Former Illinois resident John Cox is the Republican candidate for Governor in California. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece on how he made his moneywhich features an investment in Crystal Lake: One of Cox’s apartment complexes … Continue reading
Category Archives: Govenror
As of today, here are the amounts in play in the campaign for Illinois Governor. Data accumulated by a Friend of McHenry County Blog. JB Pritzger $ 60,002,990.86 $ 148,574,662.85 Bruce V. Rauner $ 33,743,178.15 $ 78,845,075.75 Sam McCann $ 974,251.00 $ 1,623,885.08 Grayson … Continue reading
Typing an article Saturday afternoon, I received an automated poll from, I would guess, Republican State Rep. candidate Tom Weber. Here are the questions/topics: Voting likelihood Party affiliation Satisfaction with direction state is taking Favorability of following candideates Bruce Rauner … Continue reading
State Rep. Allen Skillicorn has endorsed State Rep. Jeanne Ives for State Representative. He has also sent emails with her petition. Skillicorn’s press release follows: SKILLICORN SUPPORTS IVES FOR GOVERNOR CRYSTAL LAKE, IL—Representative Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) supports Representative Jeanne … Continue reading
Some have asked for the petition that State Rep Jeanne Ives is passing for Governor. It is below. Download it here. Instructions are below: … Continue reading
About thirty people gathered at the Algonquin Library Sunday afternoon to hear Democratic Party candidate J.B. Pritzker explain why they should support him for Governor. Pritzker did not take on his Democratic Party primary opponents. He concentrated on criticizing Governor … Continue reading
There was a time with State Rep. Jack Franks was pumping for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor. Indeed I thought that might be his goal when he decided to leave the Illinois House to run for McHenry County Board … Continue reading
You will perhaps remember my writing that when a Governor presents his education budget it comes in three parts: higher education k-12 pensions In the 1990’s (at least) the IFT (Illinois Federation of Teachers) and IEA (Illinois Education Association) lobbyists … Continue reading
A press release from State Rep. David McSweeney: McSweeney Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Eliminate the Office of Lt. Governor Eliminating office would save nearly $1.5 million Cary, Illinois…In an ongoing effort to reduce the cost of state government, State Representative … Continue reading
Back in the spring of 2002, at a press conference in Jim Tobin’s National Taxpayers United of Illinois office, he and I held our first press conference in our Libertarian Party quest for the Governor’s and Lt. Governor’s Office. The … Continue reading
Remember that poll I wrote about getting yesterday? Turns out it was not from a candidate. The “Mark” recorded the questions for Battleground Polling. Here are some results. Looking at the 2014 Illinois Republican Party candidates for Governor, who would … Continue reading
After the Republican Party’s State Convention this summer I wrote an article entitled, Auditioning at the State GOP Convention to be Illinois’ Scott Walker It was about how Joe Walsh energized the crowd by trashing the way Democrat House Speaker … Continue reading
That brought howls from me as New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said them on TV tonight at the Republican National Convention. She told of uttering those lines to her husband after two Republicans took her and her husband to a … Continue reading
You don’t have to play this YouTube video to see the photo I took of the Green Party’s candidate for Governor Rich Whitney, 8th Congressional District candidate Bill Scheurer and Stew Cohen of Star 105 FM Radio. I found it … Continue reading
Yesterday, a fancy mailing arrived from Independent candidate for Governor Scott Lee Cohen. The best side is one with the headline There is a Better Choice… Above the headline are six stick figures holding signs saying, CAREER POLITICIAN On the … Continue reading
Jim Tobin, the 1998 Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, whom Secretary of State George Ryan sent government employees on state time to keep off the ballot, has endorsed Scott Lee Cohen for Governor. Cohen won the Democratic Party nomination for … Continue reading
Rod Blagojevich doesn’t understand how he could have been found guilty on any count, of course. He is clueless. But the governor who increased the state budget by $1 billion a year–with the complete cooperation of Democrats who control the … Continue reading
So many ideas to share, so little time. When I heard that House Speaker Mike Madigan was proposing doing away with the office of lieutenant governor, my first thought was the he was setting up his daughter Lisa, now Attorney … Continue reading
Who? Mary Pat. Didn’t sound like the Mary Pat I know. Turned out it was a robo-call in support of Andy McKenna for governor. It talked about Jim Ryan’s having supported a $5.5 billion tax hike. I presume this was … Continue reading
Should he or shouldn’t he? Run for governor or some other statewide office, that is. That will be the question this Labor Day Weekend among State Representative Jack Franks’ family and friends. My guess is that he runs for re-election, … Continue reading