The lieutenant gov sweepstakes: Yearning for a job no one should want

Dean Koldenhoven, a literal profile in courage from Palos Heights, wants to be the next Illinois lieutenant governor.

"Is this for real? I hope it is. I want the job. I want to do it," Koldenhoven told the Southtown's Guy Tridgell. "If I do get the job, you will know the process was honest."

He won't get the job.

Just the fact that Orland Hills Mayor Kyle Hastings was on the panel selecting finalists speaks to the absurdity of how we're going to get the Democratic nominee to the most useless office in the constellation of statewide offices.

A decent man by all accounts, Koldenhoven's claim to Southland fame is his mayoral veto of a smarmy city council effort to buy an old church building to prevent a mosque from moving into Palos Heights. The move cost him his seat in the next election.

So unlikely a finalist is he, in the Beachood Reporter's "lieutenant governor brackets," Koldenhoven plays the role of "who's he? vs. who's she?"

Which is why he should get the job.

Dennis Robaugh can be reached at dennis@southlandsavvy.com