John Lopez takes a look at who should be attending the Algonquin Township Republican Party’s $35 fundraiser on Thursday evening in Algonquin:
From a comment under this article:
Correcting, that’s a valid question of who’s been invited (presumably all Republican incumbents and aspiring challengers/newcomers), and maybe we should work backward and determine who SHOULD be at the Algonquin Township Republicans’ “Meet the Candidates” event, Thursday night in Algonquin.
Almost a given the two sheriff candidates will be in attendance.
Let’s focus on McHenry County Board.
Four of the nine new districts are in all, or part of Algonquin Township, so, aspiring County Board Members, and Republican incumbents, should be expected to attend.
District 1 is all within Algonquin Township, and Tom Wilbeck (R, Barrington Hills) is the only Republican incumbent drawn into District 1. Who will be the 2nd Republican to challenge the two Democrat incumbents, assuming both Democrats seek reelection next year? So, all aspiring Republican County Board candidates for District 1 NEED to be at Golf Club of Illinois in Algonquin, Thursday.
District 2 with only one Republican incumbent, Jeff Thorsen (Crystal Lake), while Thorsen does not live in Algonquin Township, most of his new district is within Algonquin Township, so Thorsen should be in Algonquin Thursday. With two Democrat incumbents (one being appointed), like District 1, District 2 aspiring Republican County Board Members should be at the event Thursday.
District 3 is the high profile race pitting two Republican County Board incumbents and the senior Democrat [Paula Yensen, the “senior Democrat,” is not running for re-election] competing for two spots in the district composed of the villages of Algonquin, Lake in the Hills and small portion of Crystal Lake. Republican incumbents Vice Chair Carolyn Schofield (Crystal Lake) and Bob Nowak (Algonquin) should both be in attendance, assuming both seek reelection next year in District 3. Both Schofield and Nowak live in Grafton Township, so they need to become known in Algonquin Township, particularly to the Republican Precinct Committeepersons (or committeeperson candidates) in Algonquin Township Precincts 11, 28, 39, 43, 58, 61, 63 & 68
District 4 Only consists of 6 Algonquin Township precincts (5, 10, 29, 31, 40, 50) with 3 Republican incumbents, one must be retiring among John Jung, Jr., Joe Gottemoller or Lori Parrish. Not sure which one is stepping down from the Board, but hopefully the two seeking reelection, plus aspiring primary challengers, will be in Algonquin Thursday night.
With the fall veto session still taking place Thursday, doubtful State Representative Marty McLaughlin (R, Barrington Hills) will be in attendance, but since his new 52nd Representative District (provided it survives the federal court challenge) includes six additional precincts in Algonquin Township, he should be represented.
Same goes for any other incumbent state representative or senator.
While McHenry County’s influence in the redrawn 66th Representative District was diminished, former Republican state Representative Gary Daugherty (R, Gilberts) should be in attendance, as he’s been attending multiple meetings/events as a candidate and the panhandle of the new 66th is within Algonquin Township.
Congressional candidates, with nearly every draft (both the official 10/15 and credible citizen-submitted) map includes Algonquin Township in the likely new 6th Congressional District, the two announced Republican challengers to Congressman Sean Casten (D, Downers Grove) should be in attendance: Niki Conforti (Wheaton) and Justin Burau (Rolling Meadows).
As I said, the McHenry County Board Republican candidates in Districts 1 through 4, plus Republican candidates for 6th Congressional District and other local races should be in Algonquin Thursday night.
Who actually shows, we’ll find out Thursday.
Needless to say, my comment on the Algonquin Township Republican article was written prior to the unveiling of the 2nd version of the congressional map late Saturday afternoon.
With the proposed 6th congressional district boundaries drawn to include only the southeastern DuPage County’s Downers Grove Township, where Congressman Sean Casten lives and it’s now combined with southwest suburban Cook County, declared Legacy IL-06 Republican candidates Justin Burau of Winfield and Niki Conforti of Wheaton do not live in IL-06.
Both Burau and Conforti live within the proposed IL-03, and both candidates, along with all declared candidates, will have to evaluate closely what they will do once the General Assembly approves the new map this week.
Irrelevant time/ money waster.
Ok, this has got to be the lamest event in the county.
Sure, these crybabies long for the good old days of crook Gov. Edgar and jailbird Ryan.
They don’t stand for anything really. They probably think Rittenhouse should be found guilty of something.
Democrats are throwing around maps like a drunk throwing around money at a strip club.
Correcting, it seems your projecting from your own experiences.
How about all local elected Republicans and PCs in Algonquin Township.
Perhaps the elected county wide republicans (all of them) and candidates running for said offices.
And also township and county GOP officers.
It would be nice to have state wide Republican candidates.perhaps – dare I say citizens thinking about running for mayor and school board.
I don’t engage in such debauchery but if you want to defend Democrats’ map making process and their maps because you’re feeling argumentative you can go right ahead!
I wonder who’ll bother to go.
People that care, instead of morons posting idiocy on conservative blogs that hate everything and sit on there asses complaining about everything.
If morons like Pokorny are going, it just goes to show how far the GOP has sunk.
Wake up people, GOP leadership in Illinois and locally is pathetic.
I’ll go. It interests me in a weird way.
I will get $35 worth of beer.