McHenry County Blog

The Crystal Lake Park Board will have five of its 7 seats up for election next April.

Up for re-election are

Scott Breeden, who voted against the Gay Games, and

Gay Games supporters

Candy Reedy
Michael Zellman

I believe the latter two will be facing some rough waters.

That’s because a solid core of residents are resentful of the in-your-face political intrusion of the gay political movement into family-friendly Crystal Lake.

In the past, these “family values” folks have only paid attention to national and state politics…with few exceptions.

Now, they know it makes a difference who serves on the Crystal Lake Park Board. (And, they figure out it also makes a difference who serves on the Crystal Lake City Council and Lakewood Village Board.)

My guess is that they will try to do something about it.

In addition to the three current board members whose terms expire, there will be two more seats open because park district voters expanded the board from 5 to 7 members on a vote of 3,055 to 2,161.

With two of the three Gay Games supporters on the ballot (assuming Reedy and Zellman run for re-election), there are clear targets for the opposition.

But, every candidate runs at large. In order to get them off the board, the insurgents will have to field five candidates.

And, they will have to identity 2,500 people who will support their candidates.

Next April, Crystal Lake will look like it is having an election…as opposed to this year’s primary elections, where I was able to drive three miles on arterial streets to pick up our baby sitter and not see one political sign after I left my house.