By: Diane Benjamin
The 7-2 vote last Monday to massively raise property taxes made housing even more unaffordable. Numerous people running for office claim they will lower your taxes. Monday’s vote proved that lying is how you win elections. Bloomington aldermen aren’t the only taxing body grabbing for your wallet.
Below is Dan Brady’s campaign video for mayor. He claims his job will be promoting affordable housing, lower fees, and lower taxes. Watch it until the end—taxes are mentioned more than once.
Brady said nothing during the discussions about the effect on affordability. He said nothing about people leaving Illinois because of property taxes and fees. In other words, Brady failed to even appear to protect the citizens of Bloomington from a government with a spending problem. He could have vetoed it and forced them to vote again.
Mayor: You lose every battle you never fight.
Citizens deserve better. No, the other two who ran for mayor wouldn’t have been better. Cody Hendricks was eager to vote yes Monday night. Only Sheila Montney and Kent Lee represented the people who voted for them. The 7 others are there to serve the City, not you.
Puppets (except 2)
I think I’m beginning to understand what this council means by “affordability”.
As citizens agonize over which essentials to forfeit, politicians delight in deciding which extravagance has suddenly become ‘affordable’ to fund.
Just not accurate. 5 very progressive democrat/socialists on the city council + 2 go along to get along alderpersons are why Bloomington property taxes are going up – Not because of Mayor Brady.
Mayor doesn’t vote except to break a tie. Who’s to say the mayor didn’t advocate but simply didn’t have the votes ?
Before you point the dirty end of the stick at Mayor Brady you should first look in the mirror for allowing 5 spendthrift liberals to get elected to the City Council in the first place.
VETO! Nothing is on the agenda without his permission
@Bandit
I believe if you look further into this blog, you will see that Diane has raised the issue of low voter turnout for a while now. Neither of you are wrong. If the mayor ran on lowering taxes and he has made little attempt to do so, then he most certainly deserves scrutiny. Sometimes there’s more than one entity to blame.
For a decade!
Oh yes, the same lame excuses Dan Brady has used for years to advance his cult personality political image. Twenty odd years in the Illinois House and now using the same cult tactics as mayor of Bloomington. Wake up Bloomington. This guy’s an empty suit
I pray every day that our Lord God will see fit to force usurious boomers to move out of their empty nester homes that so that I might finally afford a house to buy. People who say property taxes are regressive to the elderly selectively choose not to acknowledge that many, many elderly people have far too much house for their needs. Mayor Brady is doing the Lord’s work by trying to make housing more affordable. Reducing the hoarding of property is absolutely a move towards affordability.
Not surprising this comment is from Normal. Entitlement mentality is alive and well. Try a starter house instead of coveting a big house you didn’t earn.
@Realist
Or, you could mind your own business and not worry about what other people do, or don’t do, with their property. How is it any of your concern how big of a house someone has? Butt out of things that have nothing to do with you. God never commanded you to be a busy body.
P.S. – Taxes are theft. Period. End of story. Your entire argument is pointless.
Every parade needs a clown and that has always been Dan Brady.
Just like the lies Unit 5 told. Now they want a new school again and close Carlock. They swore they wouldn’t close Carlock when they tricked the voters to vote again in April after voters voted no in the November election. Watch out for there trickery in their wording.