WHEN: TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2009
WHERE: AT YOUR REGULAR POLLING PLACE
TIME: 6:00AM TIL 7:00PM

TO VOTE FOR PENNY WEGMAN FOR TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR

Second, we have an Illegal immigrant problem here in Elgin which has caused a problem with overcrowding by hiding them and taking jobs from legal citizens that are too prideful to work for little money and rather soak, yes soak, the government (our tax paying money) to ingest money than work!

Third, our gangs are of a multitude of races! The Hispanic gangs that everyone says are illegal aliens are mostly legal because our hospitals legalized them by being born here whether their parents are legal or not! Plus, gangs are not only Hispanic, but Black, Asian and also White, yes White who hide themselves easily within our community!! The problem with illegal aliens is the lack of ICE trained personnel that will inform and work with the feds and have them deported before they give birth! That is the fault of our current council!

Forth, the safety of our town has been compromised by cutting police and firefighters even though we have increased the size of this town! We keep promoting to build a bigger town, but cut these positions! That to me is incompetents! This is to me another fault on the current council!

Fifth, it seems that most of the council members and candidates want to increase the availability of rental properties! If anyone has really studied this closely, you would notice that a majority, not all, but a majority of renters DO NOT care of what they do to property that they don’t own. My dad owned a rental property and had to sell it because he couldn’t afford the damages that inconsiderate tenants would do to it, and because of these tenants, he refused to be called a slum-lord and sold it! The more rental properties that we have, means the more we have uglier homes and property! Is this how we want our town to look! My house is not up to par because of the economy and medical expenses of my wife, but I am still trying to keep it up the best I can so if and when I do sell it, I will get the most equity out of it!

Sixth, I have been bred, born and have been raised in this town for 42 years and to see beautification and bike paths take place over automotive destructive roads is appalling! I drive these roads every single day! Almost every street there is in this town I drive on, and it sickens me that our current city council wastes mine and other’s money without thinking of the inconvenience of the whole town! Why would anyone by a house in Century Oaks East with roads that have been put on the side to put a stupid island down Wing Park Blvd. that has inconvenienced those residents on going only one direction to do a U-turn to go the other direction on top of clearing even more snow on an oversized side walk if front of their home! This doesn’t even touch on what the people of the south side of Walnut Ave. have to deal with! This again, is the result of our current council!

Do you see where I am going!! This might sound similar to what has been a nation wide campaign for our new president. Just so you know, I didn’t vote for Obama and I have been praying since he was elected for him to run this country the right way, but here in this town, we NEED A CHANGE! In my eyes, the job that the people in office here in our town now, can’t be done any worse by someone else that was elected!!

Let’s break-up the Schock coalition and vote for new blood!!

The seventh thing that irritates me is that only about 5000 people in Elgin voted in the last election out of around 70,000 registered voters (which schock received 3000 votes from)! If you are sick of this councils wasteful spending of money and want to be more secure in walking down the street at night by having an adequate amount of law enforcement, or having firefighters that are not over tired from working overtime,
THEN GET OUT THERE AND VOTE and quit complaining about something that you let happen by not voting! We need (man I hate to say this) a change!!!!!

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The fact that my posts are all election related makes them on point in any article about the election coming up.

Besides, it is so easy to scroll past my words if you don’t want to read them. There are others perhaps who have not read the other articles so an informed voter is a better voter.

May God bless America and a special blessing for Elgin.

I am not afraid to leave my name at my posts. It would be nice to know who the true name is of anyone critical of my views and reveal it in your posts otherwise why bother to be critical of me anonymously?

Common Sense Clarence Hayward - The Taxpayer’s Watchdog

I love our country and I love Elgin. Everyone please get out and vote.

I am quite sure thanks in part to Fountain and Smith voting for her contract Neale is enjoying her lifetime family medical benefits in retirement and laughing all the way to the bank. I THINK THE VOTERS WOULD BE BRAIN DEAD TO VOTE FOR FOUNTAIN OR SMITH BECAUSE OF THE LAVISH CONTRACT THEY GAVE NEALE. IT WAS A CONTRACT THAT MOTIVATED HER TO RETIRE - NOT CONTINUE WORKING FOR U46.

Of the others I like PERCY AND I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH KEVIN ECHEVARRIA. HAVING GONE THROUGH ALL U46 SCHOOLS AND HAVING YOUTH ON HIS SIDE I THINK HE COULD BRING A WISER YOUTHFUL PERSPECTIVE TO THE BOARD.

With the current board being up there in years you would think that they would have the wisdom that should come with age. All you have to do is look at Connie Neale’s contract details if that were fully allowed and you can see that of the incumbents running SPENCER IS THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS MY VOTE BECAUSE HE DID NOT VOTE FOR NEALE’S CONTRACT.

CONSIDER SPENCER, ECHEVARRIA, and PERCY to better serve our taxpayer’s and students of U46.

At a cost of about 7 cents per day for the bond referendum on a 200,000 home I think it will be money well spent to continue to improve the best value in our college education dollar.

Their library is sadly lacking, increasing programs for the health and fire safety programs, as well as working on infrastructure, this will be money that will benefit Elgin because of the programs it will give needed improvements to as well as the local jobs and dollars that will be returned to the local community.

PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THEIR BOND REFERENDUM THIS TUESDAY - APRIL 7.

Common Sense Clarence Hayward - The Taxpayer’s Watchdog

That being said when choosing your three to vote for, first and foremost HERB GROSS WHO IS AN INCUMBENT NEEDS TO BE REELECTED. Herb is one of the most approachable Trustees you will ever meet and twice a week he greets at the library so say hello.

Secondly RANDY HOPP WILL GET MY VOTE in part based on the fact that since 2004 he has attended every regular and most of the special library trustee meetings. Clearly he has a passion for our library.

Thirdly JESSICA THOMPSON, with an MBA in I believe Urban Planning with experience working on issues with the Chicago library as well as having youth on her side IS MY SENSIBLE THIRD VOTE. Our world is changing at lightning speed and having a younger person with both education and experience with other libraries are qualities we can’t afford to pass up.

PLEASE VOTE GROSS, HOPP, AND THOMPSON.

One of the reasons the incumbents have a total of 65 years on the council is because they have the name recognition advantage and the more challengers there are the more this advantage plays into their hand.

A new challenger will bring out people who really are only going to vote for their friend and so they vote for that friend and since they don’t have a strong reason to vote for anyone else then because of the name recognition of the incumbents to fill out their voting they pick two incumbents and consequently you multiply that voting by all the other challengers voters and the incumbents end up getting the most votes.

It is my understanding it is ok to only vote for one four year council position and by not voting for any incumbents it will super size voting power.

Rogers, Figueroa, and Walters should have exerted proper tax payer steward leadership and not even brought up the thought of hiring a law firm to sue the district. Although because Walters changed his mind which was going to result in a tie vote so the proposal was tabled, he as well as Rogers, Figuroa, and our own Elgin mayor were initially considering suing the district.

So the parents group goes on to hire that law firm, the district has spent about 6.7 million dollars defending the suit with no end to costs or resolution in sight, and any informed property buyer knows that this suit is costing the taxpayers big time.

If they would have done their taxpayer steward homework they would have realized that the same law firm resulted in a Rockford district having a lawsuit bill of over 250 million dollars. What leader in their right mind knowing that would want to even say the word lawsuit if they are elected to be excellent stewards of our tax payer dollars?

This is real money we are talking about and they need to be held accountable for such reckless talk by being voted out of office. That will send a message to the other council members to think twice before talking about suing another taxing body.

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR ROGERS, FIGUEROA, OR WALTERS.