Monday, January 01, 2007

What Happened in 2006

This started out in what turned out to be a very long summare of what McHenry County Blog covered this year. The first half can be found at "The Mostests" on New Year's Eve. Here's the rest.

I have long contended that local reporters cannot adequately cover primary elections because most are not on the mailing lists for the candidates. In McHenry County, that means most reporters have not voted in a Republican primary election or don’t live in the district being covered. That’s probably because they haven’t lived here long enough to do so, especially with the Northwest Herald’s record of turnover.

So, I tried to publish all of the direct mail pieces I could find. I did pretty well with the 8th congressional district GOP primary (205 stories) and the general election, considering I don’t live in the district.


It seems to me that McHenry County Blog is the only place that gave 3rd (Moderate) Party candidate Bill Scheurer’s imaginative campaign (47 stories) the attention it deserved. (If you go to Google and search the images for McBeaney, a half elephant, half donkey, the only place you will find this image is McHenry County Blog. Surely, it was innovative enough to have been given coverage elsewhere,)

In any event, anyone in northern McHenry County or western Lake County who wants to run for county board as a “Moderate” in 2008 has Scheurer to thank.

There's much more, of course, but I won't force Illinoize readers to wade through it. It, along with an article about the Republican Cat Tax, can be found posted on New Year's Day on McHenry County Blog.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:09 PM

    If you have ANY sense of decency Skinner, save this drivel for your own blog. From the looks of the blog roll, many people that post here have their own blogs and know enough not to post every thought in their head on this one as well.

    You obviously can do whatever you want with your blog but this is a community effort and needs to be respected as one.

    Wasn't there supposed to be a 1-2/week limit per poster as well as SOME level of relevance?

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  2. Anonymous9:13 PM

    And while you're at it, maybe you should stop to think why nobody else gave media attention to a homemade stuffed animal or wrote FORTY-SEVEN stories about a fringe campaign.

    It's called a life, get one.

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