By: Diane Benjamin
I received a comment on my site last night that is sad on many levels. It doesn’t bode well for the future of especially Bloomington:
Your citizens no longer feel safe living in Bloomington Tari. Thanks to Jenn Carrillo and Jeff Crabill for adding the destruction of the civil society. When good people relocate because they fear the radicals who demand compliance to their agenda, Bloomington doesn’t have a future.
From the pic below these are your people Tari. You played with fire and got burned. Is that why you aren’t running again?
I’m sure Normal police allowing their cars to be damaged while watching Target get looted isn’t giving citizens confidence in their government either. Since Mayor Chris Koos was watching the destruction he allowed anarchy.
Note the writer mentions high taxes. The Bloomington budget isn’t $60 million higher under Renner because of magic money. That money was stolen from the people who earned so government could redistribute it as they saw fit.
See the comment in this story if you can’t read it above: https://blnnews.com/2020/10/28/shrinking-bloomington/
It is sad that we have let it go this far. This is what happens when people don’t care, don’t vote and don’t pay attention to the government’s slow destruction of what we once had here.
Thanks, Mayor Renner
Thanks, Mayor Koos
Your legacies will be a stain on the history of this area marking the beginning of our decline.
Wonder if Renner, Koos, and their supporters will stick around long enough to enjoy their legacy of turning Bloomington-Normal into Detroit.
This letter is specious at best
Looting at target caused them to move?
Lol
Tom, if a family moves to Bloomington because they thought it was a nice place to raise their children, then they realize there is a serious leadership issue promoting defunding the police following the riots and looting, any sane parent would up and move. I thank God every day that my children are grown. Only one remains in Bloomington.
The roads and sidewalks in uppitytown normal continue to be covered in bird feces, one would think a subtle message is being delivered.
Just wait. I’m sure that fine dining establishment will open any day now and Uptown will be bustling. Hahahahaha!
koos & renner BOTH have contributed to the general decline of TWO one PROUD cities!
And with THEIR hand picked cronies like Craybeak and Jenn it WILL just get worse!
I remember a year ago or so, Renner and Koos went to some “mayor’s retreat” and came back saying Blono was a “destination” for millennial. Maybe it’s like everything else – only millennial who THINK LIKE THEM are welcome here
The taxes are fairly low here whe compared to the coasts. Add in the low cost of living and wr have it fairly goood.
Need new info, Illinois is at or close to highest taxes in the county