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Jeff Ward: Don't Just Throw the Rascals Out! Replace Them!
Here are six steps to winning a local elected office.
In April, we discussed the most effective ways of fighting city hall. Those strategies included coming prepared, following Robert’s Rules, and sticking to your game plan as well as the facts. The gotcha game, which is most certainly in vogue, almost never works. In May, we discussed the city hall that truly needed fighting: DuPage County. Between Sheriff John Zaruba’s ride alongs, County Board Chair Dan Cronin’s sister’s patronage plum, and a judge who thinks it’s appropriate to aim an SUV at a 13-year-old jogger, one could certainly argue that it’s a target-rich environment. But now it’s June, and inspired by a Downers Grove Patch Dan F. post-column comment, we’re gonna talk about what might well be the most effective way of changing …
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Dennis C. Ryan
7:26 am on Saturday, June 2, 2012
Jeff, great column. And Bob McQuillan's comments makes it even better because Bob writes from personal experience. Consolidated elections are coming in 2013. There are the so-called "non-partisan elections," where candidates run for positions on city councils, library boards and township governments. I say "so-called non-partisan'" because if everyone was truly non-partisan, they wouldn't have … more ›