By: Diane Benjamin See the agenda for the April 15th 2025 meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections: https://www.elections.il.gov/AboutTheBoard/Agenda.aspx A hearing was held regarding the complaint filed by Chad Berck. The complaint pertained to Lizzy Johnston and Cassy Taylor raising money on County Property to remove the elected office of Auditor. The complaint was […]
By: Diane Benjamin Below is the report the County received from the law firm it hired to investigate allegations made by a former employee regarding the solicitation of money on County property. Of course, the complete list of contributors was not reviewed. The elected officials and/or county employees who contributed to the effort to abolish […]
By: Diane Benjamin Anyone surprised? The law firm hired by the County to investigate the PAC created to abolish the Auditor’s office didn’t agree with the ethics commission ruling. See the WGLT story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-02-26/mclean-county-ethics-complaint-found-to-be-unsubstantiated-after-attorneys-investigation There is one glaring problem. Talking to County employees is nice but they are not central to what should have been […]
By: Diane Benjamin More on this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/02/20/instigation-cassy-taylor-and-lizzy-johnston/ Below is an Amended D-2 filing with the State Board of Elections by the committee created to abolish the Auditors office. Note the beginning cash balance. No filings were required until $5000 was raised/spent so all the contributions aren’t listed. I do know where some came from: […]
By: Diane Benjamin 2 very recent stories prove the title. Local corruption big or small will never be prosecuted locally. Start with this one: https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0d368a40-efa7-11ef-9603-b321af6933ea.html What the local school districts put on their website to convince you to approve a 1% Sales tax was illegal. Evidence of that is the language was changed when people […]
By: Diane Benjamin The McLean County Ethics Commission referred both Taylor and Johnston today to the State’s Attorney for further investigation. This involves the solicitation of donations on County property to get the McLean County Auditor office abolished. I don’t have a lot of details, but they issued a statement that sufficient evidence exists to […]
By: Diane Benjamin No wonder trust in government is at an all time low among people who expect Public Servants to actually work for the public. Oaths of office are now meaningless. Did you know the County isn’t going to produce a report on the fundraising at the County to abolish the Auditor until March? […]
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 In case you missed last night’s update, The Democrats picked the guy I predicted to fill the District 1 seat: https://blnnews.com/2025/01/14/county-board-district-1-news/ The announcement wasn’t made before the meeting. Chair Lizzy Johnston called for a vote before announcing the name. She must have taken lessons from Chris Koos. I’m sure Andy Ziebarth is […]
By: Diane Benjamin The name of the PAC to abolish the Auditor’s office was: McLean County Citizens for Government Accountability. If they actually believed that they would abolish the unaccountable Bloomington Election Commission. This PAC is not required to file reports with the State of Illinois unless contributions exceeded $5000. No reports have been filed. […]
By: Diane Benjamin This picture is from the video YESTERDAY of the new County Board Chair Lizzy Johnston: This picture of all the Democrat Board members is also from yesterday – Krystle Able’s Facebook page: Virtue Signaling? Why did Lizzy wear a mask and then not wear a mask? She’s a lot closer to that […]
By: Diane Benjamin Two County Board members were absent: Bloomfield and Reeves. Both are Republicans. Lea Cline was elected temporary chair. She had the audacity to nominate Elizabeth Johnston for Board Chair. She was unanimously approved. We see over and over laws are immaterial. Both parties voted to make her Board Chair. This is the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Swearing in the newly elected board members and picking a new chair is tomorrow: https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/10566 Weren’t Democrats the ones who demanded meetings be held when people could actually attend? This meeting is at 8:30 AM. As long as Lizzy Johnston is subject to possible investigation for illegally shaking down County employees to […]
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 […]
