Atmosphere at MCSD?

What's the atmosphere like at the McHenry County Sheriff's Department these days?

Anyone care to comment? If you want to comment "quietly", send me an email. Your name will not be mentioned. Better send it from a blind email account, just in case Nygren/Zinke/Sotos get all excited again and think they are going to get access to my computer. They aren't, even at the risk of threat of jailing me. I do not talk about who tells me what.

A week has passed since last Tuesday's Republican Primary Election. Unless something radical happens (like a count of all the dead voters and those who, not understanding what planet they are on, might have been "guided" to cast their votes in a certain way), Bill Prim will hold onto his victory and be on the ballot on November 4th as the Republican candidate for Sheriff.

When I served as an election judge and helped residents at Crossroads in Woodstock vote early, the other judge and I would not explain ballot questions or provide any information about candidates. Many residents had passed their mental ability to select their choice, and we could not, and did not, "assist" them in choosing.

What does losing the primary mean for Zinke and his insiders at 2200 North Seminary in Woodstock?

It could mean an icy condition for any who openly supported Prim. Their "disloyalty" may be met with rants and even discipline, even a change in assignment. In Denver we used to refer to getting transferred to the stockyards' district for Sunday night patrol.

Can Zinke man up and treat all employees with respect? Will he? He says he has been running the Department for three years. Why have we been paying $150,000/year for an elected Sheriff, if the Undersheriff is running the show? If he is really tough, then he'll put on a smile and do a quality job for the next eight months.

After that? Will he stay around, or will he go?

Except maybe he hasn't been running the show, since MIAT was not called out on June 7, 2011 to investigate the triple homicide that occurred that night. That may come back to haunt him.

And certainly the RITA Corporation fiasco will hurt him. As will the refusal to release the so-called "clean" report about his involvement in spoiling a confidential DEA investigation.

Some are wondering even now whether Nygren was really at the Feldkamp residence crime scene late on June 7. Or did he fly back to Woodstock on the morning of June 8? His name is on the crime scene log, but is it his signature? And why would Nygren and Zinke only be there for 15 minutes???