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That’s the question candidates face if they are doing well.

The latest lie to reach my ears came from Fox River Grove.

Melissa Sanchez of Lake in the Hills, a candidate for Algonquin Township Trustee.

Larry Emery of Crystal Lake, who is running for Algonquin Township Trustee.

A citizen was told that Larry Emery and Melissa Sanchez had voted to raise their own salaries on the Algonquin Township Board.

That’s pretty funny because neither serve on the Algonquin Township Board.

Indeed both are candidates for Township Trustee.

And, perhaps not coincidentally, they are running against two incumbent Township Board members who did vote to raise salaries for Algonquin Township officials.

Those two are Dan Shea and Lowell Cutsforth.

A third incumbent, appointed to the position, Russ Cardelli, led the fight against raising Algonquin Township salaries.

So, what’s it all mean?

I think it means that supporters of the two incumbents who voted to raise salaries are worried they might lose.

In any event, it has not been my experience that one can’t sell a lie in a campaign.

Coincidentally, a mailing arrived today from the slate of Trustee candidates that include Shea and Cutsforth.  You can see it below:

The slate of four candidates backed by Road Commission Bob Miller manifested itself for a second time in a mailing delivered today. The first was on a sign that has been displayed next to Marc Munaretto for

Supervisor Marc Munaretto and Chuck Lutzow for Clerk signs appear next to those of the four candidates running on a slate–Dan Shea, Lowell Custsforth, Niels Kruse and Bill Bligh. All mailings seem to have come from the same mail house.

Bob Miller

On January 10th, Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller’s Political Action Committee gave $1,000 to Supervisor candidate Marc Munaretto. You read it here.

You may remember the slate of four candidates sign that popped up on the Cary-Algonquin blacktop.

I thought it might be Nick Chirikos’ property, so I asked him.

Here is his reply,

“Yes, that’s my property. I responded to a request from Bob Miller to place the sign yesterday.  I know Lowell well, and Dan Shea is our County’s representative for CMAP and I am on the transportation committee. I trust both of these men and think they will continue to represent Algonquin Township properly. I have not met either Neils Kruse or Bill Bligh but know of their backgrounds.”

It turns out that Miller has donated $1,000 to the Citizens to Elect Lowell A Cutsforth. That was on January 29th.  The slate’s sign appeared about two weeks later.

Now, some of Munaretto’s signs have the slate of four signs next to them.

Signs of candidates that Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller has supported monetarily stand next to each other on Algonquin Road.

Only Township Assessor Bob Kunz and Road Commissioner Bob Miller managed to avoid a challenge in the late February Republican Party Primary Election.

Everyone seated at the November Algonquin Township Meeting except for attorney Jim Kelly is running in next February’s Republican Primary Election.

Township Supervisor Dianne Klemm is being challenged by Township Clerk Marc Munaretto.

Two are running for the Clerk

• current Trustee Linda Lantz and
• former Trustee Chuck Lutzow

For Trustee there are seven candidates.

Three are currently Trustees:

• Dan Shea of Fox River Grove
• Lowell Cutsforth of Fox River Grove
• Russ Cardell1 of Algonquin

Four are not:

• Neils Kruse of Cary
• Melissa Sanchez of Lake in the Hills
• Larry Emmery of Crystal Lake
• Bill Bligh of Crystal Lake

Of the Trustee candidates, Shea, Cutsforth, Kurse, Sanchez and Emery are Republican Precinct Committeemen.

Bligh applied to be Associate Judge in 2011.