If there were ever an example of personal animosity at work in politics, it just went on public display in Kane County.
Chris Lauzen, who served twenty years in the Illinois Senate, three terms as Kane County Board Chairman and now serves as Kane County Treasurer, hired Connie Cain after Cain ran and lost to Democratic Party State Rep. Sue Ness.
Contrary to the Daily Herald headline above, Cain was not just an “employee.”
She was as the beginning of the story states, Director of Financial Operations.
The two had a serious falling out, which I did not follow, but included Cain giving testimony to a Democratic Party-controlled Kane County Board committee before which, Lauzen terminated her employment.
The Daily Herald reported, Cain “lambasting him publicly in a county board finance committee meeting, saying he lacks basic computer skills, withholds information from the finance department and caused her ‘to suffer emotional distress’ and ‘mental abuse.
“Lauzen dismissed her criticism as coming from a disgruntled former employee.”
A month and a half ago, right after the election, Cain release her analysis of the effect of early and mailed voting in Kane County.
The analysis followed Democrats wiping up the floor in Dundee and Elgin Townships’ elections.
She concluded that Democrats will “win every time” unless Republicans increase the number of supporters who don’t wait to vote until election day.
