Trying to shirk her responsibility
To insinuate means “to suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.”
In her March 20 letter to the editor, Corinne Pierog, who is running to hold onto her grip as Kane County Board chairman after three and a half years of ineffective rule, dishonestly insinuated that I have anything to do with the current controversy regarding her not taking a firm position against illegal immigration and Illinois’ misguided status as a sanctuary state.
Although it’s historically accurate that I served for eight years (including 2017) as elected Kane County Board chairman, it is deceitful for Pierog to try to shirk her responsibility for not allowing the board to voice their opposition by proclamation to the current importation of millions of illegal immigrants.
Board member Rick Williams proposed a resolution basically opposing illegal immigration. The board split in a tie vote, calling on the chairman to merely vote. Instead, she refused to even “take a position” when she didn’t vote and now tries to confuse voters by casting aspersions in my direction. Jim Fuller reported these facts in the Daily Herald on Feb. 22.
On the contrary, my public record has been crystal clear and (without exception) perfectly consistent for more than 20 years of opposition to illegal immigration, in editorials written and published in Kane County newspapers and speeches delivered in the Illinois Senate.
Examples of these speeches and articles will be supplied for free to anyone interested enough to call and ask me at 630-264-2419.
It is a particularly dishonest and devious type of political behavior to refuse to vote when you have the responsibility and authority, but then to try to falsely blame someone else.
Chris Lauzen
Kane County Treasurer