Instead of Lauf showing the maturity and intestinal fortitude when confronted about her lie by omission of not listing by name her 10-month employment with Citizens for Rauner in 2018 in her LinkedIn job history, Lauf still yet to correct her LinkedIn job history with full disclosure

Note from John Lopez Update 3/7/22, 9:33AM CST: An earlier version of this article reported Lauf had removed public access to her LinkedIn page, after I found it inaccessible for public view on two different computers and my smartphone. Now, Lauf’s LinkedIn page is back up, and accessible to the public, though it still remains without full disclosure of Lauf’s employment with Citizens for Rauner in 2018. Repurposing this article to the actual question I asked last Monday night, in reference to her LinkedIn page.

As was shared in the comment section over the weekend in the IL-11 Campaign Roundup article, and shared in a follow-up article by Cal Skinner this morning, fallout from last Monday night’s appearance by Catalina Lauf (R, Woodstock) at We the People of McHenry County in Cary continues.

For the record, I, John Lopez, did NOT ask Lauf about her Citizens for Rauner employment at the We the People of McHenry County meeting the night of February 28. The Rauner question was asked by the group’s moderator for the questions as a prepared question for Lauf.

Clearly, Lauf and her campaign handlers have prepared her for questions about her employment with Citizens for Rauner four years ago with the anecdotal approach of asking people who voted for Rauner in the past, along with Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.

She also ended her in my honest opinion rehearsed/prepared answer saying she was not ashamed of working for Citizens for Rauner.

As I shared in comments, I asked Lauf a follow-up question along the lines of, “if you are not ashamed of your work for Citizens for Rauner, then why do you not share this job experience on your LinkedIn job history?”

I also included pointing out Patrick Pfingsten of The Illinoize asked her about this over a year ago including some possible reasons why Lauf would not want to share this information from insiders of the Rauner campaign from 2018.

I honestly hoped Lauf would show maturity and consistency with her message she said last week and simply correct the LinkedIn entry fully documenting her employment with Citizens for Rauner as a “Field Director” for Citizens for Rauner from January through November of 2018, as documented in The Illinoize in February of 2021.

Instead, Lauf still chooses not to correct her LinkedIn page with the whole truth.

For McHenry County Blog readers who may not be familiar with LinkedIn, this site is social media’s version of online job networking. Most business professionals have a LinkedIn “page” listing their current employment and their job history, akin to an online resume.

In recent years, as job interview candidates prepare for interviewing with a prospective employer, the candidate will usually research the individuals they are going to interview with in order to know something about them, to better prepare for the interview.

And prospective employers do the same with a job candidate, in addition to the resume’ in order to ensure consistency.

Some components of LinkedIn are available for public view, that is, without having a LinkedIn ID to access. Other components must be accessed with a LinkedIn ID and password. In LinkedIn, by accessing a resume’ online while logged-in to LinkedIn, one can track who views their resume’, unless they manually set a privacy feature.

For the record, I have not had a LinkedIn ID for several years, and like Meta (Facebook/Instagram), I do not plan to get an ID anytime in the near future.

Fortunately, McHenry County Blog saved a screenshot of Lauf’s LinkedIn job history:

While the above screenshot accessed Lauf’s LinkedIn page from last September, the page had not been updated since September, and as it appears above is the same way it appears today.

Thoughtful commenter Correcting commented on the Lauf history with Rauner, and what and it’s relevant, and posted in its entirety from his Sunday night comment:

Lauf was employed with the Rauner campaign during the 2018 primary season and we know it because there are records of Citizens for Rauner, Inc making payments to her.

On February 1, 2018 she was paid almost 1200 dollars for work that would have presumably been done in January.

On March 1 she was paid over 3300 for work that would have been done in February, also before the primary election.

Then she was paid another ~3300 on March 30.

The primary was March 21, 2018 so we know she worked for Rauner leading up to the primary.

These are public records.

It’s not as if she only helped Rauner run against Pritzker.

She helped Rauner against Ives too.

Most people aren’t mad at her for working for Rauner leading up to the general election against Pritzker, it’s her work for Rauner during the primary when a conservative was challenging him that upsets people.

That’s what this is about, Let Freedom Ring, and it’s likely the reason she hides it from her LinkedIn profile, because if she showed the whole length of her work for the Rauner campaign people would know she helped him during the primary against Ives.

For Lauf to deflect by turning around and asking people simply whether they voted for Rauner is deceptive and misses the real intent of the question and people’s concern.

Voted for Rauner when? In 2014? Against Pritzker in 2018?

No, what people are mad at Lauf about is the 2018 *primary* when Rauner was challenged by Ives.

A majority of people in McHenry County voted for Ives, not Rauner.

Ives ran to the right of Rauner after he signed a sanctuary state bill and a liberal abortion bill, and Ives won McHenry County 51-49 on a shoestring budget and with Rauner falsely calling HER the liberal. That’s the guy Lauf worked for.

If you were in a room full of Republicans, I highly doubt that “all hands” would have raised if the question were phrased as, “Did you vote for Rauner instead of Ives?” since most Republicans who voted in McHenry County picked Ives.

Good luck on getting the video, John.

Hopefully the guy who took it isn’t being paid to not release it.

Commenter Correcting comment, 3/6/22

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From the desk of John Lopez: As explained in a previous article, it was an act of God for me to be at the We the People of McHenry County meeting last Monday night (February 28) the same night Catalina Lauf was speaking, as I did not know Lauf would be speaking until after I arrived.

It is not too late for Lauf to turn away from the destructive path of, in my honest opinion, she continues to choose as a congressional candidate.

But she must want to change, and Lauf and her campaign know how to reach me to make amends. While Lauf failed again to do the right thing and continues her lie by omission, Lauf can make it right, but she will have to confess, repent and make amends publicly including updating her LinkedIn page.

It is time to see how tough Catalina Lauf really is and if she is really ready to represent McHenry County along with the other 7 counties in the 11th Congressional District.

The choice is Lauf’s, and always remember, the truth always comes out.