The REAL story of Officer Scott Oglesby’s firing
Word on the street – Oglesby was totally exonerated today by a panel of judges! More when I get it
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Is Mayor Renner lying about Scott Oglesby?
by: Diane Benjamin Police Officer Scott Oglesby was fired was fired in 2011. An arbitrator ruled the firing was unjust, but the City via Todd Greenburg appealed. Meanwhile, Scott is still out of work unjustly. The City has no case, but Mayor Renner has told me he doesn’t have the votes on the City Council […]
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The REAL story of Officer Scott Oglesby’s firing-Breaking news
A panel of judges totally exonerated Scott Oglesby today! Bloomington citizens will be paying for this one. The Council members who voted in their SECRET meeting (Executive Session) need to be held accountable. They voted to not rehire Oglesby after the arbitrator ruled he did nothing wrong. Maybe they should cough up the back pay! by: Diane […]
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Scott Preston does comedy!
By: Diane Benjamin The Illinois Republican Party sent another mailer for Scott Preston, are they worried about Jim Fisher? This one is hilarious. Front side: Is the picture supposed to portray Preston as a good family man? That isn’t Scott Preston and his wife and kids in the picture. They found a family to use […]
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Letter to the Editor: Scott Preston
Someone just sent me your ad. You claim to be a “CONSERVATIVE Fighter.” I have yet to witness you fight for conservative values. You may have voted no on occasion but never have I seen you fight against the tax and spend agendas of the self-described Trump hater Mayor Koos and Queen Pam Reece. I […]
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Government Logic: Normal
By: Diane Benjamin The big controversy at last night’s Normal Council meeting was borrowing $2.5 million over 10 years from a local bank to build the East Side Fire Station. Facts: That $2.5 million becomes $2,703,939 which means Normal is redistributing $203,939 from your pocket to Busey Bank. Kathleen Lorenz claimed this is good for […]
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Mboka: Silence your dog please
By: Diane Benjamin His REAL dog! While the new mayor was reading a proclamation his dog tried to steal the show. 13 second clip: As predicted the meeting was pretty boring, nothing was pulled from the Consent Agenda. Mboka laid out a new Public Comment policy at 9:30, he threatened to cut off comments that […]
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I expect apologies: The kid isn’t even sick
By: Diane Benjamin Previous stories: https://blnnews.com/2020/03/30/illegal-parade-yesterday/ https://blnnews.com/2020/03/31/gleason-response-to-parade/ The 4 year old kid that got his own City parade isn’t even sick. Colleen Winterland, Street Supervisor (base salary $75,499.58) is buddies with the kids mom. Yes folks, government is all about WHO you know. This proves it is Us vrs. Them. The mom, Melisa Menssen, tried […]
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Normal: Amended Ordinance passed anybody know how to use technology?
By: Diane Benjamin I have no idea who is in the Council Chambers because the Town is not using regular video. I do know some of the Trustees are on the phone, it appears they are trying to use video conferencing. The sound eventually got better and then worse again.. Kevin McCarthy read many public […]
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Scotty’s inititives
By: Diane Benjamin Last night Alderman Scott Black presented his want list: Most of them took up way too much Council time, a total of 8 minutes for each was extended for most of them. Scott doesn’t really want to know how other communities fund downtown redevelopment, he wants new fees or taxes that are […]
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Get Scott Laughlin some gun facts!
The 2nd amendment wasn’t written when the only guns were muskets! Scott Laughlin thinks today’s guns don’t qualify as a right. He needs to know HISTORY. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/03/firearms-technology-and-the-original-meaning-of-the-second-amendment/?utm_term=.78e56d448119 Excepts: Gun-control advocates often argue that gun-control laws must be more restrictive than the original meaning of the Second Amendment would allow, because modern firearms are so different […]
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Ideology means no choices for you
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington City Council spent almost an hour discussing why citizens shouldn’t be allowed to choose the lowest cost electricity under Municipal Aggregation. The final vote was 7-2 with Aldermen Sage and Mathy against limiting your rights. The rest of the Council voted with one finger pointed directly at you. Even with […]
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WJBC: Scott wrong again!
By: Diane Benjamin Scott Laughlin clarified this morning on WJBC why the local media is useless. The host hates people who think government should do nothing. Scottie doesn’t realize “those” people don’t want government doing nothing, they want them doing only the things the population can’t do themselves. Like fix the roads! How are the Bloomington […]
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Vogel announces Lower is running for Mayor!
By: Diane Benjamin Steve Vogel announced in the Pantagraph today that Alderman Lower is expected to run for Mayor against Steve’s buddy, Tari. Remember his daughter was Renner’s campaign manager twice. Since Vogel didn’t add that to his story, I need to make sure you know the truth. Now it’s clear why Tari Junior (Scott […]
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Vogel: Where do corrupt politicians come from?
