Yesterday, I told you most of what happened to me before the parade (one surprise to come later).
Today, let’s look at the politicians courting voters in the McHenry Fiesta Days Parade.
I had to walk through these poms each time I entered Plum Garden.
Maybe they were hoping for more people to open the door and let the cool air escape.
McHenry City officials were the first politicians in the parade.
Next came the members of the city council.
Ward 1 Alderman Vic Santi came first.
One spectator called out, “Vic Santi for Mayor.”
I asked why and he told me that Sue Low had told him she was undecided whether to run for re-election or not.
Next came Andy Glab.
You’d see his photo, but it turned out really fuzzy.
Ward 3’s Jeffrey Schaefer followed Glab.
Ward 7 was the next number I got a photo of.
Then came the partisan politicians.
State Senator Pam Althoff and McHenry County Board member Craig Wilcox led them.
Volunteers for both Althoff and Wilcox passed out candy.
Following these Republicans was State Rep. Jack Franks’ entry.
At least from the sign on the side of the truck, it looked like he was running for re-election.
There was no sign of Jack Franks, who was probably in Philadelphia playing his role as a Hillary Clinton Democratic Party Convention Delegate.
The McHenry Township float followed the Franks entry.
Township Supervisor Condon walked next to the trailer handing out candy.
Not up for election this year, but in the parade anyway was McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan.
Congressman Randy Hultgren and his followers were next.
The Republican Party followed Hultgren.
Signs for State Rep. candidate Steve Reick and McHenry County Board Chairman Mike Walkup were behind the banner.
Mike Walkup brought his truck with a four by four foot sign attached.
Next came a convertible carrying McHenry County Board candidate Kay Bates.
A second elephant rolled.
It was sponsored by the Young Republicans and sported a Kay Bates for County Board placard.
The next entry is a political tinge was the Jesse White Tumblers.
I caught them right in front of Plum Garden. They jumped one after another.
The last of the politicians was Republican State’s Attorney candidate Patrick Kenneally.
Althoff teamed with ‘Common Sense’ ….. how very oxymoronic ….
That’s like pairing Chernobyl levels of high- radioactivity with health food supplements ……
or Goldman/Sachs with “Honesty”
….. nobody buys it but the weak-minded.
BTW, did Sue Low get egged?
Now there’s a creepy pol-moll how actually does live up to her name!
hey, why wasn’t ‘candyboy’ McHenry Township Roadway appointee Condon walking with is good buddy Jacko Franks?
Jack Franks was not at the McHenry Fiesta Days Parade.
The Jesse White Tumblers have nothing to do with politics and you know it.
It is a good program with long standing success that impacts alot of lives encouraging young people to live a life of high integrity.
Jesse was a paratrooper and a Chicago Cub and the Tumblers have about the same connection to politics that they do to baseball and airplanes.
I wonder how people feel about Kay using her parade to benefit herself.
Did she pay to be in the parade like everyone else?
If you don’t think this good work has not assisted in his political career, I would suggest you are naive.
Hi Inish. Good Question
Kay Bates is a paid member of the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce as Candidate Kay Bates for McHenry County Board just like other Candidates using chamber services.
The membership list is online at http://www.mchenrychamber.com
Kay Bates paid the member price to be in the parade of $50 just like everyone else.
Kay Bates pays to be part of expos and every activity that is associated with the chamber of commerce.
Kay, the Chamber of Commerce is a traitorous organization. I quit a long time ago, when we had a kind of kooky Chamber leech who constantly wore inappropriate cowboy boots and ill-fitting Daisy Dukes shorts.
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/28/huge-chamber-commerce-opposes-trump/
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-chamber-of-commerce-twitter-224929