McHenry County Blog

Yesterday, McHenry County Blog published a little of the unfocused situation surrounding the county board’s debate on gambling, as well as the roll call showing who was up for election this time around.

Today, I’m going to tell you what I saw from a civics classroom point of view.

From the beginning District 3 county board member Barb Wheeler has been ready to vote to ban video gambling in the unincorporated part of McHenry County.

She made that very clear in the License and Liquor Committee.

British Member of Parliament Edmund Burke took a position similar to Wheeler’s and several of her colleagues. He epitomizes the “trustee model” of representation. Some might refer to the role as a “statesman.”

Burke’s most famous quote of justification was to the electors of Bristol in 1774:

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

My quick research indicates he lost the Bristol seat six years later.

Here’s how Wikipedia explains the different concepts of representation:

“The trustee model of representation is a model of a representative democracy. Constituents elect their representatives as ‘trustees’ (or ‘entrust’ them) for their constituency. These ‘trustees’ have sufficient autonomy to deliberate and act in favor of the greater common good and national interest, even if it means going against the short-term interests of their own constituencies. The model provides a solution to the problem uninformed constituents who lack the necessary knowledge on issues to take an educated position.“This model parallels the delegate model of representation, which is a model in which the representative is a tribune of the people.”

I have to admit on issues that I did not campaign on I tended toward the delegate model in my representation in the Illinois House of Representatives.

If the people of McHenry County wanted something, I would more likely than not be presenting that viewpoint in the General Assembly during my sixteen years there. I conducted mailed polls to gain a sense of the electorate in addition to putting out my listening post in public places.

On financial issues, I tended toward the trustee model, especially for those from the educational community hell bent on having me vote for a high income tax, most of the proceeds of which would end up in Chicago and Downstate. I cut my teeth doing cost-benefit analysis at the United States Budget Bureau right after grad school in public administration (probably called “policy analysis” now).

The debate on whether there should be an advisory referendum on gambling brought the various concepts of representation into focus like I have not seen them previously on the county board.

Part 3 tomorrow.

While I was searching for some old newspaper articles for a November 22nd article, I stumbled across two bits of memorabilia of no concern to anyone but myself.

I found this picture of me at age 6 in a multi-colored costume with saddle tap shoes. I’m even wearing a cap.

Goodness knows how my mother ever convinced me to take tap dancing lessons, but, come time for the recital, she had made an outfit in which I was to dance to “You Are My Sunshine” with other little boys in all probability.

My little sister Janet. age 4, was in the 1948 recital, too.

But she had a cuter outfit.

I was six.

First grade.

My classmate David Hill’s father owned Hill’s Pharmacy in downtown Easton, Maryland. His father called their home, south of my own on South Aurora Street, “Hill’s Half Acre.” It had a railroad spur running along the road to its north.

Catchy name for a home, I thought.

I even found a bit a cloth from what was left over from the original custume.

My wife will, of course, order a dumpster when I die.

There’s no secret about that.

Younger folks don’t know what a telegram is.

Here’s what one looks like.

After taking the Federal government’s Management Intern exam in 1965, I got a couple of job offers.

IRS was first.

Having political ambitions, I hoped I would get other job offers.

NASA came next. I’d have to move to Texas. That’s a long way from home.

Then came the offer I wanted most—from the United States Bureau of the Budget.

The agency had been glamorized for me by my best Oberlin College government professor—Aaron Wildavsky in his “Politics of the Budgetary Process.” The book was a political look at the budget making process.

In the middle of the June, after I had started a summer school course in statistics, I got word that Ihad a job at the Budget Bureau.

Naturally, the job was more important than the course.

I flew East the night 4th of July fireworks were being set off in Ohio.

What a sight.

I spent the summer with mainly Oberlin grads who had summer jobs in D.C.

From the way the telegram is worded, it sounds as if I were on probation.

When I finally got word from my section chief, Sam Lawrence, that I had a permanent job, I sent the telegram you see above to my parents.

