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Mail Fail for Donna Kelly

February 07, 2010 By: Cal Skinner Category: 22nd Judicial Circuit, 2nd Appellate Court, Donna Kelly, Judge, Mary Schostok, McHenry County

McHenry County attorney Donna Kathryn Kelly ran for a 2nd Appellate Court judgeship.

I didn’t see any literature at the Republican Central Committee distribution day or I would have passed it out in my precinct, as I did for all the candidates who supplied it.

Two days after the election, I received the card in the mail with a first class stamp on it.

The Palatine postmark was January 29th.

So, how did first class mail take just one day short of a week to get delivered?

If I were Donna Kelly, that is what I would put in my letter to the regional Postal Inspector.

Or, maybe the Diane Kelly of Crystal Lake should send the letter. The post card I received had her return address sticker on it.

Such poor delivery is simply outrageous.

Kelly’s electoral performance puts her in a good position to run for judge in McHenry County,

Almost final McHenry County election returns for the February 2, 2010, primary election in which Donna Kelly polled more local votes than 2nd Appellate District winner Mary Schostok.

It seems appropriate to list the qualifications that she had on the palm card:

  • An experienced appellate attorney
  • 7 years as an assistant appellate defender for the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Third District
  • Authored dozens of appellate court briefs
  • Won numerous cases in the Appellate Court
  • Argued and won 2 cases before the Illinois Supreme CourthouseFormer assistant public defender, Kane County
  • 15 years experience in the criminal justice system
  • Member of the Capital Litigation Bar
  • Qualified to prosecute & defend death penalty cases
  • 4 years as assistant state’s attorney in McHenry County
  • Headed Gang Prosecution Unit
  • Author of crime novel “Cop Eyes”
  • Graduate of Northern Illinois University College of Law 1994
  • Graduated from Marian Central Catholic High School, 1986

www.ELECTDONNAKELLY.COM

Message of the Day – Ignomy

August 10, 2009 By: Cal Skinner Category: Chocolate Bunny, Judge, McHenry County Fair, Meat, Rabbit, Rack Shack and Benny, Veggie Tales, White Rabbit

What else could explain what the little white rabbit was feeling?

The judge at the McHenry County Fair seemed intent upon making him sit on his haunches.

That obviously was not the little rabbit’s preference.

And, if the rabbit could read.

Ah, the ignomy of it all.

It reminds me to “The Bunny Song” from Veggie Tales. The original version, which I bought as a stocking stuffer for my bunny-loving wife had the line,

“Who Ate the Bunny?”
repeated over and over.

It was a Christmas Day hit for the everyone but her.

Below you see the asparagus girl singers doing the chorus:

The Old Testament story song was really related more to Easter, insofar as it was about a chocolate bunny idol in the video, “Rack, Shack and Benny.”

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