Tag: democrat party

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17 Years in a Row: People Leaving Illinois

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9f59f645-6340-4756-8110-655dd4f6eeeb.html?utm_source=illinois.thecentersquare.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rss_first_item_title Can anyone say after 17 years this isn’t on purpose? Excerpts: U.S. Census Bureau data showing Illinois has lost around 420,000 residents since 2020. Recent polling found almost half of all voters insist they would leave the state if they had the chance. Updated annual Census estimates for Illinois and other states are expected […]

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Buying Elections

By: Diane Benjamin Local council and school boards are labeled nonpartisan because doing what is best for the people they serve shouldn’t be a political football. I’ve stated for years progressives don’t believe in nonpartisan. They want power and now they aren’t afraid to just say it outloud. Excerpts: The 2025 local elections are the […]

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Democrat “ethics”

By: Diane Benjamin Illinois Democrats have been using tricks to pass legislation for as long as I can remember. Here’s the trick: They just did it again to change election law in the middle of an election cycle: https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2b607af8-08cb-11ef-be4b-4314e8b49453.html?a?utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Flists%2Ft2%2Fillinois%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline When asked about this bill Pritzker claimed it’s an ethics bill. Obviously democrats don’t have any […]

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McCarthy proves Democrats aren’t interested in fixing pensions

By: Diane Benjamin The Democrat Party of Illinois isn’t going to reform pensions with a Constitutional Amendment. Next year they do have a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot to hand unions even more power. https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/what-is-amendment-1-an-illinois-constitutional-amendment-on-the-ballot-next-november/ If local elected officials across the State demanded a Constitutional Amendment to reform pensions, they would prove they care about […]

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Voting for Democrats costs you money!

By: Diane Benjamin It should be obvious, but evidently too many people think government needs your money, so they vote democrat. How many tax increases does the State of Illinois have to hand you before you figure out government is working for itself – NOT YOU? Illinois Democrats have no intention of fixing the unaffordable […]

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The “you are a racist” public comment

By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington City Council meeting 10-12-2020 The line for Public Comment took time as it always does on Zoom. Just a handful of people calling for a Welcoming Ordinance and changing the name of Columbus Day showed up. It’s nice to know Bloomington doesn’t have real problems like the person who was murdered […]

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Early Voting starts tomorrow. DON’T!

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. […]

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Turning McLean County Blue

By:  Diane Benjamin Even the democrats know Joe Biden is not inspiring anybody.  When he does come out of his basement he speaks incoherently.  He’s been in DC for 50 years and now claims he can fix all the countries problems that he has ignored for 5 decades, 8 years as vice-president.  The party is […]

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Fake News

By:  Diane Benjamin This story could go 1000 different ways.  Most readers here know Fake News when they see it. The local media doesn’t. This morning two women on a local radio station were discussing how distressing it is to be called Fake News since they are in the media. A month or so ago […]

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Bloomington? Paying attention yet?

By:  Diane Benjamin I wasn’t at all upset when the Democrats won back the US House last year.  We now get to see their far left lunacy for two whole years.  If the GOP had held all branches of government they would have lost big in 2020.  With Democrats advocating killing babies born alive, reparations, […]

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Know what a Stonewall Democrat is?

By:  Diane Benjamin Before I answer that question, local democrats and independents need to know the local democrat party is following the same course as the national party – moving so far left it’s difficult to see them as anything but socialists veering straight toward communism Keep in mind, Illinois People’s Action was the group […]

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Democrats spamming voters

By:  Diane Benjamin If you requested a ballot by mail, you are on a list that by law is laying on the counter at the County Clerk’s office.  I asked BEC what they do and got this response: The local Democrat Party is using that information to spam voters!  Even though phone numbers are NOT […]

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Nikita brings Chicago here

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 […]

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Is David Sage lonely?

By:  Diane Benjamin The entire Council came to last night’s Committee of the Whole meeting with plans to put citizens in charge of the police force – except David Sage.  Maybe he didn’t get invited to the lunches and private meetings everybody on the Council obviously was treated to.  I wonder if Chief Heffner already […]

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The MISSING Minutes

Were these minutes ever approved by the Council?  By:  Diane Benjamin On February 20, 2015, the Bloomington City Council held a special meeting to CENSURE Tari Renner for his vile comments made on this site. The minutes have been missing ever since, a Freedom of Information Request had to be sent to obtain them.  Luckily, […]

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Renner’s ethics

By:  Diane Benjamin Besides Tari Renner, you have to remember former Alderman Rob Fazzini to understand this story.  Fazzini is the guy who claimed a gas tax doesn’t raise the price of gas and he wasted tons of staff and legal time trying to get both Bloomington and Normal to sell him their garbage so […]

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Heeeeeerrrrreeees Tari!

By:  Diane Benjamin Thanks to the Vidette, video exists of Tari’s speech at the NIOT Democratic rally.  Tari’s portion is less than two minutes.  They took short clips of various speakers and put them together. I have no idea what Martin Luther King had to do with this event since it was supposedly to oppose […]

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Black Pastor calls on Christians to leave the Democrat Party