Last weekend, I was critical of McHenry County Republicans for not being able to find people to run for more than 41% of the county’s over 200 precincts by mid-afternoon Friday.

But, when the filing period ended Monday afternoon, 63% of the precincts had candidates.

Seven even had contests.

These folks aren’t fighting for patronage jobs, as some did early in my political career.

Still, 63% would rate a D- in school.

If the Republicans are doing a poor job of filling precincts with people willing to gather 10 signatures and get a petition and statement of candidacy notarized, what can one say about the infrastructure of the McHenry County Democratic Central Committee?

Only 45 people filed for the over 200 spots.

And, glory be, Democrats are now fighting among themselves, just like Republicans.

In Alden Township, three Harvard residents want to be Democratic Party precinct committeeman:

• Andrew J. Giorgi, Jr., 15,810 IL Rte 173, 2E,
• Robert Ludwig, 18416 IL Rte 713, and
• Nancy Deborah Wicker, 18,716 Crowley Road.

Boy, there must be something at stake there.

There are no other contests.