By: Diane Benjamin
This is Beirne’s second violation of the County’s Ethics Ordinance. First violation: https://blnnews.com/2026/06/24/abby-scott-and-corey-beirne-failed-the-ethics-test/
The lady who talked Bloomington and Normal into passing the same Ethics Ordinance mentioned the County has previously passed it. Since the County “Search” doesn’t work well, I couldn’t find when they passed it. I think it was in 2025.
No one is going to hold Beirne accountable. Local politicians are never prosecuted which is why they are becoming more brazen. The Ethic Ordinance has no teeth, elected officials are supposed to self-regulate. How’s that working?
h/t a reader: The header on the Facebook post below shows 27 comments but only 15 show up. Beirne deleted more than just the ones made by the guy below.
Below is a screenshot from Corey Beirne’s official District 10 Facebook page:
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See the Ravi Duvvuri comments directed at David Heisner? Notice David Heisner comments aren’t shown? That is because Corey Beirne blocked him. Beirne doesn’t want to hear from anyone in his district that doesn’t agree with him. If Heisner magically reappears after this post, you will know why.
Below is an AI summary showing a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court ruling stating Beirne’s actions are a 1st Amendment violation. The only people who can hold him accountable for violating rights are the voters of District 10. He needs removed from office November 3, 2026. Even the ACLU agrees Beirne violated civil rights as outlined in the 1st Amendment.
Ravi is a psychopath who made jokes about the third trump assassination attempt on Facebook. Does he still serve in the city of Bloomington technology commission after that? His term expired shortly after he made his politically violent comments, and the city is running behind in making reappointments and removing old commissioners.
https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/government/boards-commissions/technology-commission
Bloomington/Normal Code of Ethics vs Corey Beirne-Scott’s behavior
All members of the council shall:
1. Handle civic affairs with a deep sense of responsibility, upholding the spirit as well as the letter of the law and the Constitution.
Corey Beirne shut down a constituent’s line of questioning on his official District 10 County Board Facebook page, blocking public participation on a government forum. That’s a misuse of office and a violation of constitutional rights. The Code calls for respect for both the spirit and the letter of the law; Corey ignored both.
2. Faithfully perform all duties as council members by studying municipal issues and by attending all sessions of the council and assigned committees, unless prevented from so doing by a compelling reason.
Corey used his official platform for personal attacks and partisan commentary instead of civic engagement. That’s neglect of duty and a breach of professional conduct.
3 Avoid participation in any personal action which would result in a conflict of interest with municipal responsibility.
Corey publicly attacked a Bloomington City Council member –Sheila Montney– while failing to disclose that one of them — Abby Scott — is his wife. Concealing that relationship creates a direct conflict of interest and violates the transparency clause. As a County Board member he also inserted himself into the Bloomington City council’s governmental affairs.
4. Refrain from obtaining improper personal benefit with regard to public funds, equipment, property, or the services of employees.
Corey used his official County Board page to advance personal political messaging and attack other officials. Using a government communication channel for personal or partisan purposes is an improper use of public resources.
5. Respect the confidentiality of privileged information.
No evidence of breach, but his pattern of public hostility raises questions about his judgment and discretion.
6. Refrain from accepting gifts, favors, or promises of future benefit, which could tend to impair independence of judgment or action as a council member.
Corey’s partisan hostility and personal bias clearly impair independent judgment, violating the Code’s expectation of impartiality.
7. Treat all colleagues, associates, constituents, employees, other public officials with respect.
Corey’s own words — “Oh shut up” and “MAGA chunderheads” — were posted from his official County Board account. That language is hostile, demeaning, and unprofessional. It violates the respect clause outright.
The Council shall self regulate adherence to the Code.
Corey’s repeated violations demonstrate a failure to self regulate ethical behavior.
County code is exactly the same
Yeah, you might not like it, but whatever. Trump has really lowered the bar for what is acceptable behavior from the political class. He’s not acting any worse than Trump 🤷.
And for the record, Im on the left and really don’t like Beirne. I find him obnoxious. And honestly, you can complain about some of those issues, and you might have a point, but people dont care because in relation to the things we see at a national level it pales in comparison.
But hey, keep spinning those hypocritical wheels all you want. Whatever keeps you happy!
Local news, plenty of anchors willing to lie, few truth
Not very hard to find national corruption. Court documents that came out today in which the Trump administration admitted to canceling over 284 energy grants in states just because the state voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, while leaving alone the grants in states that voted for Trump in 2024. How’s that for ethics?
Can’t wait to see y’all get walloped in November. Im sure people will care more about Corey Bernie when they go to the polls than high gas prices, expensive grocery bills and a new Neverending middle-eastern war. Have fun Republicans! Im sure you’ll do great! 🤣
Did you read the court documents or just believe NY Times?
