An email from newly-elected Lakewood Village Trustee Paul Serwatka: The Northwest Herald released an article yesterday, giving a glimpse of the battle that lies ahead. Residents have responded, describing some board members’ responses as “obtuse,” “pig-headed” and “narcissistic”… One thing … Continue reading
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The McHenry County Clerk’s Office has release the almost complete results for the Lakewood Village Trustee contest: The unofficial totals are now Paul Serwatka – 507 Carl Davis – 326 Ken Santowski – 320 Gary Sexson – 213 … Continue reading
A story early last night reported the precinct results and showed the early voting returns. While the following graphic from the County Clerk’s Office doesn’t show the write-in vote in Paul Serwatka’s column, he was the only write-in candidate. The … Continue reading
Lakewood resident Paul Serwatka was a runaway winner in his write-in campaign for the Lakewood Village Board. Capitalizing on opposition to the Tax Increment Financing District and the proposed SportsPlex at the intersection of Routes 47 and 176, Serwatka got … Continue reading
Readers know that I am following the Lakewood Village Trustee race. In 2011, only 28 people voted and the highest number of votes received by a trustee was 19. There was no contest. In 2013, 37 people went to the … Continue reading
The following post card from Lakewood write-in candidate Paul Serwatka appeared in my mailbox this morning: The text pledges, “Truth, Transparency & Accountability.” He asks that people vote for him alone. Serwatka quotes incumbent Lakewood Village Trustee Gary Sexson as … Continue reading
Lot’s of political articles over the Easter Weekend: McHenry Aldermanic Candidate Scott Curry’s Literature Matthew Hardt MCC Campaign Piece FRG College Student Janna Wing Works Precinct on Spring Break Lakewood Trustee Campaign Moves to the Internet Two Billboards for WL … Continue reading
The following email just reached my inbox from incumbent Lakewood Village Trustee Gary Sexson: Dear Residents, I ask for your vote on Tuesday, April 7th for re-election to the Village Board. I have truly appreciated working for you, the residents … Continue reading
With this letter from Carl Davis all of the candidates for Lakewood Village Trustee have send information to voters of the approximately 4,000 person town. There are three incumbents on the ballot: Carl Davis Ken Santowski Gary Sexson Trying to … Continue reading
In the letter that Lakewood Village Trustee Gary Sexson mailed on behalf of his candidacy this week, he wrote, “The Sportsplex development is currently a dead issue with no vote on the Board planned.” At the last meeting I attended a … Continue reading
The comment section under articles about Lakewood’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District and Paul Serwatka’s write-in campaign aimed directly at it is being hotly debated on McHenry County Blog. Here is what appears under the article about Steve Wilson’s letter: … Continue reading
Today a letter arrived from incumbent Village Trustee Ken Santowski. Until over two years ago, Santowski was known for sending out an email each month telling what went on at Village Board meetings. I published most of them and wish … Continue reading
Below you can read what incumbent Lakewood Village Trustee Gary Sexson is distributing to voters in his campaign for re-election. (If the other incumbents would like be to post their campaign literature or, for that matter, any other McHenry County … Continue reading
The following post card has been sent out by Lakewood write-in Trustee candidate Paul Serwatka. It is not hard to discern that he opposes the Tax Increment Financing District and the second iteration of the SportsPlex. Serwatka criticizes incumbent Gary … Continue reading
The biggest is the write-in challenge of Sascha Chadwick to Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley. As McHenry County Blog reported the night it happened, Shepley managed to convince his fellow City Council members that Chadwick, a CPA and entrepreneur. (See … Continue reading
Continued from yesterday. The 2nd meeting in July was the fun one. It made the local papers for a few days. The Sportsplex as it is referred to by me. While there was nothing to “redo” about the original plans … Continue reading
Lakewood Village President Erin Smith had to cast a tie-breaking vote for ordinances giving McHenry County SportsPlex developers an additional six-months to meet their end of the deal struck with Lakewood. A year ago the vote was unanimous. In the … Continue reading