McHenry County is getting some experience with politics and elected positions, as the County Board has struggled to find a person who qualified to fill the position of Superintendent of the Regional Office of Education in McHenry County.
Leslie Schermerhorn has tossed her bonnet in the ring, and the Public Health and Human Services Committee of the Board voted 5-0 to move her bonnet up a notch to the County Board.
According to the Northwest Herald, while "...Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, called Schermerhorn’s experience “a huge plus for our county,” she plainly asked whether she had an arrest record or “skeletons in her closet.” Schermerhorn said she did not and that she just last year had a criminal background check through Chicago Public Schools."
And I suspect that Ms. Schermerhorn does not, but the Committee and the Board need to do their own due diligence. If the Committee wonders about an arrest record or any other "skeletons", then it ought to spend a couple of hundred dollars and do a proper background check. What do they expect a candidate to say?
The Board must appoint a Republican, thanks to screwball election laws in Illinois. Schermerhorn had voted as a Democrat in past primaries, but she says she voted Republican in the last two primaries. So she is qualified on that count.
The County Board is likely to have to appoint a Republican successor to another McHenry County elected office within the next two years.
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
4 comments:
How do we know they aren't conducting a background check on the candidate.
Rumor has it they are or have done a background check...
Why didn't you vote as a Republican in this last primary? Then the county board could have appointed you sheriff when Nygren retires.
Timing, Gus, timing!
Toa, you mean I could have been qualified for appointment as Sheriff, if I had voted Republican on March 20?
When do you think Nygren will retire (resign)? Think he'll stick around until November 30, 2014? He must like that $12,000/month for no work. How many days per month do you think he is at his desk at 2200 N. Seminary?
Had you voted as a Republican (or ran)you COULD be considered for the appointment. Not that you'd stand a chance of getting it. Political affiliation and your age are about the only qualifications for the office that you could have held. Certainly, no one in their right mind would ever appoint you sheriff.
As the two old geezers in the Bartles & Jaymes' ads used to say, "Thank you for your support."
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