By: Diane Benjamin Steve Vogel never fails to entertain as he looks at trees and misses the forest. His column today is no exception. Aaron Schock’s corruption is going to cost us a lot of money, but why does Illinois have so many corrupt politicians Steve? Vogel failed to ask how this fresh young face evidently […]
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Fazzini exhibits the Council’s arrogance
by: Diane Benjamin Alderman Rob Fazzini has been known to change his mind before. Remember when he stated he would never vote for the budget if roads weren’t funded at $14,000,000? $10,000,000 borrowed and $4,000,000 from the general fund? Somehow he managed to vote YES on the budget anyway. I hope he is smart enough […]
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Legal: Employee Investigations?
By: Diane Benjamin I’ve written before about the City spending resources to prosecute employees when arbitration reaches a different conclusion than the one the City wants. Remember Scott Oglesby? https://blnnews.com/2013/05/06/the-real-story-of-scott-oglesbys-firing/ Now they are doing it again. This time it’s a fireman, Jon Caponi, who was arrested in 2016 for domestic violence. See the newspaper story […]
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9 Horse pile up
By: Diane Benjamin Here’s all you need to know about last night’s 2 meetings of the Bloomington City Council: You aren’t using enough water, therefore your storm water bill is too low. You therefore have to pay more because the fund doesn’t have enough money. (Government forced you to be sustainable – now you will […]
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Front & Center
By: Diane Benjamin The City had no problem with massive legal fees fighting the arbitrators ruling on Scott Oglesby. The City had no problem with big legal fees to put Paradigm together before the citizens knew Bloomington was even involved. The City has no problem sending $50,000-$60,000 a month to the Springfield law firm for […]
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By: Diane Benjamin When Steve Rasmussen was hired as a Hales Assistant, taxpayers paid to move him here from Missouri: WHEATON WORLD WIDE MOV 3,975.89 $ Relocation charges for Deputy City Manager Steve Rasmussen http://blnnews.com/2015/01/23/i-wish-they-would-just-use-a-gun-to-steal-your-money/ Now Bloomington has hired a new City Clerk. This time will taxpayers pay for her move from Nevada? Probably. In […]
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Follow-up to Truth Tari?
by: Diane Benjamin The constituent involved in the email exchange with Tari Renner just sent me the entire email. He did leave off some information at the top-but that information had nothing to do with the part I posted. Here’s the facts: David Sage emailed Tari Renner and asked if the email on my […]
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Mayor Renner didn’t want an appeal!
by: Diane Benjamin The following is part of an email Tari Renner sent to a constituent concerning the Scott Oglesby case. Maybe the Mayor should have said PUBLICLY how he felt. Judge Foley might not have bowed to public pressure if she knew others agreed with the arbitrator’s decision. As far as the substance, Scott Oglesby […]
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Legislating from the bench – Foley
by: Diane Benjamin Scott Oglesby: I hope you appeal Judge Foley’s ruling to overturn the arbitrator’s decision. Next time get a MALE judge. The female factor is the only explanation for her ruling. The relationship between the Bloomington Police and David Hales was already strained. The comments made by Hales, as reported in the Pantagraph […]
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Mayor No Transparency
by: Diane Benjamin There once was a mayor named Tari Who campaigned on promoting transparency Evidently a myth Too difficult to deal with Free speech must no longer exist! Excerpts from emails sent from Tari to me: From June 2013 Thank you Diane for your diligence! Your parody was actually MUCH closer to reality that […]
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Fly on the Wall – Greenburg’s gone!
I hear Todd Greenburg is out as Bloomington’s City Attorney. Celebrate Bloomington, you won’t be paying for unjustified lawsuits anymore! Think Julie Crowe and her taxi service that was denied Think the Bob Wall incident he wanted to keep quiet Think the Scott Oglesby case that Bloomington is going to lose Think the executive session minutes […]
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Bloomington City Council can’t face reality
by: Diane Benjamin In 2011 Scott Oglesby was fired from the Bloomington Police force. Last May I read the entire arbitration report and wrote about it here: http://blnnews.com/2013/05/06/the-real-story-of-scott-oglesbys-firing/ Scott Oglesby was mostly cleared through arbitration, but City Attorney Todd Greenburg and a majority of the City Council refuse to drop the case and are appealing. Mayor […]
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Renner vrs Greenburg
by: Diane Benjamin Tari Renner: Elected Mayor by the citizens of Bloomington Todd Greenburg: City employee Tari Renner: Promised transparent government Todd Greenburg: Wants to keep EVERYTHING hidden Tari Renner: Respects the law, we think Todd Greenburg: Plays by his own rules Example one: The State Attorney ruled the City must release all information concerning […]
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Facts Connect Transit used to buy Proterra buses
By: Diane Benjamin At this week’s meeting it was mentioned that Champaign is trying hydrogen buses. It was mentioned Connect Transit might go that direction when they need more buses. Of course that would require different infrastructure. It would have been a lot easier to keep diesel buses and a lot faster to refuel them. […]
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Citizens vrs Rights Deniers: the Visual
By: Diane Benjamin HB 3337 is a bill the Town of Normal wants so they can claim a permanent right to deny citizens a voice in government. Kevin McCarthy testified at the first hearing and claimed to represent Normal. The Council never voted, so McCarthy really represented Chris Koos. This bill would not be necessary […]
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Uptown South Comedy!
