 He finished as the first runner @-@ up in the Joliet City Council election of 1989 , but when a sitting councilwoman died a few months after the election he was passed over several times for the nomination . This was controversial as the nomination is customarily given to the runner @-@ up in the most recent election . He returned to elective politics to defeat the mayor , who did not nominate him in the subsequent election in 1991 . 
