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President and Vice President Electors aa it haa by (Not ceveredfea this Gaftde) The President and Vice President are the only elective Federal officials not chosen by direct vote of the people. They are elected by the Electoral College, an I--Ululian that has the fawning of the On Presidential election day, ment to t District of Elector*. 1 Electorate the College, with a majority of PI voles needed to choose the President and Vice President. Illinois has two penators and 24 representatives for a total of 26 Electors. The Electors meet on the first Monday after the second Wednesdsy in December. By long-established custom, they vote for their party nominee, thus giving all the state's doctoral votes to him. Certified and sealed lists of the votes of the Electors in each state are mailed to the President of the UJS. Senate. He opens them in the presence of the members of the Senate and House in joint session held on Jan. 6 (or the next day if that falls on Sunday.) If no candidate for President has a majority, the House of Representatives chooses a President from among the three highest candidates. If no can­ didate for Vice - President has a majority, the Senate chooses from the top two. Under this system, it is possible for a candidate to receive the most popular votes in November, yet lose the election by not receiving the majority of the Electoral College vote. This occurred in the elections of 1824, 1876 and United States Senator of Senators of sise or each state elects to the Senate. The Senate is often referred to as the "Upper House" of the two chambers of Congress. To for the Senate, a can­ to must be 30 years of age, a citizen of the United States for at least nine years, and a resident of the state that elects him. One - third of the membership is elected or re-elected every two years. No state elects both of its Senators at the same time unless an emergency vacancy makes it necessary. A president pro tempore is elected by members of the Senate, holds office at the pleasure of the Senate, and presides in the absence of the Vice President. SALARY: $42,500 per year. DUTIES: Serves on Senate committees to which legislation is referred for study, evaluation and committee determination. As a member of the Senate body, votes on national legislation, ratification of treaties and certain Presidential appointments. Republican RICHARD M. NIXON SPIRO T. AGNEW CHARLES H. PERCY To qualify for the a candidate must be a born citizen of the U.S., 35 of age, and have been of the UJS. for 14 years. / SALARY: $20,000 per year, plus $50,000 per year expenses for official duties and $40,000 per year expenses for travel and entertainment. TERM: 4 years. Limit of two terms. POWERS AND DUTIES: Executies the laws of the nation; Commander - in - chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force; appoints ministers consuls, judges and other of­ ficers; receives foreign ministers; may remove officers and fill vacancies; may make treaties with consent of two- thirds of Senate; Signs or vetoes bills passed by Congress; may grant reprieves and pardons; may call special session of Congress or of either house; delivers a message to Congress each January and at other times. VICE PRESIDENT OF UNITED 8TATES The same qualifications are necessary • for the Vice President of the United States. Salary: $62,500 a year plus $10,000 expense allowance. Term: 4 years. Limit of two terms. DUTIES: Precides over the Senate and Is known as the President of the Senate. He is not, however, a member of the Senate, does not appoint committees, and has no vote except in case of a tie. Democrat GEORGE McGOVERN PRES. R.SARGENT SHRIVERvrU. SOCIALIST LABOR LOUIS FISHER »» GENEVIEVE GUNDERSONnV. COMMUNIST GUS HALL JARVIS TYNER REPUBLICAN -- CHARLES H. PERCY, 308 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, holds a B.A. Degree from University of Chicago. He is the incumbent and has served on foreign relations, govern­ ment operations and joint economic committees, the select committee on nutrition and human needs and the special committee on aging. Prior to his election he was chairman of Bell and Howell Corporation. "National priorities for the next Congress, as I see them, include peace, tax reform and revenue sharing, and welfare reform. Obviously, there are many priorities, but I mention these because we are ap­ proaching what appear to be major improvements in these areas in the near future. "I would support the self- government ami full voting representation in Congress for District of Columbia citizens. "National economy management to reduce or stabilize the cost of consumer living can be accomplished through emphasizing productivity which is the best means to generate increased *5 real output with stable prices. Obviously this also means in­ creased wages. The faster productivity increases, the faster inflation will be stopped. "I would initiate or support an ?7 alternative to the present welfare system including a guaranteed income at the highest practicable levels, work requirements, coverage for the woridng poor, funding for public 29 service jobs and funding for child care services. "I support full funding for federal grants for municipal sewage plant construction. A reasonable annual expenditure in federal funds is determined on the basis of many cir­ cumstances and conditions converging at the time a decision is required. "Having recently supported the legislation to place controls on cheap handguns, I prefer to assess the impact of this law before imposing additional gun controls." ROMAN PUCINSKI 35 DEMOCRAT-ROMAN C. PUCINSKI, 