Thank You!

Well, March 20th came and went with dissapointing results in regards to my vote totals, but not with the experience of the campaign.  Congratulations to Elaine Zannis, Pete DiCianni and Sean Noonan for gaining a spot on the November ballot, and to Mike Loftus, Zach Wilson, Rafael Rivadeneira and Charles Mueller for running good campaigns and working hard to deliver their message to the voters.

It was a tough task going in, being ‘geographically challenged’ where my home turf represented only a small portion of District 2, and being vastly out spent by others.  When all is said and done, the results will show that I was outspent roughly $120,000 to my $8,000 during the campaign by the nominees.  All of that said, I was within 5 flipped votes per precinct of cracking the top three.  I only point these facts out to all those invested with me in the campaign as explainations of how things played out, not as sour grapes.  I’m very proud of the way I ran the campaign while gaining 5009 votes.

There were many more good moments than bad these past 150 days or so, here are my Top Ten:

  • 10 – Filing on December 5th with lifelong friend Jack Provenzale at my side.
  •   9 – Driving around until 3am with son Patrick placing signs while catching up.
  •   8 – Getting to know the other candidates during the various events.
  •   7 – Seeing my yard signs in yards that I didn’t place, at homes I didn’t know.
  •   6 – Having Democrat friends pulling GOP ballots for the first times in their lives to vote for me!
  •   5 – Seeing friends and family at my Carlucci fundraiser from all time periods and places of my life.
  •   4 – Showing by example to my five children that it’s not always in the results, but in the attempt to do good and make changes.
  •   3 – Having my daughter Bridget vote for me in her first election, along with son Patrick, daughter Kelly, wife Kathleen and my mother Helen.
  •   2 – Marching in the Elmhurst St. Patrick’s Day Parade with family, the Schlorfs, Provenzales, Anna Johnson, Kip Hennelly and brother Ron coming out to help.  Shaking hands and meeting people along the route was exhilarating and really was a highlight of the campaign.
  •   1 – Running a clean campaign, not beholden to any groups or outside influences and being able to wake up as I did Wednesday morning with no regrets feeling blessed to have my wife and healthy kids, and for all of those friends, new and old, who backed me with votes, donations and support.

We now turn our attention to November, where it will be imperative to elect whoever the GOP Presidential nominee ends up being.  If you’re in a position to help any Republican members of our General Assembly elected over Quinn/Madigan Democrats, please do what you can to help in those races.  Illinois government is in shambles, we new to change directions over what the current broken status quo.

Rest assured, this is the last email of this sort you will receive.  I can’t rule out selling Girls Scout cookies for Nora, or shamelessly plugging Brian’s Herrick volleyball team winning the first ever conference title for the school, while going undefeated…but I’ll try!

Thanks again to all,

Jim

 

 
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