DuPage County Government, hard at work
Hiram did a great job accounting for the GOP’s “failure to govern responsibly”:http://www.wurfwhile.com/archives/001009.html in DuPage County, but it comes at a time when others are (quite justifiably) raising questions about the Democrats’ “failure to contest”:http://www.dailyherald.com/news/dupagestory.asp?id=195388&cc=d&tc=&t= the vast majority of county races (the Tribune had “similar coverage”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-0606060200jun06,1,4594299.story?coll=chi-newslocalwest-hed). I’m a local party official, so I certainly share [...]
Naperville library scraps fingerprint scanning plans
Very interesting. Last year, Naperville’s announcement that it would require fingerprint scans in order to get Internet access landed our fair city on the “front pages of Slashdot”:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1646225, not to mention a host of newspapers around the country. Now, a year later, it appears that the plan’s “dead”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0605060165may06,1,6710890.story?coll=chi-technology-hed.
The library’s saying it’s a software compatibility issue, [...]
Overheard in Naperville
At the kids barber shop, heard this:
bq. “She says she’s a Christian, but there’s no way. And besides, she’s asking me for a divorce, the least she can do is let me claim the kid on my tax return. I need that 500 bucks.”
The “gentleman” was on his cell phone for the entire time it [...]
204 Referendum Passes
With 95% reporting in DuPage, there’s no question but that the 204 Referendum has passed. 2800 vote margin in Will County, and a 1300 vote margin (and counting) in DuPage. (”Why I supported the referendum.”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/03/19/supporting_the_204_referendum.php)
OUTSTANDING.
*Update:* 100% of DuPage is in, 7170 yes, 6042 no. Which brings the final tally to:
Yes: 14,223 (58.1%)
No: 10,254 (41.9%)
That’s a [...]
DuPage update - 10:49pm
With -66%- 70% of the precincts in, the referendum just picked up another -500- 800 votes. Current tally:
Yes: 10,708 (59.3%)
No: 7,357 (40.7%)
And Cegelis and Duckworth were neck and neck for a bit, now Tammy has a 100+ vote lead in DuPage and a 300+ vote lead in Cook. Not a done deal by any stretch.
Referendum update
Will County’s results are in. 7,053 in favor of the referendum, 4,212 opposed. That’s a 2800 vote margin. In DuPage, 49% of the precincts are in, and it’s a dead heat: 2689 in favor, 2694 opposed.
Without knowing which DuPage precincts are left, this is still very much in the air. But I prefer a 2,800 [...]
IL-06 update
Wow. Just 20 votes out of 12,000 separate Christine and Tammy in DuPage (with 48% reporting), and Tammy has just a 300 vote lead in Cook county with 43% reporting. Don’t know how the other precincts match up, but I think this is much, much closer than anyone predicted.
DuPage results update
More info coming in:
* 30% of 204 precincts reporting: 550 vote margin, 58% to 42% Yes.
* Cegelis/Duckworth is a horse race: With 44% of the 6th District precincts reporting, Tammy’s at 4550 and Christine’s at 4440. 110 vote margin out of 11,000 cast. Wow. Much closer than I thought it would be.
* Shannon has an [...]
Will County referendum update
No more info from DuPage, but Will is now showing a 2500 vote margin in favor of the 3rd high school referendum in School District 204.
Other Will results:
* Joe Shannon has a sizable lead over Bill Reedy, 58% to 42%.
* Nick Palmer’s effort at becoming the next state central committeeman for the 13th is failing [...]
Referendum update
Interesting. Last year’s referendum (which lost) passed by a narrow margin in Will County — just about 600 votes. So far, there’s a 2000 vote margin in favor of the referendum in Will; It failed in DuPage by about 1500 votes. With DuPage showing a slight bias in favor of the referendum so far, and [...]
