But, having won 55% of the primary vote in the primarily Crystal Lake-Lake in the Hills district, you can bet some are thinking about wanting to be slated by the McHenry County Republican Central Committee.
Of the 35 precincts (I’m assuming no new ones have been added from two years ago), only six had Republican majorities.
Democratic Party primary voters out numbered Republicans by 953.
5,018 to 4,065.
No Democrat filed for McHenry County Board in District 2.
After doing well in 2006, retired teacher, union president, former and future Lake in the Hills Trustee Ron Sloan told folk to save his yard signs. And, you can bet he will not be going into such a campaign with his eyes shut, as they are in this, the only picture I could find of him on the internet.
He certainly has time to knock on doors, which seems to be the way to win elections in McHenry County. District 2 is almost entirely walkable subdivisions.
Lake in the Hills Village President Ed Plaza picked former village trustee Ron Sloan to replace Jim Kennedy when he took Republican Perry Moy’s place on the county board.
In one precinct, Algonquin 59, where the Republican precinct committeeman turns out to be Plaza, the Democrats won by 111 votes. The tally in Alg. 59 was 162-124. (The next highest was Alg. 35 with an 88 vote margin. The County Year Book says it has neither GOP nor Dem precinct committeeman.)
Perhaps that is a reflection of Plaza’s having served as a Democratic Party precinct committeeman in times past, 1999-2000, to be specific.
I thought maybe someone worked really hard for one of the Democratic Party presidential candidates, but, when I looked, the results pretty well mirrored the county totals of 62% of Barack Obama and 36% for Hillary Clinton. Obama’s total in Algonquin 59 was 65%, rounded up.
I remember how surprised I was to meet his Plaza’s wife at the Lincoln Day Dinner in 2000, right before the primary election I lost. I think my comment after figuring out who she was was, “
I thought your husband was a Democratic Party precinct committeeman.”
Plaza’s precinct was also one of the few locally who support Dan Regna’s challenge to McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi.