Imagine being a member of your local party and contributing with donations only to discover that those contributions paid for a liability policy that another member hoped to use to pay for their legal expenses brought about by their bad behavior. They are quite literally using party funds for their own benefit.

That is exactly what happened in Cook County Court Case 2018-CH-06436.

State Central Committeewoman and now County Party Chair Kristina Zahorik filed a lawsuit after Westbend Mutual Insurance denied her claim for legal expenses related to our Defamation case. Ironically, this is the same policy that both Kerri Barber and her husband helped pay for as members of the same party.

Westbend has now filed a counterclaim against Zahorik, former Chair Bissett, and Paula Yensen citing Illinois law against 'willful acts' that violate the law.

Westbend cited the apparent intentional acts that contributed to our reasons to file. Recall that, of the small amount of evidence we provided, it was all the defendants bragging and celebrating their actions. That is the clear evidence of intentional action.

The defendants in this case (Zahorik, Bissett and Yensen) are required to file an answer by October 17, 2018 with a judicial decision expected by November 26, 2018. Heroic Media, LLC with Kerri Barber and Kae Dickinson are not parties to this counterclaim.