Attorney Corri Fetman, 54, doesn’t have the typical resumé of someone running for judge.
Fetman says she expected a tough race against Billy Goat Tavern co-owner and Illinois Securities Department enforcement division chief Tom Sianis. But that didn’t prepare her for a Facebook video calling her a “poser” and featuring images from her past presented in a mocking manner by a group tied to a Sianis campaign consultant. It’s an attack ad she sees as being in direct violation of Illinois’s judicial campaign rules. “To me, it’s body shaming,” she says.
Harrington did not respond to repeated calls for comment from the Reader.
Fetman said she has been targeted before; sexual harassment at work first prompted her to start her own law firm. In 2009 she also sued Playboy executive Thomas Hagopian for sexual harassment, alleging that he began sending her sexually explicit messages after she started writing the “Lawyer of Love” column for the adult magazine’s website. The suit eventually settled on confidential terms. She’s not embarrassed if voters know about her past endeavors, she says. But the tone of the attack ad stings, and seems to her to be violating both the letter and spirit of the judicial election rules.
