What do voters need to know? | Chicago Tribune

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who zealously guarded details of his father’s crippling stroke last year, kept his own cancer diagnosis secret as he campaigned to succeed him, his administration acknowledged Tuesday.Todd Stroger, who learned about 10 months ago that he had an early stage of prostate cancer, had his prostate gland removed Monday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, county spokeswoman Ibis Antongiorgi said. “The doctor expects a full and speedy recovery,” she said.

More B.S. from the Stroger political clan, and of course as I thought, he didn’t have the procedure done at Stroger Hospital, the public health care facility named for his father. Because of the budget cuts and all.

Also as I thought, his health problem was pretty darn personal, but he’s still going to catch a lot of heat for keeping it secret from even his own campaign staff (actually, his father’s campaign staff, who were also keeping Daddy Stroger’s post-stroke status under wraps).

Peraica, who was the Republican candidate, was a bit of an ass on Election Night, and dependably offers a tart quote that stops short of saying “if only the voters had known.”

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