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License plate 989-NHH on a white Jeep into which Sheriff Keith Nygren and his wife drove from the fundraiser for Appellate Justice Mary Schostok. It has a license plate holder saying, "POSSE SHERIFF NYGREN."

I found this Wisconsin license plate in the parking lot of D’Andrea the night of the event for Appellate Court Justices Mary Schostok and Ann Jorgensen.

While looking for a big, lit up Nygren sign in the parking lot, I saw McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren and his wife Marge get into a large white Jeep with a Wisconsin license plate and a Nygren’s Posse license plate holder.

It prompted me to send this email yesterday morning to Nygren’s campaign web site.

Brent Smith sent me out to the parking lot at Schostok’s fund raiser to get a photo of your sign, which he said was lighted.  Searching the parking lot, I ran across a white Jeep with Wisconsin plates.  It had a Nygren Posse license plate holder.  (At the far edge of the parking lot I finally found the pickup truck, but with an unlit sign.)

Cary village Trustee Ray Chisholm and, later, Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager and I talked on the steps.  Then you and Marge left the event, got into the Jeep and drove away.

Why does the Jeep have Wisconsin license plates?

By the time I went to bed, having scheduled this to be posted shortly after midnight, Sheriff Nygren had not replied.

McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren is offering the premiums (license plate holder or bracket, window sticker and lapel pin) seen above at his 13th Annual McHenry County Sheriff’s Fundraiser.

It will be held Sept. 10th at Donley’s Banquet Hall in Union.

The price ranges from $35 for Republican precinct committeemen to $550 for a “Posse Table Sponsor.”

The regular price is $40.

He faces opposition in the Republican primary election from former deputy Zane Seipler and in the general election from Green Party candidate Gus Philpott.

Nygren had $122,712.48 in his campaign fund at the end of June.

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