McHenry County Blog

With the submission of the ALAW conflict of interest form, the total now stands at eleven of those county board members who have opened up financial aspects of their personal lives.

McHenry County Board member Barbara Wheeler, on the left, mugs with one of her District 3 challengers, Veronica Armstrong, who is holding a rubber jar opener that says, "Get a grip on your future. Get rid of the screw offs." The two were at the literature distribution last for Republican precinct committeemen last Friday night.

Republican Veronica Armstrong, who is running for a District 3 seat, has just submitted her information.

She is a challenger running against

• Incumbent Barb Wheeler
• Former Board member Nick Provenzano
• Challenger Craig Steagall and
• Challenger Karen Tynis

Tynis is now the only District 3 candidate who has not filled out the questionnaire whose completion the Alliance of Land, Agriculture and Water wants the county board to make mandatory.

Steagall started the domino effect, being the first in the county to file.

Others who have filled out the form are in this article.

It’s time to get back to my “Message of the Day” feature. Switching back and forth on computers—NEVER, EVER buy a Hewlett-Packard computer—has made accessing photos difficult to impossible.

At any rate, take a look at the jar opener I found in Crystal Lake.

It’s a campaign gimmick for Veronica Armstrong, who is running in the Republican primary for McHenry County Board in District 3. That’s the one north of Crystal Lake Avenue in Crystal Lake that goes into the southern part of McHenry.

The message on the hand-shaped rubberized friction increaser is provocative.

It says,

Veronica
Armstrong
County Board District 3

Get a grip on your future.
Get rid of the screw offs.

The only incumbent running in District 3 is Barbara Wheeler. (Ed Dvorak is retiring.)

Wheeler was a leader in the successful fight to ban video poker (really slot machines) in unincorporated McHenry County. She also ran unsuccessfully against District 2′s Ken Koehler—also up for re-election—for county board chairman. The punishment was not being named a committeeman.

So, are the “barbs” on the jar opener aimed at Barbara or the county board in general?

There have been some weird “Messages of the Day” on McHenry County Blog, but toothpicks?

Not yet.

When I was at the Republican booth at the McHenry County Fair, I found these toothpicks that McHenry County Auditor Pam Palmer is using to promote her re-election campaign.

I think they’re cute.

There have been some weird “Messages of the Day” on McHenry County Blog, but toothpicks?

Not yet.

When I was at the Republican booth at the McHenry County Fair, I found these toothpicks that McHenry County Auditor Pam Palmer is using to promote her re-election campaign.

I think they’re cute.