59% of McHenry County Precincts Have No GOP Committeeman Candidate
How do you spell pathetic?
“R E P U B L I C A N”
That’s what came to mind when I looked at the spreadsheet showing which precincts had people filed to run for Republican precinct committeeman in McHenry County as of about 3:30 Friday afternoon.
41% of McHenry County's 217 precincts had no candidate for Republican precinct committeeman by late afternoon Friday.
Only 90 of 217 had candidates by then. The deadline for filing a notarized petition is 5 PM Monday afternoon.
No wonder McHenry County Republican County Central Committee Bill LeFew wants out.
Maybe I'm being too harsh.
When I wrote a similar story two years ago, I wrote it on Wednesday, instead of Friday.
Guess what?
Only 41% of the precincts had candidates in that rack up, too.
No. 41% too days later in election filing week is worse.
"P A T H E T I C" fits.
64.5% of the precincts ended up with candidates filing two years ago.
I’m not going to publish the whole spreadsheet, but if you want to see what McHenry County precincts are still empty, click here. Naturally, there are other stories on McHenry County Blog this weekend.
And, if you are wondering whose back of the head that is, it's of Bill LeFew, the recently-announced retiring chairman of the McHenry County Republican Central Committee. His real reason might be found here.
If you are outside of Cook County, you to can run for precinct committeeman. Click below to get a petition and a detailed explanation of how to run (same rules for Democrats as for Republicans):
In McHenry County, the notarized petitions are due in the building north of the jail on Route 47 on the north side of Woodstock by 5 PM Monday.
6 comments:
Same rules for Democrats, Republicans, and GREENS. You can also run to become a precinct committeeperson for the Green Party.
My oversight. Thanks for adding it.
The title is committeeman, not 'committeeperson.' No need to PC it here.
While not from McHenry County, I have worked with the Republican organization there. Let me say, it is one of the worst in the state.
The new by-laws are needed to re-invigorate the county party. The current executive director position should be eliminated. The current director has been ineffective in their position and had been running the party out of an elected official's office, which is not only unethical, but illegal. Luckily, this was remedied in time, before it became a bigger problem.
The McHenry County GOP became a laughing stock in the 2006 election cycle for not having an office, where one of the top ten congressional races IN THE COUNTRY was taking place-right in McHenry County. People in DC were perplexed when they heard a GOP vote-rich county like McHenry had no physical organization presence. This left a couple of township chairmen to open an office to save face and get work done. This resulted, unfortunately, in too little, too late.
As a result of trying to make the party somewhat effective, one of the township chairmen found himself with opposition, backed by the current leadership.
The current leadership also failed to recognize the changing demographics in McHenry County and implementing a plan to counter it. Not only is there a Democrat as state representative, but now a county board member and a Congressman. Why is this? Because the current leadership failed to act.
I wish the new leadership of the McHenry GOP the best of luck. You have a rough road ahead.
Not from within McHenry County, but have had more than a little contact on the political level up there.
LeFew's leaving the Party Chair because he can't get his way. This last time around, he (as Party Chair) endorsed candidates for contested races in the Primary. That's just not done - traditionally. But Bill did it anyway, & said he would do it again.
Well, that totally alienated most of the precinct committeemen, so they are going to amend the bylaws to prohibit primary endorsements by the Chair. As a result, LeFew is pouting.
Btw, the story about the job conflicts is all smoke. Bill's only in the Treasurers office about 25% of the time these days, and there were literally weeks last year where he never came in. If it wasn't for Glenda these last couple of years, that office would be in real trouble.
It's a political version of rolling train wreck up there.
Bill LeFew has been a joke from day one. He's never had a clue, never knew what he was doing. Just a hack hanger-on'er from the old days.
Bye bye Bill. It's about time.
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