Presenting for Lt. Governor consideration

Here is my speech in its entirety... after they ask the questions, if you are involved with the dems or did any campaigning, what one thing would be your passion as lt. governor to change, and something special or unique about yourself that you can offer. I think my honesty about my "dirty laundry" is what lost my consideration, even though i have a clean record. I only got through the first of the 3 sections... but much of this is what was in the forms i had to submit, including my honesty about my potential dirty laundry issues...

Speech:
Hi, My name is Sari Hurtig and I am from Mundelein, IL. I am a Libertyville Township Trustee, I am a single mom age 40 and have a masters degree and I am an attorney.

Did you know that 51 percent of the voting population in IL is female? Of that population 67% are registered to vote. We have only had one female lieutenant governor in IL and she was a republican. In addition are you aware that in the 40 years of my life 30 of those years the governor/lt. gov. positions were held by a republican. Of the 10 years held by a Democrat they were the last 6 up until today.

The reason I am running and I should be selected to represent the democratic party for the Lt. Governor position is because we need change. I mean some extreme change if we are going to keep these offices under control of the Dem. Party. I know there is at least one well known woman who has held political office for many years in IL vying for this spot as well as at least one male with much political experience as well. I would assume they would be the first to be considered for this spot and at first glance that makes sense. They have the political experience and they have the backing and financial support needed to run a campaign as well as name recognition. But here I am saying, please reconsider. Based on IL statistics I believe we need a woman as Lt. Gov. and one who can relate to the people and is one of the people. Not the same old politics or the same old politicians.

I can offer you my age at 40 years, young, and fresh, new blood. I am able to relate to the people of this state. I am a single mom able to work full time and raise a child with little assistance. I am highly educated, but not necessarily highly paid. I am also bilingual in Spanish. I can relate to so many people of our state, being female, bilingual and having a job working everyday 8-5 to support my family. I am not a lifelong politician and I have much business know how and some political experience to bring to this job and to help improve our state.

Many say the Lt. Gov. job is insignificant and although the duties may be light, one of the duties is to do what the governor requires. I think this is a great time for the governor to use the lt. governor to help review all of our major departments, streamline processes and 80/20 the government. 20 percent of the programs, procedures and policies cover 80 percent of the needs of our population. In IL we need change, we need an overhaul. With my education and business know how I can go into these departments, review budgets, look for cuts, make recommendations and streamline our governmental system. We can 80/20 IL. Being a single mom I have learned how to save money, be frugal, cut costs, do only what is necessary. I can advise how to save money so we don’t have to raise taxes, so we can improve our government and make it work better, function better. In addition we need to work on the relationships between the governor and the Speaker. They need to find a way to have mutually beneficial goals that will help the people of IL, NOT the government officials. We need to remember we are here for the PEOPLE, not for our own personal gains.

Having lived day to day life on a regular average, “two” figure salary, I am not looking for favors or political gains. I am one of the people and I am for the people. As Lt. Gov. my goal would be to help liason between the Governor and Speaker, to facilitate the relationship and make it work for all to the benefit of IL so that we can 80/20 our programs and spending to benefit IL overall.

The people have been talking around the nation and they are saying, do not increase taxes and that is what they are saying in IL too. If we don’t get out of our budget crunch and make a viable plan to get into the black we will not be able to hold that seat. I believe an 80/20 approach, streamlining processes will be the way to succeed in IL.

Secondly, my plan to get elected is two-fold. I would seek the backing of the state democratic party and hopefully work with our governor along with his campaign to make us known and develop a plan together we can present to the people as mentioned above to show why we together are a viable team and the candidates that need to be elected for this next term.

I would also go grass roots and go town to town as feasible to meet the people, one on one. The more people you touch the more support you can gain. It is important to connect with local democratic organizations in each community and go introduce yourself and meet the people. Let them get to know you, your plan and thoughts. You need to make that personal connection to help gain that vote.

