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District 3 hopefuls weigh in Candidates talk taxes, roads, accountability Gottemoller said the UDO, which will update and combine all of CRYSTAL LAKE – the county’s developThree people familiar ment-related ordinancto voters are running es, will make things easifor two open four-year er for small business and terms in District other job creators. 3 of the McHenry He said it removes County Board. many of the existRepublican ing restrictions incumbent Joe on home-based Gottemoller, a businesses he longtime zoning said were nonsenand land use at- Joe sical government torney, has been Gottemoller overreaches, such a driving force beas one that forhind the Unified bids homeowners Development Orfrom using existdinance now uning outbuildings dergoing final reon their properview. Republican ties to do so. newcomer Don “If you look at Kopsell worked Don Kopsell how jobs get startfor almost three ed in this country, decades at Nunda practically all Township Road of them started District. Roundin somebody’s ing out the list is house,” GotteDemocratic chalmoller said. lenger Kathleen B e r g a n Bergan Schmidt, Schmidt said her a retired history Kathleen previous term p r o f e s s o r w h o Bergan on the County served a term on Schmidt Board, as well as the board and her history backwants to make a Election ground, give her return. Central the advantages All three canof institutional didates in a Tuesknowledge and an To learn d a y i n t e r v i e w about the appreciation for with the North- candidates the long-term big west Herald Edi- and issues picture. She was torial Board cited in the Nov. 4 elected in 2008, the county’s tax election, visit but lost her 2012 burden as the re-election bid to NWHerald. largest problem Gottemoller and com/elecfacing the constitthree other GOP tion-central. uents of the discandidates – all 24 trict. The County board seats were Board has held its prop- up because of post-elecerty tax levy flat for two tion redistricting. years and is expected to Like her fellow Demodo so again for next year, cratic candidates, she is but county government a proponent of shrinking accounts for about 10 the size of the County percent of residential tax Board and going to smallbills. er districts to improve District 3 covers all accountability. The curof Nunda, southeastern rent structure consists McHenry and northeast- of six, four-member ern Algonquin town- districts, but the next ships, including all or opportunity to change parts of Crystal Lake, size and structure will McHenry, Bull Valley, come after the 2020 U.S. Prairie Grove, Holiday Census – she unsuccessHills and Lakemoor. All fully attempted to shrink three candidates hail the board to 20 members from the Crystal Lake area. See DISTRICT 3, page A7
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* Amount donated by McHenry County residents, businesses and groups to each gubernatorial candidate’s campaign as of Aug. 1, 2014 • Source: Compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics Illustration by R. Scott Helmchen – shelmchen@shawmedia.com
DONATIONS WELCOME By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com Lake in the Hills resident Dave Domek, who is a partner in Domek Logistics in Crystal Lake, hasn’t always been active with political donations, but he likes the business acumen of Bruce Rauner. So Domek decided to give two $2,500 contributions to the Republican candidate’s campaign for governor of Illinois. Domek, who reiterated the donations were as an individual, said he doesn’t see the donations as gaining influence over the candidate. “It allows him to buy some advertising ... and it’s another way to voice your opinions as well,” Domek said. Domek’s contributions were part of the more than $112,000 Rauner received in 74
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donations as of Aug. 1 from individuals, groups and businesses in the heavily Republican McHenry County. Some donors gave multiple times. Contributions to Rauner from donors in McHenry County have far outpaced Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn, which follows the statewide trend. According to data compiled by the National Institute of Money in State Politics, Quinn had received $11,350 in 16 contributions from individual and nonindividual donors in McHenry County, as of Aug. 1. In total, as of Aug. 1, Rauner received $24.6 million for his campaign. Quinn received $14.7 million for his 2014 campaign, according to the institute.
The Montana-based National Institute on Money in State Politics is a nonpartisan group that compiles comprehensive campaign-donor, lobbyist and other information from government disclosure agencies. State law limits contributions from individuals to a particular candidate to $5,300, unless one of the candidates declares he is self-funded. When a candidate is self-funded, contribution caps are removed for all candidates in the race. Rauner, as of Aug. 1, had pumped more than $6.5 million into his bid for governor, according to the institute, and declared his campaign self-funded. Bull Valley resident and Dave Domek’s brother Michael Domek, who donates money to local charities including Big Brothers
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Governor hopefuls offer differing strategies By SARA BURNETT and KERRY LESTER The Associated Press PEORIA – Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican businessman Bruce Rauner pitched vastly different strategies Thursday for improving Illinois’ economy, with the incumbent pushing for an extension to the income tax increase and asking the wealthy to pay more and his rival saying the state
can’t keep taxing its way out of its problems. With less than four weeks before the Nov. 4 election, the candidates for Illinois governor met in Peoria for their first true, televised debate. While both campaigns have worked furiously in recent months to make the contest as much about character as the serious issues facing the state, the debate focused heavily on topics such as the economy, Illinois’ $100 billion unfunded pension liability
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and budget problems. Quinn told voters he inherited a mess when he took office in 2009 amid a recession and with Illinois’ last two governors going to prison. He noted unemployment is now at a six-year low and said the key to making Illinois more attractive to businesses is to invest in education. He’d do that by making the 67 percent income tax increase Democrats
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