The always entertaining Krystle

By: Diane Benjamin Most Democrats hide what they really believe because the population isn’t Marxist. Krystle Able doesn’t care who knows: . She has a lot in common with Marx because he expected everyone else to fund him too. Krystle is still trying to get the rent control ban lifted: . I bet she doesn’t […]

Why didn’t Jason Barickman help fellow Republicans?

By: Diane Benjamin Barickman still has a campaign fund even though he quit the Illinois Senate right after being re-elected in 2022. WJBC reported his retirement in December of 2022 but failed to mention he was re-elected in November of 2022. Here’s election proof: https://mcleancountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/View/22469/OFFICIAL-election-summary?bidId= WJBC story: https://www.wjbc.com/2022/12/05/bloomington-republican-announces-retirement-from-illinois-senate/ I call that a con job by […]

Bloomington Election Commission: Some Good Some Bad

By: Diane Benjamin My church in Bloomington is a voting location. Yesterday they had a large number of poll workers and machines – larger than previous years. The crew sets up for the election the night before. We had some members there to move a lot of furniture out of the way. I don’t remember […]

Don’t Vote without knowing what’s on your ballot!

By: Diane Benjamin It is the DUTY of every citizen to vote. It is also their duty to be informed before you vote. If you live in Bloomington, see the non address specific sample ballot here: https://bloomingtonelectionsil.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/24GILBLO_SPECIMEN_FINAL.pdf The rest of the County can see an exact copy of your ballot by entering your address here: […]

Update: If this doesn’t prove why BEC needs abolished, nothing will

I thought surely the camera did something like take still shots, so I asked. This was the response: There isn’t a link on their website to the Live Stream. By: Diane Benjamin Remember this pic? That picture is from this story: https://blnnews.com/2024/10/31/is-this-safe-and-secure/ See the poll with what looks like a camera on the left side? […]

Getting Text Messages about Voting?

By: Diane Benjamin If I get a text from someone I don’t know, especially one that doesn’t look personal, I don’t open it. It get deleted. Scammers are everywhere. If someone really needs to talk to you they have your phone number and can call. Of course, I don’t answer those either. Leave a voicemail. […]

Erica Larkin will Defund the Sheriff

By: Diane Benjamin Remember when Black Lives Matter called white people racist and demanded defunding the police? Do you feel safer now since the Safety Act passed? Do you want more police on the streets or less? Without a school resource officer who is going to protect your children? This document was circulated and a […]

Update: Bloomington Election Commission Strikes again

At least 1 of these people is a BEC judge taking a smoke break yesterday instead of trying to get people through the long line to vote: By: Diane Benjamin Elections for President happen every 4 years. Evidently BEC doesn’t realize that because they failed to plan for a lot of people showing up again. […]

What’s the real Ty Carlton story?

By: Diane Benjamin Remember this story? https://blnnews.com/2024/02/21/bloomington-police-sergeant-fired/ I filed more FOIA’s I didn’t write about. I got emails that said nothing, some pages were totally redacted. Some emails had the text redacted. I received text messages that were also hearvily redacted and didn’t say who was texting who. Re-reading them it appears Ty’s wife and […]

Weekend (heavily redacted) Laughs

No, Your property taxes haven’t gone up YET

By: Diane Benjamin Social Media is full of outrage because people recently got their property tax assessment. They see HUGE increases and think their property taxes are going up. They haven’t gone up YET, only you can stop it. The assessed value is used by all the government units on your tax bill to decide […]

Was the Carden Springs deal legal?

By: Diane Benjamin In case you forgot, this development was opposed by area property owners because they feared it would devalue their property: https://blnnews.com/2022/07/31/north-normal-normal-and-barickman-want-to-devalue-your-property/ Normal resident Doug Fansler was concerned when the Town gave preferential treatment to a developer. See this WGLT story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-10-08/normal-council-amends-annexation-agreement-for-carden-springs-townhouse-project Carden Springs is being developed by Fairlawn Capital from Champaign. What […]