Of course fundraising is also important. I would seek the backing of my local democratic organizations to which I belong as a start and then grow from there. I would reach out to the many other organizations for support, besides the Libertyville Township Dems and the Eighth Dist. Dems, I would look for backing from the IL state Bar and the American Bar as well as the Intl Compl Prof Assoc of which I am members. I would also contact the Decalogue Society, Hadassah, and the Puerto Rican Heritage Organization seeking support and any other organizations that I am affiliated or active in. I would go to my company Illinois Tool Works and seek backing from their political action committee who have supported me in prior campaigns as well. I also am close friends to a person who does fundraising in non for profit and he has worked in DC in the political arena in the past and seek his assistance too.

Thirdly, I can not say that I have the perfect background. But I can say that I do not have a criminal record or anything that can be held against me. While a law student, 13 years ago my father passed away from cancer, and then my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and I found out I was pregnant. As this was all going on when I was 7-1/2 months pregnant my daughter’s father left me. 3 weeks after he left me, I went to talk to him at his job to try to work things out and found him on the phone with a woman. I was not happy and proceeded to hit him 3x. Realizing what I had just done and being in law school, I went to the police dept. and admitted what I did. I was arrested. I was guilty and had admitted it b/c I didn’t want to screw up my chances of becoming an attorney. The next week, my daughter’s father through his boss told me if I gave him money he would drop the charges. I passed that information along to the state’s attorney’s office and the case was dropped. I had the file expunged and have no criminal record. I did however reveal all this information to the IL State Bar when applying to be licensed in IL and I have been admitted and am a practicing attorney, licensed in IL. I know what I did was wrong and regret it, but I chalk it up to first love. I make no excuses.

I would ask that you seriously consider me, Sari Hurtig, as the right candidate for the Lt. Governor position. Maybe after what I just told you, you are thinking I am not the one. But remember every day people all have skeletons in their closet and can still make great businessman, politicians and ethical people. I am very ethical, moral and have great ideas to help IL grow, succeed and KEEP our democratic seat in IL in 2010.

Thank you for your time.

Miss Northern Suburbs Fundraising Night at Chicago Slaughter with Jarrett Payton

How cool is this. We have a fundraiser night and you should come. See the Chicago Slaughter indoor football at the Sears Center. Game is Saturday April 24th at 7:05 pm.

Special Discount Ticket Prices for
Supporting Families and their Guests, PLUS up to $3 per ticket will go back to the Miss Northern Suburbs Pageant!
(Prices indicated include $1/ticket Sears Centre facility fee)

-$8 Upper Level Seats, $10 Lower Endzone Seats, $15 Lower Sideline Seats
-PA & Scoreboard Recognition of the Miss Northern Suburbs Pageant!
-Meet Head Coach Steve McMichael and #34 Jarrett Payton, and get pictures and autographs from the players & dancers on the field after the game!

HELP SUPPORT
MISS NORTHERN
SUBURBS PAGEANT!
Sat. APRIL 24th, 7:05pm

Please call, mail or fax completed form & payment to:
Chicago Slaughter, Attn: Jon Zaley
1055 W. Golf Rd, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
Call (847) 310-3190 or Fax to (847) 310-3199
Questions? Ask Hale Parent Jon Zaley:
Email: jonz@chicagoslaughter.com

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(Prices indicated include $1/ticket Sears Centre facility fee)
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COME SUPPORT MISS NORTHERN SUBURBS AND HAVE FUN DOING IT.
SEE SHERIDAN, TAYLOR AND CORINA

Libertyville Township meeting

Last Thursday was our regular Libertyville Township Meeting. As a trustee we make decisions as to how we will spend the tax money we are given. Currently we are working on building a new food pantry.

The main part of this meeting this week was about picking a company to build our food pantry and be the construction manager. There were 4 companies that submitted bids and interviewed with Supervisor O'Connor and Trustee Mittelman. They told us about the interview process, who attended, what they said and then told us their recommendation. There was one of the 4 companies that was much lower than the other 3. I questioned why and if they offered to review and fix the quote b/c it seemed way off. They did build beautiful work but I was not comfortable with the bid being so low/off.

