By: Diane Benjamin
Normal issued this statement yesterday:
Let’s start with the Trustee candidates listed with red stars by their name. Add former trustee RC McBride to that list. What do they all have in common?
They all come from the Planning Commission!
This proves why Chris Koos doesn’t tell the public who he plans to appoint to Boards and Commissions. He hand picks people to train to run for Council – people he can control. He expects the Council to vote YES with no discussion because King Koos thinks he can pick people with no input from anyone else. It looks like Koos threw Karyn Smith under the bus since 3 will be elected and he has his three – Karyn isn’t one of them.
Normal has hired a Chicago law firm. The Town doesn’t hire outside counsel to tell them the truth, Koos wants to know how Normal can NOT be an Incorporated Town after they got a judge to declare they are just a few months ago.
Who is Kasper and Nottage PC? https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/542049234-how-was-top-dem-lawyer-madigan-ally-selected-to-represent-il-elections-board-in-court-no-one-will-say
This excerpt will help:
How much to you think taxpayers will be paying per hour for their services?
Normal’s attorney Brian Day can’t read and interpret the law? He’s on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association: https://www.ilgl.us/about-us/board-directors/
Is Normal admitting their “professional staff” isn’t perfect?
Koos is now bringing Chicago politics to Normal to prevent citizens from having a voice in their government. Congrats.
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Let me get this straight. Normal has Mike Madigan’s attorney representing them at tax payer expense because Brian Day is too stupid to get the job done himself. Hope we get our moneys worth.
Popcorn anyone?
Attorney’s are hired to accomplish goals. Koos’s goal is to retain power. Having more elected representatives in Normal hurts his dictatorship.
Instead of going to all this legal trouble and expense why doesn’t Koos call a hearing of the Normal Election Commission and let Angie Huonker decide for herself if she should be elected or hired? What would be the problem with that?
Yes that’s sarcasm and I can’t stop laughing at all this this morning. This is one of the funniest I’ve seen in Normal in a long time and that’s saying something.
Angie can’t run because she doesn’t live in Normal
This just gets more entertaining by the moment.
The clerk doesn’t live in Normal but she makes electoral Board decisions. I’m sure she is impartial and never votes the way she is told in order to keep her job. Normal is more corrupt than I thought.
Just imagine all the corruption that goes on behind the scenes that we don’t know about.
As per the King Koos town unpublished dictionary of political incorrectness it is Normal for town trustees to be corrupt as long as he/him/satan/wimp, King Koos is the dictator in chief.
Where does the council elect stand on this? Who is pro and against these offices being elected?
A better question to ask is who is pro whatever Koos wants vs. who is for the voters.
If a vote was ever taken it would be 6-1 against.
I think the question meant to ask which candidates support voter rights and which ones support voter disenfranchisement. I’m sure they’ll all Say they support voter rights, four have been historically aligned with anti-voter Koos – Kathleen, Karyn, Andy, Rachel – and three actually helped circulate petitions for the ‘new’ elected positions – Stan, Marc, Karl.
A good question to ask; who decided to hire this law firm? Why not read the Illinois Statute and just follow the law? Could the town be looking for a way to circumvent? Town officials never pay for their mistakes.
Of course circumventing is the goal
Awesome, hire the lawyer of a guy who’s been indicted. Must not be a good lawyer. Good choice.
LBNINDY:
Strategy might just be to have any litigation transferred to Crook County – – After all, it is Illinois.
Stay tuned for a different hunch tomorrow
Looking Forward to it!!
The lawyer of a guy who’s been indicted, yes, but indicted after decades of blatant corruption and still not convicted afaik. The thinking is likely if they could extend Madigan’s reign past 40 years, they should be able to get Koos 30.