Opinion

Elect state senator from our area

Posted October 06, 2018 1:00 am

I grew up in a house on the west side of St. Charles on 12th Street, near Horne in the '60s and '70s. When my parents first built our nice Westway home, we could see from our house all the way to Randall Road. I now live in Huntley. Huntley's cornfields and surrounding natural beauty, as well as its small-town feel, remind me a lot of growing up in St. Charles.

Now, fast forward to 2018: Huntley, Algonquin, Elgin, South Elgin, Lake in the Hills, Carpentersville, Dundee, Pingree Grove, Hampshire. All of these towns make up my new community, and we have not had a state senator from our area, quite possibly ever. Neither DeWitt, McConnaughay or Lauzen, the senator before her, were from our area. McConnaughay and her appointed successor are from St. Charles.

Why? Why have we always been represented by state senators from that same area of our district, year after year after year?

It is time for a change. It is time for us to have representation from the heart of the district. We have a strong, intelligent, caring and extremely capable candidate from Algonquin, and I can't wait for her to be our next state senator. From our neighborhoods: Nancy Zettler, a respected lawyer, advocate for our schools, a mom of two beautiful, college-age daughters.

Nancy is smart, tough, approachable, in a word: fantastic. Please join me in voting for Nancy Zettler, as our next Illinois state senator.

Nancy Glissman

Huntley

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