Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore took her dispute with Township Trustees Betty Zirk, Gerald McMahon, Rob LaPorta and Barbara Murphy to court Wednesday. She’s in civil court seeking injunctive relief to regain her role as chief executive of the township. … Continue reading
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In the soon-to-disappear Northwest Herald comments on its story about the Grafton Township Trustees’ hiring Huntley Village Trustee Pam Fender to basically do all the work that Supervisor Linda Moore is charged with performing now, a gentleman calling himself “Cadman” … Continue reading
With a wish fulfillment that newly-elected Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore would go poof and disappear in the night in the Huntley Park District meeting room last night being unattainable, the other four members of the township board decided to … Continue reading
You gotta love the infighting among Republicans in Grafton Township. Supervisor Linda Moore posted video of the last township meeting. My speakers are so poor I had a hard time hearing what people were saying in the first segment, but … Continue reading
As I do in the Matt Murphy piece below, the Algonquin Library Board member is a baseball entrepreneur in Rockford. Joe Stefani just unveiled the logo for his new team, the Rockford Foresters. You see it here. … Continue reading
As reported by McHenry County Blog November 12th, the four Grafton Township Trustees who wanted to build a new township hall, but didn’t want to ask the public for permission in a referendum, boycotted a township meeting. Township Supervisor Linda … Continue reading
Yesterday and the day before, McHenry County Blog chronicled what the Grafton Township trustees said about the John Rossi Township Board new town hall debacle. You remember, illegally committing taxpayers to repay over $5 million in principal and interest for … Continue reading
Yesterday, McHenry County Blog started outlining what was mentioned about the court-determined illegal actions of the prior board–three of whose members were re-elected–in notes of the 7:30 PM to 12:15 AM Grafton Township board meeting last Thursday night. The topic … Continue reading
There was a leitmotif during the almost five-hour meeting of the Grafton Township Board on Thursday night. Not too light, though. More like an elephant plunging through the local Republican Party, setting up all Grafton Township incumbents for defeat at … Continue reading
The Grafton Township Trustees voted 4-1 to stop following Robert’s Rules of Order. At Thursday’s meeting Supervisor Linda Moore tried her best to require trustees to speak one at a time and not among themselves, but wasn’t overly successful. Not … Continue reading
Getting rid of the deals that went down to build a new town hall on Haligus Road without a referendum was the primary campaign promise that propelled challenger Linda Moore to a 30-vote Republican primary victory over Grafton Township Supervisor … Continue reading
Four township officials, including all the full-timers, attended the Grafton Township meeting at Faith Community Church on Algonquin Road, but the four part-timers boycotted it. Of the members of the township board, only Supervisor Linda Moore attended. Barbara Murphy, Robert … Continue reading
At the last board meeting of Grafton Township, the one in which constantly interrupting, newly-elected board member Gerry McMahon was censured, there were comments from Trustee Barbara Murphy (the one seen on the far left of the table) that may … Continue reading
Only reporter Pete Gonigam, who writes the First Electric Newspaper, attended last week’s Grafton Township meeting. He writes of how the board, by a 3-2 vote censured newly-elected Township Trustee Gerry McMahon. McMahon and Betty Zirk voted against the motion. … Continue reading
If you play this song while you are reading this article, it would be appropriate. Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It” pretty much sums up the message Crystal Lake attorney Joe Gottemoller gave to the Grafton Township Board … Continue reading
It’s hard to tell what a township board will do when its leader goes down to defeat. In Grafton Township, apparent narrow winner Linda Moore carried only one of her two running mates to victor – Gerry McMahon. He placed … Continue reading
I’ve written about having read a study about the value of ballot position while in graduate school at the University of Michigan. A couple of researchers looked at every paper ballot in a municipal election in that state. There definitely … Continue reading
I’ve written about having read a study about the value of ballot position while in graduate school at the University of Michigan. A couple of researchers looked at every paper ballot in a municipal election in that state. There definitely … Continue reading