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. Read more...
