By: Diane Benjamin
What does this screen shot from last night’s Normal Town Council meeting tell you?
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Does the Deputy Clerk have her hand over her heart? It sure doesn’t look like it. The citizens of Normal are paying the salary, benefits, and pension for a Deputy Clerk who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance? If you don’t understand the education system is teaching young people to hate their country, here’s the proof.
Of course Normal passed the Essex development in front of numerous citizens who attended the meeting and spoke against it during public comment. Was Kathleen Lorenz absent because she knew citizens were coming?
Here’s the real story:
The residents of Collie Ridge bought lots or homes knowing that covenants protected them from developments like Essex. The 19.5 acres were guaranteed to always remain single-family housing.
Last weekend, citizens gathered more than the required number of signatures on a document rejecting the changes to the covenants. That document was filed with the McLean County Recorder yesterday.
Of course, a judge will need to rule that covenants are contracts that cannot be arbitrarily changed by the original developer. This should be a straightforward victory for their lawyer. However, this is McLean County, where justice sometimes seems impossible unless it is appealed to a higher court that can read. Contract law has always been a vital tenet of commerce. Ignoring any part of it brings Normal closer to third-world governance.
Young America wants to build “luxury” apartments in three-story buildings. There’s no better way to destroy generational wealth than convincing people that a lifetime of renting is better for their prosperity.
The constant whining by elites about commuters is laughable. They truly despise people who take their paychecks outside Bloomington-Normal. Worse, they believe these commuters are eager to live in Normal and that more housing, especially these “luxury” apartments, will entice them to move.
Families of commuters are unlikely to sell their single-family homes elsewhere to relocate to a three-story apartment building.
Fortunately, it won’t be built if a contract made with people who bought property based on that contract holds weight. Covenants are contracts. If a judge voids that contract, Normal should stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, as it no longer matters in a city with no respect for contract law. It also means every contract in Normal can be voided.
Just hit Play for Public Comment:
Normal voters had several chances in the past to dismantle the Koos communist regime but the turnout was dismal. Sadly, Collie Ridge and all surrounding developments will suffer the consequences of voter apathy as a result.
What would you expect of a mayor that taunted business owners that protested when their business were shut down during covid but his business was allowed to remain open. We were threatened with police involvement if we opened our business.
I wonder if the essex dvelopment will be allowed to have natural gas. You know the mayor has said that there will be no natural gas allowed on the development to the south of the train station.
Just think Normal residents under mayor Koos time in office your city went from no debt to over 80 million dollars in debt and you all haven’t paid for you bike tunnel under the tracks yet.
“…the education system is teaching young people to hate their country, here’s the proof.”
Based on 1 elected person in a mid-sized city not saying the pledge, this is a generalization at best.
One in Bloomington currently. One speaker for Essex was/is teaching the 1619 project as BHS. Fake history to make the kids hate their country
Wow, great summary by that first speaker! Good luck buddy in making it stick. No matter how the Koos Klan votes, you shouldn’t have had to deal with this. Suggest you continue on with the momentum and run all of the current Normal officials out of there. Any win today will be redefined and deceitfully brought back at you another day. These b*st*rds never learn.