A press release from State Senator Pam Althoff:
McHenry, Illinois, September 1, 2016 – Illinois State Senator Pamela Althoff announces the launch of her campaign website.
An informative, simple & easy-to-navigate site
Pam Althoff shakes hands with a constituent.
Visitors to the site will learn of the Senator’s modest upbringing, her educational background and professional credentials.
The site chronicles Senator Althoff’s experience as a Special Education teacher and her years of public service as Mayor of the City of McHenry, prior to representing the voters of District 32 in the Illinois Senate.
In addition,the site clearly isolates and explains the Senator’s positions on the issues that are important to the citizens of McHenry and Lake Counties. Further, the site features a partial listing of her many supporters from every part of District 32 .
Donate.
Volunteer.
Communicate.
Senator Althoff is known for personally responding to constituents’ inquiries.
With that in mind, the site has been designed to be simple and easy-to-navigate, making it effortless for voters to ask questions, share concerns or offer suggestions.
For those interested donating to the campaign, or volunteering in support of Senator Althoff, getting involved is simple. Just call or send an e-mail.
The site also provides specific information regarding voting dates, polling place locations and ballot information for both Lake and McHenry Counties.
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Paid for by Citizens to Elect Pamela Althoff. A copy of our report is or will be filed with the State Board of Elections in Springfield, Illinois.
Who gives a hoot?! Why doesn’t she just quit the masquerade and come out of the closet as Demo-rats …. at least the great and august Woodstock Mayor finally came out.
He was called in on the carpet for supporting a Dem in the County Board race and not displaying Republican values.
Once he knew the gig was up, he resigned from the Republican Party.
Good riddance!
No on to the other asinine Mayors who ‘came out’ for installing Crook County politics in the county board chairman seat!
They must go too!
Just thought you’d like to know the mayors and village presidents who have endorsed Jack Franks as of 7-12-16 :
City of Harvard Mayor Jay Nolan
City of McHenry Mayor Susan Low – who thankfully will not be running again!
City of Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager – who was called in on the carpet for endorsing/fundraising for the installation of Crook County politics in the County board chairman seat!
Village of Algonquin President John Schmitt
Village of Fox River Grove President Robert Nunamaker
Village of Greenwood President John Ferris
Village of Huntley President Charles Sass
Village of Lakewood President Erin Smith – Oh BIG surprise here (sarcasm) as she’s on youtube praising Progressive “Leadership” in Dick Durbin and other “Progressive Leaders” (her words!!!) She’s got to go for that and other antics she pulls as Vlg Pres of Lakewood including sending $ to Pat Quinn’s Campaign for governor!!
Village of McCullom Lake President Terry Counley
Village of Richmond President Peter Koenig
All are elected in non-partisan elections. Some are up for re-election next spring with petition passing to occur this fall.
Sager is a Republican Precinct Committeeman who has been on Franks’ fundraising Host Committee. WHAT A TURNCOAT TRAITOR!! NO WONDER HE’S OUT!
Just take a look at this Union Schoolteachers agenda for laughs.
More mind numbingly, feel good leg from a socialist Dem’s personal wish list.
Term limit advocate?
Not till she gets to 14 years of her drivel.
Fact is- Democrat or not, he is the better choice.
Besides- you are choosing between two Democrats- Franks is the more conservative of the two.
Pam Althoff was a special education teacher from 1975 – 1981.
The teacher unions were completely different in that era.
They had far less political power.
The big change came with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act (IELRA) which took effect in 1984.
The IELRA created the Illinois Labor Relations Board (IELRB) and provided teacher unions with favorable union local recognition, mandated fees to the union as a condition of employment, collective bargaining, and right to strike rules, interest arbitration when collective bargaining fails, among others.
Such rules vary greatly from state to state.
That was Senate Bill 1530 (SB 1530) which was signed into law by Republican Governor Jim Thompson as Public Act 83-1014 (PA 83-1014) on December 27, 1983.
Teacher strikes were for the most part illegal before IELRA, although teacher unions sometimes went on strike anyways.
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There are many problems today in collective bargaining in public education.
The process is opaque to taxpayers.
For example, the vast majority of school districts do not post on their website the collective bargaining change agreement, which indicates changes from the previous agreement, with for example underline text for additions and stricken text for deletions, which is the process used in the Illinois General Assembly to indicate changes in state laws.
Absent of a change document, it is almost impossible for a taxpayer to read the prior and current collective bargaining agreements and identify every change.
The degree to which school districts identify changes in collective bargaining agreements to taxpayers varies greatly.
Typically a brief one page summary document is issued, often obscuring or glossing over pertinent details.
Not many taxpayers submit a FOIA request to their local school district for documents indicating every change from the previous collective bargaining agreement to the new current collective bargaining agreement.
The result is not many taxpayers know what changes took place over time in school district (or any government unit for that matter) collective bargaining agreements.
How can a taxpayer have a position on a change when they don’t realize a change has taken place?