By: Diane Benjamin It looks like the County Board Democrats were merely playing theatrics to promote their McLean County Clerk candidate. If you appreciate lies, then we all know who you are going to vote for. PDF page 238 https://mcleancountyil.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-1174 This was passed last Thursday: This is what the Board actually approved – from Kathy […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Bloomington agenda for tonight: https://d2kbkoa27fdvtw.cloudfront.net/cityblm/8941a8856acf86d8eb133ec7a8132d1a0.pdf 3 Public hearings will be held. All 3 items are on the Consent Agenda. That means the hearings are meaningless. The Consent Agenda is usually passed without comment. Also, the City is spending another $215,366.27 on the water quality. This time they are treating both lakes […]
By: Diane Benjamin Local City/Town Councils are labeled nonpartisan because elected officials are expected to act in the best interest of all citizens. Of course these elections have never been nonpartisan, everyone pretends they are I appreciate Krystle Able stating the obvious, The local GOP isn’t supporting specific candidates because they refuse to erase the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Remember 2012? Who was President in 2012? It wasn’t Donald Trump or even a Republican. That didn’t stop some clown(s) from sending letters recruiting for the Nazi Party. If you don’t remember, see this: https://blnnews.com/2012/05/23/nazi-party-is-recruiting/ Real evil does exist, call it what it is. The flyer below was taped to business doors […]
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 These clowns think they have a right to obstruct the picks made by the elected President of the United States. His picks are only dangerous to the continuation of business as usual. He was elected to obstruct business as usual. One party confirms who the president picks, one doesn’t. Trump was elected […]
By: Diane Benjamin Frequently I let things go that annoy me. Below is one of things that still annoys me 2-3 days later so it gets a story. Keep in mind his wife if running for the Bloomington City Council April 1st: Abby Scott Democrat County Board member Corey Beirne posted this days ago. If […]
By: Diane Benjamin Start with this comment by a former Republican County Board member who left the state: The County Board is 12-8 democrat. That means 40% of the Board is Republican and 60% Democrat. If Mark is correct and the Executive Committee makes most of the decisions, it should reflect the 60-40 split. Of […]
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 […]
FYI: Facebook is interfering in elections. They deleted this story by calling it spam. Luckily most reads don’t come from them. By: Diane Benjamin Not that she’s running for mayor, but this: h/t a reader She’s always said she was a Republican, she used to be a precinct committeeman for the GOP. She lost that […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you don’t remember, Palestinians were dancing in the streets the day we were attacked. Over half a million civilian Ukrainians have died in their war with Russia. Note: No calls for a ceasefire in that war that has been going on for over two years. See the resolution passed by the […]
By: Diane Benjamin It’s nice to see true colors: . https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-fdrs-bigotry-derailed-many-holocaust-rescue-plans Franklin Roosevelt was an antisemite. Even Wikipedia agrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_and_civil_rights Don’t forget FDR sent Japanese Americans to concentration camps too. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-signs-executive-order-9066 FDR also threatened to pack the Supreme Court because they kept striking down his unconstitutional edicts: https://www.history.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-tried-packing-supreme-court (History is repeating itself now!) FDR, elected […]
By: Diane Benjamin In case you missed it, pro-Palatine protestors crashed the annual Democrat meeting at ISU: https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/11/11/protestors-crash-mclean-county-democratic-fundraising-dinner/?outputType=amp I doubt County Board member Krystle Able has ever studied Karl Marx, but she supports his policies anyway: Hint Krystle: Marx was a disgusting human being who lived off other people. He was widely rejected during his […]
By: Diane Benjamin It was the Democrats who wanted to change the agreement made when a 10-10 Board was elected and a Republican was picked as chair. Last night changed nothing. In October the last empty seat will be filled restoring the 10-10 board. A Republican will still be in charge, what the Republicans did […]
Why do Democrat County Board candidates refuse to talk with Steve Suess on his Sunday show (Cities 92.9)? If they can’t discuss issues with a non-threatening libertarian will any of them discuss issues with Republicans if they are elected? What are they hiding? What are they afraid of? Truth? Democracy?
. . Democrats? This issue will become a political albatross around the necks of anyone who opposes it. People of all parties collected signatures and signed the petitions. Representation isn’t political! . . .
