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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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 Posted - 02/03/2006 : 07:47:23
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Villa Park, IL
For sale
One corrupt village president
Republican
adept at leaping over the Open Meetings Act in a single bound
violates ordinances and state laws she finds inconvienient
able to bash trustees with an aire of arrogance
Will trade for boat. Even a small one. Without an engine.
As you can probably tell, I've about had it with my current village president. She swept in to office using the old tactic of name recognition alone. By innundating public land with her campaign posters, she managed to convince the uninformed electorate that she was competent. She was a trustee for 12 years and her antics were well established then. It's a major reason I didn't vote for her.
The Open Meetings Act is an Illinois law which requires that advisory committees to village boards and leaders be open to the public and the meeting times posted.
The villiage President has flaunted the law and ethics at every turn.
When she swept into office, she wanted only her candidates to be presented to fill vacancies on the board and committees. But yet when she was a trustee, she insisted that no fewer than three candidates should be required to be presented for an open trustee position. When the village board required the same thing from her and even shot down one outright because village ordinances and state law FORBADE her husband from being appointed to a fire department commission, she got pissy and played the "I'm taking my ball and going home" game. All but one trustee (whom she calls the obstructionist four), tried working with her, but she continued to bash them from the chair. They saw nothing getting done, so they started playing the "play ball with me or I'll stick the bat up your ass" game.
She has formed no fewer than three advisory committees, filled them with cronies, and had them meet in private in direct violation of the Open Meetings Act. She has exercised veto power SHE DOES NOT HAVE by ordinace.
She got second opinions from an independant lawyer on matters of village concern, was overcharged for it, and tried to bill the village for the expense. As state law and ordinance says that the village manager must approve the hiring of second opinion lawyers if they are to be compensated from village funds. The matter has been referred to the DuPage County state's attourney.
She removed agenda items legally placed by trustees in violation of village ordinance. When the trustees objected, she claimed a right to approve agenda items. The village attourney was compelled to tell her she acted illegally.
She continually uses the chair as a pulpit from which to make purely devisive statements bashing trustees who do not simply roll over and allow her to be Queen of Villa Park. Seperation of powers? She acts as she's never heard of it.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 10:09:10 [Permalink]
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If she is breaking the law, have the state initiate a criminal investigation.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 11:11:31 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
If she is breaking the law, have the state initiate a criminal investigation.
The trustees and the press are. |
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
1093 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 11:24:40 [Permalink]
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Some people sure do let the title "president" go to their heads, don't they? Too bad you already posted her political affiliation, we could have had the world's easiest one question trivia quiz. 
You're welcome to move to Peoria anytime you want, Valiant Dancer. Our civic corruption is spread a little thinner here.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 11:46:46 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by GeeMack
Some people sure do let the title "president" go to their heads, don't they? Too bad you already posted her political affiliation, we could have had the world's easiest one question trivia quiz.
You're welcome to move to Peoria anytime you want, Valiant Dancer. Our civic corruption is spread a little thinner here.
Sorry, Gee. My first wife is from there. She moved back there after we were divorced.  |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 12:16:39 [Permalink]
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| Jeeze, what a mess. Do you have a recall process available there? |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 14:27:23 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Jeeze, what a mess. Do you have a recall process available there?
From editorials I'm inclined to think so, but I'll have to find some time to go to the library and examine the ordinances. Some of the zombies still support her and some of the citizenry are apathetic towards throwing her out. (Not that you could tell from the editorials.) |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 15:43:12 [Permalink]
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I was going to try to help but the only place a copy of the Village Code of Ordinances is at is the library.
The way I approach these things is to get the specific wording of the ordinance that is being violated and go from there. It doesn't matter if no one else cares, any single citizen can expect the written village charter to be enforced and can take steps to have violations enforced, usually by filing a complaint via a procedure spelled out in the ordinances (remedies) but there may be other avenues as well.
If the village is violating a state law that's better because you can contact state officials, usually an ombudsman or an attorney general to file a complaint. |
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