Bob Miller
The contest is between long-time office holder Bob Miller and challenger Andrew Gasser, a member of the McHenry County Board.
Incumbent Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Bob Miller has the most cash.
He started the new year with $46,892.
$10,600 in money amounting to over $150 collected in the last three months of 2016 is shown below:
- $1,500 – H.R. Stewart, Inc., Cary
- $580 – Trotter and Associates, Inc., Saint Charles
- $500 – Bollinger, Lach & Associates, Inc., Itasca
- $500 – HR Green, Cedar Rapids, IA
- $500 – Standard Equipment Company, Chicago
- $500 – Matuszewich & Kelly, LLP, Crystal Lake
- $470 – Geske & Sons, Inc., Crystal Lake
- $380 – Baxter & Woodman, Inc., Crystal Lake
- $350 – AMWOOD CONTRACTING INC., Sleepy Hollow
- $320 – INTREN, Union
- $250 – Alexander Equipment Company, Inc., Lisle
- $250 – Alliance Contractors, Inc., Woodstock
- $250 – Bedrock Stabilization Co., Ringwood
- $250 – Cary Grove Automotive, Inc., Cary
- $250 – Cary Travel Express, Cary
- $250 – Chadwick Contracting Co., Lake in the Hills
- $250 – Randolph J. Funk, Crystal Lake
- $250 – Goal Line Sports Bar & Grill, Crystal Lake
- $250 – Jennifer Helman, Cary
- $250 – Heritage Title Co. Of McHenry, Crystal Lake
- $250 – Jase Plumbing LLC, Cary
- $250 – Michael A. Lesperance, Lakemoor
- $250 – Daniel T. Neumann, Cary
- $250 – Rock Creek Land Development, LLC, Huntley
- $250 – The I.T. Connection, Inc., Crystal Lake
- $250 – TRANSYSTEMS CORPORATION, Schaumburg
- $200 – American Asphalt Surface Recycling, Inc., Orland Park
- $200 – TimCarone, Cary
- $200 – Dr. Mary Ann Louderback, Cary
- $200 – Jack Schaffer, Crystal Lake
- $200 – Steve or Maria Theofanous, Crystal Lake
Since the first of the year, Miller has received $1,000 from Allied Benefit Systems, Inc. of Chicago and $2,000 from the Daniel J. Shea Revocable Trust.
Andrew Gasser
Starting off his campaign with $5,616, McHenry County Board member Andrew Gasser reported $4,500 in contributions of $1,000 or more since January 1st:
- $2,000 – Citizens for Lou Bianchi
- $1,000 – Steven Willson, Lakewood
- $1,000 – Peter Kunz, Fox River Grove
- $500 – Illinois Tea Party, Inc., Lisle
Gasser also held a well-attended Crystal Lake fundraiser, the proceeds of which will not be made public until after the election when first quarter campaign disclosure reports are due at the State Board of Elections.
Lookee here …….
Booby Miller squealing like a taxpig for ‘donations’ to his nepotism fest….
and Baxter & Woodman only contributed a measly $380 after all the ‘business’ Alg Township hacks farm ’em????
No wonder Booby is angry!
Agreed Rickey.
Anyone who takes money from HR Green must also be scrutinized.
Vote YES to Andrew GASSER!
NO to Miller (and all that comes with him)
Bob Miller does not have to work on Saturday, but he does almost every week running the best and most comprehensive recycling operation in the County.
It is a model for all governmental bodies.
I have always known Bob to do a great job.
Miller is the real reason nepotism has a dirty name in Mchenry county
Like him ,love him or hate him. We need Gasser in office
When Gasser wins, will we have to clothe him with Algonquin Township apparel as we have done so for Miller?
What else has Miller expensed on himself and his family while in office?
Will Gasser replace his name on the sign of Algonquin Township or the buses?
Just like Blago on the tollways.
Use tax payer money, no big deal.
Interesting all the donations from companies outside of Algonquin Township.
A little of I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine.
Interesting that the Nunda Township highway commissioner sent money Miller’s way.
