By: Diane Benjamin This is video of what met people wanting to attend the Unit 5 School Board meeting last night. Local socialist organizer Sonny Garcia is speaking with the bullhorn. Sonny is employed by Illinois State University, from Open The Books.com The yellow vests are their own security team. There was a sign on […]
By: Diane Benjamin Being marginalized for her socialist views at Council meeting after Council meeting isn’t stopping Jenn Carrillo! She only won because most of her Ward stayed home on election day. Make that mistake next year at your own peril. Remember when Mayor Koos berated Stan Nord for daring to talk to a friend […]
By: Diane Benjamin In February, Connect Transit had a whooping $115,785.44 in revenue. That revenue didn’t cover 25% of the wages they paid to employees. ($470,076.10) Total expenses for February were $1,025,579.65. Drum roll please – they only lost $909,794.21! PDF page 10: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2onCQqMAcgBJYz2K8wJRQemNshaqk2T/view Both Bloomington and Normal give your tax dollars to this […]
By: Diane Benjamin I’ve been sent this information by a LOT of people, so it’s time to share it. Yes, McLean County is being community organized using Chicago style campaigning with Chicago residents being bused here. I wonder if they will be bused here to vote too? Since Chicago is the poster city for high […]
By: Diane Benjamin For the year ending June 30, 2017 United Way collected a $1,000,000 less than the previous year. Total revenue was $2.1 million, so a million less is huge. 22% of the Revenue went to salaries and benefits. The previous year only 18% went to employees. See page one of the tax return […]
By: Diane Benjamin Follow-up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2018/05/09/setting-wedges/ The majority of the minutes are now listed on the website for the Police Safety and Community Relations Board. They first met in December 2017, no minutes are available from that meeting. If you want to see the January 2018 minutes, you have to read the February packet. […]
By: Diane Benjamin If Normal passes the Welcoming Ordinance tonight, they are empowering leftist radicals. Bloomington and Normal are chasing people out of town by giving into radicals. It started with citizens second guessing the actions of the police. It continues with laws ignored via a Welcoming Ordinance. Now they think they should pick the next […]
By: Diane Benjamin Connect Transit can not cover wages with what people pay to ride the bus. Every month operations loses around $800,000 – that’s EVERY month. That is taxpayer money being used to drive empty buses around town! Next to bike lanes without bikes, buses are an abomination to anyone who pays taxes. Government’s […]
We don’t have leadership, we have community organizing. Get what looks like a lot of people all talking the same, you get what you want. At least it used to work, but the game is up. The GOP will fall for this and think the country really wants action on these items. So you can […]