All in capital letters, the August 18, 1985, telegram said says,

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. 40 ODD NEGATIVE REPLIES.
NO MATTER. NOW THEY KNOW FOR THE FUTURE. NO NEED. WHEN WENT
TO WORK SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER TAKING KIDS TO ZOO FOUND
A LETTER FROM LAWRENCE. GOT THE POSITION. LOOKING FOR
CLOSER APARTMENT. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU=
LARRY.

Note that the letters are typed on strips of paper and pasted on the Western Union Telegram form. (Click to enlarge.) I don’t remember what the “40 odd negative replies” referred to.

I figure the kids where from an Anocostia housing project that Dennis Bathory hooked people in our house up with that summer.

Younger folks don’t know what a telegram is.

Here’s what one looks like.

After taking the Federal government’s Management Intern exam in 1965, I got a couple of job offers.

IRS was first.

Having political ambitions, I hoped I would get other job offers.

NASA came next. I’d have to move to Texas. That’s a long way from home.

Then came the offer I wanted most—from the United States Bureau of the Budget.

The agency had been glamorized for me by my best Oberlin College government professor—Aaron Wildavsky in his “Politics of the Budgetary Process.” The book was a political look at the budget making process.

In the middle of the June, after I had started a summer school course in statistics, I got word that Ihad a job at the Budget Bureau.

Naturally, the job was more important than the course.

I flew East the night 4th of July fireworks were being set off in Ohio.

What a sight.

I spent the summer with mainly Oberlin grads who had summer jobs in D.C.

From the way the telegram is worded, it sounds as if I were on probation.

When I finally got word from my section chief, Sam Lawrence, that I had a permanent job, I sent the telegram you see above to my parents.

All in capital letters, the August 18, 1985, telegram said says,

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. 40 ODD NEGATIVE REPLIES.
NO MATTER. NOW THEY KNOW FOR THE FUTURE. NO NEED. WHEN WENT
TO WORK SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER TAKING KIDS TO ZOO FOUND
A LETTER FROM LAWRENCE. GOT THE POSITION. LOOKING FOR
CLOSER APARTMENT. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU=
LARRY.

Note that the letters are typed on strips of paper and pasted on the Western Union Telegram form. (Click to enlarge.) I don’t remember what the “40 odd negative replies” referred to.

I figure the kids where from an Anocostia housing project that Dennis Bathory hooked people in our house up with that summer.

This past week 8th congressional district Congresswoman Melissa Bean got endorsed in her Democratic Party primary over peace candidate challenger Randi Scheurer.

In the Republican Party primary, benefits consultant Ken Arnold got the nod over his two opponents, Steve Greenberg and Kirk Morris.

Only one paragraph was dedicated to each endorsement, which was included with a bunch of other congressional endorsements.

There is a characteriture of Bean sitting at the back of the wagon. I have reproduced it large enough for you to see.

“8th: Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean, who describes herself as ‘moderate mainstream’ and a ‘fiscal conservative’ was first elected to congress in 2004. She authored and led passage of an Internet education safety program and co-sponsored initiatives to track sex offenders online. Bean, who has worked issues across the aisle, including transportation funding, is endorsed over Randi Scheurer, whose husband Bill Scheurer, ran against Bean as an independent.

“Vying in the Republican primary are businessmen Steve Greenberg, Kenneth Arnold and Kirk Morris. Notably, Morris’ son, a Marine, was killed in Iraq. Arnold is strong on policy, while Greenberg has greater financial backing. Arnold is endorsed over Greenberg, because brains should matter more than bucks.”

I would note that Bill Scheurer did not run as an independent. He created his own party, which he named the Moderate Party. I would also note that the editorial does not point out that both Scheurers ran to protest Bean’s position on the Iraq War.

So, what difference does the Sun-Times endorsement make?

I got it in 1980 when I ran against incumbent Robert C. McClory, but still lost the primary election, carrying only McHenry of the three county district that looking like a crane.

And, they endorsed me in spite of my opposition to gun control, as they did Lynn Martin.

