Took a swing through the McHenry County Fair this afternoon.
Figured it would be cooler than tomorrow.
Coming in the back door in the best air conditioned building, I spotted the McHenry County Citizens for Choice first.
I got a wave from a man staffing the McHenry County Citizens for Choice booth.
Across the aisle, I noticed Tonya Franklin, the woman the Republican Party wouldn’t let run against Jack Franks in 2012.
Tonya Franklin at the McHenry County Fair.
She was recruiting students for CPR classes.
Tonya Franklin was manning a booth promoting classes she teaches.
Knowing she was across the aisle from the defenders of abortion, Franklin put the sticker you see below on the biggest dummy:
“Vote Pro-Life” sticker.
The Gideons were the first religious booth I saw.
After unsuccessfully trying to exile religious and political exhibitors to a “Faith Tent” last year, the Gideons remained among the people, just like Jesus.
Volunteers were handing out New Testaments in English and Spanish.
The Republican exhibit was next.
District 4 County Board candidate Craig Wilcox was manning the Republican booth.
Two parts of McHenry County government had booths in the same area.
The Veterans Assistance Commission exhibit.
The Veterans Assistance Commissioner was right across the aisle.
There were two spaces for the Sheriff’s Department.
The first I saw was in the corner. It was for finger printing children.
Parents can get their children finger printed at the County Fair.
Then, there is the entrance exhibit of the Sheriff’s Department.
This is the booth that people see when they enter the best air conditioned building. They were talking about swallowing goldfish.
Around the corner I found McHenry County Democrats.
State Rep. candidate Nancy Zettler was at the Democrats’ booth.
And, then it was off to the building next door.
There I found Peter’s Net, the Pro-Life group that led the battle against putting all the religious entrants into a “Faith” ghetto.
Peter’s Net was the first of the three Pro-Life displays that were at the McHenry County Fair.
Across the way was the Catholic Church’s display.
The Catholic Church’s Pro-Life entry appears to be five booths wide.
Then I noticed the Barrington Area Secular Humanists.
BASH, the Barrington Area Secular Humanists, had a first time booth right next to Peter’s Net.
In the corner of the building was the McHenry-based First Way Pregnancy Center.
First Way Pregnancy Center again had a booth.
In the next aisle was the Christ Presbyterian Church display.
Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church of Crystal Lake again made its presence known.
Next I saw side-by-side booths for the County Clerk’s and Recorder of Deeds Offices.
Both the County Recorder of Deeds and the County Clerk’s Office had booths at the County Fair.
The Libertarians had new people manning their booth.
The Libertarians had a Wheel of Fortune knock-off that people spun. “Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right,” read a banner at the rear of the booth.
Next, it was out into the heat.
The McHenry County Knights of Columbus were selling corn as usual.
The Knights of Columbus sell sweet corn that is delicious.
I went looking for Jack Franks.
All I found was his tent.
Jack Franks’ empty tent.
No people on Wednesday afternoon.
I kept walking looking for other political or religious manifestations.
Democratic Party State’s Attorney candidate Ray Flavin was manning his own tent.
Flavin pointed me to State Rep. candidate Steve Reick’s tent, across the road from his.
Two interns–John O’Neill and Chris Wood–were staffing Steve Reick’s tent. They said the candidate had just left.
Perhaps inspired by the “I Like Ike” buttons of the 1952 campaign for President, Reick had a bowl of “I Like Reick” buttons.
Steve Reick has buttons. Most people in the last decade have settled for stickers.
The Huntley Area Tea Party tent was the next I spotted.
The Huntley Tea Party has a continuing presence in the McHenry County Fair.
Inside the Conservation Tent I found the McHenry County Department of Public Health exhibit.
The McHenry County Department of Public Health had its display in a big tent.
I guess the Bat Cave is part of that. I wonder if this is the start of another attempt to license cats to protect them from rabid bats.
The McHenry County Conservation District was across the way in the same tent.
The McHenry County Conservation District had its display in the tent, too.
As part of the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County was a table for the Citizens
The Citizens Climate Lobby had a table in the tent.
I figured that a story about the County Fair ought to have least one animal from the 4-Hers, so here it is.
Here’s a holstein cow like the one in Downtown Harvard.
Coming back to the building where I started, I spotted Steve Reick.
But I didn’t find him even though I searched.
I did find former County Board member Kathy Bergan Schmitt. She took a photo of me, so I reciprocated.
Kathy Bergan Schmitt at the Democratic Party booth.
To provide equal time, I passed by the Republican booth again.
County Board member Diane Evertsen was on duty.
Diane Evertsen at the Republican Party booth. That’s a “I Like Reick” button she is wearing.
I deiinately loved the “I like Reick” pins what a great idea Steve!
Two questions (that are rhetorical because they answer themselves) and a comment:
1) How is the right to abort a baby, killing the baby and possibly hurting the woman physically, and definitely hurting the woman emotionally “Women’s Health???”
2) Why in the world would the Recorder’s Office, Health Dept. (and even the Conservation district) have a boothes at the fair? Those booths are expensive. Our tax dollars shouldn’t have to go toward something so stupid! Their vanity is costing taxpayers.
And just a comment:
is also indicative of his empty promises, his feigned outrage on the floor, and his foreshadowing of his ridiculous claims of which he will have absolutely no authority.
Why didn’t the atheistic seculars and the pro-aborts have a giant poster of Killary up in their booths?
She’s their Patroness …. their “Jim Jones” kool-ade dispenser … their omniscient false idol.
Maybe a shave would help Flavin …. he resembles Fred Ziffel of Green Acres ‘fame’ … and he’s just as kooky.
Maybe he should get a set of stilts so everybody can see him for what he is a Democratic second-choicer with credentials that might, just might, get him elected in TV land’s Hooterville!
The crazy Christians and politicians smell worse than the animals at the fair.
Why go?