Casey Hoag
Candidate for Logan County Board District Two

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[March 14, 2016]  My name is Casey Hoag, I live on Gavin Street in Lincoln and I am running for a seat on the Logan County Board in District Two.

My wife Meghan and I bought a home in Lincoln and moved here from Princeville, IL back in 2014. She is a registered nurse and works in pediatric surgery at OSF Saint Francis in Peoria. We settled in Lincoln so that she could finish nursing school and begin working at the hospital, while I could get closer to the state capitol and put my Bachelor’s Degree in Politics & Government from Illinois State University to use. I graduated from there in 2013.

Feeling a fiscal pinch, I took a night time job in 2014 as a marine deckhand on the Par-A-Dice Riverboat Casino. I still work there today, albeit chiefly for the unique schedule (week on/week off) and the health & retirement benefits.

Last fall, Logan County GOP Chairman Dave Bender reached out to me and urged that I make a run for the open seat on the Logan County Board, and I am happy to be doing so now. I love meeting county residents and hearing feedback on what they like and what they want to change in the county. I worked the parade circuit last summer with State Representative Tim Butler and Congressman Darin LaHood, and I must say that the part I loved the most was simply being out among the people at their respective town festivals and talking with and listening to them all.

 



I am running for the County Board now because I truly recognize a duty for public service. I’m not vindictive, I don’t have an axe to grind with the Board, nor am I looking to just pad a resume. I look around and see opportunities for my generation disappearing left and right. By no means am I set for life, so I clearly have a vested interest in seeing jobs and opportunities for prosperity return en masse to Logan County. I’ve got skin in the game just like the rest of us.

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I want opportunities for success to be here for myself and for the future of my family and I am willing to fight for the existence of those opportunities. We can achieve economic successes by taking steps to make ourselves attractive to outside businesses. We should help cater to their needs and help them help us; not block them at the border. With the business climate in the State of Illinois, we are lucky businesses are even coming to operate in our state, thus we must become extra competitive with all 101 of our fellow counties. If commerce is being brought to Illinois, we must ask, “Why not bring it to Logan County?” This is home for all of us, and I really want the best for our home.

I share the frustrations that many primary voters have with governments at all levels. People feel like they aren’t being heard. We try to contact our elected officials, request that they hear us to vote our wishes; and then they do the opposite, without explanation. That is in part why I am running, to be a real voice for the people and to carry out their wishes. I want to be accessible to the people of Logan County and truly hear them out whenever they have issues to discuss with me. And I will be accountable for the votes that I cast on the board and will always offer to share my reasoning for voting the way I do. This isn’t something that I want to do just in my spare time, or whenever I can. I am committing to the people of Logan County and I want to make great things happen here. I can’t sit on my hands any longer, now is the time to get involved and inject a youthful, energetic voice into county government. I will bring with me a new perspective and a fresh set of eyes. The stakes are too high to sit it out for another election cycle, that’s why I am getting deeply involved at this time.

I respectfully ask for your vote on March 15th.
-- Casey W. Hoag --

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