For those interested in history, here was the endorsement:
OFFICE: U.S. House. Term, 2 years
Salary, $60,662.50

13th DIST. Republicans Robert McClory, Cal Skinner, Jr. Democrats
Edward J. LaFlamme, Michael Reese

Despite a sharp tongue that can wound needlessly and obtuseness on some public transit maters, state Rep. Cal Skinner Jr. has served Illinois well on such complex matters as school taxes and urban sprawl—and as an idea-generator.

Incumbent Rep. Robert McClory’s stewardship of his office has been amiable but increasingly listless. And his recent vote for pork-barrel water projects belies his claimed opposition to wasteful spending.

Skinner favors innovative use of alcohol to increase fuel supplies and practical deregulation of various industries as an anti-inflation measure. Both men agree on such key issues as the need to promote savings and investment, but we think Skinner offers more intelligent, vigorous representation.

That was the year I was driving a Pinto that used 85% alcohol and 15% water.

That is not a typo.

Elgin’s Herb Hanson and an Elgin policeman, whose name escapes me right now, invented it. It smelled like a still going down the street. This same time, GM and Ford were producing all-alcohol fueled cars in Brazil, but refused to do so in the United States.

It only broke down once…just east on Route 120 of where the highway turns south in Greenwood Township. Fortunately, the very surprised farm family living on the northwest corner or Route 120 on Charles Road took pity and let me call Gravers in Woodstock to tow it in and give me a ride back to 360 S. Madison Street, Woodstock.

Lynn Martin got endorsed to fill John B. Anderson’s seat in the same editorial. She won.

And, no.

My filing system is not good enough that I could have found this if I were looking for it. I was looking for a small black-on-yellow “Write-In Vance Roberts” sign that we used when he ran for the Crystal Lake city council.

Instead, I found this bad copy of a February 29, 1980 Sun-Times editorial, plus a Re-Elect Bob McClory yard sign.

Click on the editorials and you should be able to read them. The other images can also be enlarged the same way.

This past week 8th congressional district Congresswoman Melissa Bean got endorsed in her Democratic Party primary over peace candidate challenger Randi Scheurer.

In the Republican Party primary, benefits consultant Ken Arnold got the nod over his two opponents, Steve Greenberg and Kirk Morris.

Only one paragraph was dedicated to each endorsement, which was included with a bunch of other congressional endorsements.

There is a characteriture of Bean sitting at the back of the wagon. I have reproduced it large enough for you to see.

“8th: Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean, who describes herself as ‘moderate mainstream’ and a ‘fiscal conservative’ was first elected to congress in 2004. She authored and led passage of an Internet education safety program and co-sponsored initiatives to track sex offenders online. Bean, who has worked issues across the aisle, including transportation funding, is endorsed over Randi Scheurer, whose husband Bill Scheurer, ran against Bean as an independent.

“Vying in the Republican primary are businessmen Steve Greenberg, Kenneth Arnold and Kirk Morris. Notably, Morris’ son, a Marine, was killed in Iraq. Arnold is strong on policy, while Greenberg has greater financial backing. Arnold is endorsed over Greenberg, because brains should matter more than bucks.”

I would note that Bill Scheurer did not run as an independent. He created his own party, which he named the Moderate Party. I would also note that the editorial does not point out that both Scheurers ran to protest Bean’s position on the Iraq War.

So, what difference does the Sun-Times endorsement make?

I got it in 1980 when I ran against incumbent Robert C. McClory, but still lost the primary election, carrying only McHenry of the three county district that looking like a crane.

And, they endorsed me in spite of my opposition to gun control, as they did Lynn Martin.

For those interested in history, here was the endorsement:
OFFICE: U.S. House. Term, 2 years
Salary, $60,662.50

13th DIST. Republicans Robert McClory, Cal Skinner, Jr. Democrats
Edward J. LaFlamme, Michael Reese

Despite a sharp tongue that can wound needlessly and obtuseness on some public transit maters, state Rep. Cal Skinner Jr. has served Illinois well on such complex matters as school taxes and urban sprawl—and as an idea-generator.

