Relatively new editor of the Northwest Herald seems to be clicking with his readers now that he is writing short comments on page 2 of the new tabloid.
It’s taken a while for the former editor of the DeKalb Chronicle to figure out what’s going on in McHenry County.
But yesterday, he surely did by echoing the feelings of a vast majority of local residents with a headline saying,
Make County Board pensions go away
That’s not as easy as he might think, but I’ll cover that in a separate piece.
He even quoted County Board member Andrew Gasser’s comment at the end of the meeting at which the IMRF Exec. answered questions:
Are you doing this job to serve or to get a pension?
And today, Schaumburg noted that McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan’s conduct of the Primary Elections still troubled partisans, not to mention ordinary citizens.
Cut the grandstanding Andrew; you’re already getting pension and health benefits from the Federal $ (more of our taxes). If Board Members can keep their heads and ride out the audit by IMRF rep, this will be resolved without lawsuit, deps and all of the scare tactics thrown at you by Jack Franks. He’s enjoying every minute of the hysteria.
Onboarding…as Steve Wilson pointed out assumes to make the taking of IMRF almost a given…
I just went through the onboarding process…
I am the last one who has..
I denied IMRF for my own reasons..at the time
How would I know if I would work 1000 hours 500 hours or 2080 hours for the taxpayers of this county…
nobody told me to keep a log in this or any other job I have had…
I punched a clock for many years…
but that is not a log…
this has been an interesting year for me and I will say that finding terra firma on a county board as an appointed incumbent in the midst of an election year is difficult at best…
now there is an existential curve thrown in…with felonious draperies…
Folks i just want to serve…
I have a history of doing just that…but it seems that once I crossed the threshold of the County Board….I should naturally find SHAME in that…
You want good representation….
I will do my best to provide the best representaion I can to you.
I am sure that most of the board feels the same.
We need to see beyond the distraction…
Thank you Jeff and Andrew!
Part time politicians should not receive tax payer funded pensions, period!
That includes State Reps and Senators.
Full time politicians should not receive tax payer funded pensions either, Allen.
Full time politicians should not receive tax payer funded pensions either, Allen.
Agreed!
Wow! The Democrats (Jack Franks and Michael Bisset-Yensen) hit a home run!
Way to go Andrew, Jeff and Allen!
All three of you enjoy your moment in the sun because the ‘alligator’ will get you also!
Skillicorn has said he will not take a legislative pension.
See
Serwatka, Wilbrandt & Skillicorn Say No to Pension & Health Benefits; Schofield Undecided
Cal, So?
Let us imagine that all pensions are eliminated right now for all elected officials.
Current courts, I do not believe, will permit the reduction of your pension or other politicians who are retired.
How much of an impact will elimination of elected official pensions have on state and local government budgets?
I predict none, as long as teachers can go on strike and unions can sue government units.
Any cost avoidance in paying pensions to future elected officials will simply be ‘gobbled’ up by the public sector plus new ‘social programs’ and the unions that work on government contracts.
This IMRF pension thing is a ‘red herring’ and some Republicans are being led with the ring in their nose by none other than the Progressives!
Disappointing!
Is Jack Franks going to turn down his pension or is he going to spend obscene amounts of other people’s money to ensure he defeats Reick?
Meanwhile, crickets on the required change to the Constitution.
Hey!
Jeff, Andrew, Allan, how about taking on that challenge and doing some good?
Connecting the Dots…
I agree with you…but I see two separate issues…
I personally won’t take the IMRF…
of course it is easy for me to say that now..but I didn’t before it became an issue…
As far as Cal’s and every earned pension…I would defend them…
going forward…I would favor change…a pension is something that should be removed from Public service..
full time public servants should have the same opportunities afforded the general populace…
I have a 401K and a self directed IRA…so it is easy for me to say this as I covered my own base…
Yes we do need to change the Constitution od Illinois…as it is wholely unsustainable..
You know it..
I know it and Madigan also knows it…
too bad only two of us three really want it to be changed…
The other issue is the cheap and disgusting attack on the board members who took IMRF…
Now we have them devoting their time to try to recover their timecard for 2015…
very counter productive…
and very wrong
Connecting the dots… Gasser is an idiot.
I don’t think he is grandstanding I think he is just clueless.
Good for you Gasser – you don’t take a pension.
No get your other board members to do the same.
You are a horrible leader of the malcontents.