Does campaign flier misrepresent Buffalo Grove endorsement?

A campaign flier distributed door-to-door Sunday in Buffalo Grove misrepresents the Daily Herald's endorsement in the village board race, the opinion page editor said Monday.

Campaign information distributed for Buffalo Grove village board candidate Joanne Johnson uses words praising all the candidates and ellipsis to make it appear that Johnson was endorsed, said Anne Halston, opinion page editor.

"This flier clearly misrepresents our editorial. It suggests we endorsed Johnson. We did not," Halston said. "We take severe exception to the misuse of our editorials."

Johnson said that the flier never says the paper endorsed her, that using ellipses is standard operating procedure in political campaigns and that everything quoted in the flier was in the editorial.

"I wrote word for word what was printed in the Daily Herald," she said. "It never says I was endorsed. Candidates have been putting pieces out like this (for a long time)."

The flier quotes the Daily Herald editorial as such: "Six candidates are running for three seats on the village board, and we wouldn't have a problem with any of them. Each is committed; each has a studied grasp of the issues; each has the credentials for the position. We like … Joanne Johnson …"

The actual Daily Herald editorial endorsed Jeffrey Braiman, Lisa Stone and Mike Terson, then explained why those people were picked.

In conclusion, it said: "We like the other three candidates -- Joanne Johnson, Andrew Stein and Beverly Sussman. But we believe Braiman, Stone and Terson offer the best combination of experience, energy and representation."