Thursday, November 8, 2012
Voters who cast the ballots at the polls and on Patch overall chose Rep. Carol Sente to represent them in the 59th District.
The outcome of the 59th House District race closely resembled the results of Patch’s poll, which asked readers whether they supported Sid Mathias (R-Buffalo Grove) or Carol Sente (D-Vernon Hills). Seventy-eight votes were cast in the Patch poll, which ran from Nov. 2-7. Of those votes, 53 percent favored Sente. In actuality, she won the election with 56 percent of the 38,707 total votes cast in Lake and Cook counties. The results include all precincts, but do not include provisional votes or late-arriving mail-in votes. Find election results from all races affecting Buffalo Grove here.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Unofficial results show Rep. Carol Sente edged out Rep. Sid Mathias.
Updated 11:50 p.m. The vote tallies now include early votes and mail-in votes in Lake County. The updated vote counts are in the chart below. Updated 11 p.m. With all Election Day votes tallied in Cook and Lake counties, State Rep. Carol Sente celebrated an apparent victory Tuesday night with a crowd of well-wishers. Unofficial results from the two counties show Sente leading with 55 percent of the vote. She received a total of 14,887 votes to State Rep. Sid Mathias’ 11,940. The results do not include early votes, mail-in votes or provisional votes from Lake County, but Sente said tonight she felt secure enough to declare victory. “I expected a very close race,” she said. “I wasn’t sure I was going to win.” “I’m a little shell-shocked …
This election pits two incumbents against each other in the 59th House District race. Which one will you choose?
Friday, November 2, 2012
This election pits two incumbents against each other in the 59th House District race. Which one will you choose?
New political boundaries place State Reps. Carol Sente (D-Vernon Hills) and Sid Mathias (R-Buffalo Grove) in the 59th District beginning this election. Which candidate will you support? We've created a Patch poll to help gauge voters' opinions in the final days of campaign season. If you'd like to explain your choice, we welcome you to use the comment box below. The Patch poll will remain open until the official General Election polls close at 7 p.m. Nov. 6. When the results are in, we'll report how Patch readers' votes compare to the official election results. For more election coverage, read:
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Letter to the editor
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
I personally know both Carol Sente & Sid Mathias and have worked with both. They are both decent, hard working, family oriented people. They both care deeply about our community and are not seeking political office for any individual profit or gain. Since they are both incumbents in the State Legislature and are now running against each other in the newly drawn 59 th District, I have to make a choice. I choose Carol Sente to continue to represent me in Springfield. I choose Carol because I believe she embodies all of the qualities that I look for in an elected official. Carol is a leader. Carol regularly meets with local residents, and not just during election years. She holds regular meetings with constituents and has walked door to door …
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Letter to the editor
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
There seems to be much public sentiment that political campaigning is more negative and unethical than it has ever been. Whether this is true or not is the subject of some debate. Politicians have long thrown mud at each other and the history of negative campaigning reaches back to the earliest days of this nation. Even today, rumor and gossip feed a press and public hungry for scandalous tales while candidates and their supporters seemingly can't resist the siren's call of attack ads. That does not make it right! The most laughable negative campaign tactic I have seen, is Sid Mathias and his mouthpieces attacking Representative Carol Sente for allowing her supporters to send out supposedly inaccurate and negative ads about Sid. Really Sid…
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Letter to the editor
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
We have always thought that there should be some semblance of real facts in political mailings and even in negative advertising. Of course, we all now expect negative advertising. However, the continued barrage of negative advertising from the Democratic Party on behalf of Carol Sente is neither logical nor factually correct. As the Chicago Tribune pointed out in its recent editorial, the mail piece now out and stating that Carol Sente will defend Medicare and Social Security would be laughable, if this were not serious business. Similar mail pieces, put out for Sente and other Democratic candidates and funded by the Democratic Party of Illinois, claim local Republican candidates “are leading the charge to cut Social Security and …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Letter to the editor
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Friday, October 26, 2012
The race for state rep in our district is the only one in the state that pits two incumbents, Carol Sente and Sid Mathias against one another. They are both good people and it should not have happened. It is however necessary to make a choice, and in the sorry economic state that Illinois is in and with gridlock in Springfield over major issues it is critical to to take this choice seriously. I have thought long and hard about this decision. To secure reasonable and fair solutions for our state it is important to have good and reasonable people on both sides of the political aisle. Sid Mathias having been engaged in local government before he went to Springfield has a strong grasp on the impact that decisions made in the General Assembly …
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Friday, October 26, 2012
I read the letter extolling the value of experience that Sid Mathias brings to government, like a long time doctor or pilot. Experience is good to a certain level, there is a reason why surgeons put down their scalpels and pilots turn over the controls. They lose their edge and even worse, do things out of rote memory. Rep Carol Sente, the Democrat, has the necessary legislative and business experience. She bucked the leadership and got substantive change done, like "Budgeting for Results". It’s a significant piece of legislation that changed a culture requiring accountability in government not previously in place. The Daily Herald who endorsed Sid Mathias, missed out that Carol has, and will in fact accomplish more. In reading the …
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Friday, October 26, 2012
In the past year Carol Sente has been fighting to protect a woman’s health care decisions. As some of you may know, Republicans have come up with the theory that when awoman is raped the rapist should be punished and not the child. Did you know that a rapist can seek custody in some states? Join me in voting for Carol Sente to make sure that Illinois doesn’t become one of those states so the women of today can be protected and well reassured. With Sincerity, Aaliyan Moore Deerfield
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9:52 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
Yawn. Total waste of time. No one cares about your worthless coalition, and your shameless self-promotion and hucksterism are really lame. Shouldn't your friends at Kurth Lampe be doing a better job helping you promote yourself? Or are you getting what you pay for with their services? more ›