalez Restraining Order, Faso Releases Third Ad

Cook County Circuit Judge Carolyn Quinn denied David Gonzalez’s request for a temporary restraining order preventing his opponent, Joseph Faso, from promoting negative campaign ads. The judge decided Faso’s mailings and videos are protected by the First Amendment, Southtown Star reports.

Faso spoke with reporter Casey Toner:

I knew it was a frivolous lawsuit to begin with. It was propaganda on their part, and they knew what they tried to accuse us of wasn’t true. The best defense for a slander is the truth, and that’s what we expected the outcome to be.

Faso's campaign manager Alan Cottrell, who was also named in the suit, repeatedly said the the Integrity Party's actions.

With less than a week before the election. Friends of Joe Faso has released a third campaign ad on YouTube, stating Gonzalez is lying about his business address and reiterating claims that the candidate's brother Albert sold cocaine out of the CPA's accounting firm, Gonzalez & Associates PC, at 2619 Chicago Road in South Chicago Heights.

The Unity Party candidate's firm is listed at the adjacent address of 2617 Chicago Road.

Gonzalez has not yet returned calls for his comments on the judge's ruling.