By: Diane Benjamin Normal is building a pedestrian and bike underpass that will likely cost $30 million by the time it’s done. Vehicles will continue to sit behind trains blocking College and Linden because the underpass isn’t for vehicles. Linden won’t be 4 lanes anymore in the Uptown South plan, it is going on a […]
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Council votes against High Haven location
By: Diane Benjamin The Normal Town Council lives in luxury, visit the Council chambers and observe the rest of Town Hall. They want to be a Smart City, they have software to spy on what people say on line about them, and they have license plate readers. If the Town loves high tech so much, […]
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Local GOP: Burn the Big Tent
By: Diane Benjamin I heard one of the biggest opponents to the McLean County GOP Accountability committee was George Wendt. He needs to reconsider, the latest RINO Republican to turn on the party is Kathleen Lorenz. 4 years ago she campaigned door-to-door calling herself a Republican. Does George Wendt know Lorenz campaigned for his Democrat […]
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Sharon Chung is rolling in $$$$$
By: Diane Benjamin https://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/34779/ How much money does her opponent Scott Preston have? https://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/25061/ Chung is well know for supporting criminals during her time on the McLean County Board. So who is supporting this police hater? The same people trying to get Amendment 1 passed by calling it a Worker’s Rights Amendment. It’s really a […]
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Show me the money!
By Diane Benjamin I bet you missed this one! Cook County was sued for diverting $250,000,000 annually, of monies collected from a variety of transportation-related taxes and fees. The Safe Roads Amendment (lock box) was approved by voters in 2016, it prohibits transportation relates revenues from being spent elsewhere. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled against […]
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Kathleen now hears what we hear when watching meetings:
By: Diane Benjamin The Youth on a Mission kids were allowed to speak out of order last night because they had to get home and study for finals. This was a Koos edict, the Council didn’t vote. “Friends” are allowed perks while citizens wanting to speak off agenda have to wait until the end of […]
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Stop the ILGOP from picking YOUR representative
By: Diane Benjamin What’s missing? In case you haven’t figured it out, nothing on this card says Preston is a Republican. The Illinois GOP picked Scott Preston because he is just like Dan Brady. The ILGOP wants to permanently be in the minority because they make a lot of money and get blamed for nothing. […]
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Part 1 of Bloomington last night
By: Diane Benjamin One Public Comment was exceptional last night. Gary Lambert speaks pretty often, always showing lots of common sense. Gary responded to something Mayor Mboka wrote in the Pantagraph wanting the State to quite keeping more of the local tax money than they used to. Gary threw that letter back in his face […]
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Unit 5 and EQUITY
By: Diane Benjamin If you haven’t browsed Unit 5’s website, you missed this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPB0fnxfB3G2Dwp8Cyzawy5_bPej-A-C/view That is an update to their Equity Action Plan. See PDF pages 5 and 6 for what they want to achieve. This paragraph bothers me: The purpose of public schools is to teach. Students should never know the “authentic self” […]
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Things you need to know
By: Diane Benjamin Rivian raised the price of their midsize electric pickup by 20%, $94,000+. People are canceling orders. https://www.reuters.com/technology/rivian-hikes-vehicle-prices-by-20-citing-inflationary-pressure-2022-03-02/ I wonder if the Town of Normal will cancel their order? TWO candidates aren’t running in the District they live in: Scott Preston (91st) and Kyle Ham (105th). They are searching for the voters they […]
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More info and Summary of the National Fitness Champaign Scam
By: Diane Benjamin The National Fitness Campaign installation was not bid out. I previously posted a picture of equipment from another company who courted Normal: https://blnnews.com/2022/01/21/want-to-see-what-a-scam-looks-like/ The FOIA I received had yet a third company: No mention was made at the Council meeting about these two other companies. It appears Doug Damery, head of Parks […]
