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 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 […]
