League of Women Voters of the Elgin Area Will Host 4 Candidate Forums For March 20 Primary

The League of Women Voters of the Elgin Area will host four candidate forums for the March 20 Primary.

Feb. 27, 2018Dundee/Rutland Townships Candidate Forum for Kane County Clerk, Sheriff, and County Board Districts 9 and 23

The LOWV will host this forum at 7 p.m. (6:30 p.m. Meet and Greet) at the Rakow Senior Center, 665 Barrington Ave., Carpentersville, IL 60110.

Candidates in the following primary races have been invited to attend: For Kane County Clerk, Republicans Stanton J. “Stan” Bond and John A. “Jack” Cunningham; for Kane County Sheriff, Republicans Donald E. Kramer and Kevin Tindall and Democrats Ron Hain and Willie M. Mayes, Sr.; for Kane County Board District 9, Republicans Connie Von Keudell and Tom Koppie; and for Kane County Board District 23, Republicans Jim Patrician and Jonathan E. Radke.

Feb. 28, 2018: Elgin Candidate Forum for Judge in the 16th Circuit Court (Akemann Vacancy)

This forum will take place at 6:30 p.m. (6 p.m. Meet and Greet) at the Gail Borden Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin, IL 60120.

Candidates invited are:  Republicans Elizabeth Flood, Thomas  M. “Tom” Hartwell, and David P. Kliment, and Democrats Lark Cowart and Michael J. Noland.

March 6, 2018: Dundee/Rutland Townships Candidate Forum for Judge in the 16th Circuit Court (Akemann Vacancy) and U.S. 6th Congressional District Representative

The forum will be held at 7 p.m. (6:30 p.m. Meet and Greet) at the Rakow Senior Center, 665 Barrington Ave., Carpentersville, IL 60110.

Candidates invited to attend are: For Judge in the 16th Circuit Court, Republicans Elizabeth Flood, Thomas M. “Tom” Hartwell, and David P. Kliment, and Democrats Lark Cowart and Michael J. Noland; for U.S. 6th Congressional District Representative, Democrats Sean Casten, Carole Cheney, Amanda Howland, Ryan Huffman, Kelly Mazeski, Becky Anderson Wilkins, and Jennifer Zordani.

The winner in the Democratic Primary for the 6th Congressional race will run against Republican Peter Roskam in the November election.

March 7, 2018: Elgin Candidate Forum for Kane County Clerk, Sheriff, and County Board Districts 17 and 19

The forum will be held at 6:30 p.m. (6 p.m. Meet and Greet) at the Gail Borden Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin, IL 60120.

Candidates in the following primary races have been invited to attend: For Kane County Clerk, Republicans Stanton J. “Stan” Bond and John A. “Jack” Cunningham; for Kane County Sheriff, Republicans Donald E. Kramer and Kevin Tindall and Democrats Ron Hain and Willie M. Mayes, Sr.; for Kane County Board District 17, Democrats Deborah Allan and Janice Bennett; and for Kane County Board District 19, Democrats  Thomas P. Gibbons, Mohammad “Mo” Iqbal, and John Jack Shales.

The primary election is March 20Early voting is presently available at the Kane County Government Center. Permanent, early and grace period voting begins March 5at additional voting locations.

For more information, go to the League of Women Voters of the Elgin Area website at http://lwvelginarea.org/

Additional voting information is available on the Kane County Clerk’s Office’s kanecountyelections.org website and the Aurora Election Commission website.


About The League of Women Voters of The Elgin Area

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The League of Women Voters of the Elgin Area serves the people of Bartlett, Carpentersville, Dundee, Elgin, Gilberts, Sleepy Hollow and South Elgin.

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government.

SOURCE: League of Women Voters of the Elgin Area news release
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See The Full List of Primary Candidates Online

Here are links to the Kane County Clerk’s Office website, showing a list of candidates that will appear on the March 20 primary ballots: