Memorial Day. Thanks to all who have served, remember those who have fallen.

To all of you who still serve or have friends and/or family serving, you too have a part in the long line of heroes who have stood on the wall or charged hostile shores or captured hills or flown headlong into flak...Thank you for your service and sacrifice!

Memorial Day

Written by LCRCC

Friday, 27 May 2011 23:31

Memorial Day Whether you are with friends and family this weekend, the Indianapolis 500, working, or staying at home, please remember all those who served our country and fought for our freedom and paid the ultimate sacrifice. To all those who died while serving our great country, to all those families who have suffered the loss of a loved one who served, we salute you, we commemorate you and we will will never forget. Thank you!

This issue of the Lake County Republican Party Newsletter includes a bit about the infamous "Printergate!"   To read everything on the LCRCC page, click right here. May Newsletter

Written by Kim Krull

Saturday, 21 May 2011 22:30

Chairman's Comments Congratulations to all of our Republican Primary winners! Now is the time to start working together to get our candidates elected. We have four mayor races and many council and other local seats to win. There are many projects coming up. Now that re-districting is completed, we will be re-organizing the First District Committee this June. We are working on another Candidate School scheduled for July. If you are not a candidate and would like to attend, please contact your City or Town Chairman for more information. The LCRCC has secured a headquarters and will be moving the printer and other office supplies there soon. We are hoping to once again have a call center going and will underwrite a significant portion for all candidates who wish to use this amazing technology. If you missed our last county meeting, we will have another one in September. We already have another guest speaker lined up! Reagan Breakfast is October 1st. We have confirmed US Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock as a guest speaker and we are also trying to get Senator Lugar to attend as well. Dan Buksa is coordinating a straw poll so it should be a lot of fun! Get your tickets early as we are also planning on a nationally known guest speaker as our keynote speaker. More details in upcoming newsletters. I am recruiting candidates for positions that were not filled in the primary. Our City and Town Chairs did a pretty good job of filling them, but unless we want democrats to go unopposed in the fall, everyone needs to step up to either run or encourage someone you know who is a qualified Republican candidate to run. Lastly, you may have read over the past few weeks negative press about some of our city and town organizations. Let me assure you that these issues have been addressed. Although by reading the local papers, one wouldn't know it. Let me also explain to you that where there is growth in any organization, there will always be conflict. It is when there is stagnation and apathy that everything always runs smoothly. We have been growing and changing from a party that was stagnant to a party that is engaging and has purpose. "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." - Walter Lippmann. So there are bound to be disagreements. I am calling though for all Republicans who truly want to get Republicans in good standing elected, to stop the negative public comments. Like my mom always said, "If you don't have anything good to say, say nothing at all." If you don't like something, then work for change in a positive way. We are all volunteers working to make the Republican Party as well as Lake County government better. The personal attacks do nothing but slow down that process, and makes the work of all those who are volunteers, from myself to each precinct committeemen, that much harder. As Henry Ford said, "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Let's strive for SUCCESS! Kim CHAIRMAN'S MEETING Saturday June 4th 9am lakecountygop@comcast.net This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it PrinterGate There seemed to be an awful lot of attention paid recently to the printer in Winfield! To clear everything up, here are the facts. The printer out in Winfield was purchased by John Curley. He stored it in a vacant building that he let the LOFS Chamber use rent free 2-3 days a week. He allowed the party to use the printer as Chuck Oliver was trained to run it, and Chuck ran other jobs for John using that printer as well. After John died, the Curley family allowed the LCRCC to continue using the printer as long as we insured it and paid any maintenance and ink fees. As we did not have the funds to pay for an office at the time and the Curley family did not move the printer out, the printer remained there. We have an old file cabinet and metal book case that is also in that building. There are no other printers, duplicators or copiers in that building and never have been since I took office. There is some talk of some other equipment like that, but I do not have any proof at this time that we have ever owned such equipment or where such equipment is. I am however, in the process of auditing records to see if any such equipment was ever purchased and if so, where it might be. Since all the uproar over the printer, I have spoken again to Janet Curley. She has been gracious enough to donate the printer now to the LCRCC as she stated she has no more use for the machine. She is also donating a picture of President Lincoln that was given to John from Target Strategies. She requested that we hang it in our new office, and I will be honoring her request. As I am unaware of when or if any candidates use the printer, it has always been the candidates' responsibility to find out what the in-kind donation amount is from Chuck Oliver to report on any campaign finance reports. He is the one who has the knowledge of jobs done and ink/time used. Most of the time it is a nominal amount as Chuck charges a flat rate for his time and the candidates supply their own paper. The party has absorbed the maintenance, ink, and insurance costs. I signed a contract in April for office space for the LCRCC in the St John Mall. The rent started May 1st. We are getting ready to move everything we have from Winfield to St John in the next couple of weeks. I'd like to thank Janet Curley and the Curley family for their generous donations, and Chuck and Clemmer Oliver for your time helping candidates with printing. We look forward to Chuck and Clemmer helping in the new location. ~ The Boss (according to the Times!) As you can see the LCRCC now own the Times.  Reporting has to get better...

