Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The board member who lost her bid for reelection last week said she's concerned some of the goals put in place during her four years won't be realized.
DeeDee Gorgol said she’ll feel a little down after her last meeting as a District 86 board member in May. “It will be sad,” Gorgol said. “You make a group of friends and have a common interest and goal and it will be sad because … I’m afraid maybe some of the goals we were putting out there won’t be realized.” Gorgol and Board President Dennis Brennan are current board members who failed in their bid for reelection last week running as part of a slate that also featured current board member Kay Gallo and Roseanne Rosenthal. Gallo was the slate’s only winner, as the “Friends for District 86” slate of Victor Casini, Ed Corcoran and Claudia Manley swept the other three open spots. Gorgol said the results of the election were disappointing, …
The slate that placed three winners in last week's election reemphasized its promise for board accountability and transparency in a letter to the editor.
Monday, April 15, 2013
The DuPage County Election Commission said Mickey Straub violated electioneering rules by standing near a window of the polling room at the Burr Ridge Police Department while voting was going on Tuesday.
A DuPage County Election Commission representative says the commission received complaints during last Tuesday’s election from multiple people that alleged newly elected Burr Ridge Village President Mickey Straub violated electioneering rules at the Burr Ridge Police Department polling place by standing near a window of the room where voting was taking place. Between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. on Election Day, the commission received four complaints, one from the site’s technical election judge, about Straub standing just outside the polling room at the police department near a vehicle that had a Straub campaign sign attached, according to DuPage Election Commission Assistant Executive Director Joe Sobecki. Sobecki said rules dictate that …
The slate that placed three winners in last week's election reemphasized its promise for board accountability and transparency in a letter to the editor.
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Monday, April 15
The following is a letter to the editor submitted by the "Friends for District 86" candidate slate: Victor Casini, Ed Corcoran and Claudia Manley, who ran as "Friends for District 86" would like to thank our supporters and volunteers for all their hard work and dedication during the District 86 school board campaign. We are humbled and honored to be able to serve the citizens of District 86 and will do our best to live up to community expectations. We will promote educational excellence within the district. In addition, we also desire to activate the board committee structure to bring skills and expertise from the community into the district. We will reach out again to all community members in the spirit of collaboration to volunteer for …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Dennis Brennan said he wishes the "Friends for District 86" winners well, but warned that serving on the board is a lot harder than criticizing it from the audience.
District 86 Board President Dennis Brennan said he believes his failed reelection bid is partly the result of serving on school boards that have taken action to improve the district and its facilities. “If you sit there and do nothing, you’ll probably get reelected,” Brennan said Thursday, more than a day after his four-candidate slate placed only one winner. “But if you try to get something done … you’re going to probably raise the opposition, whoever that is.” In 2013, that opposition was “Friends for District 86,” the candidate slate of Victor Casini, Ed Corcoran and Claudia Manley that managed to go three-for-three Tuesday after a campaign centered around improving fiscal responsibility, transparency, and community involvement in …
Thursday, April 11, 2013
County officials said that the amount of traffic caught them by surprise and hampered the ability of the public to access election results.
Officials for DuPage County are saying that the influx of traffic to their election results website, which crashed the page between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, has been a wake-up call to necessary improvements, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the paper, the problem was caused when the available bandwidth was exceeded; page views peaked at 15,000 within a few minutes, 5,000 more than the peak in the 2012 elections. "If you asked me 72 hours ago if the site would peak out 50 percent higher than a presidential election, I would've laughed," Robert Saar, the election commission's executive director, told the paper. "Everybody here had their eyes opened. We're disappointed that it happened, but I'm extremely confident that going …
Challengers Victor Casini, Ed Corcoran and Claudia Manley all won spots on the District 86 Board of Education Tuesday after a contentious campaign.
Claudia Manley called it “unbelievable.” Ed Corcoran was “elated.” Victor Casini said it was “a pleasant surprise.” Following the election of all three “Friends for District 86” candidates Tuesday in the race for District 86 school board, Manley, Corcoran and Casini all said the sweep was unexpected, but also symbolic. “I think it sends a message that the platform that we ran on resonated with District 86 citizens,” Casini said. “Namely, fiscal responsibility, transparency and community involvement.” Corcoran agreed that the community showed its support for the substance of the “Friends” slate’s platform. He also said he thought voters reacted to the group’s campaign approach. “We tried to have a positive campaign, talking about what we’re…
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Burr Ridge's new village president says he wants to make the village "resident-focused and business-friendly."
Mickey Straub said he didn’t expect to win the Burr Ridge village president election until Saturday, when he felt momentum building as he visited residents door-to-door and gained their support. “It was like an ah-ha moment,” Straub said on the phone Wednesday in between appointments with local people he wanted to thank. “It felt like I really can win this thing.” Straub beat acting Village President Robert Sodikoff and fellow challenger John Bittner in Tuesday’s municipal election. The Abraham Lincoln enthusiast who traveled to all 50 U.S. capitols last fall to recite the Gettysburg Address grabbed 919 votes Tuesday. Sodikoff had 758 and Bittner had 287. Straub admitted his campaign could’ve been better, and that he’s not the perfect …
The lone incumbent in the race, Mark Mirabile, was the fourth winner Tuesday.
Three challengers from the "Focus 4 the Future" slate won election to the Pleasantdale School District 107 Board of Education Tuesday. "Focus" candidates Kimberly Barker, Kristin Violante and Douglas Gilman were the three top vote-getters, respectively, and secured spots on the new board along with Mark Mirabile, the lone incubent who finished fourth. Gregory Sengpiel, the fourth "Focus" candidate, and Michael Hawbaker were on the outside looking in after finishing fifth and sixth. According to unofficial results, Barker led all candidates with 894 votes received. Violante had 877; Gilman had 783; and Mirabile had 729. Sengpiel received 704 votes, while Hawbaker had 589. 2013 Election Results: Find All Your Local Winners
Young Ra-Hurka was the only Gower 62 incumbent who didn't win re-election Tuesday.
Two incumbents and two challengers won election to the Gower School District 62 Board of Education Tuesday. Current board members Joseph Schulte and Ryan Asmus, and newcomers Todd Koehler and Ramona Stephens-Zemaitis were top four finishers in the Gower 62 school board race, securing them spots on the new board. Current board member Young Ra-Hurka was on the outside looking in after finishing fifth. According to unofficial results, Schulte led all candidates with 919 votes received. Ausmus, the current board president, had 853; Koehler had 803; and Stephens-Zemaitis had 801. Ra-Hurka received 533 votes. 2013 Election Results: Find All Your Local Winners
Proud Teacher
10:24 pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Wonder if you are even in touch with reality. I don't have the issue any more, but The Hinsdalean did not print a misleading objection to your letter - it didn't print ANY objection to your letter. It ran a "clarification" (which was apparently in response to an objection), and then stated that the paper could find no evidence to support your claim. Now maybe the editorial statement by the paper … more ›