Tax Deductible Campagin Contributions

Here it is less than a week before the election and, as of Wednesday, nothing had arrived in the mail from the McHenry County Citizens for Clean Water and Open Space.

There's $44,500 available to be spent.

A whopping 94.5% of it has come from one tax exempt group, the McHenry County Conservation Foundation.

Will we receive direct mail pieces Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday?

How far will $44,500 go when one is making mailings at, say, 16,000 pieces a pop?

Or will we see expensive inserts in every daily newspaper circulating in McHenry County?

Or will there be big ads in those newspapers?

Endorsement ads with the names of the people listed yesterday, most of whom are using "other people's money" to finance their committee's campaign.

Or will there be saturation radio advertising?

Or will there be robo-calls urging us to vote for open space?

Some will be spent on a web site. I found that I was the 209th visitor late Wednesday afternoon. Not too cost-beneficial so far.

Or, maybe we should take a page from The Conservation Campaign (TCC, for short).

The Illinois MCCD political action committee lists itself as a project of The Conservation Campaign on the State Board of Elections web site. You can see its "Campaign Services" page above. Click on it and you'll have print big enough to read.

If you’re finally starting to pay attention to this effort to hike your MCCD taxes by 27%, you might find the following articles of interest:

• McHenry County Citizens for Clean Water and Open Space Re-Forms
  
  
• $25,000 Kicks Off McHenry County Conservation District Referendum Campaign
  
  
• The Origin and, Maybe, the Main Purpose of the McHenry County Conservation Foundation
  
  
• The Deluge Begins
  
  
• McHenry County Conservation Foundation Hides Its Payment of Tax Hike Mailing

Here's where you can read Part 1, complete with those who are lending their good names to the tax hike effort. And, remember, by clicking on the images, you can make them larger.
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The sunrise is over Crystal Lake's Dole Mansion. It could be part of the Conservation District right now, but MCCD refused to help save it, even though it had the legal authority to do so.