Republican Results from contested races around the Lake County area

First,  Crown Point School District's tax referendum passed!  Also John Foreman won the only contested race on the Republican side in Cedar Lake (in a close win against Marilyn Kaper, another great candidate).

Second, I believe Kim Krull/Lake County GOP's message to me was intended for distribution:

From: Lake County GOP

Sent: 2011-05-03 23:18
To: Lake County GOP
Subject: Congratulations!

Congratulations to our 2011 Republican Primary Winners in contested Races!

Cedar Lake
Ward 2- John Foreman

Crown Point
Mayor- Eldon Strong

Hammond
Mayor- George Janiec
District 1 Council- Michael Dye
District 5 Council- Chris Fleming

St John
Council at-large- Mark Barenie
Council at-large- Mike Forbes

Schererville
Ward 3 Council- Kevin Bradley

Winfield
Council at-large- Gerald Steiner
                               Paulette Skinner
                               Donald Samburg
                               David Anderson

Primary Voting - Cedar Lake Precinct Map AND Voting locations.

Primary is Tuesday!   The Republicans of Cedar Lake and Hanover Township have only one contested race and both of them are great candidates.   First, if you do not know what Ward/Precinct you are in, the map links are below:

I made a copy but it won't zoom in like the one online:

The zoomable map is located here.

Marilyn Kaper - Ward 2 Town Council
John Foreman - Ward 2 Town Council

(Personal note:  Within my family there is a split on this choice.) 

Win/win no matter who comes out on top.   Marilyn Kaper has been a devoted servant/board member/involved parent in Cedar Lake for somewhere in the vicinity of 30 years and has been an active part of the long, slow change from backwoods burgh to modern(izing) and growing community and certainly integral to making Hanover Central Schools one of the best school districts in the State of Indiana.   John Foreman (who clued me in to the location of the map online) has been part of the recent developments in town as the incumbent Council member and is familiar with and works in hi-tech industry.   John is a well-traveled professional in a highly specialized industry, Marilyn is also known to the town as her family's Cedar Lake Florist shop is a Lakeshore Drive fixture.

Running unopposed on the primary ballot:

Ralph Miller - Ward 4 Town Council

Patricia (King) Cassasa - Ward 6 Town Council

Gregory (Greg) Parker - Ward 7 Town Council

Amy Sund - Clerk Treasurer

TOWN OF CEDAR LAKE

By going to the Lake County Indiana webpage and clicking on the GIS link, you can see the precinct maps of all municipalities in Lake County, Indiana.

So once you know which precinct/ward that is yours,  you then go to the voting site for that ward.

Election Information

The Cedar Lake Town Councilmembers each serve a term of four years. The terms of the Councilmembers are staggered. Wards 1, 3, and 5 are elected every 4 years in the even numbered years (2006, 2010, 2014, etc). Wards 2, 4, 6 and 7 and the Clerk-Treasurer are elected every 4 years in the odd numbered years (2007, 2011, 2015, etc).

Primary elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May. At this election, each party elects the candidates to represent their party. The election is always held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Officials elected in the general election take office the following January 1st.

A citizen of the Town may vote in Town elections if they are:

• A U.S. citizen,
  
  
• 18 years of age or older,
  
  
• A resident of the State of Indiana for 6 months,
  
  
• A resident of either Hanover or Center Township for 60 days,
  
  
• A resident of the precinct in which they live for at least 30 days prior to the date of the election,
  
  
• Registered with the Lake County Board of Registration.

Ward and precinct numbers are NOT the same. Please view the map below for further clarification or call the Town Hall at (219) 374-7000.
Note: Polls are open from 6 AM to 6 PM.

Precinct	Voting Locations
CL1	Boys and Girls Club 13000 Fairbanks
CL2	Cedar Lake American Legion 13050 Washington
CL3	Knights of Columbus 13039 Wicker Avenue
CL4	Cedar Lake Community Center (Park Office) 7408 Constitution Avenue
CL5	Cedar Lake American Legion 13050 Washington
CL6	Cedar Lake Town Hall 7408 Constitution Avenue
CL7	Cedar Lake Town Hall 7408 Constitution Avenue

PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE TIME TO VOTE,  YOU ARE AN AMERICAN!!!