McHenry County Blog

Matt Murphy met with local supporters at Nick's Pizza on July 9.

I guess I’ve slipped off State Senator Pam Althoff’s press release list, but, fortunately, I discovered on < that one of McHenry County’s legislators is endorsing her colleague Matt Murphy for Lieutenant Governor.

Murphy started off running for governor, then hooked up with former GOP state party chairman Andy McKenna and switched to the second spot.

His first campaign appearance in McHenry County, as far as I know, was on July 9th at Nick’s Pizza in Crystal Lake.

He was a national convention delegate candidate for Fred Thompson in 2008.

He favors a structural change in the General Assembly that I promoted in my 2002 Libertarian Party gubernatorial campaign—Term Limits for Legislative Leaders.

In the debate when Illinois Senate Democrats passed a 67% income tax hike, Murphy was a true star.

Murphy is from Palatine.

Details below are provided by youngish Republican Joe Stefani, a newly-elected member of the Algonquin Library Board:

“Last night I was invited to sit down for dinner with State Senator Matt Murphy along with several other younger Republicans from McHenry County at Nick’s Pizza & Pub in Crystal Lake.

“The only things I have heard about State Senator Murphy before last night was what I had read in the press, so I took a few minutes before going last night to do some research on Murphy and thought carefully on what I was going to ask him.

“With myself I have to think about locally what his impact will be but also in Rockford, where my minor league baseball team will begin playing next season.

“I’ve met a lot of candidates in my day, but Murphy floored me in a way that no others had.

“He was extremely personable like no other I met before, answered numerous challenging questions but most importantly, he actually did something that very few candidates have done so far in Illinois on the Republican side, he painted a picture for all of us there and actually made it one we could actually believe in and not one full of false promises.

“State Senator Murphy said he was on a mission to make Illinoisans proud of their state once again.

“After last night, I think that this guy might be the new face of the Republican party here in Illinois.”

McHenry County Blog has written this article about Murphy’s Senate floor opposition to the Democrats’ 67% income tax hike bill, Senate Bill 744.

Murphy is from Palatine.