Brendan Francis Houlihan (born 1963 or 1964) is an American politician who served a single term as commissioner on the Cook County Board of Review from the 1st district from 2006 to 2010.
[5] He did have the public backing Wheeling Township Democratic committeeman Patrick Botterman, considered a political maverick.
[6] After incumbent Republican Maureen Murphy successfully challenged his nomination petitions, he had been removed from the Democratic primary ballot.
[2] In August 2010, Chicago magazine made public that documents reveal that Rogers and Houlihan had expressed concern in May 2009 about how Berrios' staff had been processing tax appeals championed Paul Froehlich.
[14] In 2014, Houlihan unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary to be a commissioner on the board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
[15] There was speculation that, had he won, he would have used that victory as a stepping-stone for running again to retake his former seat on the Cook County Board of Review.
[16] Houlihan was a delegate from the Illinois's 1st congressional district to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, pledged to Bernie Sanders.