Bernard Schoenburg: Candidates acknowledge past, seek votes

A couple of candidates from Springfield have had problems in the past that they hope won’t stop voters from choosing them in the Nov. 3 election.Patricia Hayes, 61, is a Democratic precinct committee person and her party’s candidate for District 28 on the Sangamon County Board. She says the past loss of her law license, which was reinstated in 2019, was due to alcoholism.”My license was suspended … for something that happened in 2002, so that was over […]