Bonnie on the Record about Ken Cygan

from Bonnie Alicea over the phone

It has come to my attention that Mr. Ken Cygan is using mud slinging tactics to slander me, even though the election is over 5 months away, electioneering is not even started, and he is not even on the ballot yet.  I wanted to address this immediately, so that the residents do not need to see mudslinging during our local election.  Nobody wants to see mudslinging.  Just tell the residents what your education and experience are and what your willing to do for them.  There is no need to bash someone else, especially when you don't know that other person. 

A few weeks ago I threw my name in the hat to run for trustee after many residents asked me to.  During this time, another candidate Mr. Ken Cygan also threw his name in the hat.  For some reason, Mr. Cygan decided to start an early bashing campaign, and has decided to attack me and the local news organizations that have endorsed me.  Instead of pointing out what could be changed in the Village, or the problems that the current trustees have caused the residents, he has launched a full fledged personal attack. 

While he states that he does not support the media or myself, he uses my Mayoral platform from 2009 as his current platform. He has virtually "stolen" my info that I have spent years researching, understanding, and fighting, in order to call it his own and appear knowledgeable.  He stole this from both the local watch dog group web sites, one of which I contributed to, both in time, money, and efforts.  He did not contribute one minute or one penny to the gathering, interpreting, or monetary efforts of this work.  Technically, since it was, and is copyrighted, his platform is considered copyright infringement against me.

Now, on his web site he has posted the following:
"Many people have informed me that the political group “Bolingbrook Report”, affiliated with Bonnie Alicea, has written verbiage that is highly biased towards its Trustee Candidate, Ms. Alicea. Purportedly, their members have used the BB report website and various blogs to attack my character and distort my experience."

The Bolingbrook Report is not affiliated with me, they endorse me.  They are not biased for me, they are endorsing me because I have earned their trust, tenacity, hard work, have a higher education, higher experience, and more dedication then Ken Cygan.  I have given the Brook Report hundreds of hours of volunteer work and jeopardized my family and home to run in the election last year. 

Ken accuses the BR members in participating on the various blogs and there is no proof to show this. He claims that they attack or distort Ken's information.  They have no reason to disseminate wrong information, as Ken has disseminated his own information and local bloggers have attacked it for the issues they have found.  Why would they go onto these sites when they have access to their own?  The BR did not have to do anything for the residents to see through his facade. 

Last week I spent my time talking to residents about what I can do for Bolingbrook.  I spent my time fighting for transparency in the Village.  Ken spent his time crafting this lie against me.  I have been the most transparent candidate that Bolingbrook has ever seen.  I have also been the most honest and dedicated to the cause.  I refuse to fight with Ken and will continue my promise to run a clean campaign.  This is about running for a job/ position, it is not personal.  This is why I believe this needed to be addressed before the actual election cycle began in a few months.