McHenry County Blog

There are two mistakes that newcomers to seeking office make that opponents use to eliminate them from the ballot.

“Easier to beat no one than someone,” goes the logic.

The first is to fail to number the pages of one’s petition.

Now-Algonquin Township Supervisor candidate Marc Munaretto challenge Nancy Scalero’s failure to number her pages together when they both were running for Algonquin Township Clerk.

Munaretto won by default.

Today, however, let’s look at how a veteran office holder got tossed off the ballot in southern Cook County.

Because Thornton Township High School Board President Kevin Williams didn’t staple his election petitions together, he got kicked off the April ballot.

He didn’t staple his pages together and that, rather than his being a ex-felon, got him kicked off the Thornton Township High School District 205 ballot.

So, beginning candidates,

1. number your petition pages
2. staple all of your pages together and
3. be sure you staple your receipt for filing you Statement of Economic Interest in the packet (not doing to got Nunda Township Supervisor John Heisler kicked off the ballot)

Pam Fender

The first stage of an election is the petition-passing process.

The second stage is too often the petition-challenging process.

I remember when Marc Munaretto was first running for Algonquin Township Clerk, he knocked challenger Nancy Scalero off the ballot because she did not number the pages of her petition. He won without opposition.

Now, Huntley Trustee and deposed Grafton Township Administrator Pam Fender’s petition for the Republican nomination for Township Supervisor has been challenged by someone whose last name is Krohn.

An Electoral Board hearing will be held Monday night at 7:30 in the multi-purpose room at the Huntley Park District Building.

The Board will be chaired by Township Clerk Harriet Ford. Other members will be Trustees Betty Zirk and Barb Murphy.

Fender announced that Zirk would be running on a slate which apparently disintegrated.

Should Fender be tossed off the ballot for whatever reason(s) cited in the petition, of which I do not yet have a copy, that would leave a two-way race for the GOP nomination for Supervisor.

Since Fender is an enemy of Moore, it is likely that she would end up supporting the third candidate Marty Waitzman.

That would not bode well for Moore.

Of course, if kicked off the Republican ballot, Fender could run as an Independent, as Jim Kearns is.

That would mean the April election would be a three-way race in which I would think the Republican nominee would be the favorite.

Nancy Scalero

Yesterday, I gave a hint of what interested Crystal Laker Nancy Scalero, who died in August.

I found evidence of her Kitchen Militia in the minutes of April 18, 2000, McHenry County Board meeting.

At a September gathering we had, many proclaimed her the “Captain” of the Kitchen Militia.

She was also a Republican Precinct Committeeman in McHenry County.

Her daughter spoke for the family and did a superb job.

Nancy and her husband Richard were, would you believe, hippies.

At least that is how they and their friends dressed.

So, to all who think the youth of American are stuck in a Barack Obama time warp, there is hope, based on the way that Nancy and Richard turned out.

Nancy and Richard Scalero in their hippie days.