Incumbent Rep. Robert McClory’s stewardship of his office has been amiable but increasingly listless. And his recent vote for pork-barrel water projects belies his claimed opposition to wasteful spending.

Skinner favors innovative use of alcohol to increase fuel supplies and practical deregulation of various industries as an anti-inflation measure. Both men agree on such key issues as the need to promote savings and investment, but we think Skinner offers more intelligent, vigorous representation.

That was the year I was driving a Pinto that used 85% alcohol and 15% water.

That is not a typo.

Elgin’s Herb Hanson and an Elgin policeman, whose name escapes me right now, invented it. It smelled like a still going down the street. This same time, GM and Ford were producing all-alcohol fueled cars in Brazil, but refused to do so in the United States.

It only broke down once…just east on Route 120 of where the highway turns south in Greenwood Township. Fortunately, the very surprised farm family living on the northwest corner or Route 120 on Charles Road took pity and let me call Gravers in Woodstock to tow it in and give me a ride back to 360 S. Madison Street, Woodstock.

Lynn Martin got endorsed to fill John B. Anderson’s seat in the same editorial. She won.

And, no.

My filing system is not good enough that I could have found this if I were looking for it. I was looking for a small black-on-yellow “Write-In Vance Roberts” sign that we used when he ran for the Crystal Lake city council.

Instead, I found this bad copy of a February 29, 1980 Sun-Times editorial, plus a Re-Elect Bob McClory yard sign.

Click on the editorials and you should be able to read them. The other images can also be enlarged the same way.

Since I have an article about the McHenry County Treasurer’s office below, today is as good a one as any to post this sign.

It’s a political sign that helped me (barely) win the 1966 Republican June primary election for county treasurer two days after my 24th birthday.

It’s 8½ inches wide and 7 inches high.

It says,

There were made out of 8½ by 14 inch goldenrod card stock.

They were printed on a mimeograph machine. This one didn’t get inked as well as it should have.

Then, they were cut in half.

You will not the hard charging elephant, which the national Republican Party has replaced with a stylized one with rounded edges.

I like the older, more energetic elephant.

The campaign had about a third of the precinct committeemen supporting me. I remember Nunda Township Supervisor Ted Sterns, after whom Sterns Woods is named, telling me that I should wait my turn, that I was young, that I had time.

(A neighbor across the way from his basket show on Woodstock Street said he ran a bookie joint. He said there was an incredible amount of traffic in and out of the little building that was torn down to be part of the Crystal Lake City Hall parking lot.)

Another precinct committeeman from McHenry Township told me I would be eaten alive by the tigers in the courthouse.

When I campaigned at the small grocery store in Fox River Grove, the Republican precinct committeeman called to complain that I had not asked his permission. Ted Mandale was a Goldwater Republican who later moved to Lake Forest where I reconnected with him and his wife Ruth after I became more conservative.

Because the election was held the second Tuesday of June, I had plenty of time to knock on doors—some 4,000, I think. The county’s population was about 90,000 at the time.

With nightfall being pretty late, I found that I could knock on doors until 8:45 without scaring people. Of course, it helped that I was young. I sensed many of the older women gave me the same benefit of the doubt they would have given their grandsons.

In any event, I put these little posters up all over McHenry County. Supporters of the other two candidates, Harvard Police Chief Gene Brewer and Hartland Township Supervisor and county board member Ray Murphy thought there must be at least six people putting them up.

But it was just me.

I even put one on a telephone pole outside the police department door. It stayed up for years, but was probably a bad idea, because Brewer probably just got more energized every time he saw it.

After Earth Day in 1969, Jack Schaffer and I pretty much agreed that signs on poles and in rights-of-ways were something that no longer seems appropriate.

The right-of-way avoidance continued until Don Manzullo ran for congress in 1992. Apparently he had more signs than he could find supporters to give permission to place on their properties. Maybe it was because he was running against Schaffer and McHenry County was his “home town.”

