By: Diane Benjamin
Elections for Councilmen in Normal are At-Large. If anybody in Normal cares, contact the ACLU. They have filed many lawsuits against At-Large elections because the elected don’t necessarily reflect the population. It’s possible all the elected could live in the same neighborhood – the rest of the City would be immaterial. In Normal it already is. “Uptown” is the priority and Koos has even more plans for it.
A”newcomer” wanting to run in Normal has been thrown off the ballot. Since almost every elected Councilman is a Koos crony, do you find it suspicious that the election commission in Normal is Chris Koos, Sonja Reece and the City Clerk? How impartial were they?
The Bloomington Election Commission posted all the petitions filed by candidates on-line so the public could review them. If Normal did, they are not readily available on their website.
I don’t know the guy who filed, but Normal has one less person who might actually represent the citizens. Or maybe everybody in Normal loves “Uptown” and the taxes that have gone with it. I don’t know the answer to that one.
I do know that when I file a Freedom of Information Act request in Normal they answer it though. (Unlike Bloomington!)
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I like your main point.
I read two articles today saying that the young man (one of the newcomers) submitted the required “number” of support signatures, BUT that supposedly many of them were not from residents of normal……The resident thing is apparently a requirement at this time. I do not know if the non-resident thing is true or not bc as you said….look who decided it wasn’t……wow, so impartial 😉
I don’t really know, but I heard he was an ISU student. Maybe that was the problem if the signers hadn’t registered to vote here or signed using their home address.
I find EVERYTHINH my King and his council do suspicious.
You should!