Driving through Bull Valley, a Friend of McHenry County Blog found this display: A closer view of the bottom of the display: … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scott Walker
Two straw polls were taken after the Republican Presidential Debates on Thursday night. One was in Lake in the Hills. The second was in McHenry. Combining the top choices of the two events gives us the following preferences of the … Continue reading
A packed room at Moretti’s Pizzeria in Lake in the Hills watched the first Republican Presidential Debate. An unannounced straw poll was taken during the debate. Republican State Rep. aspirant Allen Skillicorn gave the results after the Fox News program … Continue reading
Capitol Fax reports an email from the Governor’s Office saying he was in Springfield all weekend. = = = = = Although nothing was revealed on his daily calendar emails, Governor Bruce Rauner joined other governors and Federal legislators at … Continue reading
NBC is reporting on an Illinois Policy Institute presidential survey. Here are the results: Scott Walker – 23% Donald Trump – 18%] Jeb Bush – 11% Chris Christie – 8% All the rest are under 8%. = = = = … Continue reading
21-year old Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was the main speaker at Patriots United’s annual breakfast Saturday morning in Crystal Lake. Kirk told of trying to interest local Northwest suburban Republicans as well as national Republicans in getting … Continue reading
Since so many folks from McHenry County have crossed the Wisconsin border to participate in election on behalf of and in opposition to Governor Scott Walker, I thought the following We Ask American poll results might be of interest. Treading … Continue reading
John Kass lamented the lack of an Illinois Scott Walker last Thursday. He certainly is asking the right question: “Where is Illinois’ Scott Walker?” I was tempted to prepare a sign to affix to me chest asking. “Are you the … Continue reading
Friday’s editorial cartoon in the Chicago Sun-Times by Jack Higgins is trenchant. I knew the word worked, but had to look up its meaning: “vigorously effective and articulate.” He shows traffic leaving Wisconsin. The sign says, “”Leaving Wisconsin, Scott Walker, … Continue reading
Look what reached by inbox from Wisconsin. It was obvious that feelings were running hot in the recall election in which Republican Governor Scott Walker soundly defeated Tom Barrett. Want to know how high? Take a look at the sign … Continue reading
As I was driving to a sleep apnea study in Algonquin last night shortly after the polls closed in Wisconsin, I heard that exist polls had Scott Walker and Tom Barrett tied. Craig Gilbert of the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal noticed and … Continue reading
I found this YouTube video of death threats and/or wishes for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on “The Prairie State Review.” Warner Todd Huston has some comments on it, but I think it speaks for itself. The video was made by … Continue reading
There must be a dam at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. The water from Wisconsin’s boiling tea kettle didn’t spill over the state border last Saturday when the McHenry County Republican Party decided no candidate against Jack Franks was better than Tea … Continue reading
Here’s the press release from the only polling firm to get the Joe Walsh-Melissa Bean race right: Who Survives? Our final poll in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election comes after an impressive debate performance by Democrat Tom Barrett — who … Continue reading
Remember the “Recall Santa” yard sign a friend of McHenry County Blog found in the Milwaukee area. Now someone has turned it into a tee shirt and trade marked the phrase. I found this web site for Recall Santa. It … Continue reading
Danielle Rowe has written a memo on how Illinois residents can help with the Scott Walker recall campaign. Here it is: CALL TO ACTION WISCONSIN RECALL ELECTION IL Tea Party Wisconsin Recall, Coordinator Danielle Rowe 847-773-7693 rowe@DanielleforIL.com Easy online sign-up … Continue reading
A press release from We Ask America: Turnout You have to hand it to Wisconsin’s electorate: they are passionate about their politics. When we first polled the Dairy State’s voters about Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plummeting approval ratings, many right-leaning … Continue reading
John Ruberry, who writes Marathon Pundit, has posted a series of NATO Conference photos that I found interesting. This is just one comes closest to McHenry County. … Continue reading