We’re just nine days away from the General Election, one in which we’ll elect the next president of the United States and every single member of Congress, the Illinois General Assembly and the McHenry County Board.

Yet last week, much of the discussion was about a political race that’s more than a year-and-a-half away.

McHenry County sheriff’s Sgt. John Koziol saw to that when he filed an affidavit in Illinois’ 22nd Circuit Court seeking a special prosecutor to investigate Undersheriff Andy Zinke, who has announced he will run for sheriff in 2014, when his boss, Keith Nygren, retires.