Backdooring Nygren’s Replacement – Part 3

Keith Nygren

Andy Zinke, endorsed by Sheriff Keith Nygren

Part 1 of how McHenry County Sheriff might be trying to put his newly-appointed Undersheriff Andy Zinke in as his replacement appeared Wednesday.

If the strategy described Wednesday worked, Zinke would probably run unopposed in the March 20th Republican primary.

And, if opposed, Zinke would have a fund raising advantage because he started in September.

The second way that Nygren could try to install Zinke as his replacement isn’t as elegant as the first, but it is still a possibility.

Now, let’s go the third scenario:

Sheriff Keith Nygren decides to resign after it is too late to allow candidates to be voted upon by the electorate at the March 20th primary election.

But there’s still time for party leaders to put candidates on the fall 2012 ballot.

So, how does that happen?

By a vote of the Republican and Democratic Party Precinct Committeemen.

Whether that would be before the two party chairmen appoint people to fill vacancies or not is probably up to the person elected chairman. So far, no one has surfaced who wants the job, so let’s assume the GOP Chairman elected by the elected GOP Precinct Committeemen continue to vote for a willing State Rep. Mike Tryon.

If Nygren resigns before the organization meeting, Tryon could entertain a motion to place someone on the fall ballot or there could be a motion to hold an election–presumably based on the weighted vote of each committeeman, that is, the number of GOP votes cast in each precinct would be the number cast by the elected committeeman.

Or Tryon could appoint people to vacancies in precincts–40.6% of all McHenry County precincts had no one running for GOP Precinct Committeeman in 2010–and hold perform the selection process afterward.

That would almost guarantee Tryon’s choice being on the ballot.

So, will those who wish to run be trying to recruit Precinct Committeeman candidates who will vote to put them on the ballot, just in case Nygren decides to exercise this option on the way out?

And, if so, what precincts should they target?

Take a look at this list of Republican Precinct Committeemen.

The ones where someone who thinks this scenario may play out would be those with no current Precinct Committeeman, plus those with appointed Precinct Committeemen.

Plenty of times appointed Precinct Committeemen do not live in the precincts where they serve. They don’t have to, of course, but only people who live in a precinct can be on the ballot, assuming someone is willing to challenge a petition of an interloper.

No way to know which strategy Nygren will adopt, but if it’s this one, supporters of potential candidates for Sheriff should be recruiting candidates for the precinct posts now. That’s because petitions have to be filed from Nov. 28th through December 5th.


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Backdooring Nygren’s Replacement – Part 3 — 2 Comments

  1. Or, Cal, Perhaps Under Sheriff Andrew Zinke continues to show excellence in his willingness and ability to serve the citizens who will turn to him in their time of need, and there need not be any “Back Dooring.”

    One thing is clear and I have studied this fact, and have investigated deeply into some issues that related to what I had experienced when I lived in Hebron.

    Fact, Mr. Eugene Lowery must never be allowed to occupy the office of McHenry County Sheriff!

    Should Sheriff Nygren had been in town a bit more than perhaps he was during his last term or two? Yes of course.

    That being said, would it not be unimaginable to believe that Sheriff Nygren counted on, and even trusted in one thing that in Sheriff Nygren’s mind was a ‘given?’

    That being, Sheriff Nygren believed his former Under Sheriff Eugene Lowery during the time of many operational ‘inconsistencies,’ (of which I had clearly laid out and backed up with photographs and documents,)

    were taking place, because Eugene Lowery, not Lt. Andrew Zinke or anybody else within the department, was derelict in his duties not only to the citizens of McHenry County, but also to his own Sheriff, Keith Nygren?

    Was Sheriff Keith Nygren perhaps to trusting of Lowery?

    Did former Under Sheriff Eugene Lowery “Lie” or “Mislead” Sheriff Nygren when I began laying out all that I personally witnessed going on in my own neighborhood to save his (Lowery’s) own “back side?”

    Did Sheriff Nygren believe Lowery when Lowery tried to cover over the facts of what was laid out in my previous blog and it was not until the documents and photographs began showing up that Sheriff Nygren was able to see with his own eyes, that indeed his trusted Under Sheriff, in Sheriff Nygren’s absence, became an embarrassment to the department?

    A Department Nygren himself had worked hard to build into what is obviously the greatest money maker in the history of McHenry County?

    Is this was had caused former Under Sheriff Lowery to ‘move on’ to another employer? Did Sheriff Nygren show Lowery the door, quietly, sending a clear message with finality? ( And yes, the little ‘going away’ party)

    There is no doubt, and I would be the first to admit that it is obvious that Sheriff Keith Nygren is one hell of a businessman.

    I believe he may have prematurely turned over everything he had built on behalf of the county, over to a man, Eugene Lowery, who was not up to the task.

    Then when I and others called the Sheriff out on it all, Sheriff Nygren had no choice but to look for the ‘right man’ to take over his legacy?

    That Nygren’s most serious mistake in running the Sheriff’s Department was that he over trusted who proved to be an ‘incompetent?’ Eugene Lowery.

    Cal has laid out some “Political Scenarios” which is all well and good.

    My hope is that Sheriff Nygren has come back into the game to put things back together, and has found a profoundly better Law Man than Eugene Lowery to take over what he, (Nygren) has built on behalf of the counties citizenry, and that man is Andrew Zinke.

    Period. End of story. Nothing more than this.

    PS. Cal, you know per the NW Herald, that I, David Bachmann, is the “Most Prolific Conspiracy Theorist” in McHenry County.

    I am going to hand deliver my ‘Gavel’ over to you my friend! With all due respect.

    There will be more regarding this topic as we move along. Right now, I’m a bit busy.

    For those of you looking for a place to view beautiful fall colors, Galena is within 2 days or so of being in full fall blaze. It’s magnificent! I hope to see some of you here at Eagle Ridge, one more week and you will have missed it.

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