Signs have been illegally put in road rights-of-way ever since.

My father designed the sign, by the way.

Since I have an article about the McHenry County Treasurer’s office below, today is as good a one as any to post this sign.

It’s a political sign that helped me (barely) win the 1966 Republican June primary election for county treasurer two days after my 24th birthday.

It’s 8½ inches wide and 7 inches high.

It says,

There were made out of 8½ by 14 inch goldenrod card stock.

They were printed on a mimeograph machine. This one didn’t get inked as well as it should have.

Then, they were cut in half.

You will not the hard charging elephant, which the national Republican Party has replaced with a stylized one with rounded edges.

I like the older, more energetic elephant.

The campaign had about a third of the precinct committeemen supporting me. I remember Nunda Township Supervisor Ted Sterns, after whom Sterns Woods is named, telling me that I should wait my turn, that I was young, that I had time.

(A neighbor across the way from his basket show on Woodstock Street said he ran a bookie joint. He said there was an incredible amount of traffic in and out of the little building that was torn down to be part of the Crystal Lake City Hall parking lot.)

Another precinct committeeman from McHenry Township told me I would be eaten alive by the tigers in the courthouse.

When I campaigned at the small grocery store in Fox River Grove, the Republican precinct committeeman called to complain that I had not asked his permission. Ted Mandale was a Goldwater Republican who later moved to Lake Forest where I reconnected with him and his wife Ruth after I became more conservative.

Because the election was held the second Tuesday of June, I had plenty of time to knock on doors—some 4,000, I think. The county’s population was about 90,000 at the time.

With nightfall being pretty late, I found that I could knock on doors until 8:45 without scaring people. Of course, it helped that I was young. I sensed many of the older women gave me the same benefit of the doubt they would have given their grandsons.

In any event, I put these little posters up all over McHenry County. Supporters of the other two candidates, Harvard Police Chief Gene Brewer and Hartland Township Supervisor and county board member Ray Murphy thought there must be at least six people putting them up.

But it was just me.

I even put one on a telephone pole outside the police department door. It stayed up for years, but was probably a bad idea, because Brewer probably just got more energized every time he saw it.

After Earth Day in 1969, Jack Schaffer and I pretty much agreed that signs on poles and in rights-of-ways were something that no longer seems appropriate.

The right-of-way avoidance continued until Don Manzullo ran for congress in 1992. Apparently he had more signs than he could find supporters to give permission to place on their properties. Maybe it was because he was running against Schaffer and McHenry County was his “home town.”

Signs have been illegally put in road rights-of-way ever since.

My father designed the sign, by the way.

While 16 Crystal Lakers have pulled out their check books to make contributions to presidential candidates, only 11 from Woodstock and 3 from McHenry have made the plunge.

Maybe the population of the two areas are similar, so the percentage of residents making contributions might be roughly comparable.

Some of you may know that I’m not too deeply into presidential politics. That’s because I know that making the same contribution to a local or legislative candidate or volunteering one’s time to local candidates has a much greater chance of making an impact in the direction one wants than participating in presidential politics can ever yield.

Nevertheless, I’ll readily admit it is not as exciting.

I decided to go to Oberlin College in 1960 because it was a good school and had the first mock political convention in the country.

When I was at Oberlin College, my goal was to bring the Republican message to that liberal bastion for at least one year and we Young Republicans did gain enough control of the student council to designate the 1964 Mock Convention a Republican one. I became its chairman.

Before that 1963-64 convention experience, I was the 1962 student campaign manager of the Oberlin College YR’s (now called College Republicans). We marshaled 2,700 student hours of campaigning for the re-election effort of Congressman Charles Mosher, an Oberlin grad and local newspaper publisher. That convinced me an individual could make a difference in a congressional campaign.

But I learned that the lower on the political totem pole, the more impact one can have. We worked in 1961 and 1963 for Woody Mathna’s mayoral campaigns in Lorain, Ohio. He was a Republican running in a Democratic Party steel town. He won in ‘61 and was re-elected in ‘63. The YR’s door knocking helped fill holes in Mathna’s campaign organization.