By: Diane Benjamin Even though law enforcement officials across Illinois are speaking out about this pro-criminal anti-police law the McLean County Democrats posted this on Facebook: This bill was passed in the middle of the night at the end of a lame duck session in January 2021. Conveniently is goes into effect after the November […]
By: Diane Benjamin I was in the room yesterday when the 3 person McLean County Electoral Board issued their ruling. The first of the three members who gave her opinion was a Democrat – Assistant State’s Attorney Mary Koll. Koll was adamant that courts where there was clearly no fraud or intent to confuse voters […]
By: Diane Benjamin Only one guy filed petitions to run for Sheriff in November. The Democrats have no one running, but that doesn’t mean they can’t appoint someone to be on the November ballot. Libertarians could too. Meanwhile, the local leftists are challenging the petitions of some Republicans who filed for County Board. They aren’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin I wonder where at the County Board meeting anyone discussed taking the tablets away from the County inmates? Democrats told WGLT they did, of course it was printed without a fact check. https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2021-10-16/tussle-over-inmates-use-of-tablets-develops-at-mclean-county-jail I hope everyone is clear on this point: democrats favor inmates over taxpayers. They want TOU to pay for […]
By: Diane Benjamin After finding out their plan for 20 County Board districts with one representative each was impossible, the local Democrats now want the entire board to weigh in. “Other business” on the agenda isn’t allowed if they are planning votes. Since their plan was defeated, they now want the number of districts kept […]
Final clarification: Farm Bureau supports 4-7 Districts while maintaining at least 20 Board members. The alternate plan to the Democrats 20 districts is not 10, it should have been 5. That was a typo on my part. The Farm Bureau claims now they aren’t supporting any plan even though I was told they were. The […]
By: Diane Benjamin I’m not going to check the Facebook or websites of every Democrat running for election, but I checked a few. If you contribute to any of the below why is ActBlue getting the money? That’s the same organization contributions to Black Lives Matter go to. We do know those contributions don’t end […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Facebook discussion between 2 local BLM activists and two members of the local democrat party is worth your time. See it on the McLean county Democrats Facebook page. Ky Ajayi of BLM made one comparison I find silly, but he was dead serious. He compared abolitionists to the people who today […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington Council meeting will reconvene Wednesday at 7:30. Technical difficulties were experienced with the Live Stream. Instead of having the meeting anyway and posting video today, the meeting was rescheduled. That was a good thing because it allowed Jenn Carrillo and Jeff Crabill to comment on a Live event […]
By: Diane Benjamin It’s obvious the Democrat Party only cares about blacks when they want their vote. Obama was president with his sidekick Biden for 8 years. They didn’t do prison reform or even talk about police reforms. Neither did anything about the black unemployment rate or the black on black violence in Chicago. Add […]
By: Diane Benjamin Nikita Richards, failed candidate for McLean County Clerk, was recently elected to lead the McLean County Democrats. When the economy was shut down we were told it was “to bend the curve”. The purpose was to prevent massive numbers of hospitalizations that would overwhelm the system. Overwhelming never came close to happening, […]
By: Diane Benjamin I’ve been telling you for over a year that Chicago democrats are trying to take over McLean County. Lots of Chicago democrat money flowed into McLean County, likely it will continue in 2020. It is wonderful the McLean County Democrats are now admitting the Chicago connection on Facebook. They changed their profile […]
By: Diane Benjamin Dan Brady: It took until last night to connect with Dan Brady about HB 2040. See this story: https://blnnews.com/2019/05/06/illinois-gop-a-minority-on-purpose/ He told me he didn’t hear any opposition to the bill, one of the reasons he voted YES. Evidently we aren’t a Representative Republic where the elected reflect the values of the people […]
By: Diane Benjamin The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ Ronald Reagan Dick Durbin thinks everything is government’s job. He also thinks the cost is immaterial. Churches and families used to take care of each other. That was before government saw they can […]
By: Diane Benjamin See this previous story: https://blnnews.com/2019/04/19/things-that-dont-fit-anywhere-else-3/ Democrat County Board member Carlo Robustelli berated GOP Chair Connie Beard for inferring municipal election are actually partisan. Carlo: Why did the Democrat Party interfere in the last local non-partisan election? Maybe they aren’t really non-partisan Carlo? Erik Rankin sure thinks they aren’t! See picture below. The […]
By: Diane Benjamin Can 97% of taxpayers in Illinois pay less in taxes while the State plans to spend more? The local Democrat Party must think citizens have ZERO common sense: They don’t mention Springfield is planning to give financial aid to illegal aliens too. The FLAT income tax has been continually increased. The State […]
By: Diane Benjamin Posted on Facebook today by the McLean County Democrats: If people got smaller refunds it is because they paid less in all year! Please check the total federal taxes you paid in 2017 compared to the total you paid for 2018. Question: Why would anybody let the government use your money all […]
By: Diane Benjamin Democrats have lost their minds: High school kids will never have a job again. Businesses aren’t going to pay $15 an hour to a kid who has never worked before. They have to be trained to show up on time and actually work the entire time they are clocked in for. They […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Kathy Michael press conference is going to be interesting. The Democrats hired a lawyer to FOIA Kathy Michael’s browser history!
By: Diane Benjamin The local Democrats are against abolishing the Bloomington Election Commission. Instead of lessening the tax burden by eliminating one of the way too many government agencies in Illinois, they would rather create an unaccountable new one to oversee elections. The County Clerk is an elected position, Democrats want to create a commission […]
