Dan Droogan, Chicago Magazine, and one sour time for Roger!

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2007/BolingbrookaCest-Moi/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1
As referenced directly from this article above.

"Dan Droogan is the son of Terry and Charlotte Droogan. They go back to Bolingbrook's origins in the early 1960s as a couple of small subdivisions cut out of cornfields. Terry was an early village trustee and was fire chief from 1967 to 1993, when he retired from the department and staged a failed run against Claar for mayor. Charlotte taught third grade in a Bolingbrook public school for 30 years. Shortly after she retired, she ran unsuccessfully for a village trustee seat in hopes of becoming an opposing voice on what she believed was a rubber-stamp board.

To talk to these three Droogans is to hear three levels and two generations of dissent. Charlotte complains that while chasing his "grandiose ideas" to build Bolingbrook into an upscale suburb, Claar has neglected older, middle-class neighborhoods like hers, on the city's east side. She says she's been lobbying for many years to get sidewalks in her part of town for the safety of children walking to school.
Terry, who is divorced from Charlotte and now lives in Tennessee, questions how much Claar had to do with Bolingbrook's growth. With a population explosion all over western Will County and the confluence of highways at Bolingbrook—I-355, I-55, and Illinois Route 53—the village would have grown exponentially "if Donald Duck was mayor," Droogan says. (Chicago political expert and one-time Will County resident Paul Green echoes the sentiment, saying that Claar has been more the beneficiary than the cause of a "demographic miracle" that's happening in Will County, the fastest-growing county in Illinois.)
Dan Droogan is in his mid-40s, and perhaps because he is part of the political system in the area, he's less quick to criticize Claar, who has beaten the DuPage Township Democrats every time they have run someone against him. "I learned about politics from Claar," Dan Droogan acknowledges. "He's so good. Even though [the DuPage Democrats] are getting beat up, [Claar] is forcing me to get better."

If the Droogans' critiques of Claar are divergent, Claar's response to the Droogans is not. "They're fucking nuts," he said when I said I might quote them in an article. He threw a copy of Chicago magazine onto the office floor and declared an abrupt end to the interview. "

The article goes on about Roger's lavish lifestyle of the Mayor of Bolingbrook and is filled with much emotion.  But what will all this lead up to?  Many of us are wondering if Dan Droogan, former head of DuPage Democrats, will finally join the race for Roger's position.  Sitting in the shadows for far too long, being called "fucking nuts" by a man he watched for years, and being removed from the Democrats leadership position might give Dan the edge he needs to run a race that is not only successful but exciting. 

"He has an anger driving him now, that he did not have before" one woman informed us.  He use to be the guy on the sidelines.  Now, with proper funding and support, will he take that anger and lash out?  Will he fight back and take his Droogan name back to Bolingbrook like his father did at that age?  Is it the turning point time for the Droogans to stop falling behind in the race and finally win? 

He has his advantages.  First, he knows all the dirty ballot games the Republicans play.  Second, he is not tied down to the Democrats anymore, which means he is not relying on a group of people that took last place with their candidate in the last election.  Now he is free to jump on the Independent band wagon, which took the next top spots in the last local election.  That group has money, resources, people, and drive.  They have supporters locally that the Democrats do not. 

The question remains, does Dan become the one in his family to finally do it?  To show everyone that Roger's comments that his family is "fucking nuts" was only made because he opposed the Mayor and rejected some of the Mayor's decisions?  We will touch back with a statement from Dan, if he chooses to send in one!