We ended up voting and 4 of the 5 of us voted for the 2nd lowest bid and the company that was recommended by Trustee Mittelman and Supervisor O'Connor. Trustee O'Connor was a Nay b/c she felt we should go for the lowest bid and that the work was good and we should be able to depend on that bid. Because of the large difference I did not feel comfortable with that choice, but I did understand Trustee O'Connor's point and felt this to be a hard decision.

You should know, I wanted to be be included int he interview process but was not able to because if there was 3 of us it would be a Quorum and therefore a meeting that has to be announced to the public and that is not what we intended.

Our next meeting is March 25th at 7pm.
Hope to see you there!
http://township.libertyville.il.us/ check out the webiste too.

Libertyville Township Democrats

last week Wednesday we had a very successful meet and greet at Kaiser's Pizza in Mundelein. Tom Jurgens had put this even together and it went well. We had a much bigger turn out than we thought. There were about 20 people who showed up. We had pizza and soda. We signed petitions and talked about what else... politics. It was very crowded and loud at Kaiser's but still a lot of fun.

I hope this is the beginning of some regular meetings that have as nice a turn out as this one. I think we will start growing and changing. Our next meeting is a week from this Wednesday, April 14, 7:00-9:00pm. Not sure where yet.

Here is our site http://libertyvilledems.org/ to find out more.

We will be discussing summer parades and outdoor events to have booths and get out there to get known and how we can be helping local candidates.
Hope to see you there.

NISP Volunteering at Pals

Sunday, Yesterday, with NISP as the Junior Supreme Star Queen Sheridan and 3 other girls, Alexis, Lydia and ReNee all were at the Gala event at Maggiono's in Schaumburg. The girls did a great job setting up for 2-1/2 hours and seemed to have fun doing it. The parents were a great help too.

St. Patricks Day Parade in Lake Villa Miss Northern Suburbs

Sheridan and the Northern Suburbs Queens were out Saturday in Lake Villa on the float made by their directors, waving and throwing candy.

They had a great time and looked great. I think they had fun too.
After the Parade they went back to their director's house and they had a practice interview with another local pageant director as a judge.

then we all ate pizza and had cookies and Sheridan and Taylor had fun with their pageant director, Kristen's, husband, Kevin who was kind enough to give them some raw cookie dough to eat before actually making some yummy cookies.

They had a great time for St. patty's day.

Democratic spot for Lt. Governor in IL

I have applied with the IL Dems to be considered for the LT. Governor Dem Ballot position in IL.
Now i need to write a letter to all the IL state committeemen and women to vote for me. I wonder if I have a chance. There are about 150 candidates, all types of people. There are definitely a few with a better political background, but I feel I have that perfect mix of a political background, a life in the business world, a parent, am very grounded and well rounded. The perfect candidate for change in IL

http://blogs.vocalo.org/shudzik/2010/02/the-election-file-those-19-men-and-19-women-who-may-be-picking-your-next-lieutenant-governor/14380

Check out this site for some info.
Sari

Broadway at Alden Nursing home Long Grove, IL

This past Friday, the NISP queens performed at Alden Nursing home a medley of Broadway numbers. It was amazing. They were great. Some danced, some sang. We had Meg tap dance and Sam Irish Danced to Brigadoon. Cassidy and Allison sang a song from the Wizard of Oz and Sheridan sang Baltimore from hairspray.

There was fan dancing too and Annika and her dad sang a number from Annie. Laura and Lydia sang a song from The Sound of Music. This was a great program because in some of the numbers we had the residents participate too. Everyone wore nice outfits or costumes.

Afterwards we hung out at McDonalds.
Always a fun time with NISP. the Queens have fun and so did the residents. They passed out faux flowers to the residents too. So nice, really. What a great group of girls

Northern Illinois Scholarship Program, a pageant with a purpose - being community service and lots of it. Come join us, check us out. You can be an ambassador without being in the pageant, you are a queen too. Or compete in November in the pageant if you want. We have a lot of fun, mentoring and community service. Based out of Grayslake and events all throughout the North Shore.

Sheridan in Commercial

At 8 seconds you see a little girl behind the Mr. Winter Wonderland, in a blue bathing suit. That is my Sheridan