By: Diane Benjamin
If you contributed to Renner’s campaign for Mayor you are doing well!
- The unions got massive increases in pension funding – the Council was set up and fell for plans needing tax increases to succeed. More increases coming.
- At least one campaign contributor has art for sale in the Mayor’s office
- Rob Fazzini got the City to spend tons of time and money on his pet project, not to mention a joint Council meeting with Normal
Money talks, but then we are the 3rd most corrupt state in the country. Maybe that explains this email Renner wrote about Fazzini and Paradigm. Pay-to-play is alive and well, most people believe this is how politics works. Friends with benefits takes on a whole new meaning with politicians like Renner.
City leaders require citizens to pay for any plan they dream up. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If the Council represented the people who elected them, it wouldn’t.
The Council’s job is to be a check on the things brought to them by the Mayor and City Manager. They don’t. Renner made it clear at least year’s retreat that Council needed “to have David Hales back”. Elections are immaterial when Council members don’t do their job!
Not reviewing every plan with a skeptical eye is costing taxpayers. Think about the millions lost leaving MetCom and the unused brand new fire station on the west side. How about $5000 per month spent with the National Development Council? What about the constant funding of studies? How does it feel to USED as nothing more than a piggy bank? Citizens have nobody looking out for them.
When the Council agrees with City staff without applying critical thinking, they are usurping their duty to the citizens. Renner hasn’t forgotten about buying the old Sugar Creek Packing Company property, expanding the library, and a hotel downtown.
Maybe he wants all his potted plants re-elected and is holding off until after the next election. It’s time for citizens to send a message to City Hall! Demand aldermen who represent YOU, not Renner and Hales.
I’m curious as to what IWU’s policy is on using work email for personal/government use? Of course, I can’t find it on their website.
Don’t know, but this is the same college that has paid Bill Ayers to speak. Nothing of value seems to matter.