Nunda Township Republican Central Committeeman Brent Smith and his wife, Nunda Township Trustee Joni Smith, converse with State Senator Dan Duffy at a fall Nunda Township GOP Picnic.
This the time of year that politicians wanting a good gig are out courting supporters.
County officers like the Treasurer, Clerk, Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Deeds pay more than $100,000 per year.
The Office of Recorder of Deeds is now held by Phyllis Walters.
I can’t remember when she was first elected, but my father was still alive and he died in 1989.
Walters has done about anything any keeper of property records could think of.
She has decided to retire.
Walters is promoting Joni Smith as her replacement.
Smith is a former one-term Nunda Township Trustee.
From left to right Joni Smith, Lee Jennings, John Heiser and Jim Schlader are shown in a meeting of the Nunda Township Board.
Smith beat all the men running for the four Trustee spots on the Township Board.
Joni Smith at the 2010 McHenry County Fair.
She now works in the Recorder of Deed’s Office.
Smith has been the spearhead in gathering Christmas presents for needy kids in Nunda Township.
Her husband Brent Smith served as Nunda Township Republican Central Committee Chairman, reinvigorating the organization.
He is an member of Local 150 of the Operating Engineers.
Already announced for the job is former McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill.
Goes to show you, folks, if you toil in the vineyards of the McHenry County Republican party for a decade or two, you also can have a $100,000/year job handed to you.
Jumping from one political position to another Tina or fill in the blank is better than being promoting from within now rawdogger?
I’d think working your way up and paying your dues would be less of a political thingy!
Nob, my position has been clear that the quality of candidate we have for local office is depressingly poor.
For Tryon’s seat we have a the child of a lawyer who decided one day that his bureaucrat job wasn’t cushy enough and asked dad for a seat, a dilettante homemaker, the world’s strangest tea partier (retired at the ripe old age of 30 on a public pension–smaller government for everyone else, right? Oh, that’s right, you deserve it.), and a tea partier who didn’t think college was important.
Don’t even get me started about the County Clerk debacle.
Now we have Tina Hill (whose problems are well known) vs. a lame duck patronage appointee for Recorder plus whatever career politicians decide to emerge from the shadows.
I can’t wait to see what losers step up for the two open judge spots.
You know what you call a lawyer who thinks a $160,000/year gig is a good opportunity?
A not very successful lawyer.
If this is the best that our lauded “laboratories of democracy” have to offer, I’d sign me up for the Soviet party.
At least Smith works in the office.
Apparently needing a job is all it takes to be a good candidate in this county- on both sides of the aisle, there are people who have run because they can’t find employment. None of those mentioned could command a salary of $100,000 in the private market.
And doesn’t that position, like most other elected positions at the county get a generous benefits packet as well?
Tell me again how this county is different from Cook county?
Raw it’s the nature of the beast unfortunately, but there are some good people in gov also.
I like the joke: what do you have with 1000 lawyers in the bottom of an ocean?
A good start.
inish, at least this county runs balanced budgets and pays back it’s loans, unlike Cook Co.
Phyllis supports solid candidates that would carry on her vision of strengths of the office inundated rather than politics
Phyllis supports solid candidates that would carry on her vision of strengths of the office inundated rather than politics.
Tina lets go get a beer or 2