CHICAGO (CBS) -- A unique lawsuit may be headed to court involving a former Illinois state representative and her political opponent.
As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported Monday night, former state Rep. Denyse Wang Stoneback is now suing over claims her opponent made about her in campaign flyers.
Any campaign season, flyers always flood our mailboxes – and they are often full of questionable claims. But Wang Stoneback said many about her were lies.
"I was portrayed as a something; as a person who I absolutely was not," Wang Stoneback said.
The flyers portrayed Wang Stoneback as being soft on gun violence prevention. They were distributed by and on behalf of her opponent, state Rep. Kevin Olickal (D-Chicago), who went on to beat her in the Democratic primary last year.
"It was my number one legislative priority is reducing gun violence," Wang Stoneback said.
It is also a cause Wang Stoneback noted she has championed since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut over a decade ago.
So Wang Stoneback is suing Olickal, Freidns of Kevin Olickal, and the Gun Violence Prevention PAC - which backed him - on the grounds that they were "knowingly publishing false statements." She highlighted pertinent flyers in her 49-page complaint.
"I was defamed," Wang Stoneback said.
Wang Stoneback said she wants to prevent it from happening to any other candidates.
"Except in politics, and in public figures, you can lie – you just can't lie a real lot,"...
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