The court documents are literally linked in the article Diane. Direct quote. The “October notice tranche” was the list of 284 grants to be cancelled:
“DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely
on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state, i.e., whether the recipient’s location
and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State”
Sounds pretty much like DEI policies to me.
Cool! So you think it was ethical for the Trump administration to cancel energy grants in Illinois just because he didnt like who our State chose in the 2024 election. Or, am I wrong, and you think it was unethical?
Your complete inability to be able to acknowledge BS behavior on your side of the aisle is why people dont see you or MAGA world as credible when you cry foul at democrats.
And the issue I pointed out is local, too. Im sure a number of the grants that were canceled were for Illinois and likely would have helped us here in McLean County.
Turn about isn’t fair play?
Oh, well thats interesting. So, not only are you saying that what Trump did was okay, but you’d also be okay if a Dem wins in 2028 and chooses ro cut off grants to states solely because they voted for their Republican opponent?
If you’re cool with Turnabout being fair play, then it also just further justifies what Bernie is doing. You want to elect an unethical wrecking ball to be president, thats fine, but dont get mad if you wind up with a questionable, local wrecking ball on the left as a response.
Because, as you said, isn’t turnabout fair play?
Think they didn’t?
Replying here because I can’t add a reply to your recent comment. No, they havent done that. I gave you 100% indisputable evidence that Trump is withholding grants from states just because he’s upset those states didn’t vote for him. No Democratic president has ever done that before. And if you’re going to make the assertion that a democrstic president has withheld grant funds from a state because they voted for their Republican opponent you need to back it up with indisputable proof, like I did. Taking a “Trust me bro” approach doesn’t cut it.
You are talking about the people who forced untested shots, mandated EV’s, made energy unaffordable, prosecuted Christians, flooded the country with illegals, left billions of dollars in equipment for terrorists in Afghanistan, destroyed education with lockdowns etc and you think they were angels?
So this is your acknowledgement that your claim was false? Rather than try to substantiate your allegation, you brought up a whole bunch of unrelated things. Okay- whatever. Point taken that you were wrong.
Also, You brushing off Trump’s behavior with “meh, look at what Dems have done” is exactly why most people brush off your issues with Beirne- “meh, Trump does the same stuff and to a much higher degree.” Thats EXACTLY the point I was making in my first post. Its why the things you wrote about in this initial post won’t even garner a shoulder shrug from your average person in Blono.
You guys complaining about Berine deleting comments or describing you guys in unkind terms is no different than when Trump blocked people from his Twitter account (and got rebuked by the Supreme Court) and calls Dems mean names. You come across as snowflakes when you whine about it, just like you call Dems when they complain about Trump being to mean to them.
Toughen up. Or as my name says, cry me a river!
…. Cry Me.
And if I was Corey Beirne-Scott I would say “Shut up you chunderhead!”
Welcome to socialist communist real life people. They preach to support the downtrodden people and will only continue to support them as long as they stay in their “place” of downtrodden. Individual though of holding anyone accountable will not be tolerated.
What’s funny is Scott and Beirne are all up in arms about this because they want to spend spend spend your hard earned tax dollars. Scott admitted as such, when in the video at the end of the Bloomington city council meeting, she lamented the fact that Montney sees her role in the health commission simply as one of advising and oversight, instead of as a radical activist like Scott would prefer. Scott in fact said something to this effect when she requested that Montney enthusiastically and energetically bring health grant proposal ideas to the commission and lobby hard to get them passed.
Of course, according to a liberal, literally anything and everything impacts your mental health, so Scott just wants her pet projects and her friends in the NGO space to get fat grants so they can all get paid to run liberal policy and agenda items.
Examples:
Are you an illegal immigrant and scared of ICE? Well that makes you stressed, so your mental health is hurt. Let’s give the Immigration Project millions in taxpayer dollars to provide free legal and court services for illegals to obstruct the federal government immigration policies and actions. Mental health!
Oh are you homeless? Well housing is a right, and not having housing makes you stressed, or maybe you are homeless because you have a mental illness. Ergo, housing is a mental health problem and we can throw cash around to build houses for the homeless, who cares if seniors and families can barely afford their property taxes and 10% local sales tax! Homeless migrants from across the nation have mental health issues, so we have to build them houses in McLean county. If you build it, they will come! Mental health!
Oh, did you have unprotected sex with a man, and the obvious and natural consequences of unprotected sex happened to occur to you? How stressful, mental health issue! Let’s fund “women’s health” clinics do we can get that inconvenient “blob of parasitic flesh” out of your uterus. Your body, your mental health, your choice!
