From Crain’s Chicago Business: With smart grid completed, ComEd budgets as if it never happened A new four-year capital plan shows ComEd spending even more per year than it did on its smart grid. That means higher rates, but this … Continue reading
Category Archives: Campaign Contributions
From State Senator Craig Wilcox: Senate Week in Review: February 4 – 8, 2019 SPRINGFIELD — Typically, controversial legislation at the State Capitol is left for the end of the spring session in May, but not this year. Just weeks … Continue reading
Archdiocese awaits outcome of Burke case before deciding about keeping $10K gift [Sun-Times] No word on what McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks is considering doing about the $9,050 that he has received from Ed Burke. Will he donate it to a … Continue reading
The Daily Line touches on a subject that comes up once in a while, that of whether a politician can take money from his or her Political Action Committee when he or she retires. As the years go by, the … Continue reading
Commenter Fair Play claimed that commenter DJ’s saying the following about Jack Franks was anti-semitic: You could get rid of Franks with one simple statement: “Your buying the first round, I forgot my wallet”. If Fair Play is saying that … Continue reading
Today we look at the lobbyists who have contributed to Jack Franks. This list was also developed by a Friend of McHenry County Blog. NAME AMOUNT CITY ST. All-Circo, Inc $1,200 Chicago IL Bruce Simon Consulting $500 Springfield IL Burris … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog has put in a LOT of work on categorizing the campaign contributions to Jack Franks. What you see below is a best effort to extract the names of businesses other than lobbyists from filings … Continue reading
Here is an analysis by a commented calling him/herself “Out of Towner:” Re: “Democratic Party candidates for Congress won McHenry County.” Due to the efforts of [Kristina] Zahorik and McHenry County Committeemen or due to what a Politician can do … Continue reading
Lake County Board member Tom Weber is running against Trisha Zubert. Earlier, an analysis of Zubert’s campaign finances showed that 73% of her contributions came from public employee unions. This article is about where Weber has gotten his money since … Continue reading
Republican Tom Weber and Democrat Trisha Zubert are facing off to take the seat in the House of Representatives occupied by State Rep. Barbara Wheeler for the last six years. Today we will look at how Zubert’s campaign is being … Continue reading
Starting July with $1,528.85 in the bank, State Senate candidate Craig Wilcox raiser $19,940.26 during the three months ending in September. He spent $15,251.97 during the quarter. That meant he started with only $6,217.14 available for the last month of … Continue reading
Democratic Party State Senate candidate Mary Mahady took in $16,165 during the third quarter of the year. She spent $19,579.49 during the same July-August-September period. To do so, she had to draw down a bit over $3,000 from her July … Continue reading
McHenry County Democrats have about $19,000 available as the November elections start heating up. The biggest contribution–$11,833.33–came from gubernatorial candidate JB Pritzker. It was funneled through the Democratic Central Committee of Rock Island County. Another $1,000 came directly from the … Continue reading
When I saw AECOM US Federal Political Action Committee out of Arlington Heights, Virginia, on the campaign disclosure reports of Joe Gottemoller, candidate for McHenry County Board Chairman, and Tina Hill, McHenry County Recorder of Deeds candidate, I wondered why. … Continue reading
Our inadequate campaign disclosure laws do not required big donors to reveal how much they have given Political Action Committees on a timely basis. And they only have to report if they are a PAC. It’s now the end of … Continue reading
Having decided to run for re-election as State Representative, let’s take a look at Barbara Wheeler’s campaign finances. The amount she has in her campaign is about the same as she started the year with–$18,000 That didn’t mean she didn’t … Continue reading
Note – After looked at Bill Prim’s D-2 again, I noticed that I had not added the in-kind contributions to his expenditure total. That is now reflected. = = = = = Campaign disclosure reports were due on Thursday. The … Continue reading
A number of candidates for McHenry County Board did not file reports with the Illinois State Board of Elections. Candidates are not required to file such reports unless they bring in or spend $5,000. Among those not meeting that threshold … Continue reading
District 3 former McHenry County Board member Kathy Bergan Schmidt had but $220 in her bank account on July 1st, according to what she filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections. During the previous three months, she spent down … Continue reading
Newcomer to McHenry County politics, Chuck Wheeler, got his County Board campaign off to a great start with a $5,000 contribution from Sage founder Vince Foglia. He followed that up with a McHenry fundraiser which, along with other contributions, brought … Continue reading