Dear Neighbors, Friends and Family,
I can hardly believe I’m telling you this – it’s time to prepare for Re-election in 2024. I’ve been so busy on the county board; it feels like time sneaked up on me.
As the campaign begins to gather signatures in the fall, as children head back to school and the air begins to cool, even as the campaign will demand our attention, so much has happened in the last eight months. Let me share just a few with you.
• I have been appointed to two committees – Public Health and Community Services, Planning, Environment and Development, and liaison to the Housing Authority.
• I supported reasonable gun control legislation.
• I co-chair the Workforce Housing Work Group, a year-long commission charged with examining the housing crisis facing people who work in our county.
• I support an increase in Mental Health Board funding (708 Board).
• I am exploring alternative energy while working to address the crisis of climate change.
• I partnered with Food Shed Cooperative Grocery Store to expand funding for construction.
• I supported Wonder Lake in securing funds through AARPA and the unfunded Sewer Project to bring sewer and water to Hancock Drive. I brought Lake Management and the county together on the Thompson Bridge Stream Gauge.
To continue the important work of government on behalf of the residents, I need your help. Currently, I’m raising funds for my re-election campaign. In the past, you have supported me. Before I ask the general public, I thought I would ask you – my supporters and friends.
Please join me on September 10th at Historic Woodstock Square where I will be performing with The Jack Ness Trio, 5:30 – 8:30 pm, at Stage Left Café, it will be fun. Tickets are $50.00 per person and can be purchased through the Woodstock Opera House. If you are unable to attend, please make a contribution through Act Blue or send a check payable to Citizens for Lou Ness, 466 W. Jackson, Woodstock, Ill.60098.Thank you in advance for your support and encouragement. Each time I met you on the street, knocked on your door, or chatted in my garden you expressed support and I am grateful. Let’s do it again.
See you on the Campaign Trail,
Lou Ness
McHenry County Board, District 7
www.citizensforlouness.com
815-404-7246
Advocate. Educate. Elevate.
Vote Lou Ness for McHenry County Board
Advocate | Policy and Practice to:
• Create a platform that reflects the concerns of working families and marginalized groups
• Assure reproductive choice for women and girls
• Promote solution-based ideas to end homelessness and reduce poverty
Educate | Securing Democracy:
• Provide opportunities to ensure constituents believe the sacred act of voting is secure
• Replace disinformation with truth
• Enroll community members around the importance of being engaged in community life
Elevate | Solutions to Address:
• Local solutions to difficult issues
• Transparency in government accountability across local and state bodies
• Promote Healthy communities, one neighborhood at a time
50 Years of Public Service
• Chaplain to People Living in gut-wrenching Poverty
Virtue
This word was meaningful in the 18th Century. Virtue was the core of public life and embraced by the First President, George Washington. Virtue meant putting the common good before one’s own interests. Virtue writes the historian Joyce Appleby, was the “lynchpin” of public life – that is the fastener that held together the structure. (First Principles, Thomas E. Ricks)
For me, returning to the intention of those early founders is a primary pillar of my campaign. I believe, putting the common good above personal interest has disappeared from the national and state discourse. I believe we make the most significant changes at the local level and have the greatest impact when we are concerned about the health and well-being of our neighbors. Throughout my career I have always put the common good above personal gain. The few times I strayed from this core value, I did so at my peril.