6301 North Louise Street, Chicago, was educationed at Northwestern University and John Marshall Law School. He is a member of Congress, serving for the past 14 years. He has been a jour­ nalist for the Chicago Sun Times for 20 years. As a member of Congress he has served as Chairman of the house subcommittee on education; member of the house committee on education and labor; member of the House veterans affairs committee. "The priorities I see for the next Congress include the economy - competition from foreign imports must be dealt with; inflation - stop or at least slow it down; Vietnam - aid U.S. involvement. "If it can be shown Washington, D.C. has* an economic base to survive without special help from federal government, I would support self-government and full voting representation in Congress for the citizens. "Economy on two levels can be managed so that cost of living to the consumer can be stabilized or reduced. On the national level it can be ac­ complished by holding down interest rates. On the in­ ternational level - pass Burke - Hartke bill, increase produc­ tivity. "I would support an alter­ native to the present welfare system as a supplemental family allowance, however I would support a guaranteed income as an alternative and work requirements, coverage for the working poor, funding for public service jobs and funding for child care ser­ vices". "I support full funding for federal grants for construction of municipal sewage plants and feel a reasonable annual ex­ penditure would be $2 billion. "On gun control legislation, I propose the passing of stricter laws to deal with the criminal who uses a gun for felonious crime. Criminals do not register guns." SOCIALIST LABOR EDWARD C. GROSS 37 ' SOCIALIST LABOR- EDWARD C. GROSS, 4027 N. Kildare Avenue, Chicago. He has a grammar and high school education, all in Chicago, also two years of college. He is a semi-retired cab driver. "A working man all my life with 36 years of membership in the Socialist Labor Party, I present myself as the spokesman of a program through which the uprooting of our dying capitalist system can be peacefully accomplished. "The three national priorities for the next Congress I consider to be war, unemployment and poverty. "Under our present con­ stitution, everyone has the right to vote regardless as to his residence therefore I would support self-government and full voting representation in Congress for the citizens of the District of Columbia." On the matter of how the national or international economy could be managed so that cost of living to the con­ sumer would be stabilized or go down, Gross stated, "Under our present system the worker, and he is the tremendous majority of our population, is robbed at the point of production by the capitalist class and he should be concerned with abolishing this insane system, rather than how the cost of living might go down or up. Under Socialism he would never have the worry about things like the 'cost of living'. "As a bona fide Socialist, I am advocating a system of society that will know no such thing as welfare, poor, public service job, etc., etc. Everyone would have all the things that he or she needs to live a happy and useful life." On funding for federal grants for construction of municipal sewage plants he stated, "Again I repeat, that this problem and any problem relating to the better living, or healthy living, under Socialism would be a simple matter of the members of this society to decide how much sanitation, or utilities they would need, and then proceed to produce same, Now, these services are turned out only if there is profit to be made. Eliminate the profit system and you will eliminate all of the evils that flow from it. "Only under an insane system as we have now do we purchase guns with the idea of protecting and killing. Under Socialism there would be no need for guns, or all the killing instruments that so many of us possess." COMMUNIST ARNOLD F. BECCHETTI 39 * * » Governor TERM: Four years. SALARY: $45,000 per year. DUTIES: Supreme executive of the State; submits the budget to the legislature; recommends legislation; signs or vetoes bills passed by the General Assembly; calls special sessions of the legislature; appoints officers and directors of many departments, state boards and commissions often with advice and consent of the Senate; is an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Illinois and many boards and commissions. Lieutenant Governor Under the 1970 Constitution, one vote is to be cast jointly for the governor and lieutenant governor of the same political party. Assembly unless given very good reasons to act otherwise. "In my opinion, the property tax has reached the end of its usefulness in financing schools. Real Estate taxes keep going higher and higher with resulting complaints from almost everyone. The farmers say they are paying for more service than they get and .the homeowners point out that hardly anyone is assessed higher than they are. In the face of this opposition to the local property tax, it seems to me that there are three alternative methods of getting the reidly huge anount of money it takes to run our schools, such as state property tax; a broadened sales tax; and/or an increased in­ come tax. "I reject a state property tax because there is absolutely no indication that assessments can be made uniform in McHenry County, let alone 102 counties. "A broadened sales tax has received some support, but the income tax seems to be regarded as the fairest tax there is. Whichever tax replaces the real estate tax, it seems to me that it will have to pay for all costs of local