By: Diane Benjamin

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Two meetings ago Kathleen Lorenz suddenly started voting against the “professional staff” and even started asking questions about bills. She was part of the gang when meetings were less than 1/2 hour long because nothing was questioned.

She didn’t like my headline however: https://blnnews.com/2022/03/22/kathleen-lorenz-is-running-for-re-election/

In case it’s too hard to read, this is the text:

Someone told me you have a headline stating I’m running again for re-election.  Yikes, that’s news to me. I won’t actually make that decision until later this year. It’s one that I like to carefully weigh, with family and my employer. 

To that end, I’m wondering if you would be open to modifying your headline to a question, like “Is Kathleen running for re-election?” so as to not cause any baseless rumors? If not, I’ll understand. 

Also, I am sorry to hear that you didn’t get my reasons for questioning those bill items. If you would like, give me a call and I’d be happy to explain my vote further. 

All the best, 

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Normal doesn’t charge to plug in EV’s, Koos stated at a Council meeting it would cost too much to install equipment to do that. According to this story, charging a Rivian from 20% to 80% isn’t cheap.

https://evcompare.io/cars/rivian/rivian_r1t_135_kwh/charging/

I’ve heard a Springfield legislator from Chicago with a Tesla stops off in Normal for a charge. Why not – it’s free!

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Green Energy is going to cost you – thank the State of Illinois. Corn Belt customers will be affected too.

Remember the Bloomington documents that state rates will almost DOUBLE: https://blnnews.com/2022/03/14/bloomington-tonight-truth/

The CEO of Dow Inc knows wind and solar don’t provide enough electricity, he wants nuclear: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3816720-dow-considers-buying-nuclear-power-in-us-ceo-fitterling-says

Add this story about natural gas. Just Pennsylvania could supply Germany’s entire country. If Biden didn’t have a war on fossil fuels, prices here would drop. Electricity produced with natural gas would be cheaper too. https://www.shaledirectories.com/blog-1/four-pennsylvania-counties-can-supply-all-the-gas-germany-needs/

Get the idea your government wants to prevent prosperity to increase their power? If you don’t need their handouts to survive you don’t need them.

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County Board Challenges – look at who filed them: (I could write a book on a few of these radicals)

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Big news coming in April – stay tuned

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