By: Diane Benjamin
Numbers can overwhelm people, so start with a few:
Bloomington results: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/IL/Bloomington/123382/web.345435/#/summary
County results: https://countyclerk.mcleancountyil.gov/eresults/results-1.html
Last November Voter Turnout in Bloomington was 72.19% https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/IL/Bloomington/122759/web.345435/#/summary
County turnout was 79.67 https://mcleancountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28200/2024-General-Election-Official-Summary
The Sales Tax question was put on this ballot because the people behind it knew it has a better chance of passing when the majority don’t bother to vote. It worked:
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Since eating out is a way of life locally, don’t complain when see the total tax on your bill. Gasoline will also go up – it has a local sales tax in addition to a local Motor Fuel Tax. Don’t expect property tax relief since assessed values will continue to increase.
Between Bloomington and the County: 17,415 people voted to raise their own taxes. 15,427 didn’t.
Who voted?
McLean County:
City of Bloomington:
Turnout was higher than previous consolidated elections, but ridiculously low compared to the turnout last November. That could have been because many races were uncontested. Many races had ZERO candidates running.
#Democracy
In Springfield Republicans got Slaughtered. The Republican party in Sangamon County sent flyers out 3 days before the election after most folks had already early voted.
I predict King Koos will step down within a year and anoint McCarthy as his replacement.
Bingo! That’s how things work in McLean County.
When does this added tax take effect? I am thinking July 1st because businesses need time to program their registers for this added tax.
I tried to find the vote by mail on the mclean county site. It’s not showing but yesterday I saw something showing 2976 votes by mail. I am not convinced that 50/50 of even a sample of mclean county voters support another 1% sales tax. When there is voter ID and same day voting, Republicans win. Hoping Trump’s voter integrity laws help us in Illinois.
Well make sure you tell Jelly Bean that! He already said he won’t follow the voting laws POTUS declared.
It would be interesting to see the zip code yes vote distribution for the school tax. My guess given the Democrat vote swing in Normal the votes came from ISU also swinging the tax vote to yes. Another cesspool of Democrats much like Chicago is.
I’ve convinced myself they only way to get rid of IL taxes is to move. Take my WFH income and leave. The school districts will never reduce property taxes. Get real! If people believed that then I have a bridge to sell you.
Yes, leaving is the answer. There is not a perfect community but there are plenty of places to live and prosper outside of anywhere not McLean County, IL. Ask most anyone that has already left. Where you reside now is hopeless and utterly unredeemable.
ISU students aren’t interested in this election. They didn’t vote. I went by the polling place in the Bone numerous times after I voted there. Never saw one single student in it. They don’t care.
It one time 200 were in line
Not this past Tuesday. During the presidential election, yes.
I got that from people there!
Sorry you were misinformed. There were never 200 people in line at ISU on April 1. The total votes were less than 400.
They also show up in the afternoon, could have been many at once
See above comment. There was never a line of the sort on April 1. Quite honestly, there was never a line, not even 5 people deep. I was there all day as an election judge.
It was disgusting how the current superintendent (David Mouser @ $222,525/base salary) AND the former Dist #85 superintendent (Barry Reilly @ $205,000/annual pension) were such big supporters of ANOTHER new tax….
These clowns were beating the drum to vote “yes” and making up lies =
The lies were = if all of us dummies would vote YES, then our property taxes would not go up.
Since I know that is a flat out LIE – what are David and Barry’s numbers so we can call them when we all find out that our property taxes have gone up?
Mouser pulled these same campaign tactics to all of the Tri-Valley students when the bonds were going to expire, but NO WAY – Mouser wanted to blow a bunch of money on a new auditorium at Tri-Valley. At that election, we saw more young Tri-Valley voters show up than typical turnout ….Many of the young voters stated, I am just here to vote yes for the ONE question about the bonds.
(Good Grief where do they think the money comes from!?!?!)
Mouser acts like a carbon copy of our goofball governor! And of course, Mouser does not care about increasing our taxes because his salary $222,525/base salary and pension are FAT AF
WE are all working to keep their salary and pension payments coming in!
For those who voted for the tax increase ,don’t complain about the inflation of goods and services in McLean County. Businesses will have to raise prices because of it.