education. "Repaving and widening Routes 120, 173 and 23 and 14 north of Harvard have to be the first priority of persons in­ terested in getting to and from the affected towns without killing themselves. "In addition attention needs to be focused on how to keep the Chicago and North Western service as good as or better than it is. Certainly, with the gross inefficiencies being revealed on the CTA's part, it will get no subsidy vote from me until it cleans house. "I favor drastic consolidation of two or three elections in a year at which EVERY public question and election would be held. On these two or three days no one should have to go to more than one polling place. I feel that with computerization, this is not too much to ask of the election system. "My feelings on the retention of township government are thoroughly mixed and have been ever since the Legislature kicked the people out of the annual meeting. I thought allowing every citizen the right to be a senator for a day was the township government's strongest point." R. BRUCE WADDELL U2 REPUBLICAN - R. BRUCE WADDELL, Crescent Drive, Dundee, is seeking re-election to the House. He was educated in high school, junior college and the University of Illinois. He is president of a manufac­ turing company. '• He has served as a Medical Corpsman and Medical Ad­ ministration Officer and is now - involved in a number of ecological groups as well as civic* organizations. - His opportunity to serve in the House was received on the death of the late Jack Hill. Waddell's feeling toward amendments to the Illinois Environmental Protection Act has an indication of two-sides. He stated, "I voted for the Act as it was and I do not think it should be weakended. One of the reasons it has been effective is the authority given to fine. "On the other side of the coin it could load the court dockets and the possible opportunity to make corrections could be postponed indefinitely through the court system by con­ tinuances to a higher and higher court. "A very serious case which should be decided quickly for public heatlh and welfare benefit then is extended years and years. "Something co-existing with this is the action of the Congress whereby an alloted sum of money is provided for those who have been put in a stress situtaion because of their type of business or the locality. "This would help the relocation of people in an em­ ployment situation and also provide for long-time industry situated in a small congested area with a need for added pollution control measures to find another location." On property taxes, he stated, "Most people are going back to the statement of the Con­ stitutional Convention which, if it is closely scanned for wor­ ding, is found to be no more definite than before. "The mandatory features are no different than before and those not acquainted with the law hail it when it is not really deserving. "Something is going to have to take the place of the property tax and an ad valorum tax will have to be worked out. "There are also two sides to this subject and there is going to have to be several methods for taxation for both the taxpayers and the schools with their problems of having so much more of a burden forced upon them. "I would be quick to declare that a 'belt tightening' is needed by the schools themselves. The trouble is to many people do not watch the budgets. "My priority to meet the transportation needs is better freeways as only one suggestion. By using the air space over rails there would be good transportation into the heart of the city. "In this way many things would not have to be disrupted to provide added tran­ sportation. There could also be large parking facilities." Waddell said he agreed on the need to consolidate election dates as much as possible. "I see no reason why school elections could not be held on the same day, not necessarily in the same polling place, as the others. "A ballot could be cast for the township and if necessary a referendum. I see no reason for making seven elections in a year when two or three would be sufficient. "The absolute falloey of holding elections every two years for the House of Representatives is also ridiculous. This was not taken care of in Con-Con. I takes so much time and money to run alien this should be put to use in the job. I do not feel that run­ ning every two years make the representatives more responsive to the voters. "Actually because of geographic dominance people can get upset. It really gets back to just what do people think is good government. "I have always been for township government and I feel it is especially needed for the rural areas. Farming areas are probably the fatherest point from the county garage but the local township people have charge of the snow plowing and are always there. "There are numerous farm products which need to be transported no matter what the weather. "Township government can be very helpfull and then there is also the non-county roads proliferating the budget. Grass roots should be responsive to grass roots". THOMAS j. HANAHAN 114 DEMOCRAT - THOMAS J. HANAHAN, 2012 Grandview, McHenry. His education in­ cludes high school and some college. He is a business representative for the Chicago Janitors Union and has served four terms in office as Representative. He has ex­ perience in labor and industrial relations. "I voted against all amend­ ments to the Illinois En­ vironmental Protection Act. "I feel theStateshould assume 75 per cent of financing schools and favor an alternative to local property tax for this financing. "My priorities include completion of the interstate system and primary road