Manuel Galvan tells us the Berrios for (Cook County) Assessor campaign will not contest independent former Democrat Forrest Claypool’s petitions and will rely instead on vote count in the general election in November.

The campaign’s “extensive review” found 30,000-plus valid signatures (of almost 90,000 submitted, per G.), and 26,000 were needed; so Berrios, who won the early, early (Dem) primary months ago, will not engage in litigation that might go “all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court” and will concede Claypool a place on the ballot — which is more than Obama did for his state senatorial opponent in a long-ago primary when he was fairly new on the scene.

Galvan asks only that Claypool, who enters the race with far less baggage than the grizzled Berrios — traveling light, as it were — “set aside the insults and empty rhetoric and pledge to conduct a spirited, fair and clean campaign,” which is asking a lot.