By: Diane Benjamin The most revealing item of the night happened during County business that had nothing to do with immigration. After the two hours of liberal bloviating, the Finance Committee had an item on the agenda allowing a fee to process applications for reduce property taxes to affordable housing investors. This was prompted by new State […]
By: Diane Benjamin Quite a show last night! Two hours of liberals calling Chuck Erickson all kinds of names, claiming the ordinance was an election stunt, and spouting false information about what the ordinance would have done. All it said is TAXPAYERS (you) won’t be forced to pay for housing and food for illegals who arrive on buses […]
By: Diane Benjamin The email below was obtained by The Center Square: https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_922707b0-b002-11ee-abc9-f3e3d06dcb75.html Cathy Beck doesn’t want you to know – see the last line of her email! She’s already planning to use taxpayer money to care for the (illegal) immigrants. There are empty buildings in downtown Bloomington, Beck wants to hide them in the country were there […]
By: Diane Benjamin From 2009-2010 Democrats controlled all 3 branches of government. Joe Biden had the same thing in 2021 when the Senate was 50-50 giving Kamala Harris the tie breaking vote. They could have legalized illegal immigrants and DACA and recipients all by themselves, they didn’t even try. If they care so much about “migrants” why didn’t they? […]
By: Diane Benjamin Since the Constitution hasn’t been repealed, leadership needs to be held accountable for violating it. (Easy grounds for Biden impeachment) Article IV, Section 4: More than 8 million illegals crossing the southern border since Biden took his Oath of Office is an invasion. There are close to 2 million more got-aways we know nothing about. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Remember back when neither Bloomington or Normal had a local Motor Fuel Tax? Are the roads better since both are now fleecing you at the gas pump? Mostly what the Local Motor Fuel Tax did was allow both to spend taxes you already pay on items other than roads – and then claim […]
By: Diane Benjamin Evidently they have open door policies in their homes because they don’t want to protect McLean County from Biden’s invasion of the country – estimated now at 8 million people who walked across the border. These people know nothing about local and national laws, many expect to be taken care of by taxpayers. See Chicago […]
By: Diane Benjamin Did you know Normal canceled their first meeting of the year last week? Bloomington is trying hard to be them with everything being discussed in private meetings with the City Manager long before votes. This is the local government version of “democracy”. There was only one Public Comment – Surena Fish. The Safety Commission (Molly Ward’s […]
By: Diane Benjamin I had a HARD time getting past the Bills and Payroll report – here’s one more to see: Yes, staff wire transferred .30 to themselves. Agenda: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/cityblm/f6e3a861-5bbe-11ee-ae13-0050569183fa-d854eb82-3702-4140-9de6-ac3a8e3f379d-1704407204.pdf The regular agenda has nothing on it. Plenty of other stuff on the Consent Agenda though! 1) We hear there is severe housing shortage locally, but lets […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City Council decided how to hand out all the free COVID money, a lot of it went to fixing the sewers but some was allocated to Economic Development. The Bills and Payroll report for tonight shows who got a bunch of that money, without looking it up I don’t know if this […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington payroll shows 202 more employees now than just 2 years ago: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/29950 https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/27390/637770534053800000 Go back to payroll reports January 2019 – pre Covid. Some employees were paid weekly, others were bi-weekly: Total: 777 December 2023 the City of Bloomington had 1009 employees. December 2018 the City of Bloomington had 777 employees. 2020 population: 78,680 2022 […]
By: Diane Benjamin See this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-01-05/reece-normal-has-a-lot-more-planned-for-2024 Normal City Manager Pam Reece talks about all the great things they are doing – except ONE. Here’s a hint: . When you someday sit in your car behind a train blocking the tracks while bikers and walkers freely navigate a path under the tracks that you can’t use, take […]
By: Diane Benjamin READ to the bottom! City of Bloomington Live Stream video YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@cityofbloomingtonil/streams Feel free to check all videos is you like wasting time! On May 1st 2023 numerous socialists were supposedly sworn into office. Video from the previous 3 swearing in ceremonies are posted, but not 2023. I only checked because of this story […]
By: Diane Benjamin Hilarious WGLT story pertaining to yesterday’s filing to have Trump removed from the ballot: https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2024-01-04/trumps-candidacy-is-challenged-by-a-group-of-illinois-residents?fbclid=IwAR02ETCTlUVLjTB54F8y2ZyykTnX2LDaBcrgoH0W4Ea85mEBeDu1_oeOH88 Things to know: . The word “democracy” does not appear anywhere in the Constitution, therefore his claim that a “constitutional democracy” can be lost is a lie. Democracy is mob rule which is exactly what this filing is – the […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Jeff Fritzen’s case against the Town of Normal and High Haven for how the special use permit was approved got tossed out of court: https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/01/04/judge-throws-out-ex-normal-town-councilmans-cannabis-dispensary-lawsuit/?outputType=amp Hilarious quote from the judge: Judge Foley wrote: “Case law is clear that a home rule municipality is not bound by its own procedures, unless in doing so the […]
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/united-van-lines-illinois-2nd-in-nation-for-residents-leaving/ Excerpts: Illinois has had 10 years of population loss – the second-longest streak in the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The No. 1 reason United Van Lines was given for people leaving Illinois was jobs, with more than one-quarter of respondents listing it as a primary reason ahead of family and retirement. Housing and employment […]
By: Diane Benjamin No petition challenges have been filed: https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/1226/Elections The current County Board has 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans. A total of 9 members are not up for election until 2026 – 5 Democrats and 4 Republicans. Since both cities are run by Democrats/Socialists, the County Board could look the same by the end of this year. Pritzker […]
Lots of people want to know why they aren’t being delivered!
By: Diane Benjamin Watch this video with Tucker Carlson to find out who was and why they changed their minds: https://www.prageru.com/video/illegal-immigration-its-about-power?playlist=all-about-immigration
By: Diane Benjamin Constitution: Article 4, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; Open borders is an invasion. Just in December at least 302,000 people turned themselves in at the southern border. The Mexican cartels are rich trafficking humans. In […]
