I hate to tell you, “I told you so,” but the McHenry County Republican Party’s failure to allow Tonya Franklin to try to get on the ballot to oppose Jack Franks has indeed allowed him to play around more than he probably would have been able to do otherwise.
We all know about his efforts to change the form of county government from a weak County Board Chairman to a strong County Executive.
Now, he is found endorsing union-financed Ryan Heuser’s campaign for District 6 County Board member.
And, in an intriguing similarity to District 4’s Mary Margaret Maule’s attack on incumbent John Hammerand, Heuser’s oversized post card attacks the two incumbent Republicans most likely to be able to mount a challenge to Franks in the future–Ersel Schuster and Diane Evertsen.
Ersel Schuster and Diane Evertsen are attacked by Jack Franks’ endorsed Ryan Heuser on this side of the mailing.
There’s a pitch for Franks’ County Executive referendum, too.
The issues used are similar in Maule’s and Heuser’s hit pieces.
Contributors to Heuser’s campaign with donations large enough to be identified by name follow:
- 2-12-12 International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, Countryside – $2,500
- 2-14-12 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 117, Crystal Lake – $200
- 2-24-12 Laborers International Union Local 1035, Marengo – $300
- 3-2-12 Plote Construction, Hoffman Estates – $250
- 3-16-12 Northeastern Illinois Federation of Labor, Gurnee – $500
- 3-20-12 International Union of Operating Engineers Local 339, Chicago – $500
- 3-20-12 International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, Countryside – $800 (20 4 by 8 pieces of plywood)
- 7-27-12 McHenry County Building Trades Council, Crystal Lake -$1,000
- 7-27-12 IronworkersLocal 498, Rockford – $250
- 7-27-12 Carey Electric, McHenry – $250
- 8-1-12 International Union of Operating Engineers, Countryside – $1,365.62
- 8-7-12 Bricklayers Local 21, Elgin – $200
- 8-10-12 Plote Construction, Hoffman Estates – $250
- 10-22-12 International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, Countryside – $5,178.85
- 10-30-12 Cecily Heuser, Marengo – $5,500
That’s $9,844.47 from Local 150, whose primary interest in what the County Board does has had to do with legalizing slot machines in unincorporated areas. In the 13-10-1 County Board vote to ban video slot machines the first of December, 2009, Schuster and Hammerand voted against gambling. Evertsen had not yet been sworn in for the two-year term she won in November.
The involvement of Local 150 in both lobbying for the legalization of video poker and support of County Board candidates (see Mary McClellan’s sign at the Lakemoor Banquet Hall, and got $300 on Sept. 26th, which, strangely, is reported by the union, but not by McClellan).
Mary Margaret Maule got $2,000 from Local 150 on October 27th and $250 on August 25th, a quarter in which there were five other union locals making contributions.
A typical DemocRAT with a hit piece full of outright LIES.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain
can check on Heuser’s statements to be false.
Screamin’ chainsaw Jack is behind all of this and endorses this crap.
Hopefully voters will write in Joe Rosner as a protest against Jack Franks and the Republicans for not endorsing a candidate to run against Franks.
The “hit” piece is simply more Union Thuggery.
Union Thuggery like we saw in Wisconsin last year.
Union Thuggery like we see each time teachers go on strike against the taxpayers.
Next Tuesday we will find out how successful “Thuggery” is.
Wonder why McCann was not mentioned in the “Hit” piece?
Unions, the downfall of America !
Corrupt Unions (unfortunately most of them now), the downfall of America!
@ K.V…..McCann is not on the hit piece because she has supported Obama and most DemocRATS in the previous elections.
She is one of the group of liberals running as a Republican.
**the McHenry County Republican Party’s failure to allow Tonya Franklin to try to get on the ballot to oppose Jack Franks has indeed allowed him to play around more than he probably would have been able to do otherwise. … Now, he is found endorsing union-financed Ryan Heuser’s campaign for District 6 County Board member.**
Wait… so if Jack Franks had an opponent, he wouldn’t have been able to endorse someone in a county board race? Huh?
@ Dave. You directly quoted Cal yet still got it wrong.
Read it again dumb @$$, Cal never said “wouldn’t”.
Go troll somewhere else you little man.
Dave is a man?
Dumb @$$? Little man?
What is it with you all who can do nothing other than resort to silly personal attacks.
Further, you clearly don’t get it anyway.
Cal used the Franks endorsement as an example of things he can do because he doesn’t have an opponent.
And that is just not true.
He could have, and probably would have, endorsed Heuser no matter what.
Seriously…you have a compete inability to have a rational conversation with someone that disagrees with you without resorting to childish personal attacks.
It is unbelievable.
Just wondering.
He has an opponent. http://www.JoeRosner.info
Yea, Erik, I’m sure that Jack Franks is spending every waking hour thinking about how he is going to overcome his “opponent” on Tuesday.
Wow, great comments, but you guys forgot to mention abortion and Obama.
Diane Evertsen isn’t getting a pension.
She term limited herself to two terms.
Something LYIN’ JACK FRANKS promised to do then stayed in office for 18 YEARS!!