By: Diane Benjamin
Know what this is?
https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/28541/638798959668170000
That is Bloomington’s Administrative Court docket for April 16th. Note SEVEN cases are scheduled at 8:30 and another SIX at 9:00.
The City has the audacity to waste time of the people waiting to have their case heard. Staff time is more valuable than the people’s they drag into Administrative Court. All of these people violated some part of the City Code.
https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/departments/legal/administrative-court
Quote: The Administrative Court hears different types of ordinance violations including building code violations, zoning violations, property code violations, animal regulations, and behavioral ordinance violations. The City is represented by the City Prosecutors. Parties to an administrative court case may have legal representation.
Cody Hendricks and Jenna Kearns violated City Code. Hendricks flagrantly violated it by claiming he was endorsed by the Democrat Party. Kearns claimed she represents Democrats.
When is their day in court?
Is the City playing IGNORE it and it will go away?
What part of the City Code are you free to violate because elected officials are allowed to violate it?
Why no stories about Lorenz’s “accidentally” forgetting to disclose a 28k donation?
I write about things the “journalist“ don’t.
Wasn’t it the GOP who forgot?
Not a big fan of freedom of speech, are we?
Violating City Code is Freedom of Speech? Hilarious. Why didn’t you just admit you are a democrat?
The city government enforcing a law that punishes someone for saying they have a political endorcement from a political party is unconstituional.
From hilarity! Thanks
“HI, I’d like to say that I represent Democrats”
“YOU CAN’T SAY THAT! HERE’S YOUR FINE!
Nope. I’m sure that’ll hold up in court. . .
Who is going to sue to overturn nonpartisan elections?
To keep the party affliliaition off the ballot, no one. In respose to being fined by saying a party or special interest group supports you? The person being fined can and should. And if I were the city of Bloomington I sure as hell wouldn’t invite that lawsuit. They would lose and spend a shit ton of money trying to defend themselves.
You would have to sue Illinois, it’s state law
I thought it was city code?
Both
It a town ordinance that Illinois allows municipalities to implement if they choose. I’m not even sure if its to be enforced as broadly as Bloomington Ordinance has been written. It only says that they can’t be candidates of a political party.
The ordinance expands that to say “or endorsed”. You would definitely sue Bloomongton, firstly for attempting to control your speech in saying a party endorsed you or that you held the ideals of a party, and secondly to argue the ordinance exceeds the authority given to the city by the state of Illinois.
But beyond all that, do we really want to live in a place that tries to punish you because you were to say such things? Doesn’t that strike at the heart of the freedom of political speech inherent in the first amendment? Should it stop there? Should we not be able to say you were endorsed by the NRA, ghe police union, the League of Woman voters, the Pantagraph, (if it still actually existed)?
Keep trying, someone might want to change 100 years of history. Do you know why they are nonpartisan?