I got a call from State Rep. Mike Tryon Wednesday. He asked me if I had read the editorial?

“What editorial?” I asked.

“The one in the paper.”

“Which paper?”

“The Northwest Herald.”

I told him I didn’t read editorials in the NW Herald unless someone pointed me to them.

Tryon told me they had editorialized favorably on the idea I had given him.

My original article was posted on April 23, 2008. The title was

At the last meeting of the McHenry County Republican Central Committee, I asked Tryon what he thought of the idea, which I had emailed him.

He didn’t remember seeing it, but immediately clicked in when I suggested using the RTA Gas Tax for roads and the county motor fuel tax as money to match Federal highway money.

Money coming from the Feds would have to be spent in the county where local folks were being taxed, I suggested.

Tryon said that’s what was being done with Valley Hi revenues. They were capturing Federal matching money.

At his request, I emailed the article again.

The next day, I got a call saying he was having it drafted into a bill.

House Bill 6655, it turns out.

Anyway, the NW Herald editorial writer, who apparently doesn’t read McHenry County Blog anymore than I read his editorials, liked the idea.

the headline reads.

The NW Herald calls the idea “a creative response to state Democratic leadership’s inability to pass a line-item capital bill.”

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In the picture, State Rep. and McHenry County Central Committee Chairman Mike Tryon confers with 8th congressional district Republican Party candidate Steve Greenberg at the May central committee meeting.