Incumbents defeat Moynihan in Schaumburg race

Schaumburg voters appear happy with the village board that got them through and beyond the recession which once threatened to cripple the village's economic engine.

With all 50 precincts reporting in early Wednesday, incumbent village trustees Tom Dailly, George Dunham and Mark Madej clearly had won re-election, leaving challenger Jim Moynihan defeated as he was in his bid to unseat Democratic state Rep. Michelle Mussman last November.

Dailly had 3,017 votes, Dunham 2,879, Madej 2,481 and Moynihan 2,052.

"I think the voters didn't mistake hyperbole and rhetoric," Dunham said. "We have a track record and we proved it. We had something to sell and (Moynihan) didn't."

Moynihan could not be reached for comment.

And though uncontested, Schaumburg Mayor Al Larson officially won his eighth term in his present office Tuesday.

Moynihan campaigned saying he would try to hasten the village's lowering of its six-year-old property tax levy, as well as binding the now veteran village board with term limits in the future.

Dailly, Dunham and Madej criticized what they called the naiveté of Moynihan's financial plan, saying they already have been lowering the village's property tax levy as quickly as they responsibly could without cutting services.

In the campaign's final days, campaign literature began to appear suggesting Moynihan had a plan to drastically cut fire and police services. Dunham said he did not know of the Alliance of Illinois Taxpayers NFP group that claimed responsibility for the mailers.

Moynihan insisted that fire and police services would be the last places he'd make cuts.