By: Diane Benjamin
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The Normal Township meeting was canceled yesterday: https://blnnews.com/2026/10/25/oma-violation-krystle/
Nothing was ever put on the website about this meeting, including canceling it. Township Board member Tanner Starr, who just filed paperwork to run for Normal Trustee, is now claiming Beth wasn’t fired. She quit. A new little birdie told me she is a single mother going through a nasty divorce. She’s going to quit a 4 month job?
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Kevin Lower signs were vandalized within the last 24 hours. Funny how that only happens to Republican signs. Jeff Lord had the same problem: https://blnnews.com/2026/10/10/wglt-bias/
I have pictures of numerous signs that were defaced, this is one:
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A police report has been filed and this area has lots of flock cameras. Did this guy admit on Facebook he did it?
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In the latest edition of laws are only suggestions, see this one:
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Meet Corey Beirne breaking that law, his County name tag was bought by taxpayers:
Corey has engaged in a pattern of conduct that raises substantial questions under applicable ethical, election, and professional standards. These concerns have not received meaningful scrutiny from media outlets, voters, or local, county, and state enforcement bodies. In a prior public statement, he challenged critics of his conduct and demeanor to “get him arrested.”
While criminal arrest may not be available absent additional evidence of a criminal offense, his ongoing conduct remains relevant to non-criminal accountability mechanisms. As a sitting McLean County Board member and an employee of McLean County Unit District No. 5, he is subject to elevated standards of decorum, discipline, and ethical conduct. These standards derive from the oath of office, McLean County Board expectations (Chapter 20 of the County Code), the McLean County Ethics Ordinance (Chapter 37), Unit 5 Board Policy 5.120 (Employee Ethics; Code of Professional Conduct; and Conflict of Interest), Policy 2.105 (Ethics and Gift Ban), the incorporated Code of Ethics for Illinois Educators (23 Ill. Admin. Code Part 22), and related employee conduct standards.
The reported pattern of behavior—combined with any failure by Unit 5 to apply its ordinary investigative and disciplinary procedures to allegations of aggressive, inappropriate, or policy-violating conduct—could support a formal complaint to the McLean County Ethics Commission and/or a formal inquiry into Unit 5’s handling of the matter. Public servants and licensed educators are expected to maintain higher standards of professional judgment, integrity, and respect for the institutions they serve. Continued disregard for those standards, particularly where it affects the school environment or the public’s confidence in elected officials, warrants examination under the governing policies and ordinances.
Media never exposed their own
It just appears that those who engage in unnatural activities develop an attitude that they can do whatever they want to do regardless if it’s unethical or unlawful then you add in they are elected to a public position which more or less confirms their attitude that hey I am special even though very few people voted. Only the voters can stop those in public positions that feel like they are above the law and have an attitude that they can display their unnatural behaviors to even children in a classroom. How sad!!!