I don’t usually dabble in politics outside of McHenry County, but this TV ad (at least I think that’s what it is) uses the sharpest tool in the political tool box–ridicule–so well, I wanted to share it with you.
It had me laughing as hard as I have in a long, long time.
The pomposity is so well depicted.
David Zucker made it.
“Use in case of bad behavior,”
is the message written on a paddle with cobwebs running from it in the Northwest Herald in the editorial cartoon displayed most prominently on its web site today.
Beneath is the message,
“Spare the rod, spoil the Grafton Township Board.”
So, the NW Herald is adding ridicule to mix in this run-up to the April 13th Grafton Township Annual Town Meeting, perhaps prompted by the latest court battle.
And ridicule is what politicians hate most.
First use of ridicule in the Grafton Township Board dispute was on a tee shirt worn by an eighty-something woman supporting Township Supervisor Linda Moore.
The NW Herald is not the first to have employed that tool, as you can see above from the tee shirt worn by a supporter of Township Supervisor Linda Moore. For those unfamiliar with township government, there are four trustees, plus the supervisor on the township board.
So far, however, McHenry County’s paper of record has not run a story (at least I haven’t seen one) about that important Tuesday April 13th gathering at 7 PM at the Huntley High School on the western side of Huntley. Last year’s was a doozy!
More fun than a Tea Party demonstration and your vote could actually save you tax dollars.
If you live in this part of McHenry County and are a registered voter, you can participate in the Annual Town Meeting Tuesday, April 13th, at 7 PM at Huntley High School. (If you are not registered yet, you can still do so; just bring your copy of the voter registration receipt.)
The Trustees and newly-hired Township Administrator Pam Fender obviously want those registered voters attending (called electors) the meeting to approve new township offices. The building Fender passed out information about is even big enough to house a big food pantry.
Township Attorney Keri-Lyn Krafthefer
The agenda prepared by Township Attorney Keri-Lyn Krafthefer, obviously serving only the Township Trustees, is crafted in such a manner as to favor keeping the over $600,000 the Trustees have in the bank from selling the township hall to the township road district. That was done improperly during the time that former Township Supervisor John Rossi was in office, according to Judge Michael Caldwell’s decision, upheld by the 2nd Appellate Court in Elgin.
The other illegal act—borrowing money from Harris Bank—was corrected, pretty much fulfilling the campaign promise of current Township Supervisor Moore to stop the new $3.5 million township hall on Haligus Road in Lake in the Hills.
I assume that the editorial board of the NW Herald would editorialize against approval of new offices for a government which its editorial cartoon denigrates just as it editorialized against voting for the fall referendum to approve a $3.5 million new township hall last July.
Time will tell.
Most of all he wants respect.
But the very junior U.S. Senator from Illinois is not getting much.
He’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Illinois politics.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I lost the State Comptroller’s race to Roland Burris in 1982.
First the Chicago Tribune provides a fold-up representation of Burris as Pinocchio.
The nose even moves in and out.
The plans are below, just in case you are into crafts (click to enlarge):
And St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Pat Gauen heaps joined the pile-on Thursday.
After explaining how Burris explained the FBI tape of the conversation between and Rob Blagojevich, Rod’s brother, Gauen observes,
“One, Burris was the victim in this, deprived by poor questioning in the House of the opportunity to tell his constituents exactly how he curried Blagojevich’s favor.“Two, Burris will make hollow promises to get what he wants — and brag about it later.
“Three, Illinois’ junior senator apparently thinks we’re idiots.”
Our former governor continues to be ridiculed.
Here is part of a cartoon of ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich. It is based on his being invited to appear on a “reality”show at $80,000 per show.
What will he do with his pompadour?
No one will be there to hand him the “football” (his hairbrush, for those of you not following Blago trivia).
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