rebuilding. "I have favored consolidation of election dates and initiated court action in an attempt to obtain this. "Most functions of township government could be abolished and nobody would miss them." JOSEPH BYRON COLEMAN 116 DEMOCRAT JOSEPH B. COLEMAN, 1703 North River Drive, Algonquin. His education includes pre law at the University of Illinois and the DePaul College of Law with a juris doctor degree. He has a private law practice. He considers himself a 'people's lawyer' admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Northern Illinois Division of UJS. District Court and Illinois Supreme Court. He has had experience as a trial lawyer, civil service legislation and litigation, zoning, criminal and con­ stitutional law. "I am opposed to any amendments that would weaken the Environmental Protection Act and affect the most important issue of the people - their health. I do believe stronger laws and strict enforcement are needed. "I feel that the con­ stitutionality of the use of Real estate tax for support of schools will not be upheld by the Supreme Court and the precedent set in other courts in the nation will be followed in Illinois. "This ruling of un­ constitutionality will lead to the need for a complete revamp and restructure of financing education and being a guarantee under the Federal and State Constitutions, 'The Right to quality education', the Federal Government must increase the allocation to at least one third of the costs earmarked for education in local districts. The State must increase its share and the county local taxing bodies will have to take their share of the burden off the top as a top priority-support and financing of education. "There is a need for more concentration and development of primary roads and highways and less priority on tollways. Top priority is freeways around heavily populated areas and to select the natural obstacle crossings that will not deteriate a community. "Illinois Routes 14, 62 and 72 are a serious bottleneck from east to west at peak periods. Secondary roads as Route 120 from Woodstock to McHenry is a good example for a need to improve roads. "There is a great need for mass public transportation of a commuter service. I suggest using the meridian strip to - Elgin with expansion thought for the future including parking. I favor consolidation of "The only contact I have is with the courts - which, in my opinion, is of the highest caliber," was her comment regarding her feeling toward the present situations in McHenry County. Her opinion on the most pressing problems in the office for which she is a candidate stated, "Overcrowded con­ ditions - which should be alleviated when we move into the new courthouse." FRANCIS j. PERKINS 119 DEMOCRAT - FRANCIS J. PERKINS, 1019 Maple Street, Lake - In - The - Hills. He is President of the Village of Lake - In - The - Hills, an elected position he has held for 3% years. Prior to that he served seven years as a Village Trustee. He has devoted his time to these functions and notes that this is a constant activity. He is a buyer for a manufacturer. His comments and suggestions regarding the present situations in McHenry County indicated his feeling toward improvements in a number of areas. "Governmental structure could be improved and I will work on this. "Administration and management lacks the two- party system. "There are many complaints of poor services. "County lacks supervision of and shows favoritism in zoning. "Education will have to be investigated further. "In ecology - the county is negligent in gravel mining. "There is too much com­ placency (Hi the part of the administration regarding welfare." * * * election dates to a general election, and one date for localpornrJft nf elections and referendums. iiCvUf UCI Ul I/CcUj "With the creation of a County Board, I believe there is equal representation and township government is a waste of taxpayers money. I beileve it should be abolished especially the various assessors and auditors and roads can be maintained by the county eliminating political patronage jobs. * • * Circuit Court Clerk MARGARET 0'NEIL R E P U B L I C A N - MARGARET O'NEIL, 105 Dewey Street, Harvard is a graduate of Harvard High School. Her experience has been obtained in the office for which she seeks re-election. Miss O'Neil has worked in the circuit court clerk's office since one year following her high school graduation, and she has served as Clerk of the Circuit Court since 1963. She is active in the Business and Professional Women of Harvard and Legal Secretaries of McHenry County, numerous other civic and community groups, as well as the Republican Party. W. H. "BILL" RUSSEL 122 REPUBLICAN -- WILLERT H. RUSSEL, 15613 South Street Road, Woodstock. His education includes high school, auctioneer school and assessing school. His occupations include farming and auctioneering an he served two years as Chairman of the McHenry County Board of Supervisors and 2Vi years as Chairman of the Board of Review. His other activities have included the McHenry County Fair Association and Grange. He indicated that he is satisfied with the present situation in the County regar­ ding the governmental struc­ ture, administration and management, services, and education. However he did indicate dissatisfaction with financing, zoning, ecology and welfare situation, however he did not offer any specific suggestions for change or improvement. On the most pressing problems today in the office for which he is a candidate Russel stated, "This is strictly a ser­ vice office and until I serve there for a short time it would be very hard to determine the pressing problems."