Two weeks to register

Thanks to an article on McHenry County Blog I was reminded that only two weeks remain to register to vote, if you plan to vote in the March 18th Primary Election.

And you'd better plan to vote. No, wait; don't "plan" to vote. VOTE!

There is no more important race on the Republican ballot than the race for McHenry County Sheriff. It doesn't matter if you are Green, yellow, blue, red or Democrat, pull a Republican ballot and vote for Bill Prim.

If Prim doesn't win the Republican Primary, nothing will change at the sheriff's department. If Zinke is elected in November, deputies tell me that morale will continue to decline. Cliques will grow stronger. Lesser-qualified personnel - those in the in-crowd - will continue to get promoted.

Can there really be people in this County, including so many Republican elected "leaders", who think it was okay for Andy Zinke to destroy a confidential DEA investigation by disclosing it to the president of a Crystal Lake company, toward which a truckload of illegal drugs was being tracked? The president of that company has been on Nygren's Merit Commission since 2005, and his family interests have donated over $50,000 to Nygren's war chest over ten years. Zinke himself got a $5,000 donation in the September, after he revealed the DEA investigation to that company's head.

When the DEA Agent-in-Charge heard about the leak, .... well, you probably remember his comment, which was recorded in the Complaint filed in a McHenry County Circuit Court case.

Nygren had his own Legal Affairs Officer "investigate", and the Sheriff's Department is sitting on that 100-page report and stone-walling FirstElectricNewspaper's FOIA request, even though the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office told the Sheriff's Department to release it. If Zinke is "Mr. Clean" in the report, why not release it? Why didn't Zinke say right away, "I've got nothing to hide. Here's the report."