McHenry County Blog

Yesterday I wrote about the defeat of Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Bob Miller’s slate.

He backed Township Clerk Marc Munaretto for Supervisor against incumbent Dianne Klemm and Trustee candidates Dan Shea, Lowell Cutsforth, Neils Kruse and Bill Bligh for Trustee.

Only Shea emerged victorious.

See

Algonquin Township Board – The Times They Are a Changin’

Lee Jennings and “Iron Mike”

Reflecting on the election, it occurred to me that there were also slates, formal and informal in Nunda and Grafton Township.

In Nunda Township, a sticker on the front page of the Sunday Northwest Herald heralded the linking of Township Supervisor candidate Lee Jennings with Road Commissioner candidate “Iron Mike” Lesperance. Presumably, Susan Jennings, running for Clerk was on the same slate, although not mentioned on the sticker.

Both Jennings and Lesperance won, albeit by tiny margins. Susan Jennings lost the Clerk’s race by a tiny margin as well.

In Grafton Township, the informal slate consisted of Township Supervisor candidate Marty Waitzman, Assessor candidate incumbent Bill Ottley and Road Commissioner candidate Tom Poznanski.

This slate had a strange twist with Township Supervisor candidate Pam Fender endorsing Poznanski.

These signs near the border of Algonquin and Grafton Townships lack only a sign for Marc Munaretto to show the two complete slates.

In any event, only Poznanski emerged victorious.

So, what might one conclude about slates?

Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.

The most formal slate, as evidenced by Bob Miller’s candidates for Algonquin Township Trustee on joint signs he financed, got shot down.

Not by very much though.

In Nunda Township the Northwest Herald-revealed Jennings-Lesperance slate won, but barely.

What might be called the Grafton Township Establishment slate of Waitzman, Ottley and Poznanski emerged with only Poznanski in the winners’ column.

Dan, Shea, Lowell Cutsforth, Neils Kruse and Bill Bligh share sign space in the Algonquin Township GOP primary election contest for four Trustee spots.

The long-rumored slate of

• Dan Shea
• Lowell Cutsforth
• Neils Kruse
• Bill Bligh

popped up on some lawns recently.

Shea and Cutsforth are currently on the Algonquin Township Board.

Both voted to raise township salaries and, with the help of a third Trustee, Linda Lance, carried the day.  (Lance is now running for Township Clerk against Chuck Lutzow.)

Township Supervisor Dianne Klemm and appointed Trustee Russ Cardelli voted against the higher salaries.

There are seven people running for the four Township Trustee slots.  The others are

• Larry Emery
• Melissa Sanchez
• Russ Cardelli

The box of foreclosure notices at Crystal Lake City Hall.

If you want to understand how the mortgage mess kept on going.

Here’s a paragraph written by a liberal that appeared in a Slate article.

“These documents, from Clayton Holdings, a due diligence company retained by the banks, reveal that Clayton, after analyzing more than 900,000 mortgages, told the banks that about 30 percent of the loans being packaged into securitized products did not satisfy the banks’ own underwriting standards. This meant that the securitized products were almost bound to blow up.”

Democrats controlled the U.S. House in 2008 and did nothing to stop this from happening.

And McHenry County’s own Congresswoman Melissa Bean serves on the Financial Services Committee chaired by endangered Barney Franks.

Nor have they called for criminal prosecutions of big banks from whom they got fat political contributions.

Democrat oversight was a failure of the banks as it was of BP’s oil rig operations.

More Democrat bureaucrats simply deliver more paid Democrat voters and little productive output as a practical matter.

This is why Democrats are obsessive about taking over health care and one sixth of the economy.

Democrat Melissa Bean sat on the House Financial Services Committee and did nothing to stop the big banks from almost blowing up our entire economy.

I guess this is what “merited” her an endorsement from both the Northwest Herald and Daily Herald. How can their editors have such blinders?

It not hard to surmise someone thinking

“Throw the facts out the window, Bean’s a real liberal, so let’s figure out some way to endorse her.”