Undersheriff Andrew Zinke Shuts Down Cal Skinner’s Blog Site
Cal Skinner former McHenry County Treasure and State Representative and current editor of the mchenrycountyblog.com.
Undersheriff Andrew Zinke is fighting it out with Cal Skinner again. This time Skinner alleges that Zinke was able to get his website www.mchenrycountyblog.com taken down for a short period of time on Wednesday December 11th.
What seem to have occurred, was someone working for Zinke’s campaign, contacted Skinner’s host provider to his website. They told the provider that he was in violation of the terms of service by “stalking” Undersheriff Andrew Zinke and linking to an obscene website. I will get to the obscene website here in a second, but let’s address stalking.
Undersheriff Andrew Zinke giving Cal Skinner the finger at the 4th of July Parade in Crystal Lake, IL.
Other than the fact that Cal Skinner’s website was taking down and his Freedom of Speech was momentarily gagged, this is very comical. I am unsure what terms of service was violated on a website were stalking becomes involved and is outside of a criminal complaint. Right when I am convinced that Undersheriff Andrew Zinke is the best thing for Bill Prim’s campaign the scope widens. It appears that under Zinke’s leadership, his poor judgment has effected not only his decisions but now the decisions of those working for him. I am unsure what the angle is on “Stalking.” I don’t get it. I guess it can be likened to a reporter “stalking” the news. It really is the same.
Deputy Zane Seipler
How weak does this man look? He is running for Sheriff, and he wines to webhosting server provider that he is being stalked. What kind of confidence does this give a prospective voter who is on the fence in the McHenry County Sheriff’s race? How much laughter does this provide to his opponent’s supporters? I just have to wonder if pride exists inside a man that is running for sheriff that would make any kind of claim that he was being stalked by a blogger. Sounds scary and frightening for a man that carries a gun on his hip most of the time.
Let’s go to the other alleged charge that Skinner was linking to an obscene website. The obscene website is Zane Seipler’s website http://zinke4sheriff.blogspot.com/. If you don’t know Zane Seipler, he is the whistle blowing deputy that brought to the public’s attention that the McHenry County Sheriff’s office was racial profiling. Sheriff Keith Nygren has fired Seipler in retaliation for his whistle blowing on the sheriff’s office and is currently in another lawsuit to get his job back. He is also running against Zinke for Republican Precinct Committeeman and he is also running for the County Board in District 5. If the Truth is obscene then Zinke is right Zane Seipler website is obscene. Cal Skinner was told that there were couple of articles that Zinke found super offensive.
Letter that Zinke sent to Merit Commission requesting a review without merit his failed Sergeant’s Exam
The first article is Undersheriff Andrew Zinke failing the Sergeant’s Exam. I am sure that he is not finding this ideal when one of his cornerstones in his campaign is Education. It looks worse when you see Zinke’s letter to the Merit Commission (they are responsible for the promotion and discipline of deputies). He asks the Merit Commission to review his test, based on the advice of former Undersheriff Eugene Lowery. He had taken a test, failed, requested a review, and for whatever reason passed. Andrew Zinke was hoping for the same luck or divine right. I personally did not understand not having a basis to request a review for a test. The Merit Commission did respond back letting Zinke know that he had no hope of passing the exam as he scored weak and was graded in the low area of Patrols, Investigation, and Supervision. Again, not the type of letters you would expect in the background of a candidate running on Education as being a strength.
Merit Commission response to Zinke request for review without merit of his failed Sergeant’s Exam
The second article was in reference to the Letters themselves. As a demonstration that the McHenry County Sheriff’s office does not follow the law in processing Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA), Seipler had requested these documents from the sheriff’s office. The requests was for all correspondence that Zinke has had with the Merit Commission going back to 1994, which includes the letters. Seipler matched the letters to the six documents sent back from his FOIA requests and they were excluded. Another confirmation that FOIA requests are not handled based on law but how it serves the interests of those that are supposed to be enforcing the law.
I am surprised that is all that Undersheriff Andrew Zinke mentioned to be offensive on Zane Seipler’s website. On Seipler’s website, he has a lot of information about Undersheriff Andrew Zinke, and the sheriff’s office. Numerous campaign violations, hiding who control’s federal grant money, background on supporters (like Local 150, that I tied to Colombo and Gambino crime family), and other topics to be covered like sexual harassment, the Zacatecas/ Monterey and McHenry Connection, former deputy and pedophile Greg Pyle, traffic deaths, Sheriff General Order Violations and much, much more. If you want insider information that you will not get anywhere else without being an insider yourself, check out http://zinke4sheriff.blogspot.com. I check it out about one or twice a week.
It has been a rough last six months for Andy Zinke’s and Cal Skinner’s relationship. Things seemed to have started to escalate on the 4th of July this year. At the Crystal Lake 4th of July Parade Undersheriff Andrew Zinke flipped off Cal Skinner in uniform, while driving a sheriff vehicle, near a church, on a parade route lined with families and children. Then Skinner caught Zinke sending a politically charged email from work, which is a campaign violation and is illegal. Skinner files a complaint with the Ethics Commission advising of the violation. A sham hearing was conducted behind closed doors, and the Good Ol’ Boy network exonerated the child minded Zinke. Then Zinke’s attorney could not bask in the sun on the sham hearing that exonerated his client, so he scheduled a hearing to which he was going to try and levy a $5,000 fine against Skinner. The rationalization of a candidate running for sheriff levying a $5,000 fines against citizens does not help approval numbers in a election; so it was not pursued. Just as when you are thinking that things are on the mend between Zinke and Skinner, man-child Zinke tries to take down Skinner’s website and succeeds in doing so for a little while. Just imagine if Zinke was ever sheriff, what transgressions he could act out against citizens that he did not like then. Maybe something for all of us to seriously ponder about going into the sheriff election.
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