Voting booths.
And, after a Discovery Recount he requested and paid for, the results were the same.
He was still behind “Iron Mike” Lesperance by three votes.
No changes were discovered in the count for Nunda Township Supervisor either.
Lee Jennings won 945-934, a eleven vote margin over Bridgett Provenzano.
Lee Jennings and “Iron Mike” shared campaign resources in the GOP Primary Election.
Now we have two Nunda Township Republican Primary candidates who just barely lost asking for Discovery Recounts.
Road Commissioner Rob Parrish and Supervisor candidate Bridgett Provenzano.
Mike Lesperance won the nod to represent the the GOP on the ballot for Highway Commissioner.
Lee Jennings won 945-934, just eleven votes.
More than the three votes that Lesperance bested Parrish by, but close by anyone’s standards.
Because the margins are so close, State law allows a run through the computers of the ballots in a relative small percentage of precincts.
Parrish picked Nunda precincts 1, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 21 to see if any machine mistakes had occurred.
Provenzano selected Nunda Nunda 1, 10, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24.
Note that they are not all the same.
Candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Nunda Township Supervisor await the beginning of their joint appearance prior to the primary election.
He beat her in a close race to see who would be the GOP candidate for Nunda Township Supervisor, but Bridgett Provenzano has endorsed her opponent Lee Jennings in his attempt to gain the office over Independent Leda Drain.
The recommendation came in the form of a comment on the story about Drain.
Provenzano’s comment follows:
“I am recommending Lee Jennings.
“He is after all the Republican candidate.
“Leda has already deceived the people by pulling a republican ballot in the primary and running as an Independent. (An Action that would be illegal in any other election, other than odd years.)
“Running against Lee I spoke with he and his wife and they seem to be good people who are active in their community and he will be a fiscal conservative
“He and I spoke on the phone and I think he will be a great Supervisor for Nunda.
“He has a lot of great revenue neutral ideas that will benefit the residents.
“I have offered him my full support to volunteer for any help he needs.
“I don’t believe I have ever heard him be rude to anyone, which I can not say about Mrs. Drain or Mrs. Kopsell.
“I am afraid if Mrs. Drain is elected and hires Mrs. Kopsell, nothing will change and the misspending of tax dollars will continue.
“I will vote for Lee Jennings and recommend others to do the same.”
Look what I found distributed by the Crystal Lake Tea Party:
For what it is worth here are my personal recommendations for Nunda Township (of which I am a resident)
Township Polling places:
http://mchenry-il.connect.
Irene Napier at the annual Pro-Life Pig Roast, usually held at her farm.
Dear Pro-Life Supporter,
I was going to sit this election out, but two Pro-Lifers running for Algonquin Township Trustee are being slandered.
One is Melissa Sanchez, a 22-year old recent college grad (who has a job already!). Melissa, from Lake in the Hills, took a bus to the Pro-Life Washington demonstration three years ago and ended up meeting the young man she is going to marry. She is running with Larry Emery of Crystal Lake.
The key issue is pay raises voted for by three incumbent Trustees—Dan Shea and Lowell Cutsforth, plus Linda Lance, running for Township Clerk.
Both Melissa and Larry are being accused of voting to raise their own salaries.
The absurdity of the falsehood being spread is obvious when you think about it.
How could two candidates who are not in office have voted to raise their own salaries?
Such a “Big Lie” approach has been used successfully in politics before.
Shame on us if we let it work next Tuesday, when the Republican primary election is held.
What kind of a world do we live in when supporters of politicians spread outright lies about a recent retiree and a young woman inspired to try to improve things by entering public service?
Shouldn’t we be encouraging people like her and her friend Larry Emery, another Pro-Lifer, to stay involved in a political process that most of us would rather ignore because it is so often so dirty?
To summarize, there are three people on the ballot who voted to raise township salaries:
There is one candidate, a current Trustee, running for re-election who led the fight to cut salaries
And there are the two candidates opposed to higher salaries who are being lied about
Finally, a well-known Pro-Lifer named
is running for Township Clerk against a woman who voted to raise salaries.
Vote as you please, but please vote.
Irene Napier
Finally got a copy of a mailing supporting Nunda Township Supervisor candidate Bridgett Provenzano.
This is a hit piece on opponent Lee Jennings’ tax votes. And nobody claims authorship.
The address side of Bridgett Provenzano’s supporters’ hit piece on her opponent for Nunda Township Supervisor Lee Jennings.
This hit piece from a unknown group with no individuals name or address attached called “Nunda Taxpayers United.” The piece claims Lee Jennings voted to raise 26 tax levies, rejected former Supervisor John Heisler’s 2011 recommendation to keep the levy constant, instead voting to raise the levy and rejected a proposal to cut township officials’ salaries 20%, instead voting to cut them 2%.
A press release from the Nunda Township Republican Central Committee:
About a third of the crowd at the Nunda Township Republican Central Committee’s Candidates’ Night.
