By: Diane Benjamin
What ideas does Josh have? Keep reading.
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Crockett is on the Finance Committee of the Heartland Community College Board. How much have property taxes increased since he was elected?
h/t a reader:
How do I know Joshua Crockett will raise your property taxes? Because he did as a Heartland Community College Trustee.
During his tenure:
Cumulative 47.9% increase
2022 = 12.6%
2023 = 12.6%
2024 = 8%
2025 = 8%
Beirne and Crockett have a lot in common! https://blnnews.com/2026/07/18/beirne-comedy/
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Crockett ideas: https://joshuacrockett.com/meet-joshua/
He wants to make vital records available at locations outside of the County Clerk’s office. How are birth certificate, death certificates, marriage license, etc secure if libraries, townships, and civic organizations can hand them out? Free parking is available east of the Government Center. Is going there to difficult if it means secure documents? How much is this grand plan going to cost? Are all these alternate locations going to handle cash?
Josh also wants universal voting which mean you can vote anywhere. With no ID required, think fraud won’t be rampant? One person could vote numerous times under different names and no one would know the difference. I’m sure voting lists would “accidently” be made available.
Crockett also wants to recruit high school and college kids to be paid election judges. I poll watched a Mike Madigan precinct years ago where two high school girls ran the election. They both spoke Spanish as did many voters. They allowed the to Democrat precinct captain to take the voter book so he could see who to “remind” to vote. A candidate on the ballot brought them chocolates and campaigned right in front of them. Kids are easy to fool, must be why Crockett wants them.
How much more do want to pay in property taxes?
Progressives have “wonderful” ideas and send you the bill. There is never a review of how those ideas are working.
If you get his literature dropped off at your house – note what’s missing. Let me know when you figure it out.
Oh great..more finance friends and pay to play college and IT project backed candidates… probably
My birth certificate is only obtainable by myself and my parents. That is a fact. Mr. Crockett is an idiot if he thinks setting up some road stand to get vital records is going to work. You can also order them ALL online. The dumbing of McLean County continues. Those records are not just up for grab but considering who is friends are in this community, it is not surprising.
Is that style hat a leftist thing? A signal of sorts? Several leftist I know often wear hats similar to that one.
Counter to MAGA hat
Putting a prophecy hat on: This is going to be another example of the McGop just handing an election over to the opposing party. You may think Kathy Michael has done a phenomenal job, but that won’t counter a public sentiment that she’s been in office for too long and her constant presence in the media is not helping her. Joshua Crockett is young, fresh to the scene and is laying out new ideas (albeit bad ones). That will catch the eye of many voters, especially any independents. The incumbent advantage will not save Kathy Michael; if the McLean County Republicans were serious, they would be floating a different candidate in order to keep the office under a Republican. Unfortunately, Michael is likely to lose because local Republicans are not serious about making races competative in McLean County. I have begun to think that McGop just really loves to lose.
Birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, etc. have never been secure, even in the current model. Nothing is secure when the government has its hands on it. The government doesn’t need this information to do its job. I’d rather see these “vital documents” (lol) eliminated entirely.
So, your parents die without a will. How do you plan on proving you are the heir?
Hard to comprehend that the Heartland budget is over 40M with a student population under 5K, how much is that per student? I remember when we has no community college tax
Heartland has an insatiable appetite for your tax dollars. And it’s growing. How big does Heartland really need to be already? For a Community College it’s huge with an enormous Administrative payroll. A wonderful asset to our region no doubt , but they need to level off and focus on quality.