Recently State Representative Michael Tryon received a RINO rating from the conservative website midwestconservatives.com. Michael Tryon (R) serves the 64th district, which includes areas like Algonquin, Crystal Lake, Lake In The Hills, and others. After doing some research and having a conversation with the representative, it appears that title is premature.

IL needs Representatives like Michael Tryon to protect voter’s rights and tax payer’s pocket books. Key conservative issues that State Representative Michael Tryon supports:

• Pro Life
• Supports our 2nd amendments and out right to defend ourselves
• Against robbing Peter to pay Paul budgets
• Against Governor Quinn’s income tax scheme
• Against more stop-light or speed cameras

I encourage the Representative to stand firm against more State sponsored money grabs. Ask tough questions about the IL budget, reduce the deficit, and keep spending under control.

GENEVA — It took three votes — including one that went to a chairman’s tiebreaker — but a non-binding resolution in support of the Second Amendment won Kane County Board approval Tuesday.

The 19-4 vote, with one member voting present, didn’t come without some jousting by board members. Drawn up as a general recitation of the constitution’s guarantee of freedom to keep and bear arms, the resolution weathered one attempt to table it for more discussion and one member’s effort to strengthen its opposition to restrictive gun legislation…(read full)

Kane gets $1.4 million clean-energy grant

The Kane County Forest Preserve District’s largest land acquisition in history will be paid for in part by its largest grant in history, officials have announced.

The district recently received a $1.46 million grant from Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation to help offset the costs of the October purchase of the Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Dundee Township. The 741-acre parcel, much of which fronts the Fox River, came with a $40 million price tag, so officials began looking early on for grant dollars to contribute to the cost, according to KCFPD Executive Director Monica Meyers.

“When we knew we were going to purchase the property, we went to (the) Clean Energy (Community Foundation),” Meyers said. “Really, this grant is linked to the protection of the portion of the property that’s on the riverfront. No (county) development can take place on that portion of the property.”

The Brunner deal — combined with money already set aside in an improvement fund — will use up most of the dollars remaining from a $85 million referendum passed by Kane County residents in April 2007.

District officials had coveted the Brunner property for the better part of 20 years, officials have said. Bordered by Illinois 31 to the west, the Fox River to the East, Buffalo Park Forest Preserve in Algonquin to the north, and two other district holdings in Carpentersville to the south, the purchase means 1,000-plus acres of contiguous district-held open space.

Several rare birds and other animals inhabit the land, officials said. [Original Article]

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