Two local newspapers have published responses to questionnaires they provided to each of the candidates vying for elected positions on our Village Board in the April 9 general election. Each candidate’s name appears below in the order in which they are listed on the April 9 ballot.
Click on any candidate’s name to be directed to their profile and responses to the respective publication’s questions.
Northwest Herald – Village President
Northwest Herald – Village Trustee
Daily Herald – Village President
Daily Herald – Village Trustee
The Observer will continue to provide our readers with up-to-date news and information leading up to Election Day 2013.
FRITZ……How can you not know what the bond rating of our village is? SHAME ON YOU!
Wow, Abboud didn’t even respond to the NW Herald’s questions. He’s been recycling so many things from his last campaign including his signs that you’d think he’d have his answers in boilerplate. Guess it wasn’t worth his time.
I did enjoy Fritz’s answer to education: “5 years of college.” God help us!
@Potpourri Gohl & Mazeski also stated that they want to protect the Village’s “Boarders”. Spell check fail or Freudian slip?
How is that the Northwest Herald endorsed Bob Abboud, but that he did not respond to their questions, the only candidate to do so? With the cut backs at newspapers and limited coverage available or any investigating reporting to speak of, one needs to question the veracity of their endorsement. In fact, credibility of the newspaper;s coverage is questionable.
Simple answer is Abboud sells newspapers every time he talks to the press.
His tirade against the EPA was front page news in the Daily Herald one Saturday. He claimed they didn’t know what they were doing with an auto auction site review in Wheeling trying to justify what he’d love to spend on legal fees against East Dundee for their own development plans regarding the Insurance Auctions facility.
It is nice to be able to see where each candidate stands on some items….
I know “saying” and “doing” are two different things… and “working together” with the other candidates who will be will another. May the best ones win and may they help Barrington Hills become a loving and caring community again.
So Fritz Gohl in his Daily Herald questionnaire says he wants to work on getting Barrington Hills kids out of District 300 schools and into 220 as his special project. What a laugh. Let’s see — he’s been on the Board for 12 years, and in the last four years never has he even uttered a word about D300 during a Board meeting, let alone made any strides toward a district change. Abboud hasn’t done diddly squat for us D300 parents either, and has completely removed any mention of the D300 situation from his website too.
Wake up people! Talk is cheap, taxes are high, and climbing. We need new leadership on April 9th.
Give Fritz a chance. He is still working on his college education!
The only way to dethrone the Abboud monarchy is to wake up the political sensibilities and consciousness of the voters of this village! As far as I can see, they are the chief enemies in our election process. The voters consistently return to power the same people who represent a bottleneck to change. Why? Because they have been brainwashed to believe that this is the correct and only path to victory. And every election cycle they are richly rewarded at the ballot box.
The residents who vote this party line repeatedly stifle this village’s governmental reigns, and cripple its forward momentum by staying with the old, tiresome, safe rhetoric of the past years. Many of our village residents are crying out for substantive real change on so many issues which are never heard or addressed by any trustee or at any board meeting. All of this gamesmanship has strangled and silenced by those in the seats of power. The voices of the miniority and the dissenters remain just that.
Every year like lemmings, they follow Abboud and his handpicked trustee candidates off the political cliff whether it is correct to do so or not. Eventually they will wake up from their deep sleep, but in the meantime while we wait for this major tsunami to change the political horizon in our village, I sincerely hope it won’t be too late for (our residents) and wonderful village when they finally do!!