Has me rethinking who will get my vote in March. Mike only won by three votes last time around, if I recall, defeating another long-time incumbent.
Mike, Ron, then Don.
Andy Gasser will be like Jack Frank
We have some winners
Gas bag gasser will ruin everything.
I do not care how long Bob Miller has been there or who he has hired.
So he hired his wife fo $80k
BIG WOOP!
Bob Miller does a good job and doing a good job costs money.
All of those people giving Bob money – who cares!
Gas bag gasser is the dirtiest of gassers.
NO ONE seemed to listen to the all Jack Franks warnings and now we’re stuck with him and his private patronage hires and his expanding staff$, just to run board meetings.
Please, please, say No to Bob Miller, et al.
You don’t even have to heed the warnings.
Look at how much we pay the Miller family for the Algonquin Township Miller family business.
All under the premise that NO ONE can plow streets or recycle stuff as expertly, or chip Christmas trees or have chair yoga.
We finally got Anna May off the conflict of interest County Board position and yet, we are still stuck paying an extravagant salary to her at the township.
Or are all you Miller cheerleaders going to claim no one is smart enough, or experienced enough to do her job, either?
Look at that donor list.
What will it take for people to smell the coffee?
No more Millers!
What exactly was her conflict of interest?
I ask this, will Gasser hold two public jobs?
He’s saving no one money just employing himself.
Enjoy the kool aid!
Chair of Transportation Committee (for what seemed a lifetime) voting on road issues and the businesses
the county hired, that just happen to be many on her husbands ROAD commissioner’s donation list.
If not an official legal conflict, a definite perception.
You have not listed the hundreds of small donations that Bob Miller got over the years because he does a great job for the people of Algonquin Township
Couldn’t list them because he did not report them to the State Board of Elections.
He was not required to do so.
Miller is a slug plain and simple.
Any idiot with half a brain can reduce spending by 50% within months of entering office.
All of you defenders are victims of your own slow brains.
And if Iron Mike is his cheerleader then the residents of Nunda should run like hell.
Bing Bong, tell us how to reduce Alg Twh spending by 50% within even a term in office?
Algonquin’s spend per road mile is more than 7 times that of some of the other townships in the county.
There’s a lot of fat.
Andrew Gasser has no experience that would qualify him for the Road Commissioner position.
He picked this office to run for because he wants the salary and thinks that he can run merely by attacking Miller because he hired his wife.
The only thing Gasser is good at is exploiting red herrings and selling himself as some kind of reformer when in actuality he’s done nothing in his current elected position.
Leave him on the board where he can’t do any real harm.
“Any idiot with half a brain can reduce spending by 50% within months of entering office”.
Well then, when can we expect Gasser and his board co-horts to reduce spending in the county by 50%?
He’s been on that board for many months now.
Tick tock.
Go Andrew Gasser!
Miller cheerleaders, go figure.
Once again, the mentality that no one can plow, recycle, chip, yoga, drive an empty bus, bingo, etc… as well as the Miller empire.
Bing Bong, Alg Twh is more urban, roads are wider, sidewalks, storm sewer, detention ponds, and etc that requires more funding than other county townships.
A 50% cut in funding would mean no repaying overlays each year, or no maintenance each year.
The roads are already behind suggested overlays, you think more pothole is desirable?
No maintenance so no snow plowing or removal of down trees would work?
Sorry but you speak from a tad of ignorance, or a just so mad at high property taxes it’s blinding your thinking.
Either candidate could cut 50% without major service cuts, and I’d find it hard to find a tax payer that wants any service cuts.
We’re all spoiled, it isn’t logical to think that will ever be changed back to the GOOD OLD DAYS.
The Nob, you smell like beets.
Sorry if the truth smell hurts, since beets are actually good for us, I’ll take that as a compliment.
The wife and son in laws have to go – along with their $100,000 salaries & along with the steak and lobster dinners for their employees! $40.00 for wine and cheese fundraiser? Really? They should be embarrassed. Yes B Miller has experience but so did “crooked HILLARY”! You see what happened there. Party is over – drain the swamp!