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(FEBRUARY 2026). Thomas J Richards has announced his candidacy as a Member of the McHenry County Board, 2028. Richards states, “By announcing early, I am putting the current Members or candidates for the 2026 election on notice that I mean business! My slogan, TOM RICHARDS MARCHES AND FIGHTS FOR YOU! means exactly what it says. My platform work to fight for lower costs for all McHenry county families and individuals. That is only one of my planks.
“I do not care what color skin you have or what faith you may or may not practice. I do not care if you are heterosexual, gay or lesbian. I do not care if you are Republican, Independent or Democrat. We should all work together to overcome the many differences between us and all people of this county, our State and the United States of America.
“I promise I will march and fight for you just as some of the most famous men and women did since our great Nation was founded. I think here of Harriet Tubman, the Reverand Martin Luther King, the Reverand Jesse Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
“As a dual national holding both United States and Republic of Ireland citizenship, I have been fortunate to experience fair and just laws not only in the United States but also in Ireland, across Europe, South America, Africa and the Indian Sub-continent including the Republic of India and Pakistan. I am a proud American but I am also a proud Irishman. My heart belongs to both countries but because I was born in Park Forest, Illinois, my home will always be in our Great State.
“I repeat, I promise to MARCH AND FIGHT FOR YOU! the people of this proud, inter-racial and inter-faith county. A county whose residents help to drive the ever-growing economy not only of this county but also the economy of our entire State as well as the United States of America.
“I leave you with this. The framers of our Declaration of Independence as well as our Constitution promised to provide “…one nation under God, indivisible, with Freedom and Justice for All.”
“I will work as hard as I have to in order to ensure that those promises made by our original framers of these important documents, based on the concepts of Liberty and Justice, are available to anyone, of any color, religion or sexual persuasion, not only in this county but in the Great State of Illinois.”