By: Diane Benjamin Nobody is afraid of consequences for breaking election law and misuse of public funds. How long is it going to take McLean County to investigate Lizzy Johnston’s alleged soliciting money on County property to abolish the County Auditor? Another year? Why did Lizzy lawyer up for a State Board of Elections investigation? […]
By: Diane Benjamin Continuation of this story: https://blnnews.com/2024/11/29/alleged-illegal-activity-at-mclean-county/ Lizzy is Elizabeth Johnston. She plans to be the new County Board chair since the Democrats are now the majority. (I told you this is going to be fun!) The text messages below are between Trevor Sierra and Lizzy Johnson. Trevor is requesting a refund for the […]
By: Diane Benjamin My church in Bloomington is a voting location. Yesterday they had a large number of poll workers and machines – larger than previous years. The crew sets up for the election the night before. We had some members there to move a lot of furniture out of the way. I don’t remember […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Another reason to abolish the Bloomington Election Commission: You can not vote with a paper ballot in Bloomington until election day. The entire rest of the County can at either the County Clerk’s office or at the mall. It will take a little longer because they have to look up what […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you did believe in term limits you would be marking every judge NO: Voting YES is NOT going to save County taxpayers any money: If this passes an auditor will be appointed instead of elected. Auditors have to be independent. Appointed isn’t. The best way to take out someone who isn’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin BlnNews.com now has a ton of history – all the way back to early 2012. Here’s a nugget you might have forgotten: Bloomington didn’t have a gas tax until 2014. They didn’t have an Amusement Tax either. Fazzini and Fruin voted for for both. The gas tax only meant nothing had to […]
by: Diane Benjamin In my opinion voting in September for an election in November is lamebrained, dim-witted, and unintelligent. There will be “October surprises”, the presidential debates don’t even start until next week. The ONLY reason to vote now is to pretend you investigated all the candidates and have determined which ones represent your values. […]
by: Diane Benjamin There is one BIG misconception in government: Producing audited financial statements don’t mean the auditors looked for fraud! The auditors of every government agency are hired from the outside, but they only look at presentation, not transactions. Want proof? The books of Dixon Illinois where and employee stole over $50,000,000 were audited! […]
by: Diane Benjamin Being willing to expose government abuse only leads to information on more government abuses. I got a call this morning from a gentleman who filed a Small Claims Court suit against 2 contractors. He paid all the required fees at the County, including postage to have 2 summons mailed to the contractors. […]