On February 13, 2013 the Nunda Township Republican Central Committee held a Candidate Forum at American Community Bank in McHenry.
All of the candidates running for the Republican nomination in contested races were asked questions submitted online and by audience members. The Forum was moderated by the Executive Officers Mark Daniel, Mike Shorten, Mary McClellan and Scott Brown.
The Nunda Township Republicans are committed to providing their voters all of the information that they need to nominate the most qualified candidates. To that end the forum was recorded and is now being made available online for all voters to view.
To access the videos, voters in Nunda Township can go to nundagop.org and click on the link on the main page or by scrolling over the ’2013 Candidate Forum’ menu option.
The Nunda Township Republican Central Committee is the grassroots of the Republican Party in Nunda Township. Made up of 29 elected and appointed Precinct Committeemen the Nunda Republicans are dedicated to connecting with voters in their precincts throughout Nunda Township to ensure the successful elections of Republican candidates. If you would like more information about Nunda Township Republican Central Committee please visit our website nundagop.org.
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The link to the comments by Supervisor candidates Bridgett Provenzano and Lee Jennings are here.
The link to the comments by Highway Commissioner candidates Don Kopsell, Ron Parrish and “Iron Mike” Lesperance here.
The link to the comments by Township Clerk candidates Angela Koscavage and Susan Jennings are here.
The first signs of the February 26th Republican primary election were sighted today by your correspondent.
One was at the corner of Routes 176 and 31 in front of the bowling alley.
Not quite the best shot, but this 4 by 8 foot sign supporting Bridgett Provenzano’s candidacy for Nunda Township Supervisor is at the corner of Routes 176 and 31.
The second was on Route 176 across the street and to the west of the Crystal lake Rib House.
A Bridgett Provenzano sign on Route 176 on the eastern side of Crystal Lake,
They were for Bridgett Provenzano, who is a candidate for Nunda Township Supervisor.
According to the recently filed campaign disclosure form, Provenzano had almost $10,000 available.
As you can see from the invitation below, Nunda Township Supervisor candidate Bridgett Provenzano is planning a fundraising event for Thursday, January 31st.
It will be held at Marzano’s on Route 31 in McHenry. The price is $35.
Bridgett Provenzano invitation.for January 31st.
John Heisler has filed the required Statements of Economic Interest with the County Clerk for twenty years, but, with his mother dying in hospice care, he didn’t remember to attach a copy of the receipt to his Statement of Candidacy and petitions.
The members of the Nunda Township Electoral Board were from right to left, James Schlader, Tom Palmer and David Stone. Ancel Glink Attorney Scott Puma advised the panel.
That got him kicked off the ballot Thursday by the Nunda Township Electoral Board.
The Board consisted of Trustee Tom Palmer, who chaired the meeting, Trustee Jim Schlader and former Assistant State’s Attorney David Stone, a Nunda Township resident.
Russell Scott
Nunda Township resident Russell Scott, a McHenry resident, bought the complaint against Heisler in a professionally-prepared legal document.
When asked to testify, Scott said, he was “just going over the paperwork and I didn’t think it met the requirements of the State Board of Elections.”
When asked he said he stood on the arguments made in the objection that he filed.
“No one is here on behalf of the candidate,” attorney Scott Puma then announced.
“The objection is basically one of a legal question,” Electoral Board member Stone, an attorney, explained.
The Election Code requires a receipt from the candidate’s Statement of Economic interest to be attached to the petition filing.
John Heisler
Stone noted that the objected had cited three cases “which basically cover every conceivable situation.”
And, their message was that the attachment was a “mandatory requirement.”
“I’m of the opinion that the candidacy of John A. Heisler is invalid,” Stone concluded.
Schlader said he had a copy of from the County Clerk and asked, “Does it have to be attached?”
He said the copy had been “left in his box.”
Stone asked whether he got the copy before or after the filing and Palmer answered, “Well after.”
“I also declare that his petition package is invalid,” Schlader said.
Palmer agreed.
Stone then made a motion to take Heisler off the ballot.
Puma produced a resolution which the Electoral Board members read the document (that’s what the members are doing in the photo above).
After reading it and making a minor correction, the Board adopted the resolution unanimously.
Nick Provenzano was talking to Mark Daniel after the decision was rendered.
That means the following candidates will be on the ballot for Nunda Township Supervisor:
John Heisler
The objection is that Heisler’s filing is incomplete because he did not attach a receipt from his filing of his Statement of Economic Interest. This form must be filed by all elected officials or they get removed from office, so Heisler has obviously filed one. What he apparently did not do is attach a receipt showing that he had filed it.
You can read the objection below. Click to enlarge any image.
If Heisler is kicked off the ballot, that would leave a three-way Republican Primary Election with the following facing off against each other:
If kicked off the ballot before December 26th, Heisler, like Fender, could run as an Independent.
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