The Chicago Tribune is reporting McMichael, a member of the 1985 Super Bowl champion Bears and a longtime analyst for a pregame show on WMVP-AM 1000, filed paperwork Dec. 26 to get on the ballot for the April 9 election.
Two days later, an election law attorney representing one of McMichael’s opponents, Romeoville Mayor John Noak, sent a letter to the station stating that Noak was reserving the right to request equal air time.
McMichael said an official at the station called him Saturday and told him he would not be allowed on the air the next day for the show before the Bears’ season finale against the Detroit Lions.
“I was ready to go on and talk football,” McMichael said. “I by no means used that pregame show as a political platform this year. But if that’s the law, it’s the law, and I have to accept it. I even told ESPN I’m sorry I got them into this.”
Fogarty said his letter to the station didn’t request that McMichael be kept off the air.
“I was simply alerting them to the fact that he had run and we were reserving our right as a candidate to request equal time,” Fogarty said. “But any decision (about McMichael) was solely the station’s.”
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