This is what Scott and Beirne really want. Radical liberal policies paid for with tax payer dollars under the guise of ‘mental health. “
I don’t think Cry me a River knows Beirne is responsible for his taxes going up.
Look, i have proof now:
Liberal socialist McLean County Board Member Beverly Bell, on facebook: “I’m wanting to give a personal shout out to McLean County Board member Corey Bernie- Chair of the Health Committee for supporting the unhoused concerns in Normal, at the WGLT housing forum.”
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EX95KnHPK/
Crazy liberal logic: housing is somehow related to “health” because of… reasons. Mental gymnastics. Because I declare it as such, because truth is subjective, and I define my own terms, dammit!
This is what they are trying to do with the county sales tax money that is allocated only towards public safety, the jails, and “mental health”, and the 20 million dollar unspent surplus. They want it to go to HOUSING, in the name of “mental health”. All of the democratic candidates were at this housing event referenced in Beverly’s post. They want the county to just start building houses and giving them away or subsidize renting them, all so we can get more and more homeless people to be drawn here by the incentive of free housing. And more homeless people means what? WE MUST BUILD MORE HOUSING! and how does the government build more housing? RAISING YOUR TAXES!
Rinse and repeat, democrats creating the very problem their precious little toxically empathetic hearts want to solve, because they refuse to think with their heads.
Have you heard day care is infrastructure?
I literally have a second amendment right to bear arms. (unlike many so called rights which are not at all enumerated in the constitution explictly). Using liberal logic, if I have a “right” to something, the government should provide it for free, right?
I want my free gun, since bearing guns is literally a constitutional right.
Hey, what a great way to improve public safety! The county sales tax can go towards arming law abiding citizens and permitting them to open carry firearms! I wonder how many gang bang murders would occur in the west side of bloomington, if responsible gun owners were given guns and patrolled the wild west side?
Haha Corey is literally now making campaign videos about the “childcare crisis” in McLean county. Look forward to hearing from him how lack of childcare is making people’s mental health worse, aka we need to spend the sales tax money on government child care!
Or we stop forcing women to slave away for a stranger at work, and instead of caring for her children and husband at home.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1cC6SfzXJF/
Raising minimum wage and ridiculous regulations by the State play a big role subsidies won’t help.
McLean County has no effective enforcement process or procedures that are actually carried out by any local or state authority for certain categories of election-related misconduct. As a result, individuals within Bloomington’s election authority have been able to operate with effectively zero accountability.
Even the County Board’s own Ethics Commission rulings have been disregarded. This includes instances in which the Commission found an elected official guilty of serious allegations of misconduct involving illegal electioneering and solicitation of campaign funds under the County’s own ethics rules.
I followed the County’s written procedures precisely. After meeting the initial and evidentiary thresholds required for a full hearing, I presented the evidence to the Illinois State Board of Elections before its full committee. In that proceeding I successfully countered the arguments advanced by County counsel and by outside counsel retained by the State’s Attorney’s office. That outside counsel is the son of a major PAC organizer, donor, and supporter of one of the candidates involved—the same organizer alleged to have helped form the PAC at the center of the underlying events. The outside counsel was permitted to participate in the investigation of the respondent while my access was completely blocked, all under the authority of the State’s Attorney’s office.
Despite the existence of probable cause, testimony that constituted a confession, clear motive (causation), and substantial evidence of beneficial activity, repeated efforts were made to dismiss the charges, defame me, and create confusion about the underlying facts.
When the matter reached the Illinois State Board of Elections, the Commission responded, with little elaboration, that it was the “wrong jurisdiction” for this type of Illinois election misconduct. They stated that the matter should have been handled locally at the County level—which I had already done in accordance with County law—and further directed me to the County Clerk’s office. When I noted that neither the State nor the County maintains a functional process for enforcement through that office, the Board’s position remained that the matter was not within the Illinois State Board of Elections’ jurisdiction.
This sequence of jurisdictional deflection illustrates the practical absence of accountability and transparency. As the Board adjourned, I was admonished for allegedly conducting a personal “crusade” by highlighting what I described as selective enforcement, citing recent parallel issues involving Champaign County elections and the Unit 5 investigation.
Another consequence is that nepotism in organizations, boards, government operations, and systems projects enables data abuses,shadow banning, targeted harassment and misuse if administration access, social media monitoring, (aka stalking), communication/training ans security/compliance platform.
Most taxpayers and targeted/citizens do not realize the stronghold and politically connected have in McLean County as public servants and public employees and board members (most related to each other or benefit in some financial way )
It shows unfortunately. this in which most area operations have now embraced at taxpayer expense.
Thanks for staying on top of this. Helps.
Throw out constitutional rights… irrelevant at this point. Children run out county and churches and NFPs and organizations anymore. $$$