Jack Franks’ campaign for McHenry County Board Chairman just got a check for $25,000 from the Chicago Land Operators Joint Labor-Management PAC (see connection to Operating Engineers Local 150 here). (Certainly is it just a coincidence that the McHenry County … Continue reading
Category Archives: Contribution
About-to-be appointed District 3 McHenry County Board member Chris Christensen has filed his first campaign finance report with the Illinois State Board of Elections. It says he has $9,300 so far. Two entities made contributions of $1,000 or more: $2,000 … Continue reading
Democratic Party State Rep. candidate John Bartman reports today that three unions have contributed $16,000 more to his campaign to defeat Republican Steve Reick. The details are below: $10,000 – IUOE [International Union of Operating Engineers] LOCAL 150 LOCAL AREA … Continue reading
Jack Franks’ finance people finally got around to putting his $1,000 fundraiser money in the bank and reporting it to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Here are the contributors and the city they used on their checks: $1,500 – … Continue reading
The Health Care Council of Illinois PAC has made a $5,000 contribution to the campaign of GOP State Rep. candidate Steve Reick. No new money is showing for his Democratic Party opponent John Bartman. … Continue reading
Imagine my surprise when McHenry County Blog reporting showed up in a comprehensive report entitled, “Justice for Sale III,” by the Illinois Civil Justice League. It’s seems to be about how Illinois trial lawyers influence the political system, especially the selection … Continue reading
Republican State Rep. candidate Steve Reick reported a couple of more contributions of more than $1,000 this week. Two were for employees assigned by the House Republican Organization: Dane Thall – $1,229.75 Jordan Ryan – $1,580.29 In addition, from the same source, … Continue reading
Below are contributions of $1,000 or more to State Rep. Jack Franks on Thursday: $5,000 – Globetrotters Engineering Corp, Chicago $1,500 – Citizens for Lou Lang, Skokie $1,000 – Lenny Davis, attorney, Washington, DC $1,000 – Blair Hull, trader, Chicago … Continue reading
Monday Republican State Rep. candidate Steve Reick received $1,000 from State Senator Jim Oberweis’ Political Action Committee. Checking Reick’s opponent John Bartman’s report, there are still no contributions of $1,000 or more, although his invitation to the Thursday event does … Continue reading
$8,588.66 was spent by the House Republican Organization on a mailing for State Rep. candidate Steve Reick. In addition, $1,580.26 was reported spent on Reick staffer Jordan Ryan’s salary. It appears both in-kind contributions were reported twice to the State Board … Continue reading
Democratic Party State’s Attorney candidate Ray Flavin has notified the Illinois State Board of Elections that he has written a check to his campaign fund for $2,100. He indicates that it is an “in-kind” contribution. That could be office space, … Continue reading
There is now doubt that Democrat Jack Franks has enough money to think he can buy election as McHenry County Board Chairman. After all, he had $572,276.31 in resources at the end of June and has picked up $9,500 since … Continue reading
Running in District 5, newcomer Andy Snarski has received a campaign contribution of $5,400 from Sage Products Chairman of the Board Vince Foglia. District 5 has parts of Lakewood, Lake in the Hills, Huntley, Woodstock and Bull Valley. … Continue reading
Vince Foglia, Chairman of the Board of Sage Products, has contributed $5,400 to McHenry County Board candidate Craig Wilcox. Wilcox is running for County Board in District 4, which covers most of McHenry Township, plus Richmond and Burton Townships. … Continue reading
State Representative Jack Franks is good at getting headlines and at raising money. In the second quarter of this year, he reported having raised $45,754.91. He spent $35,108.55 during those three months, so he managed to increase his campaign fund … Continue reading
Looking for a campaign committee for newly-announced Democratic Party State Rep. candidate to replace Jack Franks, I found the following contributions instead. Bartman is a former Chairman of the McHenry County Democratic Party, serving from 2003-6. He is facing off … Continue reading
During the Primary Election campaign for State Representative in the 66th District, State Rep. Barb Wheeler worked hard for Dan Wilbrandt. She sent out an endorsement press release. Now, Wheeler has reported to the State Board of Elections that Wilbrandt … Continue reading
McHenry County State’s Attorney candidate Dan Regna apparently accepted too much money from Scott Breeden. I received an anonymous letter today with that information. It was typed in really big letters. “Regna has no idea of what it means to … Continue reading
The polling data for Carolyn Schofield must not be as good as I would expect it to be, considering she is the only woman in a four-way race. The evidence is the transfer of $45,000 from incumbent McHenry County legislators’ … Continue reading
I awoke yesterday morning with the thought that a campaign promise by 66th District Republican Primary Election candidate Paul Serwatka may have stimulated the biggest teachers union in the state to give 66th District opponent Carolyn Schofield $53,900. Serwatka’s press … Continue reading