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GOP ENJOYS ROUT Area Republicans say new leadership fueled local success
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Republican Governor-elect Bruce Rauner celebrates his win over Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday in Chicago.
Rauner turns to governing after campaign Begins assembling administration, prepares to take office in January By SARA BURNETT and SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press CHICAGO – Governor-elect Bruce Rauner began appointing a team Wednesday to build his administration and pledged to make good on a promise to turn Springfield on its head, even though Democrats appeared to keep their solid hold on the Legislature. After more than a year of bashing the Democratic “machine” that controls the Illinois Capitol, the Republican businessman could be in for a tumultuous journey when he takes office in January and tries to find solutions for the state’s many persistent problems. Among the biggest chal-
More election coverage inside n Ill. House Democrats confident they can maintain veto-proof supermajority. PAGE B3 n Same-day voter registration experiment led to delays at some state polling places. PAGE B3 n Obama, McConnell pledge to turn government into force for good, not gridlock. PAGE B4 lenges will be how to balance a state budget without revenue from a tax increase that Rauner opposed. A top Democratic leader signaled Wednesday that his chamber will let the increase roll
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McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi (second from left) congratulates sheriff-elect Bill Prim on Tuesday night at the Prim victory party at Pinecrest Golf Club in Huntley. The state’s attorney’s support and financial backing helped propel Prim to victory. Bianchi and his political committee have donated more than $11,000 to Prim over the election season, according to reports from the Illinois State Board of Elections. Former McHenry County sheriff’s deputy Zane Seipler is at left. By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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he McHenry County Republican Party shared in the national rout the GOP achieved Tuesday night. After eight years with a small Democratic minority, the new County Board that will be seated Dec. 1 will again revert to all Republican rule after GOP newcomers defeated the 24-member board’s two Democratic incumbents and convincingly thumped two other Demo-
cratic challengers. And Bill Prim, the McHenry County sheriff’s candidate who narrowly edged out Undersheriff Andrew Zinke in the March primary, received 60 percent of the vote Tuesday to defeat independent candidate Jim Harrison. Republicans nationally took control of the U.S. Senate, increased their hold on the U.S. House, and gained control of several governor’s offices when most polls expected them to lose a few overall. Besides Bruce Rauner’s win in Illinois over Pat
Quinn, the GOP won governor’s seats in deep-blue Massachusetts and Maryland. New county GOP Chairwoman Sandra Fay Salgado said that while the national momentum helped, it was the hard work of a new leadership team and an invigorated Republican central committee that played the largest role. “Since the new leadership took over after the [March] primary, we’ve been working very hard at two goals: Take
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Holiday Hills land dispute continues Resident of private subdivision says township cannot cut down tree By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com HOLIDAY HILLS – Issues surrounding land between a private subdivision and the village of Holiday Hills continued Wednesday after a fence separating the two was torn down days before. At about 7:50 a.m., resident of LeVilla Vaupell Lisa Garcia saw Nunda Township Highway Department workers get-
ting ready to take out a tree. The tree stands in front of 1313 W. Northeast Shore Drive, where two McHenry County sheriff’s deputies were shot last month. She stood in front of the tree in opposition until about noon making sure the workers could not cut it down. “I’ll stand here until [the township highway commissioner] gives me a court order that says this is his property,”
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Garcia said. She later said efforts to cut down the tree eventually halted and a meeting between the subdivision, Holiday Hills, the Nunda Township Highway Department, and police and fire officials has been tentatively planned to resolve the issue. The concern over the tree, and the fence that once stood next to it, stems from an Oct. 16 incident, after which Scott B. Peters was accused of shoot-
ing two deputies as they were conducting a well-being check at his Holiday Hills home. Peters now faces a prison term of 165 years to life on attempted murder charges, if convicted. The long black fence, torn down by the township highway department Monday, ran the length of Hyde Park Avenue in LeVilla Vaupell, separating the private subdivision
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LeVilla Vaupell resident Lisa Garcia (center) talks with Nunda Township Highway Commissioner Mike Lesperance, arguing he doesn’t have the right to take down a tree. The tree stands in front of 1313 W. Northeast Shore Drive, the home of alleged Holiday Hills shooter Scott B. Peters.
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