In my only local foray into presidential politics, I did have my name on the ballot as a convention delegate for Jack Kemp in 1988. He folded after the Iowa caucus, a week before the Illinois primary. Not much impact. Point made, perhaps.

But, when Bill Baar pointed out the ease of using the Chicago Tribune campaign contribution data base, I started looking at those in McHenry County who are involved in the national campaign in a pocketbook way.

(If local folks are involved beyond writing a check, I would be interested in learning how to contact them. Party is irrelevant.)

Unlike a couple of the Crystal Lakers, no one from zip code 60050 gave the maximum amount allowed by law–$2,300.

However, two people—Steven and Mary Jacobs–who live on Madison Street in Woodstock, the same street where I used to live, gave that maximum to Rudy Giulianni.

In Woodstock, 5 people gave $2,255.05 to Barack Obama. Four were men, one a woman.

Besides the couple who contributed $4,600 to Giuliani in Woodstock, 2 men contributed a total of $600 to John McCain.

In McHenry, three men donated money. McCain and Giuliani got $500 and Obama received $250.

Woodstock contributors (zip code 60098):

• Borelli, Nelson, 1347 Galloway Dr, Woodstock, IL 60098, Not Employed, $100.00, May. 14th – Obama; $100.00, Jun. 29th – Obama
• Jacobs, Steven A, .348 S. Madison Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, Really Great Meetings, Inc., Meeting/event Planner, $2,300.00, Jun. 29th – Giuliani
• Jacobs, Mary B., 348 S. Madison Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, College Of Lake County, R.d.h./instructor, $2,300.00, Jun. 30th – Giuliani
• Metiver, Donald, 413 N Cold Springs Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098, Sportdecals, President, $1,000.00, Apr. 26th – Obama
• Pitsch, James L., 8108 Crystal Springs Rd, Bull Valley, IL 60098, Staffordshire Associates, Inc., Executive, $100.00, Apr. 24th – McCain
• Schlosberg, Leo, 370 Lincoln Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098, Cary Concrete Products, Inc., Contractor, $25.00, Jun. 6th – Obama; $30.05, Apr. 1st – Obama
• Smith, Marschall I, 344 Fremont St, Woodstock, IL 60098, Brunswick Corp, Attorney, $500.00, Apr. 23rd – Obama
• Sterling, Betty, 423 Marawood Dr, Woodstock, IL 60098, Not Employed, Homemaker, $500.00, Mar. 5th – Obama
• Zimmer, Donald C., 11128 Berltsum Ln, Woodstock, IL 60098S, Self, Engineer, $500.00, Mar. 31st – McCain

McHenry (60050) contributors:

• Fleming, Henry J, 4123 W Shamrock Ln, McHenry, IL 60050, Self, Accountant, $500.00, Mar. 21st – McCain
• Nowland, Jeffrey D, 4006 Boone Creek Circle, McHenry, IL 60050, Citadel Investment Group, L.l.c.Software, Development Manager, $500.00, Jun. 13th – Giuliani
• Skiba, Thomas J, 3712 W Lee St, McHenry, IL 60050, $250.00, Apr. 12th – Obama

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The picture of Barack Obama comes from his web site. I took the photo of John McCain at an event at the Union League Club.

While 16 Crystal Lakers have pulled out their check books to make contributions to presidential candidates, only 11 from Woodstock and 3 from McHenry have made the plunge.

Maybe the population of the two areas are similar, so the percentage of residents making contributions might be roughly comparable.

Some of you may know that I’m not too deeply into presidential politics. That’s because I know that making the same contribution to a local or legislative candidate or volunteering one’s time to local candidates has a much greater chance of making an impact in the direction one wants than participating in presidential politics can ever yield.

Nevertheless, I’ll readily admit it is not as exciting.

I decided to go to Oberlin College in 1960 because it was a good school and had the first mock political convention in the country.

