T-shirts coming down

Thanks to Crystal Lake attorney Matthew Haiduk, the t-shirts at the courthouse (McHenry County Government Center) will be removed today.

I'm waiting to hear back from Matt with the date of his complaint about the t-shirts. I'm wondering what his initial reception was, how many obstacles were thrown up at him, and why it took more than a week for the County, in the personage of County Administrator Peter Austin, to decide to remove them. Why did it take a committee to decide to remove them, but only one person to approve their going up in the first place?

Haiduk may have won the battle, but he might not have won the war.

Austin apparently told a reporter that the issue of a Turning Point display will be re-visited next year. Why?

Doesn't the County get it? Any anti-domestic violence display inside the courthouse is wrong. It holds the potential to influence a jury in a domestic violence case.

Maybe County officials should know the story of a wholesale tire salesman who was trying to sell his tires to a Big 3 auto manufacturer years ago. He couldn't get to first base with the buyer at the manufacturer. So he followed the guy home a few days and then bought space on some big billboards along the guy's route home. "BUY SUCH-AND-SUCH TIRES", the signs proclaimed.

A few weeks later the salesman again called the buyer. This time he was told, "Come on in and talk to me. I've been thinking about buying your tires."

Do subliminal messages work? You bet. And that's why the t-shirts have to come down!!! And not go back up next year!