When I was at Oberlin College, my goal was to bring the Republican message to that liberal bastion for at least one year and we Young Republicans did gain enough control of the student council to designate the 1964 Mock Convention a Republican one. I became its chairman.

Before that 1963-64 convention experience, I was the 1962 student campaign manager of the Oberlin College YR’s (now called College Republicans). We marshaled 2,700 student hours of campaigning for the re-election effort of Congressman Charles Mosher, an Oberlin grad and local newspaper publisher. That convinced me an individual could make a difference in a congressional campaign.

But I learned that the lower on the political totem pole, the more impact one can have. We worked in 1961 and 1963 for Woody Mathna’s mayoral campaigns in Lorain, Ohio. He was a Republican running in a Democratic Party steel town. He won in ‘61 and was re-elected in ‘63. The YR’s door knocking helped fill holes in Mathna’s campaign organization.

In my only local foray into presidential politics, I did have my name on the ballot as a convention delegate for Jack Kemp in 1988. He folded after the Iowa caucus, a week before the Illinois primary. Not much impact. Point made, perhaps.

But, when Bill Baar pointed out the ease of using the Chicago Tribune campaign contribution data base, I started looking at those in McHenry County who are involved in the national campaign in a pocketbook way.

(If local folks are involved beyond writing a check, I would be interested in learning how to contact them. Party is irrelevant.)

Unlike a couple of the Crystal Lakers, no one from zip code 60050 gave the maximum amount allowed by law–$2,300.

However, two people—Steven and Mary Jacobs–who live on Madison Street in Woodstock, the same street where I used to live, gave that maximum to Rudy Giulianni.

In Woodstock, 5 people gave $2,255.05 to Barack Obama. Four were men, one a woman.

Besides the couple who contributed $4,600 to Giuliani in Woodstock, 2 men contributed a total of $600 to John McCain.

In McHenry, three men donated money. McCain and Giuliani got $500 and Obama received $250.

Woodstock contributors (zip code 60098):

• Borelli, Nelson, 1347 Galloway Dr, Woodstock, IL 60098, Not Employed, $100.00, May. 14th – Obama; $100.00, Jun. 29th – Obama
• Jacobs, Steven A, .348 S. Madison Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, Really Great Meetings, Inc., Meeting/event Planner, $2,300.00, Jun. 29th – Giuliani
• Jacobs, Mary B., 348 S. Madison Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, College Of Lake County, R.d.h./instructor, $2,300.00, Jun. 30th – Giuliani
• Metiver, Donald, 413 N Cold Springs Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098, Sportdecals, President, $1,000.00, Apr. 26th – Obama
• Pitsch, James L., 8108 Crystal Springs Rd, Bull Valley, IL 60098, Staffordshire Associates, Inc., Executive, $100.00, Apr. 24th – McCain
• Schlosberg, Leo, 370 Lincoln Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098, Cary Concrete Products, Inc., Contractor, $25.00, Jun. 6th – Obama; $30.05, Apr. 1st – Obama
• Smith, Marschall I, 344 Fremont St, Woodstock, IL 60098, Brunswick Corp, Attorney, $500.00, Apr. 23rd – Obama
• Sterling, Betty, 423 Marawood Dr, Woodstock, IL 60098, Not Employed, Homemaker, $500.00, Mar. 5th – Obama
• Zimmer, Donald C., 11128 Berltsum Ln, Woodstock, IL 60098S, Self, Engineer, $500.00, Mar. 31st – McCain

McHenry (60050) contributors:

• Fleming, Henry J, 4123 W Shamrock Ln, McHenry, IL 60050, Self, Accountant, $500.00, Mar. 21st – McCain
• Nowland, Jeffrey D, 4006 Boone Creek Circle, McHenry, IL 60050, Citadel Investment Group, L.l.c.Software, Development Manager, $500.00, Jun. 13th – Giuliani
• Skiba, Thomas J, 3712 W Lee St, McHenry, IL 60050, $250.00, Apr. 12th – Obama

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The picture of Barack Obama comes from his web site. I took the photo of John McCain at an event at the Union League Club.